Digital Scrapbooking by myself!

Okay guys - I did it. I created a page without anyone's help. Okay, maybe just one call to Corianne. . . . . . but still I take full credit. I did miss having Corianne's input and creativity to help me - but it turned out okay. Thanks Cori for all your help. Thanks Camille for cheering me on. This was not easy for me. It stinks to be an 80's child. These young sprout things can pop out digital scrapbooking pages like crazy. Us older youngins take a little longer to catch on. Now I'm excited to learn how to make my own invitations and announcements without having to bug my sister. Hey, I might even learn how to change my own blog background. That would be an accomplishment.

Digital Scrapbooking for Jennica

So Corianne came over again today and had me do most the work. I got it a lot more today than Monday. Thanks Corianne. I'm loving my page. Tonight I will try to do one for Braxton without Corianne here. If you don't see it by tomorrow then I still need help. We'll see. . . . . . . Cute huh!

Digital Scrapbooking

My talented sister Corianne made this digital scrapbook page. I've been bugging her to come over and help me get started. She told me how easy it is. But, as I watched her fingers fly across my key board as she made this page my eyes kind of glazed over. I know I will learn how because I want to soooo bad. But, I think its going to take a few lessons. Corianne, Camille, My Mom, and I are all taking crocheting lessons too. I think I'm the slowest crocheter as well. Sitting down and doing intricut things must not be my talent - but, I'm willing to put the time in to learn. By the way it only cost a few dollars to print this 12"x12" page at costco. So I think its a lot cheaper than scrappin the old fashioned way. Plus you don't have a messy supply room to worry about. Digital is the way to go. If you can just learn photoshop elements. All of the digital paper came from shabby princess. They have the cutest digital supplies.

How to stay out of debt

Make sure you turn off the music - and then push play.

Twins explore everything

Now this is a room they usually don't play in. But, they tried it out today. When I found them in the washer I had to take a picture. They were trying to close the lid. Sadly, they turned over my basket of clean clothes all over the laundry room floor and knocked off most of the hangers. But, I made them help me clean it up. On my decorating saga I finally bought a comforter today for the master bedroom. I got it on overstock.com for about $129 - I found the exact same set on another web site for over $500 so I'm feeling pretty proud of myself. I was purchasing my new comforter when the twins decided to explore the laundry room and sadly to say Baylee's room again. I need to put Baylee's room together before she gets home from school - yes it is that bad. See what happens when Mom goes shopping on the internet. Sigh.

Old Blue is gone!

So it really happened! Old blue is officially gone. Shawn got to our home at around 1:30 today - early as usual. He took the door off it's hinges and found rope to tie down the hide a bed. Jimmy and David came right at 2:00 and they managed to lift that beast clear to the road. When David arrived at Deseret Industries with the couch the guy looked it over and felt like it was not in good enough condition to accept. But, David used all of his charm and salesmanship abilities to show him the hide a bed the reclining chairs etc. Finally they decided to accept it. Kind of funny.

We got the leather couches that have been hiding in our basement since before the twins were born and brought them upstairs. I'm sooooo happy. Now I do say that my family room looks gigantic and I never realized how pretty our fireplace was. It always took a back seat to our enormous baby blue couch. Anyway, today is better than Christmas for me.

By the way, Baylee wasn't at all upset about loosing old blue. When she came home from school she was just excited to have a lot of room to do cartwheels in.

I could do cartwheels with her. (JJK). Anyway, sorry Camille, Cori, and Mom for missing our crocheting class today - I just had to be here to make sure this actually happened. It was almost going to be postponed till Friday (David's idea) but I convinced him I had moved things around to the point we had to do it today. Yay!!!!

More Photo's of Baylee's baptism shoot

Twin photo's from Baylee's baptism pictures

Group of cousins at Sierra's party

In this picture Brielle wouldn't participate. In the next picture Jennica wouldn't. Jennica just wanted to play with the cool computer she was holding. The party was lots of fun. On my side of our family we have tons and tons of little people that are pretty close to the same age.

Sierra's three year old birthday party

Sierra (cousin) turned three! I think she ate the entire bottle of sprinkles. At least Cori threw the bottle away when she was done.


Jennica loved Sierra's birthday party - except for the unwrapping part - she wanted to be a part of that action. She needs to get used to it because there are several more birthdays to go.



Braxton and Corbin also wanted to get into the unwrapping action. Sierra had lots of help in that department.

Brielle was being a thoughtful big sister during the party.

Sierra wouldn't wear the birthday girl crown - But Camiah loved it.

All in all it was one wild and crazy party. My kids had a blast. The noise level was pretty high - but still didn't reach the levels Baylee party did. Lots of fun. Happy Birthday Sierra.

Christmas Morning

We wrapped off the living room. It kept the Kids from looking at their presents before we were ready.


This is definately something were going to do every year. Krista Saltmarsh gave me the idea at our Young Woman's traditions activity. It was so fun.



Right before the unwrapping frenzy.

This little tent was a big hit. Maybe they won't have to get all my blankets and towels out to make huts anymore.

Christmas Eve

We always act out the nativity with the Taylor side on Christmas Eve. Braxton was a wiseman and was holding a little bag of golden coins (chocolate inside). When it came time to lay the money down at Jesus feet this is what we got. Braxton couldn't give his money to Jesus. We talked to him and tried to explain how important it was. But. . . . . . . .sometimes kids just make parents so proud.


The Taylor's always have a talent show. We didn't plan on these boys doing anything for it - but they decided to sing a song. It was cute.



My angel and wiseman. Doesn't Braxton look happy to have his money.

Brielle was Mary and Carson was Joseph.

The nativity is usually my favorite part of the Christmas Eve program. This year we ran into quite a few glitches. It was still really cute though.

Baylee's birthday party

The day of Baylee's birthday was snowy and cold. We had one girl that didn't make it because of the roads. It just kept coming down that day. My plans to take the twins to my Mom's didn't work out because of the weather also. It was crazy. So I had twelve little excited girls and Braxton and Jennica. Whew. Anyhow, it turned out okay - it wasn't until the next day that I realized that there were two activities that I had planned on doing that I had totally forgot about. I think they all had fun and we sugared them up with cupcakes and sugar cookies that they all decorated. Sorry I didn't get any good pictures. I could hardly keep up with the party.

Twins Preschool Program

We left our camera at home during our twins preschool presentation. It was so cute though. They acted out the nativity and sang songs for us. Their teacher is really good and has a great curriculum. Its so fun to see them try to write their names and stuff. So far Jennica can write a really good J - and Braxton can write a B. They show me the letters in their names everywhere we go.

Braxton's reindeer hat was just a little big.

Baylee's baptism day

Baylee's big day was soooo much fun. I can't believe how many friends and family came out to support her. Thankyou so much for coming. People drove from Payson and Spanish Fork (even though they got 5" of snow last night).


Me and my sister's along with my Mom in the kitchen. Thanks all for helping me prepare the food.



Baylee with two of her cousins Kaitlyn & Brooke. Brooke will get baptized next month.

A few of the little Taylor People. Except for Kyle on the end who is a little Bunker kid (Oh, and my kids are Bunker kids too).

It was fun having both of our families at the baptism party together. After we ate we had a dodge ball game - the Taylor's versus the Bunkers. When I checked in on the game the Bunker's had all their players while Cymoni Larsen was the lone last Taylor guy. I think she wanted to get out at that point. David's sister Monica assured me that the game before all the Bunker's were out except for Brittney Bunker. When it was time to clean up most of the Taylor Men were either sick or had back problems so according to some Steve Campbell (married to Monica - David's sister) cleaned most things up single handedly.(jk) No really, everything was so easy to clean up with all the help we had. Thanks everyone for sharing Baylee's special day with us. I'm sure I will post more pictures as I get them. I assigned people photographer jobs for the day.

Baylee's baptism invitations

Baylee's Baptism on January 3rd.

Baylee's baptism is on January 3rd at the Highland Stake Center at 9:00 AM. I know that's early for ya'all traveling from Spanish Fork and Payson. Sorry, I tried to reschedule it but couldn't. We hope you can all make it. We will be serving a breakfast afterwards.

Merry Christmas

On the Bunker side instead of a gift exchange we were going to take a picture and do a write up about our family. Well, here is the picture. Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas to All

We never got our cards out this year. My awesome sister Corianne designed this card for me and it turned out so cute. But, we took our time with finding what paper and where to print it and all of a sudden it was too late. Anyway, I like the idea of going green and doing it electronically. We hope everyone has a Very Merry Christmas!

Happy Birthday Baylee

Baylee's turning eight! Were so proud of her and hope she has a great birthday.