The Holidays are coming!

Little Taiton...... getting so big!

Loves to play in the sink when I do the dishes now.

Ryan sketched this picture of Taiton when he was only a month old.

I finally got it framed and put up in our bedroom.



A few weeks ago our little family went to Salt Lake for the weekend.
We went to the Aquarium and to Temple square. It was so nice to get away!

We told Taiton to act like he was going down rapids.
He's such a good actor don't you think?


You can touch the stingrays at the aquarium!
(which was definitely the highlight)

It's been a long time...

It's been so long and we've been SO busy. In September I decided I wanted to go back to hair school and get my license. I'm at ISU's program, which is a different school than the first one I went to. And I love it!!! I'm soo glad I went back. Ryan calls my school a party, and it pretty much is, I have a great time there everyday. Taiton goes to the ISU daycare 4 days a week. And he absolutely LOVES it! He has become so independent. The daycare there is so awesome. They tell me exactly and how much Taiton eats everyday, what activities they did, and how long his nap was.
August time is Ryan time. It was his 27th birthday this year! I made (wink wink) this awesome soccer cake for him!

Taiton and I are soo grateful to have such a wonderful man in our lives. He works so extremely hard for us and we are so thankful he cares that much for us. We love you Ryan!

This year was Taiton's first year to ride the rides at the fair. I was so excited for him to get to experience this. We found out he only liked the cars and marry-go-round. He was so happy "driving" those cars. He would turn the wheel all around and smile so big. Ryan and I were so ridiculous on his first car ride. We were so gidding that he liked it so much, we were being so loud laughing and saying "look at him, he loves it!"

After I made the first pile of leaves I showed Taiton what to do with them. He loves trudging through it.

Taiton was a cute lion for Halloween! I tried getting him used to the costume all week so that he would wear it on Saturday. And he screamed every time I put it on him. And he definitely wouldn't wear the hat. But when Saturday came, he wore the whole outfit happily. I guess he knew when the real show was.

Fruit, Taiton, and drum roll please.....THE HOUSE

So I had to show everyone this picture, this is what happens when I put fruit in the bowl on the table...ALL the fruit gets sampled by Taiton.

Taiton was being such a cheese ball one day at lunch.
So last Wednesday Taiton woke up from a nap with a 103.1 degree temp., so I hurried and took him to the urgent care. The doctor thought he had pneumonia so she gave him an antibiotic shot, we got chest x-rays and went to the hospital to get his blood drawn. The x- rays came back ok, and the blood work was fine. So the next day we went in for the checkup, the doctor thought the rattle in his chest got worse, so she sent us to the hospital to admit Taiton. I knew we were in for a rough ride, a 20 month old having to be confined to a room, and maybe even an IV? So we got to the hospital, they took us to get more x-rays, then we had to strap him down and get his blood again, he got swabbed for RSV, and then they tried in 3 different places to get his IV in. He was so scared of his bed because that's where we would always hold him down. I felt so bad. The next morning he was doing so much better so we got to go home at 9:00 AM! Thank goodness, i just wanted to get out of there! They sent us home with a machine to give him breathing treatments. We've only had to do it once, so he's doing really well now.

And here is the HOUSE! We love being here and being home owners. It' s just a cute little old house. It was built in the 50's and we are only the 2nd owners! The people who built it have taken such good care of it!

Do you see my hedge work? Those bushes were sooo over grown by the time we got in it.

Here is pretty much our only really put together room, the living room.

Before we moved all the way in, Ryan and I tore up all the carpet and re finished the hard wood floors upstairs and painted.

I'm going to let you guys in on a little secret......finishing hardwood floors is not fun! But it's worth it!

We have enjoyed this house and all the work that come with it!

Relay 4 Life & Fishing

A few weeks ago the salon I work at, Shapers, participated in Relay 4 Life. It was great, we walked for people who have cancer or have died for cancer. I walked for my Grandpa Thomas who died about 9 years ago from colon cancer.

This is my boss Devon. We had someone spray paint our cape.
Ryan bought a fishing boat last Friday. Which I wasn't too thrilled about at first. But he took me out on it on Saturday and I had a lot a fun. I even caught my first fish.

Me, Taiton, & Mason. It was a little challenging with Taiton, he kept wanting to get in the water. We were out there for about 5 hours and all and all he did pretty good.

My strong husband. The boat has a motor, but it takes a LONG time to get working!

Fourth of July weekend

Taiton really liked the fire works! I was a little nervous he wouldn't, but he did! He would say "ooo" When ever they went off.

Daddy and Taiton at the Buhl parade. On the 4th we started the day off at the Buhl parade and afterwards we went to a park filled with food vendors. Taiton loved to see the horses in the parade and he said horse for the first time!

Baby butt-crack
(Doesn't that water look so nice)


Canoeing

It rained at night the first 2 days we were there. Taiton loves puddles and I couldn't resist to let him play around in it.

(Don't forget to check out the new pictures of Taiton on the side.)

Girl Cousins

My brother Rob just graduated for BYU and took his wife on a CRUISE! So I got to watch my nieces for a few days. I was so excited for them to come! I knew Taiton would have so much fun with them. We went to the park every day. And it was pretty challenging at times (in public) to have 2 kids the same age. Good thing Liberty is such a good listener! She would do everything I told her to, and I only had to worry about Taiton running away from me.

McKee's petting zoo

Eliza is a very good photographer, don't you think?

They loved looking at all the animals

Taiton and Liberty had so much fun together. They would chase eachother all over the place. When I was getting them ready to get into the bath they were naked and ran down the hall holding eachother's hands! It was so cute!!

Out of Bed

I don't know how many of you Mothers out there do this, but I do it quite often. What am I talking about? Every once in awhile I dream that Taiton is in bed with me and Ryan and I sit up in my sleep and start searching the bed for him in a panic. And then Ryan always says, "Steph what are you doing?" And then he reminds me, Taiton is NOT in bed with us. Well last night I had a little something different happen. I dreamed that Taiton was falling head first over the edge of the bed and I dove to save him. And when I hit the floor (and I mean the actual bedroom floor) I woke right up. I had jumped right out of bed and landed on my knees, and to make it worse I hurt my foot. I must have hit it on our bed frame because I have a long bruise on the top of my foot. (And it hurts pretty bad, it's right where my flip-flop strap goes) I just hope I don't get up and move around that extreme again. Can you imagine how dangerous it would be if I started walking around in my sleep?!?!?