some christmas pics.

loving the snow! our first snowman of the season!

dax is so cute to help tysie walk..she struggles a little in the snow boots.

silly tysie, putting on a show. she thought she was so funny.

tysie and carter.

santa!

nativity

we went to a live nativity in layton on saturday night with the wagstaff's and it was so neat. our ward party next week is going to be "a night in bethlehem" so we'll get to see another one next week also. i love it. the nativity was unreal the work that these people put into it, so real for kids. dax was actually a little scared of the bad guys (the roman soldiers), but he hasn't stopped talking about seeing baby jesus. i think it finally made him realize that jesus is real. i'm so glad that our ward is doing that nativity also, no more santa at the party! i love that we're bringing the center of everything back to what it's all about. my family does a nativity every year and it's our favorite part about the party. my grandma made these amazing costumes, although the sheets and towels used to work too! and all the cousins dress up. kari, lauren, lyndsie, and shelley are ALWAYS the angels and they do quite the dance number as they come out. and for some reason when i'm pregnant (which is every other year!) i get to be mary. although i think the best mary and joseph we had was my grandma and grandpa white last year. they were great. i think tyise should be mary this year! she'd love to hold the baby. this is a picture of dax as a shephard at the party in 2006. i can't find my pictures from last year. but i can't wait to see my kids do it this year also.... and kari and shelley i'm excited for the dance number too:)

also, my favorite live nativity ever is the one in st.george at Tuachan. it's actually the place braden "proposed" . it's amazing they have all the live animals and all they play is this song breath of heaven. and you can't help but cry the spirit is so amazing. so all my girls in st.george i hope you can go for me since i won't be down there!

i love christmas!

just can't wait for christmas! i've been messing around taking pictures of my kids although i'm not good at it! but i just love this time of year!

thankful for our swingset!

thanks really to grandma and grandpa taylor (my mom and dad) for the swing set. but we are very grateful. they showed up at our house this summer with one, because they said our kids needed one and they knew we wouldn't be able to buy them one. they really do too much for us. we're a little spoiled! but we are grateful. i've been such a bum this summer being so sick and the heat would get to me, so we didn't go out as much as i would've liked. but we enjoy it. tysie is hilarious she's just so big lately. she's such a copy cat and she loves the independence of doing the slide and everything all by herself, although she loves dax to catch her at the bottom of the slide she'll yell at him from the top until he goes to catch her. it's really cute.

so thank you MOM AND DAD!

like the pose! he was dancing!

she saw dax on the higher monkey bar and decided to make her own !

tysie kept clapping for dax. he is entertaining.

such a helper.

dax cheering on tysie on the slide.

the zoo.

well we finally made it to the zoo. it's been a long road for dax to make it there. we've had chart in his bathroom that he gets to put stickers on....Ifhe went to bed when we asked him, and actually stayed there without crying or whining. He had to stay in his bed the whole night. and it took us a while! then when he did fill it up, it was too cold! so thank goodness last week was warm, and good thing we went tuesday because he's been sick the rest of the week. anyway i talked my mom and shelley and heidi into going with me with all the kiddos! it was fun we were quite the clan of kids and strollers!

dax looked so big! he's growing up so fast!

all the strollers!

tysie and carter

the train ride.

posing by the giraffes.my kids were being very coopertative! ya right. it's getting a little tough carrying the three of them!

forgot kid gloves. but good thing i had my spare ones in the car. just a little big!

tysie loved this little seat! she stayed there for everyone elses pictures.

taylor halloween party!

taylor halloween party was so much fun. my mom is seriously so stinkin creative! we had a blast. the kids all looked so cute in their costumes. i love that we have so many kids around now, its funny going from two to five but i love it! we started out with the pinata (i didn't post all the pictures there were too many but the adults were as fun to watch as the kids!). then we went in to eat my moms delicous food. i wish i had pictures of all the food...look on shelley's blog she does of some of it. but it all looked too good to even eat! every cupcake was different she really spent hours on the party. it was awesome thanks mom. then we had our "annual pumpkin carving contest" and sadly we lost the trohpy this year. braden won two years ago and i won last year but i guess we struggled this year and kari won.. no her pumpkin was cute. they were all so good and my camera died so i don't have pictures of them either but i'll have to post them later because eric's monster truck and jared's deer were two good ones also. i laughed when we were all leaving to take the kids home to bed at 8:30 since we're all ready for bed about then also! and kari and gooch were just starting out for the night. man am i really getting that old!

all the cute cousins!

i love this picture of carter! his giraffe costume is so cute.

Pinata time!

tysie and gooch

preschool party!

The preschool halloween party. it was fun the kids were so cute. and don't you love all the buzz lightyears! it was a little confusing to know who was who!

tytan, dax and carter
they make great Buzz's!