Kids Photo Shoot

 

 

I finally got the Camera Shy in Lehi for the kids photo shoot. I was nervous that the kids wouldn't cooperate and they didn't. Clay was fine though, except when the photographer asked him to hold up how old he was going to be and as you can tell in the photo he thought that was stupid. Ansley was a nightmare. She cried  almost the whole time. I was disappointed that we didn't get one picture of her truly smiling and showing her  fun personality, but what can you expect with a 2 year old. Westen did okay part of the time. We did get a couple of him smiling which is all I asked for.

Cabin Fever

 Enjoying an ice cream cone

 Sweet boy

 Pillow Monster

 Where else would you count your money?

 First walk

 Ipad fun

First Saturday morning doughnut run

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Since RSV and Whooping Cough is in season we have been cooped up in the house all winter. My poor kids is what I would think...if we didn't just moved in a house that is triple the size of our old place. Lucky for me the kids have places to explore and play within the house. It has made this winter bearable. But I still get a little cabin fever every once in a while. These pictures are just some of the stuff we do to keep us entertained.

Birthday

For my birthday we, of course, ate at Red Lobster. This time we took our kids so they could try some of my favorite type of foods, seafood. Ansley we weren't too worried about because she pretty much eats everything, it just has to be on her terms. Clay on the other hand, he is more picky especially when it comes to new food.

I got some crab, Spencer ordered Lobster and shrimp and we ordered some popcorn shrimp for the kids. To our suprise they loved it. Clay absolutely loved the lobster and crab. He asks for it every week ever since he had it. I'm so glad that my kids like seafood. It was a great birthday spent with my family.

Westen Spencer Tait

Westen was blessed on January 6th. It was Westen and I's first Sunday at church. Even though no one new us we had a huge welcome that day in our ward. 

We had a lot of support from family and friends for this joyous occasion. We appreciate all those who were able to make it there. We love you all.

Christmas, New Years and Snow Fun

Loving The Nativity

Clay wearing his new transformer PJ's to school

Bubble dancing and races

Glow in the dark hide n' seek

Rice Crispy making

Fruit Kabobs

Fire works 

Oreo truffle eating

Bath time

Unfortunately Clay got a hold of Spencer's phone where I had all our Christmas pictures and Ansley birthday photos on and somehow restarted and upgraded his phone and it deleted everything on it, so I don't have anything of our first Christmas in our house. My stomach hurts just typing this.

Anyways we had a great Christmas. We had our traditional candle light dinner with Honey baked ham. Spencer played his Christmas piano piece for us. We talked about the birth of Jesus, watch The Polar Express and drank crock pot hot coco while doing so. The kids had a great time and were so excited for Santa to come to our house. Christmas morning was magical. Clay gets more and more fun to watch each year. We just hung around the house that day and my parents came to visit and to see what Santa brought the kids.

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Spencer's family came to visit a couple of days before New Years. We love having them visit. We had some fin things planned for the kids for a New Years party. We had balloons with papers in them for each half hour starting from 6:30-8:30. Each paper had an activity in it that they did for that half hour. We did silly string fights, balloon races and dancing, rice crispy and fruit kabobs making and eating, glow in the dark hide n' do seek in the basement, a scavenger hunt and for the count down...fireworks in the back yard. They kids and adults had fun with all the activity.

We had a lot of snow fall and the girls have never been sledding so I borrowed some snow clothes from my sweet sister in law and we went sledding. Rylin and Jordyn loved loved it. Clay liked it okay, but we had a couple of tip overs on the bottom of the hill and he was over it after that. Paytin doesn't like getting in the snow or sand for that matter. She just stood at the top of the hill and watched. Melinda did make her go down a couple of times but she was crying the whole time. She is a character. We had so much fun playing with them.