Cooper Graham Taylor

here are are few pictures our baby boy.

Born Wednesday December 29th 2:36 pm, 7 lb 10 oz, 19 inches long.






Cute but sad picture. he wasn't too happy about taking pictures.
Grace is constantly pointing at Cooper saying "baby, baby"
(Classic picture: Dad on the couch asleep holding the sleeping baby)

a few pictures

Zach and his bebe's (blanket's) cat
I love this picture!
Making cranberry and popcorn string for the christmas tree
Grace likes to dress herself! (she also loves to undress herself, including diaper)

Classic Monogram Frame Christmas Card

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SNOW

For those who have been asking, here is a picture of me 33 weeks.




Zach was so excited to wake up to snow. He wanted to go right out and play in it. Unfortunately it wasn't light yet so we had breakfast then got ready to go outside.

holloween

We didn't do much for halloween this year. We went to our ward trunk or treat Saturday afternoon, which zach loved. and then on sunday mark's family came over and we had dinner, frosted cookies and let the kids dress up in their costumes. ( i forgot my camera on saturday during trunk or treat).

Random pictures

here are a few things that have been going on in our lives.

(sorry, pictures are backwards)



Carving pumpkins.
Pumpkin patch. It was really fun but was on a pretty cold day. The kids loved all of the activities though.

Playing in the dirt in front of our new house.




Zach had an accident so i had him take a bath. I went to go clean up his mess and a minute later I found Grace taking a bath as well.
Grace fell down a few steps out side and hit the side of her head. You can't see really see but she had a swollen and slightly black eye for a day.
Mark and some of his friends road 100 miles on their bike. There were different rest stops along the way and different people's houses. They stopped by our place, Mark's parents house, first. The kids thought it was fun to have food and drinks and see dad ride his bike.
Finish of his 100 miler
Zach doesn't like his hair wet and will often ask me to blow dry it after he has taken a bath. This particular day he asked me to make it crazy!

Playing in the rain

have you ever seen such grubby kids!!

Puerto Vallarta

This year my family did a big kid trip. It was so fun to hang out with my siblings and parents without kids! We were gone for about a week and did all kinds of fun things. We spent a lot of the time at the beach!!
Mark and part of my family took surfing lessons

mark and layne flying the stunt kite
Swimming with dolphins. We rode in a boat with a marine biologist who showed us wild dolphins in the ocean and let us swim with them. It was really neat to be able to swim with them in the ocean in their natural habitat. We weren't allowed to touch them but we got really close to them.

This picture is for my mom. ha ha

Got to love the action pictures. Three of my favorite people, my mom and two sisters! I love them. The are the funnest people I know.

Crazy Weekend

I thought i would do one last post before we move across the country tomorrow morning. This Weekend has been crazy! I did the Spudman Triathlon with my family and friend Aubrey and then we spent he weekend in Twin falls getting things settled with out house and bringing all of our stored stuff back to Utah. Here are a few pictures. Grace being cute at the hotel. Zach watching Care Bears on the portable DVD player

Grace being a stinker in the hotel . ( we put her to bed and she pulled all of the tissues out of the dispenser....and we thought she was sleeping)

Me friend Aubrey and me after the Traithlon. I just did the swim and bike. Baby isn't letting me run. :( which is making me really sad. I ran most of my pregnancy with Grace.

Me after the swim. You can see my quite large stomach.

My sisters Jami, Kelsey and me before the race.

My cheerleaders!