HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAYLOR!!!

This is Mine & Taylor's 1st offical picture taken together leaving the hospital!


This picture is of Taylor & Me on the 4th of July she was 8 months old!


This is Taylor at her 4th birthday party as you can see from her cake she was into Little Mermaid at the time!


This picture is of Taylor at her 6th birthday party!


This is Taylor at her 9th birthday party we can see by the cake is was all about cheerleaders that year!


And this is Taylor today SWEET 15!! She is a keeper! It seems like yesturday that she was born and i only turn around for 5 mintues and she is now 15! Her day started off this morning at 5:30am when her sister Shae came over and fixed her hair for her then she was off to school. What she didn't know at the time is that i left the house at 6am to go to Kents to pick up 36 donuts and juice for her 1st period seminary class. I had arranged with her teacher to drop off the donuts before school, i also droped off a huge ballon boquet(that is in this picture) i left it at her desk and i also left her a vase of roses(the girls in our family get roses from Tony and I on their birthday for what grade they are in so this year Taylor got 9 roses- see so when they are seniors they get a dozen! Taylor had no idea i had all this planned plus i tied 4 ballons on her locker! She told me she was in Shock when she got to 1st period! She also said that in everyclass they sang "Happy Birthday" to her! After school i told her Tony want to see her at his office she totally thought she was in trouble is was great! Tony is such a great dad he did a little birthday interview with her about her last year and things he wanted her to work on this next year. He told her how proud we are of her and that no matter what happens in her life we love her then he ended with telling her we where taking her to her favorite place to eat Tepanyaki!! We gave her only one of her presents today "Hero's second season" She is having a HUGE party on Friday just Taylor and her closest 22 friends! LOL the party starts at our house then Tony & I, Jeremy & Brittany and Taylor's grandpa are driving all the kids to "NIGHTMARE ON 13TH" in Salt Lake City it should be fun! (I hate hauted houses)Taylor is the 1st of 3 things that i did absoulty perfect - Taylor, Trevor and marrying Tony! I hope that this next year brings Taylor lots of fun new exciting things her way and that she enjoys the next few years to come. I will always be sad to see Taylor turn a year older cause it means that my little girl is getting older and has less time for me and more time for her friends which is how it is suppost to be but it still makes me a little sad. Gone are the days that i could fix anything in her life with a kiss and a treat and that her dolls, disney movies and playing with her friends where all she worried about.Taylor is all the best parts of me and i wouldn't change her one bit!Except i would like he to clean her room more often -but i guess that comes with age!! Be sure to check back i will post more photos of the big party! We spent tonight decorating our yard for Halloween tonite for her party! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAYLOR WE LOVE YOU!!

9.11 let's not ever forget that day!

I will never forget 9.11 ever! For me it was a mixture of a horrible day and a good day. 9.11 is the day i knew for sure that i would marry Tony. It started out as any day did for me i got up around 5am got Taylor and Trevor dressed for school and feed and out the door by 6am. I worked at the hospital so i need to be there by 6:30AM to start my shift. Taylor's 1st grade teacher always got to the school at 6am one of her doors to her classroom was on the outside of the building so it opened to the front of the school where parents dropped off their kids. (i hope that makes sense) anyway she would let parents who had to be to work early drop off their kids to her in the morning she would make sure they got school breakfast if they hadn't eaten and help them with homework or give them games to play with until it was time to got to class. I dropped them off to her and went on my way to work,i got to work and started my rounds i kept noticing lots of my coworkers gathered around the nurses station but i kept on my way and thought i would see what was going on later finally the curiosity got the better of me and i walked over and realized that they where all glued to the TV. Then someone clued me in on what was going on. I immediately felt a panic attack coming on and fear swept over me. I walked around for about an hour in a fog trying to go about my routine for the day but not consecrating on my work at all. Then they called me back to the nurses station and told me i had a phone call i thought maybe it was Doug -Taylor and Trevor's dad or maybe my mom or dad but when got on the phone it was Tony! he called to make sure i was OK and not freaking out and told me that everything would be OK and not to worry about anything and that he wanted to see as soon as he could. You have to know i lived in Lewiston Idaho at the time which is about 10 hours from here. Tony was the only person in my whole life that called me that day, i didn't hear from anyone in my family until later that nite and then it was only my mother. I knew from the moment i heard Tony's voice that i would marry him - we had not know each other for that long and he was the only one in my life that bothered to call me at work to make sure i was OK. When he talked to me that day a feeling of peace came over me that i had never felt and i knew that i should never be without him. That i would always be OK if he were around. Tony flew me to Salt Lake City the day they let planes back in the air and before i left he had asked me to marry him. So for me 9.11 has mixed feeling some good came out of that day for me cause it was the day i knew i would be with Tony forever and it was a day of fear and sadness for what happened. I don't think any of us will forget that day not even our kids. Taylor was only in 2ND grade and Trevor was in 1st and when i hear them talk about that day - they remember every detail of what happen to them that day even being so little. I hope that we as families and a nation can learn from what happen that awful day and become better because of it, and hope that nothing like that ever happens again.