fun on the farm

Wow...I totally just found this stashed away in my draft folder from forever ago. Oops.

Farm Day @ Preschool. Yay for kids. Ugh for me. I love doing activities with my kids, but I really hate farm day. The main reason being it is really hard for me to keep track of 2 kids (Jack was in the strap on carrier thingy) among a gazillion others and farm day ALWAYS is bound to come a few days after heavy rain. So then it is a muddy, poopy, cold-until-it-warms-up-and-i-have-to-carry-everyones-coats-around-the-farm-day. The trip out to the pumpkin patch is the worst. Mud Mud Mud. AND I took all 3 kids this year because Jacob claimed *allergies*. (psh!)

See the boots? Those are because I learned from LAST years trip to the farm. ;)

This is Taylie and Katie. Katie is Taylie's favorite friend from school. Last year they were what I called "partners in crime". This year I guess they are more responsible with their mischief and I don't hear much about it. :)

Taylie loves animals and she loves to take care of things and people, and animals are no different. The funniest thing was when she walked up to her teacher and asked her to help her pick up a pig. Everyone laughed including me, and so she decided to ask the woman who worked there. She was so sweet and the woman showed her that when you pick up a pig it squeals. When she learned that they don't like it, she just wanted to feed something.

The woman let her break a pumpkin (!) and helped her feed a goat

Then they had this awesome slide that is huge! It was all she wanted to do once she saw it. Once we got there she showed Luke how to go down it and this was the face I caught of him going down:

and Taylie, being as sweet as she is and full of awesomeness, went down with her brother when he was having a hard time making it to the front of the line cause of the bagillion kids. She always made sure he was taken care of and having fun.

We really did have a fun time. We ate lunch and played all of the games and picked pumpkins in the pumpkin patch and had a great time. I was glad to go home and get everyone showers...that was my favorite part.

And just think...I get to go again...the next 2 years with Luke when he starts school. :)

First Day of Preschool--Year 2

I know, how super behind am I, right?!

This was back in September

This was September of last year:

Didn't she look like such a baby?! It makes me so sad to realize how fast she grew up in just one year.

This is this year

This is last year

I can't believe that in less than a year I will be taking pre-kindergarten pictures for Taylie and preschool pictures for Luke.

They grow way too fast. Don't take advantage of it.

Temple Square 2011

This little field trip we actually took in August, but you know babies keep my busy so I am just getting to it now.

Taylie has a picture of the Salt Lake Temple hanging on her wall and she has had it there for a long time. She has asked on a few occasions if she would be able to go and see "her castle". When I told her that it is something we would be able to take her to see, she was SO excited! Usually she asks if we can take her to Disneyland RIGHT NOW and we say no. Then she will ask to go to the beach RIGHT NOW and we say no. Or in the middle of the night she asks to go and see Grandpa in Oklahoma and then we tell her no again and she better get back in bed or else...
So for her to be told yes was very exciting.

When we got to the Temple, she was pretty much in awe. She was very giddy and excited and just really didn't know what to do with herself. There was the cutest Senior Missionary couple that asked if we wanted to hear a story. They told us the neatest story but the kids weren't really into it. They were just a little bit too young to hear about the man who lost his legs and continued to work on the Temple. They were trying look inside the windows of the lowest floors and were a little dissapointed when they couldn't see anything.

This has to be one of my favorite pictures

This is my other favorite. We took them all over the square and up to the top of the Joseph Smith Building so they could see the Temple from all vantage points.

I hope that Taylie remembers how much she is in awe of such a special place and that she will always keep a deep love of the Temple and the church and hold it in a special place in her heart.