What a year it has been...

I can't believe it has been almost a year since I posted last on this blog. And thinking back so much has happened in our family. Besides the normal kids growing older, starting new grades in school, starting new activities and continuing old ones. Things don't change much around here. Everyone is just getting older and wiser.

Taylee finished up 2nd grade and started 3rd this past August. She loves school and learning and being with her friends. She is still dancing and loves her Hip-Hop class. She says she loves math and I fight her about reading, but I find it better if she gets to pick out the books rather than the school or even me. She loves hanging out with all her friends and is constantly roaming the neighborhood with them. She is always on her bike or scooter. And we are always having late nights with them. She turned 8 at the beginning of April and decided to be baptized a member of our church. It was such a special day for her to have a lot of friends and family come and support her. She loves the spotlight!!!

Carmindy just started her second year of Preschool. Last year a neighbor and I swapped with school and it was a lot of fun. This year she is at an actual preschool and she loves Ms. Katy!! She is learning to write her letters and numbers, recognize them and she can even write her name!! She was so proud because she got a gift certificate to go to McDonalds for a Happy Meal! Over the summer I signed the girls up for dance and gymnastics. After the summer Tay decided to stick with dance and Carm changed her mind and went for gymnastics. She loves it. I can tell she is working hard and she wants to show us all she learns. She knows what day she goes and the first thing she does is gets ready to go. She just had her 5th birthday and she had to have a party. Luckily there are a bunch of girls in our neighborhood her age. Most of them have started school already but there are a few that will go with her when she starts kindergarten next year. Carm has so much sass and spunk. She is very stubborn and gets upset easily when it isn't what she wants to do, when she wants to do it. I am quickly learning that she is nothing like Taylee and I have to do things differently with her. But she is still my little buddy most of the time when she isn't running around with her own friends.

Roni is 2. Need I say more? She is all over the place, into everything and trying so hard to be older. She badly wants to be like Tay Tay and Carmy (what she calls them). She loves nursery at church and can't wait to go every sunday. She loves Mimmie and Mickey, Elmo, Sophia, Doc McStuffins, and Paw Patrol. She has 2 other moms besides me and they are always bossing her around. It drives me nuts! But sometimes it works to my advantage. She loves her sisters and her nunny. Its a pain when it goes missing. She loves to give kisses and hugs. She is so much fun when she isn't destroying the house and getting into markers and crayons.

As for Grady and I not much has changed. I still take pictures every once in a while for people. Not as much as I would like too but maybe now is not the time to pursue it so heavily. He is still playing in the band and producing sound for others. He has gotten quite popular in the field. I tell him its because he is a musician helping other musicians. You hear what they want to sound like not what someone who doesn't have the musical background thinks it should sound like on a board by moving knobs and things. Its fun to see him in his element.

Hopefully I will get some more time and be able to post pictures from this past year, We had a lot of fun camping and playing and celebrating life.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!

This holiday season has flown by. I can't believe that it is already the end of another year. We have truly been blessed and have enjoyed growing as a family and learning all sorts of new things. The girls are so busy all the time. It is a never ending especially with friends over...all...the...time!!! We have two sets of neighbors with girls exactly the same age as Tay and Carm. They are best friends most of the time. They are always between each house, so its not too hard to find them when its time to come home for dinner. Roni is following them and wanting to do everything they do. She is learning so fast and is picking up new words all the time. Her favorite right now is NO!! She also says THIS and THAT a lot. Not quite sure why she pick those two words, but she loves to say them. I am still taking pictures and I love it. One day I hope to be busier with it. I enjoy the excitement and the creativity that comes from doing something I love. If you want to see some my work check out my photography blog: m-w-photography.blogspot.com. Grady is still playing the guitar. I have lost count on how many he actually has, but if it makes him happy, whatever. He has been helping other bands with sound quality as well when he isn't doing it for his own band.
We truly hope, that who ever reads this blog of ours, that you have the best new year. We hope your holidays have been filled with friends and family. And that you enjoy this year and many years to come!!

Veronica a.k.a Roni

This little stink is growing like a weed. She is a busy body, loves to follow her sisters wherever they go and she hates everyone but mom...most of the time. She is finally starting to grow out of being clingy and I love it. So this is a post of the past year of Roni growing.

 

 Love the snuggles

 

 She loved her toes and would rather suck on them then her fingers. She grew out of it for the most part unless they are super disgusting and then she likes them again.

 My girls love to play with the laundry baskets. And Carm was having a middle child moment and decided to trap her little sister. She was pretty proud of herself. And Roni only liked it the first time.

 She loves the stairs especially if others are going up them. It didn't take her long to figure out how to go up and down.

 You can't leave a door open at all. She loves to crawl around outside and she will escape if you aren't quick enough to shut the doors.

 She finally loves water

 This was the best thing I ever found. She loves to sit right with us when we are camping and fishing.

 This is the most popular face she pulls.

 The car of choice. She will ride it down the drive way by herself and she laughs the whole way while picking her feet off the ground. Luckily our driveway's slope if very minimal

 Future ROCKSTAR!!!

 The most current place to sit is on the hearth. The first time she climbed up she thought she was so big. And the doll had to be their with her. She doesn't like her dolls, she usually is dragging one of Tay's or Carm's around.

 We kept with the frozen theme for Halloween. The girls decided she needed to be olaf. It was either that or one of the trolls.

Her current stats from when she turned one are  Weight:  18.81 lbs  15%  Height: 28.5 inches 31%. She is a mama's girl and is just starting to like other people to hold her. She loves to eat bread and graham crackers and tomatoes. She loves water and milk and can shaker her head no. She doesn't like to have her diaper changed and when I am not fast enough she is off crawling bare bummed around the house and she thinks its hilarious. She loves bath time and loves to climb on everything. She is always on the move.

Carmindy's 4th Birthday.

Carm turned 4 at the end of October. Her current stats are Weight: 36.12 lbs and is 3ft 4 inches tall.

 

Carm loves to dance, play dress- up, follow around Taylee and play with her friends. Her favorite food is pizza and Chick-fil-a.

She loves to learn and color pictures, on the walls, chairs and anywhere else she thinks needs more color.

Carmindy Update.

Carmy is a ham. She is so outgoing and is always saying and doing funny things. She keeps us on our toes all the time. She is sneaky and is really learning what her limits are, and what will get her in big trouble.

 She loves Roni. She loves to play with her. She is also a big helper. Sometimes too big, but Roni loves the attention.

 She is learning to ride a bike. Soon it won't have training wheels. But with the weather turning she doesn't ride very much. Its more about the scooter.

 She finally got to start dancing in the spring. She is in her 2nd season and she loves it. She is dancing Hip Hop and is currently in the same class as Taylee. She has rhythm and loves to dance and sing.

 She loves camping as well. She loves to be out with family and being busy. She had fun this year being able to run around and have fun in nature.

She also had swimming lessons. She is getting better and isn't afraid of the water. She doesn't like the boy teachers at all. Luckily she had a girl one and she seemed ok with that.

She may look like me but she had her daddy's personality!!

We were at Manti Pool with my mom over the summer. She loves this swimming suit and she had grandma do her hair, complete with a ribbon. Add the sun glasses. Too bad  Halloween if in October. I would have dressed her like Wendy Peffercorn this year.

 When Taylee does something. She usually follows suit. She had to have her hair cut off as well. Since hers wasn't very long we just trimmed it up.

 This is how we play dress up some days. Yes she is Minnie-Bat or whatever name you want to give her. She loves to play dress up and is constantly changing her outfit. Luckily its just the dress up changing and not all the clothes in her closet.

 She loves to help in the kitchen. At least she is getting tall enough to help do things now.

 She loves to "Fly", if I lay down on the floor its the first thing she asks. And then she wants her picture taken.

 For Halloween this year she wanted to be Anna from Frozen. At least the girls weren't fighting over one character. And now she has another dress up to play with.

Her new favorite hiding/play place. Under the crib. Even the dog likes it!

All About Taylee

Taylee is growing up so fast. I can't believe that she is a 2nd grader. She has more homework now than I ever remember having EVER!! She is so smart and is learning that working hard in school pays off. She doesn't like homework and we struggle working through it but when she sees the really good grade she likes that.

 

 

She still loves to play with us at home even though she has her friends not. My girls love to "Fly"!!

 

 Last winter was crazy down her in Sunny St. George. In RARELY snows and we got a bunch. Taylee decided to build a snowman. She didn't know how but her efforts paid off and she got a little one in the back yard. It didn't last very long since the sun came out and melted the snow but she had fun in the moment.

 She love camping and being outdoors. As long as there isn't a port-a-potty. We only camped a few times over the summer but she loved it.

She also loves to swim. She is still learning and asks all the time when her next lessons are. The college does a great job and she loves going there.

 She also started loosing her teeth. To date she has only lost 4, and they take FOREVER to grow back in. She get so excited for the Tooth Fairy to come. (We are horrible at it, and often forget)

She is my little mini-me.

 I told her that if she cut her hair off so would I. We both had super long hair. I did it first and it didn't take long before she wanted hers done. It made her look so grown up.

 She is quite the fisher girl. We go quite often and sometimes she is the only one to catch anything. She has yet to touch them but she loves it. Most of the time Grady is still trying to set  up his own pole while she is reeling in another fish.

 Her first day of second grade. She loves to learn and loves school. She gets super sad and upset if she has to miss it.

Her sisters love her. They still fight all the time but who doesn't. Roni thinks she is pretty funny and Taylee was the first one to make her laugh. 

This year for Halloween Taylee decided to be Elsa from the movie Frozen. She loves that movie.