The Secret

Here are some pics that i took with my new camera. I picked it up last week from Costco. Thanks to everyone who posted a comment giving me some advice. I decided on the Nikon d60 and I love it. It's kind of overwhelming all the settings and trying to figure out how to use it but i'm excited to figure it out.

Also we were gonna wait to tell everyone but i'm so excited that I can't keep my mouth shut. We were trying to keep it a secret in case something happened but i'm not very good with secrets that are this exciting. We are expecting baby #2! We are so excited for this baby and can't wait to have another little one running around. We will keep ya posted on the new pregnancy.

Teething, Walking, Dancing and Sick

Well Presleigh is just getting over hand foot and mouth disease. It was awful. I thought that she was just teething at first but then she was pretty much crying nonstop so we took her to the doc. He said that she had like 6 open sores in her little mouth. I felt so bad, i know that she was in so much pain, and i kept trying to give her juice to keep her hydrated. Not a very good choice. But i was right on the teething part. She was getting her bottom 2 teeth at the same time as her sore throat. Presleigh just started walking this week as well. She can stand for a long time and takes about 5 steps. She gets so excited when she does, it's so stinkin cute. I wish i had pictures but my camera doesn't shoot fast enough. But tomorrow we're gonna go shopping for a new SLR so i'll post some soon. She's also been dancing like crazy. Wayne taught her this funky dance and so she bends her knees and shakes her bum as soon as she hears music. We had so much fun tonight because the CMA's were on, so she was getting down to country music. We also went and got the second round of Presleigh's flu shot yesterday and now she has a runny nose and some raspy cough going on. Anyone know if this could be from the flu shot?
About that SLR that we're shopping for. I really don't know much about cameras but the Nikon d60 is on sale at costco so that's the one i have my eye on. For all of you who have good cameras please let me know if that's a good choice, I was kindda torn between the d60 and d40. Let me know what you think

Halloween

9 months

I went to Target again to get Presleigh's pictures taken, and I had an awful experience. I don't want to go back for her 1 year pics so I need a new photographer. I need someone who will take her picture and then also family pics. If anyone has any recommendations please let me know. Anyway... here are some pictures

The tutu and the spider

Isn't this tutu so adorable? The three of us were in front of the tv watching the presidential debate, and i decided to make this cute tutu. Wayne was keeping Presleigh away from my project and everything was going good until i saw this massive spider about to attack my baby. It was so fast it freaked me out. So I grabbed Presleigh and grabbed one of her toys and smashed the spider. Then i put Pres down and went back to working on my tutu thinking that my macho husband would dispose of the spider. So Presleigh went back to playing and Wayne continued watching the debate. (Note: my husband is obsessed with politics these days. Talk radio is on all day long and at night we watch fox news.) So i finish the tutu and move to the couch to admire my work when i see Presleigh come towards me from where the spider had been killed. I look around the room to spot where the spider was and it's gone. Gone, can you believe it, you would think that maybe my sweet husband decided to throw it in the garbage or in the toilet or something but no that's not what happen. My sweet baby girl had picked the spider up and ate the whole thing. I could tell that it was no longer in her mouth, she had swallowed it all. I was beside myself. I couldn't even move. I didn't know what to do, there was really nothing i could do, the spider was gone. Presleigh decided to dispose of it. I hurried and called poison control because i wasn't sure if it is safe to eat big ol brown spiders, but they said she'd be fine, thank goodness. This tutu will always remind me of the night my sweet girl ate her first spider!!

Update

Well not a lot of news to report on for this Taylor family. Last weekend My family came down for conference weekend. It was so good to see everyone and get to spend so much time with them all. We had tickets to Sunday morning conference and it was nice to be able to go to the conference center to listen. I am always able to feel the spirit so much stronger when I go there.

My mother brought me her old sewing machine so i've started working on my first quilt. I've never really sewn before so it's going to be an interesting project. I'm making the quilt out of all my old t-shirts so i'm not too picky, and it shouldn't be too difficult.

I've also started babysitting this cute little one year old Kali. She is so cute and Presleigh has so much fun playing with her. It's quite a challenge having two little girls all day that are only about 3 months apart. I feel like i finally have a little bit of an understanding of what it's like to have twins. I'm glad though that Presleigh finally has someone to play with. I have to keep a close eye on her though because she loves to climb up on Kali and she's always trying to pull out her earrings. They are so adorable.

Car Seat

So we're in the market for a new car seat and i'm having a hard time deciding which kind to get. Presleigh is about to graduate from the infant carrier and i want to know where people have found their car seats and what brand to get. We need it to be inexpensive but safe. If you have any info on different seats, please let me know. Thanks.

New Hair

Ok so here is the new hair cut. Today wasn't the best hair day so it's a little messy but since some of you are super eager to see it, here ya go. Here are a few pics of Presleigh standing too. She trys to walk along furniture but usually falls.

I just thought i would post some pics of Presleigh from the month of August. We've had a eventful month. We're all moved in to our home in Ogden. Wayne started school last monday and has been spending his off days studying for the CPA exam. We took a family trip to Bosie, ID for labor day and had a blast. We got to spend time with my sister Kim and her family and also my cousin Rhonda and her family. It was nice to get away for a weekend.
Presleigh has started pulling herself up onto things and falls all the time. She's started doing this weird growl thing like she's a dog and it's so stinkin cute.

Catch Up!!

Here's a pic of the building that caught on fire and the power pole. That is the top of the Subaru.
Here's Pres after a long day at church in Montana.
This is at the Fourth of July Parade in Kanab.
Presleigh sitting in the cart all by herself for the first time.
Aunt Julie playing with Pres at the pool.



So today we are moving back to Salt Lake, well actually we will be in Ogden. For those of you who didn't hear we had actually moved down to Hurricane at the beginning of July. Wayne was planning on doing some accounting work down in the Saint George area for his new business. We liked living in Hurricane, but we decided that the business just wasn't working for our family. So we are actually moving to Ogden so that Wayne can finish his Masters degree at Weber State. He only has three classes left so we thought this would be a good time for him to get it done.

Living in Hurricane was quite eventful. We moved down the week of July 4th. We unpacked the truck then headed to Kanab, UT for a Taylor family reunion over the Fourth. We then went home and unpacked our stuff then headed back to Salt Lake so that Wayne could finish up some work. We were going to be there all week so i decided to take Presleigh and go to Montana for my friend Alina's wedding on the 19th. While we were away from our home for this week a man passed out while he was driving and drove through a field and hit our parked Subaru. The damage wasn't too bad fortunately. Then on July 25th after a yummy meal of chicken tacos we were chatting and our power went out. Wayne went outside and i was getting pres and my shoes so we could ask our neighbor if he had power. Wayne came back and yelled fire. In a frantic I grabbed pres and ran outside the fire was about 10 feet from our house and our Subaru. I ran back to grab the diaper bag so i could try to get one of our cars out but by the time i got back to the driveway the fire was running up the electric pole and i couldn't get my car out. Some nice people had pulled in to tell us that there was a fire but we were already outside so they were yelling at us to get out of there. We walked through the field by our house to the road and met the people out there. We pretty much didn't know what to do because we had no car and no where to go. These nice people from Toquerville asked us to come with them to their house so we spent the day with them. We went back to check on our house at about 9:00 that night and there was no damage to our house or our cars. Our house did smell of smoke though and i thought it would be better if we spent the night In Kanab with Rick and Camie. I was worried about Presleigh inhaling that smoke all night. It took us about a week to get the smell out, and our clothes still sort of smell, but what a blessing that nothing was damaged.

Baby #2

I'm very sad to say that we won't be having a new baby join our family in February like we thought. It's the strangest thing, about 5 days ago I took two pregnancy tests that were both positive. Well I didn't really feel very pregnant. With Presleigh i started feeling sick just a few days after i took the pregnancy test. So yesterday i sent Wayne to the store to get another couple pregnancy tests. I took one last night and it was negative and then I took another one this morning and it was negative also. Although we were very excited, we know that the lord knows what's best for our family, and he will bless us with a new addition when he feels it's time.

As for Wayne's business... right now Wayne and his brother are trying to figure out what path they feel the business and our families should take. There are a few options that they are thinking about. I thought we were headed for California, but we're not really sure. I really do not want to raise my family in LA. But I am willing to go wherever while Presleigh is young so that we can get this business up and running. Hopefully we'll have set plans soon.

4 month old pics

So i went and got presleigh's pictures taken at target last month. They did such a good job and they were very inexpensive.
Presleigh was so funny getting her picture taken. She loved the photographer who was making very loud noises. Presleigh was cracking up the whole time.
I had hessitated to get her pictures taken because i was afraid they wouldn't turn out, but these are so adorable. I wish i would have gotten them done a month earlier.

Baby #2

Just thought we'd let everyone know that we found out yesterday that baby #2 will be joining us next february. Presleigh and our new addition will be about 13 months apart. We are very excited.

Catch up

So we officially moved out of our house last week. It took us a few days to get all of our junk over to john's garage. We are planning on moving it all down to Cedar City at the end of this week. But we will be putting it into a storage unit because we have decided to live with Wayne's parents for a little while. Our plans for now are to move down there in July or so but we'll see. I'm so glad that his parents were so willing to let us move in with them, they are amazing. On a different note, Presleigh suprised Wayne and I today when she rolled over for the first time. It was so cute because she was trying so hard and she just couldn't quite get it. I showed her by moving her legs back and forth that if she got some momentum she could do it. She finally understood and rolled all by herself. She hasn't done it since but I can't believe that she is already rolling over, she's growing up so fast.

Insurance

So because Wayne is now self employed, we are having a terrible time finding good insurance. We started off with this awful insurance that was way too expensive and then decided to cancel before we got new. That was a bad idea. We thought that becuase all three of us are quite healthy, it wouldn't be a problem. It took us a little while to decide which insurance we wanted but we eventually applied for Select Health. I had stopped stressing so much about being uninsured because i was expecting to hear back very soon. Well we just found out that Select Health decided that they would insure Wayne and I, but that Presleigh is unisurable because she has colic. I couldn't believe it. I am so upset that something so small is keeping her from being insured. I have never heard of something like that. Don't like half of all babies have some degree of colic? So i guess we can't apply again for Presleigh for another six to twelve months, although her doctor says she should grow out of it by july. I officially hate insurance companies!!!

Vacation

Here are some pics of Presleigh and me on our vacation. We started in Montana then made our way to California. It was so nice to be able to go visit family. Presleigh enjoyed meeting her cousins for the first time, and I always love a good road trip.