Our beautiful Taya is 2!

I cant believe how fast it has gone. You always hear people say that they 'grow up before you know it' and it is so true! I cant believe 2 years ago i was holding a tiny little 4 pound, 13ounce doll with no idea of the silly, spunky little thing she'd become! We are so lucky to have our little girl! So here are some moments from the last 2 years....

Goodbye sweet summer!

Lake Powell 09'.

Thanks Cailee and Shiloh it was fun! Until next year....

OktoberFest.

In BrianHead 2009...

so fun!

Beautiful mountain road. Good thing we had some scenery because we got lost for a couple of hours. (lol dont worry, we drove all the way to orderville looking for brian head!)

Good ole German food....im supposed to eat all of this?!

Taya and Stetson playing on the table...they were so cute! We danced the hokey pokey and sang along with this cute little German band!
Me trying to get Taya to do a cute pose with me...not happening.

My bohemian girl.

Just me being sexy. Lol, dont mind the shirt caught between my legs.

We wore them out!

Thanks Dayna and Stetson for taking us!

Until next year......'Leb wohl!'

Everybody Zumba!

So i just went to my first Zumba class tonight and freaking loved it! It is an aerobic dance class that incorporates different dance styles like african tribal, hawiian, salsa, and a bunch of others and makes it a super high energy workout. They turn off the lights and have strobe lights and bright colors. There is such a wide range of people that go, from little kids to like 70 year old men and women (yes i danced behind an old man ha ha)! I took Taya with me and she had a blast, she danced the whole time. I had fun and but was still totally beat at the end of it, and thats my kind of workout. So if you havent yet, you need to go find a class and try it out!

The great outdoors...

So we decided to pack up and take a fun family camping trip this weekend. You know, breathe in some fresh mountain air, cook tinfoil dinners around the campfire, do some fishing, the whole outdoor shebang. Yeah lets just say it pretty much turned out to be the camping camping trip from hell haha. We definatly had some good moments, but oh my gosh, apparantly we were not supposed to be camping this weekend. We should have paid attention to all the signs ha ha!
We headed out a few hours later then planned, and after we had to turn around when i relized i'd forgotten my hiking shoes and all i had were flip flops. And as soon as we got cruising on the freeway we had to slow down to a crawl behind a line of cars because a semi had caught on fire and they had one lane closed.
Sign #1.
We stayed in stop and go traffic and could not believe our bad luck for what seemed like an eternity, then we were really on our way to the great outdoors. We got to tropic and spent a couple of hours with my cute inlaws then took off to find our camping spot. Now just know that we'd never been to this mountain, or camping spot before. Dan looked up directions online and kind of had an idea where we were going (this really should have been a sign too lol, had i only known).
So we're driving and finally got to Boulder Mountain and started our climb up this dirt road. We drove a few hours trying to find our lake (with a very unhappy 2 year old that had been in her carseat for hours), when we realized that we were going to run out of gas.
Sign #2.
So we had to drive about 3 hours off this bumpy, dirt roaded mountain and into the nearest town to fill up, then started heading the few more hours back up the mountain. And after getting faulty directions from an indian dude that had no idea what he was talking about, driving around aimlessly, beating up our truck, trying to get Taya to go to sleep, and after reaching the very top of the mountain and a dead end we decided that we werent going to find it that night. We reversed, drove back off the mountain again and back into the closest town again to find a motel.
Sign #3.
Woke up and headed back to the mountain. Got a map and new directions, and found out that we'd been on the wrong side of the mountain. Now boulder mountain is known for its bears. My mom called the day before we left, and gave me a warning about boulder being bear country, and how people get pulled out of their tents all the time by bears, and get attacked, and are hunted down and mutilated while just minding their own business. Great. So i pretty much begged dan to change camping locations but he had his heart set on hiking to these pretty lakes to catch trophy fish. (and for those of you that know my husband you can pretty much guess how the conversation went lol). But he assured me that we'd take bear precautions and would be fine.
The first sign we see coming up the road...

CAUTION: BEAR COUNTRY..bear proofing your camp, what to do if attacked...etc. Scary!

Dan trying to find out where the heck we were ha ha....
Fortunatly this time we found the right road, and unfortunatly it looked like this...
The entire 10 miles of this rock road took took over 2 hours to inch through, absolutely beating our poor truck in the process.
Sign #4.

Once we got there and got set up, besides me being paranoid of bears and not letting Taya away from my side the entire time, we started having some fun! We took a long hike taking turns holding Taya to these absolutely beautiful lakes. They were so pretty, and Dan caught some fish while Taya and i chilled and played in the water.

That night i was so terrified of bears ripping through our tent i couldnt even sleep. Right as i was starting to fall asleep Dan let out a big snore and it scared me so freaking bad! I thought a bear growled right by my head and i smacked dan and woke him up haha. Then the fire popped and i smacked him again to ask if he heard that, because for sure i knew a bear was walking around our tent lol. When i finally fell asleep i had nightmares about a bear ripping our tent open and trying to hide taya under the air mattress, thanks mom.

So the next morning we started home and that freaking road was so bumpy and rocky it took hours to get off the mountain again and we were totally worn out and ready to be home. We were starving and looking foreward to eating lunch when guess what, we got a flat tire! Sign #5 ha ha. So after pulling over on the side of the road, trying to keep taya preoccupied with snacks and rocks, and taking an hour to change a tire in the heat we headed started again back home....wow. All in all we ended up haveing to replace all four of our tires because the rocks had cut them up so bad! It was the most expensive and trying camping trip i've ever been on....but at least we got a good story to tell right?

We fell off the edge...

...Of the world! So for some reason our computer wouldnt let me get on any of the blogspot pages for like months. Weird, i know! But we're back, and here's what you missed while we were gone from the blogging world!

I finally graduated school! I've passed both my state tests, and im officially a Master Esthetician!


I'm going to miss all these girls so much!



Taya is getting older and older every day! She is so so fun.




Dan got a humongo buck on the bow hunt and stuck the deer head and antlers in my freezer. Yuck. But what a nice deer!


And we've had way more time as a family to do fun stuff now that i'm out of school.

Say cheese! PT. 2

So all these are some of our favorites, but we got so many good ones! I was suprised because Taya was so grouchy the whole time; we had to cut our session practically in half. I bought a cute little tu-tu and big bow that i was going to have Taya change into but she wouldn't even wear it. Then finally when she kind of started to cheer up she tripped and scraped both of her knees, and then she was done. And for our second location we went to some really cool broken down pioneer houses on an indian reservation. It was an awesome location, everything was perfect. But as soon as we started snapping pics a burly native american man in a pickup truck appeared and told us that we had to leave because we were exploiting the native americans. It was so dramatic. I swear it was just because it was picture day. But luckily we still loved all of our pics!

Say cheese!

We got our family pictures taken a couple of weeks ago by errin andrus photography and she did an amazing job! We just got our disks back today and im so excited! I'll post some later, but for now, check out her blog http://errinandrusphotgraphy.blogspot.com to see a few.

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Its your special day!

So all you wonderful mommies out there, enjoy it. We deserve it!

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Happy Mothers Day!