Saturday, March 26, 2011

Visiting Macie Mae

This weekend we got to go visit Macie Mae and boy was she so excited to see us! I haven't seen her that excited in a long time!!! It was so much fun!! I was nervous if she would remember me, and she FOR SURE remembered who we were!! She is the same Macie Mae with just a little bit more meat on her bones:) She was very sad when I had to leave and was following me outside....poor little girl!!!! I hope that she forgot all about it now, seeing that she has a big family to love and care for her!! WE LOVE YOU MACIE MAE!


Taelin giving Macie Mae a hug:)

So happy so play with each other again!

Giving Kisses!:)

Playing with her toy! This new boy loves her to death!

Taelin wants her toy and is saying YA in this pic

Trying to steal the toy

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Just some videos

 
Just Playing 


Helping put silverware away:) He is such a good helper

Playing with his toys

Playing some Soccer

Saturday, March 19, 2011

FUN WEEKEND!

This weekend was A LOT of fun!!! My friend, Rachel and her baby Nora came with Taelin & I to this place called JUST KID AROUND Friday afternoon.  Taelin had the time of his life!! There are so many toys and fun things to do there, that Taelin would start playing with one thing, and then 5 sec later he would run to the next toy.  It was so cute! He loved BASKETBALL, HORSES, AND THE SLIDES the most! I loved it so much because they had to most COMFY couches and chairs to sit in, and the people that worked there cleaned up after your child! IT ROCKED! Taelin even made a friend there. This 4 year old girl liked racing us down the slides and then she liked holding Taelin down the slide.  It was ADORABLE! We were there for about 2 hours and came home and napped:) LOVE NAPS!
SUCH A cute baby girl!



Made some friends
Taelin tried and tried and FINALLY got this little duck, he's so short that he couldn't reach. 

 When we woke up we went and met ReNea at Sizzler to see Wes working and to eat some dinner. The food there is SO GOOD! Taelin wanted to follow Wes around the whole time, but couldn't because he was working, it was so cute! After dinner we went to the mall and looked around and had Taelin play at the play place.


Taelin saying CHEESE!

Climbing up on the high chair
Sitting down on the escalator
Styling the Sunglasses at AE. Taelin was entertaining everyone in the store with those on!
Then we went to Heidi's birthday party to go bowling.  It was A LOT of fun! Taelin helped me every-time, and did awesome! We got a score of 83:) Taelin was so cute there, and was a big handful! Just running and running around the WHOLE time! He liked to roll the bowling balls around and go into the game room and ride the MOTORCYCLES.  Seeing that we didn't get home that night till around 11pm Taelin did AMAZING! I thought that he would sleep really well, and maybe sleep in....what was i thinking...he woke up about every hour crying, but did wake up around 930 am:)
Taelin couldn't really keep still in this chair
Me and the Birthday Girl! Happy birthday Heidi
The Nelson Gang
Helping me bowl
 Today was a super lazy day.  We didn't really do much. We watched A LOT of Basketball, played inside, and slept.  Taelin helped Grandpa outside in the yard, and played some basketball too.  We did get out of the house and go play at McDonalds, he met a new friend there too and had a lot of fun.  We got to say good night to Dalin today, AND WE OF COURSE LOVE THAT! Hope the weather gets nicer so we can spend some more time outside. what a GREAT weekend!

He loves helping in the yard!!!

Thursday, March 17, 2011

St Patty's Day

i LOVE St. Patty's Day, cuz I LOVE GREEN Food! It's the best! Started out the day going to the best ZUMBA class ever with Annette, and then came home and made the best GREEN food! It was GREEN waffles, with GREEN milk, hasbrowns, bacon, and sausage.  Taelin loved it too, which is GREAT!
I also made Taelin a Lucky Leprechaun Puppet, that he didn't show to much interest in, and I also made a Lucky Leprechaun Door hanger...Taelin even helped me glue it together.  He really like this one and would carry it around with him, and liked hanging it on the door.  The weather was a little bit nicer today, so we got to go outside and play, which taelin LOVED!! we  of course played BASKETBALL, and he popped some bubbles.  Taelin got to hang out with Grandpa tonight while Annette, Mom and I went to the stake Relief Society Birthday Party.  Taelin and Grandpa played and played and went to the store and Talein even got a bath.  He LOVED it.  The Relief Society this was so much fun.  They did a really amazing play about Relief Society and how we are all sisters in zion and are here to help one another, and also had awesome refreshements (fruit dish with amazing fruit dip, veggie tray, such good rolls, and cake).  It rocked!! We also helped tie some fleece blankets for the Ronald McDonald House.  Whenever I leave Taelin I hate it, but I LOVE that when I come home he is so excited to see me and runs up to me and hugs me!! Tonight I was talking on the phone to Tyler, and Taelin came up to me and wanted me to hold him, and then he looked at me and gave me a kiss and then layed his head on my shoulder.  it was ADORABLE! I love him!  All in All TODAY WAS A GREAT DAY!! and the best part was that I got to talk to Dalin today for probably 1 hour!!!!!! I LOVE HIM SO MUCH AND MISS HIM A LOT TOO! We cannot wait to be together again SOON....hopefully:) Here are some pics from our fun day!:) Hope you all had a good St Patty's Day too!





Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Big Boy Bed

This is what Taelin's room looks like right now.  We have a great nap time and bed time routine that he LOVES!! we always go into his room and he gets to pick a book for us to read, but he would rather climb up the ladder onto the top bunk and play up there...so he is usually up there while I read him 3 or 4 books.  We then do our article of faith 3 times and the say prayers.  I then turn the light off and cuddle him on the big boy bed and ask him questions about his day (this is my most favorite thing to do with him before he goes to bed), and then I sing him some songs while he drifts off into sleep....I would then put him into his crib....UNTIL NOW! HE IS NOW SLEEPING IN THE BIG BOY BED.  He has only done it 2 nights and the first night was a super success....the 2nd night....not so much......I decided to go upstairs and do somethings, which meant that I wouldn't be able to hear him if he started crying..well last night around 11:00 pm we all hear Taelin SCREAMING at the top of his lungs!! So my mom and I rush downstairs to go and get him....Taelin was already by the stairs to come upstairs...AND HE WAS SO SCARED!!!!!!!!!!!  It made me so sad! So I went into his room to cuddle him back to sleep...I asked him if he was scared and he said YA....I asked him if he was tired and he shook his head NO...so I asked him if he wanted to see Aunt Net and he said YA...then I asked him if he wanted to watch a show with me and he of course said YA...so he stayed with me on my bed until about 1230 1ish while watching Toy Story 2...and Taelin had to hold his Jesse and Woody toy. It was so cute!! I then put him into his crib and he went right to bed.  Good luck tonight on letting him sleep on the big boy bed...I probably scared him for awhile....wish me luck!

Monday, March 14, 2011

Taelin's Favorite Things

Taelin's Favorite Things right now are.............
MOTORCYCLES
& BASKETBALL!!!!!
He makes the best Motorcycle noise ever, and he gets so excited if he sees/hears a motorcycle when we are in the car!!! 
We went and visited my work today, and my boss let him take home this BSU trash can...boy was Taelin so excited!!! This is what he really likes to do with it:) 





 
Seriously, what a goof ball!!!! I love him!! 
 And I swear, when he grows up he will play basketball!!!!! HE LOVES IT SO MUCH!! everyday when we get the newspaper he has to look at the sports page and just points and points to the basketball!! He sometimes has to carry the paper around the house because he LOVES it so much!!! It's so stinking cute!! I love when the weather is so nice and I get to take him outside so he can run, dribble, jump, and shoot his basketball!! he gets the biggest smile on his face!! HE IS SO ADORABLE!


 He really wanted his toy Jesse to come and play with him too! I love how happy he is:)

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Play Date & Reading Scriptures

Taelin & Henry playing at the mall, I love that Taelin is totally flirting with this girl and Henry is peeking around
Sharing the toy! What good friends!
He looks so grown up in this picture!
Taelin likes to sit with Grandma & Grandpa while we read scriptures, but he really wanted to hide from me....
Then he said BOO and was SO happy!
He also likes to play peek a boo...I love how little his hands are over his eyes!

Such a Sad Thing to Happen


Dalin is over in Okinawa Japan right now when this happened.  I feel so blessed that he lives so far away from where this happened and I feel so blessed that Taelin & I are here in the states where we are safe.  The Lord truly does bless us.  This is such a sad event that happened, and who knows how long it will take now for us to get over to Dalin, but I know that if we are faithful and obedient we will get there when He wants us there.  I am putting full trust in the Lord now. 
March 11, 2011
TOKYO — Rescuers struggled to reach survivors on Saturday morning as Japan reeled after an earthquake and a tsunami struck in deadly tandem. The 8.9-magnitude earthquake set off a devastating tsunami that sent walls of water washing over coastal cities in the north. Concerns mounted over possible radiation leaks from two nuclear plants near the earthquake zone.
The death toll from the tsunami and earthquake, the strongest ever recorded in Japan, was in the hundreds, but Japanese news media quoted government officials as saying that it would almost certainly rise to more than 1,000. About 200 to 300 bodies were found along the waterline in Sendai, a port city in northeastern Japan and the closest major city to the epicenter.
Thousands of homes were destroyed, many roads were impassable, trains and buses were not running, and power and cellphones remained down. On Saturday morning, the JR rail company said that there were three trains missing in parts of two northern prefectures.
While the loss of life and property may yet be considerable, many lives were certainly saved by Japan’s extensive disaster preparedness and strict construction codes. Japan’s economy was spared a more devastating blow because the earthquake hit far from its industrial heartland.
Japanese officials on Saturday issued broad evacuation orders for people living in the vicinity of two separate nuclear power plants that had experienced breakdowns in their cooling systems as a result of the earthquake, and they warned that small amounts of radiation could leak from both plants.
On Friday, at 2:46 p.m. Tokyo time, the quake struck. First came the roar and rumble of the temblor, shaking skyscrapers, toppling furniture and buckling highways. Then waves as high as 30 feet rushed onto shore, whisking away cars and carrying blazing buildings toward factories, fields and highways.
By Saturday morning, Japan was filled with scenes of desperation, as stranded survivors called for help and rescuers searched for people buried in the rubble. Kazushige Itabashi, an official in Natori City, one of the areas hit hardest by the tsunami, said several districts in an area near Sendai’s airport were annihilated.
Rescuers found 870 people in one elementary school on Saturday morning and were trying to reach 1,200 people in the junior high school, closer to the water. There was no electricity and no water for people in shelters. According to a newspaper, the Mainichi Shimbun, about 600 people were on the roof of a public grade school, in Sendai City. By Saturday morning, Japan’s Self-Defense Forces and firefighters had evacuated about 150 of them.
On the rooftop of Chuo Hospital in the city of Iwanuma, doctors and nurses were waving white flags and pink umbrellas, according to TV Asahi. On the floor of the roof, they wrote “Help” in English, and “Food” in Japanese. The reporter, observing the scene from a helicopter, said, “If anyone in the City Hall office is watching, please help them.”
The station also showed scenes of people stranded on a bridge, cut off by water on both sides near the mouth of the Abukuma River in Miyagi Prefecture.
People were frantically searching for their relatives. Fumiaki Yamato, 70, was in his second home in a mountain village outside of Sendai when the earthquake struck. He spoke from his car as he was driving toward Sendai trying to find the rest of his family. While it usually takes about an hour to drive to the city, parts of the road were impassable. “I’m getting worried,” he said as he pulled over to take a reporter’s call. “I don’t know how many hours it’s going to take.”
Japanese, accustomed to frequent earthquakes, were stunned by this one’s magnitude and the more than 100 aftershocks, many equivalent to major quakes.
“I never experienced such a strong earthquake in my life,” said Toshiaki Takahashi, 49, an official at Sendai City Hall. “I thought it would stop, but it just kept shaking and shaking, and getting stronger.”
Train service was shut down across central and northern Japan, including Tokyo, and air travel was severely disrupted.
On Friday, television images showed waves of more than 12 feet roaring inland in Japan. The floodwaters, thick with floating debris shoved inland, pushed aside heavy trucks as if they were toys. The spectacle was all the more remarkable for being carried live on television, even as the waves engulfed flat farmland that offered no resistance. The tsunami could be seen scooping up every vessel in the ocean off Sendai, and churning everything inland. The gigantic wave swept up a ship carrying more than 100 people, Kyodo News reported.
Vasily V. Titov, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Center for Tsunami Research, said that coastal areas closest to the center of the earthquake probably had about 15 to 30 minutes before the first wave of the tsunami struck. “In Japan, the public is among the best educated in the world about earthquakes and tsunamis,” he said. “But it’s still not enough time.”
Complicating the issue, he added, is that the flat terrain in the area would have made it difficult for people to reach higher, and thus safer, ground. On Friday, NHK television showed images of a huge fire sweeping across Kesennuma, a city of more than 70,000 people in the northeast. Whole blocks appeared to be ablaze. NHK also showed aerial images of columns of flame rising from an oil refinery and flood waters engulfing the Sendai airport, where survivors clustered on the roof. The runway was partly submerged. The refinery fire sent a plume of thick black smoke from blazing spherical storage tanks.
Even in Tokyo, far from the epicenter, the quake struck hard. William M. Tsutsui, a professor of Japanese business and economic history at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, was traveling in Tokyo with a business delegation when the ground began to shake. “What was scariest was to look up at the skyscrapers all around,” he said. “They were swaying like trees in the breeze.”
Prime Minister Naoto Kan said the quake and tsunami caused major damage across wide areas.
The United States Geological Survey said the quake was the most severe worldwide since an 8.8-magnitude quake off the coast of Chile a little more than a year ago that killed more than 400. It was less powerful than the 9.1-magnitude quake that struck off Northern Sumatra in late 2004. That quake set off a tsunami that killed more than 200,000 people around the Indian Ocean.
The survey said that Friday’s quake was centered off the coast of Honshu, the most populous of the Japanese islands, at a point about 230 miles northeast of Tokyo and a depth of about 15 miles below the earth’s surface.
President Obama said the United States “stands ready to help” Japan deal with the aftermath. “Michelle and I send our deepest condolences to the people of Japan,” he said in a statement. He later spoke with Mr. Kan and offered assistance.
American military airfields in Japan began accepting civilian flights diverted from airports that suffered damage, American officials said early Friday.
A spokesman for the American Seventh Fleet in Japan said Naval Air Field Atsugi had received several commercial passenger planes that could not land at Narita airport outside Tokyo. Officials said Yokota Air Base also received civilian flights. Three American warships in Southeast Asia will be ordered out to sea to reposition themselves in case they need to provide assistance, a fleet spokesman said.
The tsunami assaulted Hawaii with seven-foot waves, although it caused little damage. Powerful surges that hit the West Coast of the United States caused boats to sink in Santa Cruz Harbor. The Coast Guard reported that one person was swept to sea near McKinleyville, Calif., while trying to take pictures of the waves, and a search had begun.
In Japan, the Tokyo subways emptied, and airports were closed. Many residents set off on epic journeys home, walking for miles across a vast metropolitan area. As late as Saturday morning, 18 hours after the earthquake, thousands of people in dark suits were still trudging home from the central business district. In a video posted on YouTube, rumbles shook a supermarket as shopkeepers rushed to steady toppling wares and a classical music soundtrack played.
On Twitter, a person who used the name sinonosama said that students at an agricultural high school in Miyagi Prefecture were fine, but had to take refuge on the third floor after the tsunami flooded the first two floors.
The quake occurred in what is called a subduction zone, where one of the Earth’s tectonic plates is sliding beneath another. In this case, the Pacific plate is sliding beneath the North American plate at a rate of about three inches a year. The earthquake occurred at a depth of about 15 miles, which while relatively shallow by global standards is about normal for quakes in this zone, said Emily So, an engineer with the United States Geological Survey in Golden, Colo.
When such quakes set off a tsunami, the devastation often comes from a succession of waves, which can cross oceans at 500 miles per hour or more.

Such a cute boy

Friday, March 11, 2011

Making A Jean Quilt

Annette is in the process of making a QUEEN JEAN QUILT, and I loved it.  Well, she had some left over little squares that her and my mom had cut out YEARS ago and didn't know what to do with them.  So I decided it would be cute to make a baby jean quilt for my friends baby shower:) Now that I have so much time on my hands I like to fill it with some crafts while Taelin is sleeping:) Annette and I had so much fun making it and made it in 2 days!!:) We were super proud of ourselves!! I couldn't of made it without her. Here is what we did!!!

We laid all of the jeans out in a cute pattern:)













I sewed the 1 row together, and Annette sewed the rows together, and of course did all of the pinning...such a great process!:)   











We had to Iron all of them, and Taelin was such a good helper:)


SEWED TOGETHER, now time to go to Joanns for some fabric for the back:)
The fabric I chose:) so cute!!! we sewed a border around next

Then sewed the back together and put the batting inside..then Annette was so kind and hand stitched up the last side:)



We also tied it:) The front side! SO AWESOME!!

The back side complete:) Taelin loved it, so I know that baby T will love it too!! It was such a fun project and I love how it turned out!! I hope that I can make one again, all by myself:)