Taylor Turns 14

Taylor and a couple of friends went to Airborne trampoline arena for his birthday - what a fun place.
The foam pit

His birthday pies.

He also got into the National Junior Honor Society - hooray!

Easter

McConkie Ranch - Vernal, UT Petroglyphs

Yes - Taylor has surpassed Tammy in height.

Playing at the Park - Vernal, UT After we played at the park we participated in the city egg hunt only to find that in Vernal, they hide REAl boiled eggs - are you kidding?

Max and the Easter Bunny

Amy and the baby Quail

Our Easter Table - that is wheat grass that I grew.

Our Easter dinner minus the cornbread which was still baking

Easter

January/February/March

Dale's parents just got home from their mission to South Africa. Max thought it was funny that grandpa had the same name as Taylor. He was calling Taylor - Grandpa - ha ha.

Kendall did wrestling this winter. His whopping 63 pounds was still a challenge for the bigger kids in his grade. The final meet they had to actually weigh in and wrestle their weight. He dominated with his strength and skill and came in first for his division.

The end of February there was a pretty good snow storm. This is the snowman that the kids made together.

I thought this was an interesting picture. Look how much alike Summer and Max look :)

Dale turned 38 and we celebrated with a peanut butter chocolate pie - mmmmm

In January Tammy got to go visit an old dear friend who just returned from living in Australia for several years.

Max!

This is Max. Lately he likes to chew on his shirt - can you see it? I don't know if he's getting teeth or what, but his shirt gets soaking wet and cold. On Sunday, we were sitting in church (Dale was out of town) and Max was repeatedly saying "I want to go home". If you know Max, you'll know he doesn't have a nice quiet voice. I took him out into the hall and patiently told him that we weren't going to go home and that I was going back into the chapel and he was going to come with me. Silly me - I thought he would follow me because he was all alone and scared. Noooooo! After sitting down for a couple of minutes, I told Taylor to go get him and bring him in. Taylor comes back and says "I couldn't find him" - Uh Oh! I then sent Amy out to look a little harder. She comes back at the same time that Max is escorted to me by a fellow ward member who informs me that Max was OUTSIDE by the road and someone had brought him in. HOW HUMILIATING!!! I guess he thought he could just walk home. Oh this 3 year old of mine - I'm not sure he will make it to 4.
Max started pre-school this week. Hooray! I can run errands without him telling me he wants to go home and trying to climb out of the cart. Here he is practicing his "I".
Despite him being very rambunctious, he's a lot of fun and we love him a lot.

Taylor's Eagle Project

This is Taylor at the Homeless Youth Center down town Salt Lake City delivering his backpacks for his Eagle Project.

He collected essential and fun items and put them into backpacks for the homeless youth for Christmas. It was great to see him getting donations for corporations and ward members. He was able to fill 10 backpacks!

Kendall

This is Kendall making a touchdown. His team has done AWESOME! They've only had one loss and I don't think any other team even scored on them.
Kendall has been in the ALPS program this year (Advanced learning program). He had a people in history program and he wrote and recited his poem on Alexander Flemming - the Discoverer of Penicillin. His quote was "One sometimes finds what one is not looking for" - isn't that the truth?

Halloween

She's such a good sport.

" One of these kids is not like the other" - We didn't plan on Taylor trick or treating, but he scrounged something out of the costume bucket and went as Napoleon Dynamite. Everyone else - Cowboys - even Shelby. It was a bit rainy, but didn't stop those buckets from getting filled up. Taylor had a little friend get together that night too which added to the fun.

The kids always have a good time doing this, but do you see how thick those pumpkins are??? Dale had to get out his saw - Milwaukee ofcourse to do most of the carving.

I did this one by hand. By Halloween it was a little wrinkly.