Taya's first birthday!

I cannot believe this cute little baby is one!

OK, so I'm a slacker! Taya's 1st birthday was the 24Th of August and I am just getting around to blogging about it. For those of you who don't know, my sister Tori and I have the same birthday which was the 21st of August and Tori's son's birthday is the 26Th. So we got together at Tori's for one big bash.

My attempt at making a fondant cake. Kenny called it my 6 hour cake! It took a long time. I think it turned out ok for my first one!

Tori, Jeremy and fam gave Taya this baby stroller. It was the first gift she opened and
that was all she wanted. She got mad when we tried to get her to open her other presents. She just wanted to push her stroller.
SHE LOVED IT!

Thanks Tori and Jer!

Here she is pushing the cute stuffed animal she got from Uncle Matt, Aunt Dawnya and fam
Thanks Uncle Matt and Aunt D!

The next morning she got up and realized she got more then the stroller. She saw her baby in the baby bed that Grandma and Grandpa Pearce gave her and got so excited. She sat and played with/ talked to it for a long time. She also got a puppy and block from Mom and Dad
Thanks Grandma and Grandpa!

On her birthday, which was 2 day's later then the party we had at Tori's. Grandma and Grandpa Jacobson and Randy came over to celebrate. We ate some cake and ice cream and Taya opened her presents. She got a cute rocking chair (which she is sitting in, in the picture above) clothes, a baby and flip flops from Grandma and Grandpa Jacobson. Her favorite present DRUM ROLL please....Flip flops. Funny huh?! I will put them on her feet and she will walk a little ways then they will fall off and she gets mad and brings them to me to put back on. Grandma Jacobson says she is like her..she loves shoes!

It's crazy to think that at this time last year she was sleeping, pooping and eating. Now she is walking around, gives kisses, says Mom, Daddy, Hiiii, and her favorite word, More! She has 6 teeth...wait My sister informed me yesterday she is working on her 7th! I am such a duh sometimes! Thanks Aunt Tori for the info!

Her 1st birthday went well and we were glad to celebrate it with her and all who came to the parties! Thanks everyone for coming and the presents that you gave to Taya and I!

BUSY SUMMER!! JUNE and JULY post

It's been such a fun summer! Here is a recap of some of the fun things we have been doing!


CAMPING!!

We went camping with my Family back in June. I went on my first solo (meaning I was the only one on the horse) horse ride with one of my Mom and Dad's horse's! I was riding Tex (aka Texas) at first when he was being a pain and wanting to go back to camp. My Dad was on the other horse (Blaze) and he told me to switch horses with him, so we pulled off the side of the dirt road we were on. I got on Blaze. Somehow in the mist of us switching horses the reins got tangled up, so we had them laying on the ground tell we could get them un-tangled. My dad was fixing my stirrups when Blaze was being a pain and not holding still. So my Dad smacked his butt....He took off and we went a galloping, my Dad was yelling at me to stop the horse. In my head, I was like how in the world do I stop this horse...I have NO REINS! luckily though I found the lead rope and got him to stop. I was a little nervous after that, but Blaze was awesome after that incident and we had a beautiful ride.

The pictures are after our ride. I let Taya sit up on the horse with me. She LOVED IT! She was waving at everybody as we took a little ride. My dad says she is all ready to be a rodeo queen.

Taya--Bathing in Grandma's trailer sink!

BEE'S GAME!!

My Bro-in-law Eric had some free tickets for a Bee's game and was nice enough to invite Kenny, Taya and I along. It was such a blast!

My sister's and there fam's went too!

Chloee with her yummy drink! Mandy taking pictures. I think Mand and I had more fun taking pictures of each other then watching the game!


My cute sister Tori with Detmer and Jer ( I think he might be upset by the call??)

My Cute little Taya! She was pretty spoiled at this game. She had some Ice cream, Pretzel, Cotton candy...I think and hope that was all :)!




4th OF JULY




SO back on the 4th of July..I made a cake and told my awesome friend Jen that I would take pictures of it. So here you go Jen--

Alright--so after all the picture's I took of this cake..you would think I would have a piece of cake facing the right direction so the flag wasn't backwards! I am such a DORK sometimes. But hey, you get the point.

Kenny had to work on the 3rd so Taya and I went to my mom's for a swim party and lunch!

The water was soooo cold. So Taya didn't swim much!

Sharing some Crystal Light with Grandma.

I love this picture!

Must have been some strong stuff! haha

She's ok though!

24th of July!

For those of you who don't know, Weston has a little celebration for Pioneer day. Grandma and Grandpa Pearce came up to spend the morning with us.

Waiting for the parade...


Love this picture of my Dad!

Enjoying one of Grandma's home-made suckers!

Playing with Grandpa's hat

AFTER all the excitement

Taya's 9 month well visit

I took Taya to the doctor yesterday and she is doing great! She weighed 20 lbs 11 oz (which was in the 75%) and was 28 1/2 " long. Before Doctor Eskelson had told us her height he had asked if she liked volleyball (not knowing that I liked it). I said "hopefully why?"He said "Because She is really tall." She is in the 95 % for her height! She now has 4 teeth and is growing fast! She crawls all over the place and stands without holding on to things. She sure makes Kenny and I laugh a lot at all the silly and funny things she does. We sure love her!This was taken on Memorial day. Just enjoying playing outside!

YES, That is a pickle in her mouth. We gave her one one day when we were out to lunch a couple months ago because we thought it would be funny to watch her pull a face. Turns out we got the total opposite of what we were expecting. SHE LOVES THEM.
We had to take it away from her for a minute before this shot. In this picture she is biting down hard on the pickle (plus little Gerber snack, saved for later) so we can't take it away from her again. We ended up having to get Kenny back to work so we took it away and she bawled for a while. Sure taught us a lesson.

Taya's 6 month pictures!

My friend Melanie (Doesn't she have the coolest name ever?!)took these photo's a couple months ago.

Taya was so good! She had to have a short nap in between, but was great otherwise.

Melanie is so talented too! It was so much fun! Thanks Mel!

Some for Dad!

Her hair in this one looks like she just got done playing basketball.

Finally-- I get to play with the volleyball! :)




Check out the chubs everywhere!



Melanie gave her a necklace

YOU MEAN I GET TO PLAY WITH IT!

SWEET!

Check out that tongue--TRUE PEARCE!

Some of my Fav's!

LOVE her smile in this one!

I think she was starting to get tired.

Well HELLLO!

I have decided to give into temptation and make a blog. I hope that it will be somewhat entertaining for all of you. I have been able to stay at home with our darling little girl Taya. She is now 8 months old.. man, how time fly's. When I have time on my hand's, I will try to keep you up to date on what's going on in our lives!