Good ol' St. George

We are back in St. George for the holidays. We decided to come home a few days earlier than planned and surprise everybody. We are having so much fun hanging out with family and friends. Here are a few pictures of some of the fun things we have done and people we have seen.


Hanging with Grandpa Reitano and watching movies.

Loving Grandma Reitano's kitty cat.

Here is my Great Grandma Ikhaml who is now 93 years young. This woman is amazing and you would never know how old she is. She is in amazing shape and is living life to the fullest. I sure miss this lady!

All worn out

My poor little guy fell asleep in his bouncer while I was on the computer. He was bouncing like crazy and having a good time and all of the sudden it was quiet and so I looked over and he was totally asleep.

I love these boys

I love these two guys. I love watching them play together and hang out. Tayson loves his dad and Taylor seems to be the only one who can make him laugh way hard. Pause the music to hear Tayson's little giggle.

Sweet N' Sour

Brynlee is such a sweetie (when she wants to be). She ran in her room the other night and kneeled next to her bed to say her prayers before we put her down for the night. It was so cute to see her do that and it was such a good way to end the night. But of course...........

She has a little sour side to her as well. She is so determined at EVERYTHING! I have a little magnet animal set that goes on the fridge that makes the animal sounds and she loves to play with it and throw the magnets everywhere. So she woke up in the morning and asked if she could play with the magnets and I told her no. Well obviously no is not the answer that she wanted cause she climbed right up the fridge to get her toy. I got a good laugh out of it. She is my Sweet N' Sour candy!

Flag Football

Flag football has started again this year, but unfortunately we haven't been able to go to any of the games, until this saturday. All of the games have been either really early in the morning or way late at night. Last year all of the wives would go to the games and chat and let the kids play. But this year has been a little different. So we were excited to be able to go to at least one game and support our hubbies. The boys are currently undefeated and are playing in the championship games right now. Last year they were undefeated and won the championships and are hoping to do the same this year. Brynlee was so jealous that Taylor was playing the game and wasn't able to hold her and play, so every time he was on the side line she would run up to him and just snuggle right up to him. She can't get enough of her daddy.

Sneak Peek

Here is a little sneak peek at our christmas pictures. They turned out so cute and I am so pleased. But there is one picture that just turned out sooooooo good and I can't wait to use it for my christmas cards. Unfortunately I am not going to show any of you the picture until our christmas cards come out. Isn't the suspense killing you (ha, ha)? Ashlee thank you for being so kind and taking our christmas pictures. I love them!

My Beautiful Blue Eyed Baby Boy!

All I can say is.........WOW!

I felt this was totally blog worthy. I cannot believe the gas prices lately and how incredibly fast they have been going down. At least something good is coming from this economic crisis right? I seriously can't remember the last time that gas prices were below $2.00 a gallon. I don't think that gas was this low when Taylor and I got married 4 years ago (I do have a bad memory though). As poor law students and living off of student loans we have a very tight budget and the high gas prices caused me to not be able to go out and do a whole lot. I felt that we could have done more stuff and went to new places more often if it wasn't for the gas prices. I would make it 1 whole month on 1 tank of gas. I filled up on October 1st and it cost me $89.00 and I made it on that one tank of gas until November 1st and I filled up again when gas was at $2.42 a gallon and it cost me $50.00 even. I can't tell you how good that felt. Well 1 week later the gas prices have dropped even more. I am interested to see how much more the gas drops and where it decides to stay. I really hope and pray that the gas prices don't go back up to where they were a few weeks back. I am so excited about the decline in gas prices cause this now means that the price of food goes down as well as a number of other things. The economy is in such a bad position right now and I know that the low gas prices will help so many people in so many ways. I am so totally PUMPED about this as you can all tell. Now going home to visit family will cost us half as much as it did a few months back. In August it cost us a whopping $450.00 bucks to drive home and I am so excited to come home now and not have it withdraw every last penny out of our sappy bank account. WOO HOO!

Tayson found his toes

Tayson has found his feet and loves to play with his little pig's. The only time that he will play with his pig's is when we take off his pants or when he is laying around in his diaper. If his pants are on he won't play with them and I am sure that it is because he can't move in them cause his belly is so big and it makes his pants tight. When he gets a little fussy and just had a nap and just ate I know that he is ready to be stripped down so he can just roll around and play.

"Can I hold baby brother"?

Kamryn sure loves her baby brother and she constantly asks me if she can hold her baby brother. She loves to sit on the couch and watch Baby Einstein with him. She is gonna be a good little mommy someday.

Wrestling match

Brynlee loves to pin Tayson down on the floor and play with him, but to switch it up I layed Tayson on top of Brynlee to let her see what it was like to have someone laying on her. I thought that maybe since Tayson was so heavy that she would get mad and want him off of her, but she actually really liked it and was mad when I took him off. Brynlee just beats her poor brother up and I don't know what to do to get her to stop. I thought this would help and it actually makes her want to do it more cause she thinks it is a game. She loves her brother so much and just wants to play with him, but she doesn't know how to be gentle. She will sit on his stomach and bounce on him and say "Weeeee the horsey". She scares me and I am afraid she is really going to hurt him someday. In fact I thought she had broken his arm the other day. He had rolled over onto his stomach and she thought it would be nice to roll him back over, but she didn't realize that his arm was straight out and when she rolled him over it bent his arm all the way back. I seriously have never seen an arm bend like that before. He cried and wouldn't move his arm for a couple minutes. It scared me way bad! I sure gave her a good paddle on the bum.

Tayson was enjoying licking Brynlee's back and as you can see she didn't mind it so much either. When I took Tayson off, Brynlee's back was full of slobber.

Cute video of Tayson

The other day Tayson was screaching and cooing up a storm so I had to take video of him. He has found his little voice and loves to use it. He loves to scream and make loud noises. It is cute when he is happy and playing and not so cute when he is mad and crying. He screams all the time now, happy or sad. Taylor and I can't help but laugh when he is crying cause he screams at the top of his lungs and sounds like a little girl screaming. It's quite funny and irritating to the ears at the same time. He is such a happy little boy and we couldn't be luckier. Pause the music so you can hear his sweet little voice.

Blogging Queen and Picture Freak

Ok, so I have been called the Blogging Queen many times as well as a Picture Freak. Well for those of you who don't know me real well, I ALWAYS have my camera with me in my purse and it goes with me wherever I go and I take a million pictures when we do something. I also update the blog ALL THE TIME for my parents and Taylor's parents as well. Also when you have 3 kids there is always something going on and something new with each child and I want to share it with family since they don't get to see us that often. So for all of you others who look at our blog you probably think I am crazy and sit on the computer all the time, but this is not true. I just update the blog as soon as we have new pictures so that our families can see us and what we are up to. I also use the blog as a personal journal. I am not good at writing in my journal (in fact I don't do it at all) and so this is an easy way for me to write down what new has happened, etc. There is a really cool website called blurb.com and it allows you to print off your blog into a book (like a journal). So no I am not crazy, I just update for family and journaling purposes. I hope you all enjoy our blog.

Chucke-Cheese

I took the girls to Chucke Cheese to play with some of our friends, and the kids had a blast. I had never been to Chucke Cheese before and I was pretty impressed. There were so many things to do and you could let the kids just run and play all over the place and us moms just sat back and talked. It was safe, new, clean and it didn't break our bank account. The kids were happy playing on the rides without them moving, shaking, or talking. Chucke came to say hi to us but the girls were a little freaked out. Tayson didn't care who it was as long as someone was holding him. If you haven't been you should give it a try. I have always been a little hesitant to take the kids there, but it was fun.

It's official.....

It's official............Tayson is rolling over. Awhile back he rolled over a few times and then never did it again. But the last few days he has been trying so hard to roll over, he just couldn't push those little fat rolls hard enough to get himself all the way over (ha, ha). But today I caught him rolling over like 3 times. Here he is in action!