Merry Christmas

Hope you have a Happy Holidays from our family to yours!

Taylie's blessing

She is such a happy baby. We are loving having her sweet spirit in our family. I loved all the pictures of her and could not decide which were better so here is our pretty little girl on her blessing day.

She looked beautiful in her dress.

Ellie dropped my camera and now many of the features do not work. I have no zoom and I can't change the settings any more, it is just a point and shoot camera now. So what you see is the best my poor camera can do.

Taylie Mae

On Oct. 8th, we were blessed to welcome little Taylie Mae into our family. She weighed 6lb. 11oz. and was 19 in. long. Perfect! We have sure enjoyed her. The other kids can't seem to get enough of her. Even Ellie loves to hold her and will yell "MINE, MINE" when I try to take her back.

For friends and family that are close enough to attend, we are blessing Taylie on Sunday. We would love to have you come.

computer

Our computer has been broken for the last few months, so I have not had a chance to update anything here on our blog. Joel recently braved black friday in order to buy us a new computer so we are now up and running again.

Pictures of July

Our Summer So Far

We are presently in swimming lessons. The boys love it, and I love that they are learning to swim. I have also been very glad that the pool is inside. It has been a very cool beginning of summer. Devin loves being in the level that lets him jump off the high dive.

Tanner just loves playing in the water, I don't know how much he is learning but he has a good time.

Hayden in his class.

Even Ellie gets to take swimming lessons, she is not good at following directions but we have a good time.


A couple of weeks ago Tanner got bit in the eye by something. The next day his eye was almost swollen shut.

We celebrated the first of our summer birthdays, Joel's.

The kids playing outside in our back yard. I sure wish we had something besides weeds and mud!

Working in the back yard. Joel is teaching Devin to drive the lawn mower.

Waiting for Aunt Kami to get home off her mission. It was so good to see her again.

Spring soccer. I don't know how it happened but Joel and I ended up being the boys coach.

It has been a busy June we have had several get togethers with the families and several more planned. We are sure enjoying the time we have to spend with them.