New Year's Eve!!
Here we are playing Pigzup. A game Uncle Kirk gave Taytum for Christmas. Taytum had a great time throwing the dice while Kyle and I raced to stack our pigs. This is Taytum's sniff face (its called this because she is sniffing which is why her face is scrunched.), which is one of our favorites.

Later, after Taytum went to bed we learned a new game called Pandemic and ate shrimp and drank martinellis. We even made it to midnight!! 2010 was a great year with many memories as we watch Taytum grow and learn. Kyle and I reached some of the goals that we had set together and hoping for another great year. Happy 2011!

Ice Fishing at Strawberry.
I of course had to show the boys how it's done by catching the first fish. Travis and I caught 4 total and Kyle caught 1. I win. Notice that my hair is frozen. It was pretty cold but other than my hands I stayed warm.

Trav's fish
Kyle's fish

We really enjoy ice fishing, it's a lot of fun and always appreciate our friends who have the equipment for letting us c0me.

A very pretty morning. I love seeing the trees this way.

Headed back home. A quick but fun trip.

More Random Pics
Taytum enjoying her first licorice.

She loves the remote even though she's not supposed to have it.

No wonder we find many strange things that have been recorded on our Tivo

My little mess maker. She loves taking things off her shelf.Well i hope you all have a great new year and please continue visiting us here on our blog.

My baby is 18 months!!
I can't believe how fast the time is flying. She is getting so big and I lover her more and more each day. Kyle and I couldn't wait for her to go to nursery so the picture below is the first day she will be able to go to nursery. Such a big milestone in my book. Her 18 month stats are 21.14 lbs (16%) and 29.5 in tall (5%). This is the picture that she colored the very first time in nursery. I knew she wouldn't have a problem leaving me and got right involved the moment she arrived and didn't want to leave. She is the youngest one in there by a long ways but she loved every minute of it and I'm proud of her.

Taytum is becoming such a good helper.
Her job here is to take out the silverware for me and she loves helping out with chores.

Daddy putting new knobs on the cupboards and the little one thinking she is big enough to help. She is becoming a little climber.

Church ball has started up again. Because of his health issues he did not play last year but though we haven't resolved anything health wise, he has been feeling better and loves to play ball.

Kyle bringing the ball down. Such a stud!

Taytum playing with this pulpit and then playing peek a boo in the curtains is her favorite part of the basketball game though every time someone claps she claps too and when the buzzer sounds she says "wow".

Taytums favorite foods right now would have to be bananas, any type of meat,pasta, pizza cookies, crackers, marshmallows, and fruit juices.
Marshmallows are one of her favorite treats.

She is very possessive of her marshmallows and could probably eat the whole bag in one setting if allowed.

She loves bananas!! (or as she would say "nana")

Random January Pics
Standing on my own!!! So I know she is taking her sweet time to start walking but here she is finally standing on her own and she did take a few steps so she'll be running before we know it.

So one of her favorite places to play is in the bathroom. She usually unloads everything under the sink while I get ready in the mornings though now she is getting pretty good at putting it all back. She also always want to flush the toilet. Noticing where her hands are, somewhat motivates me in keeping our bathrooms cleaned.

Whenever I do laundry she gets to play with the basket and it provides lots of entertainment for a good while.

Playing with her cat car. She wasn't liking the feel of the cold floor on her legs so she was crab walking with her bum in the air. It was pretty funny but I could never catch it on film.

One day, Taytum found this bink in her room (since she was born, she has only used the kind they give away in the hospital) and played with it all day. I just thought it was funny.

Taytum loves to take down all the shoes and try them on. I can now say lets get your shoes and she will say "shoo" and crawl over there and get a pair of her choosing. I usually have to go and exchange them for her pair rather than mine or kyles.

CHRISTMAS!!

Here we are Christmas Eve watching the Nativity movie while eating cookies and hot chocolate. Your not going to see to many photos of Kyle and I Christmas day as it was more fun to watch Taytum not to mention how awful I looked that day with pajamas and bed hair.
Stockings hung by the chimney with care, hoping St. Nicholas would soon be there and boy did Santa deliver.

What a fun morning.

Taytum loving her puppy that was in her stocking.

I love this face. True expression for a Christmas morning

All the fun things Taytum found in her stocking.

Now for the presents under the tree. We were all pretty spoiled.

Taytum still didn't quite catch on to the whole ripping the paper thing. She would rip one piece then try putting it back but we had a great time.

A cat car that she can chase all over the kitchen.

A baby doll. We have plenty of stuffed animals around the house but no dolls so we thought it would be fun for her. She loves feeding it her bottle.

But at the end of the day, what does she like most: yep M&M's her favorite candy.

Kyle got seat covers for his truck and all of his temple clothing. I got some great shirts, jewelry, hair appointment and he mounted turkey feathers from the turkey I shot into a glass casing.

After opening presents, we went to Grandma and Grandpa Paxmans for breakfast and gift giving. We found out that Taytum absolutely loves egg nog.

ahhhhh. She loved it.

Sitting with Uncle Kirk opening presents.

Just playing and enjoying Christmas day. Merry Christmas everyone!

O Christmas Tree
So Monday December 6th we headed out to buy our live Christmas tree. The plan was to come home and decorate it for family night. Well that plan changed as we were on the way home and we heard a weird sound from the little one in the back. We look back to see her vomiting repeatedly. We get pulled over and I had absolutely nothing with me except for some napkins so I wiped her mouth and headed home for a good scrubbing. Needless to say we did not decorate that night but spent it cleaning up a child and carseat. I had also lost my phone along side the road when I jumped out to help her but Kyle went back and luckily found it unharmed.


A couple of days later we were able to decorate the tree. This is Taytum looking at the tree that has now inhabited the front room.

She has done very well with the ornaments on the tree. She will touch them but she hasn't tried taking them off or anything.

Daddy and Tayters by the completed Christmas tree.

Trying to get a family picture near the tree but we obviously didn't get to much of the tree.

Taytum enjoying my snowman table.

Gingerbread House
My visiting teachers gave us this pre-built Gingerbread House. Taytum and I got to work on decorating it.She insisted on eating the gingerbread tree and this was her contribution to our project and I did the rest.

Taytum playing with box and candy.

The completed Gingerbread House.

Pike Christmas Party
As kids, mom would read the story of Baby Jesus using this coloring book. I love that she continues to do so for our kids.

Scrunched on the couch.

Cooper being the youngest got to go first. What a cutie. As always, my parents spoiled their grandkids rotten but they obviously really enjoyed it.

A new cute hat for winter.

She did a little better this year of opening presents but was still timid about it.

The anticipation of what's in the bag.

Taytum got this rocking horse that sings and neighs. No worries, Kyle and I hum the song it sings day in and day out. She loved it. She pretty much stayed on it the rest of the morning.

Luke got a tractor bike.

Kennedy and Jacey got this huge barbie play house. The cool thing about it. Is that my dad made all the furniture and my mom decorated the rooms with curtains, bed spreads, etc.. Pretty neat.

A close up of the kitchen.

My dad also made this cupboard for Emree. Growing up we had a cupboard exactly like it. Kennedy and Jacey got one and now Em is getting hers. One day we hope Taytum will get one and that we will have a place to put it :).

Mom and Dad gave all of us kids food storage which is greatly appreciated.
Cody, Angela and Emree.

Katie and Jeremy sporting their jammies and bed head. :) Angela and Katie's families stayed over the night before. We chose not too since we were just getting over some crazy stomach virus.

The kiddos. We sure wish Brian and Jennie lived closer so that their clan could be here as well.

Great Grandma and Grandpa Mac's Christmas Party
Taytum Pulling one of her many faces.
My cousins Josh and Kassidy. Josh and I used to play a lot when we were much younger and I haven't seen him in at least 5 years because he lives out east but he surprised everybody and showed up at the party.

I'm always amazed at how many stocking there are each and every year.

Not really a great picture of my grandparents but it was all I could manage during this crazy event. They sure put in a lot of effort and time and its the party I've remembered since I was little.
Daddy helping Taytum open her stocking from Great Grandma and Grandpa Mac.

The Paxman Christmas Party.
Not to many of the Paxman clan was able to make it this year but we enjoyed lots of good food, games and great company.
The Tayter bug.

She doesn't look very happy but she is swinging her arms and dancing to the music.

Playing the game of Taboo.

Sharing memories of our favorite or memorable Christmas's. I enjoyed hearing the few stories shared. We sure missed having more of our Paxman family there.

OUR FAMILY CHRISTMAS!!

Here we are Christmas Eve watching the Nativity movie while eating cookies and hot chocolate. Your not going to see to many photos of Kyle and I Christmas day as it was more fun to watch Taytum not to mention how awful I looked that day with pajamas and bed hair.
Stockings hung by the chimney with care, hoping St. Nicholas would soon be there and boy did Santa deliver.

What a fun morning.

Taytum loving her puppy that was in her stocking.

I love this face. True expression for a Christmas morning

All the fun things Taytum found in her stocking.

Now for the presents under the tree. We were all pretty spoiled.

Taytum still didn't quite catch on to the whole ripping the paper thing. She would rip one piece then try putting it back but we had a great time.

A cat car that she can chase all over the kitchen.

A baby doll. We have plenty of stuffed animals around the house but no dolls so we thought it would be fun for her. She loves feeding it her bottle.

But at the end of the day, what does she like most: yep M&M's her favorite candy.

Kyle got seat covers for his truck and all of his temple clothing. I got some great shirts, jewelry, hair appointment and he mounted turkey feathers from the turkey I shot into a glass casing.

After opening presents, we went to Grandma and Grandpa Paxmans for breakfast and gift giving. We found out that Taytum absolutely loves egg nog.

ahhhhh. She loved it.

Sitting with Uncle Kirk opening presents.

Just playing and enjoying Christmas day. Merry Christmas everyone!

Random December Pictures
Emree and Cooper came over one night to play. We had fun.

Cooper. He was such a good and content baby.

I've decided I'm just going to wrap up an empty milk jug since she just loves playing with them.

A very rare moment where she will actually sit a moment and watch TV. Here she is watching Barney. She also likes Yo Gabba Gabba. I find them ridiculously silly but whatever will work.

I got home from work one day with many goodies that the student's had given me. I dropped everything on the floor and hit the restroom. I got back to find the little one had somehow opened one of the bags of cookies and was enjoying herself a treat.

The cute outfit and hat Grandma Pike gave me for Christmas.

What?? It's the Holidays. I'm supposed to eat lots of chocolate. Finishing off a beater of a brownie mix. YUM!

This big box of cookie cutters has provided many minutes of entertainment.

We got dumped on again and I loved it (except for the fact that Kyle has to drive the freeways in it) but it made everything so pretty and Taytum loved it as well.
We hope everyone has a great Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!! Hopefully I'll get one more post in about Christmas before the new year but no promises.