New Years

We rang the New Year in with good friends from Idaho (Minus the Johnsons and the losers who spent Christmas in Florida.)  :) We missed you guys and wished you would have came to Idaho

The Girls- Mindi, Me, Shantay, and Brianna

 The Boys- Casey, Travis, Zach, and Scott

 I think they have been seperated for far to long....what do you think?

 Taycee and Kingston on her Power Wheels

2010 was a great year but I am so excited to see what 2011 has in store for us.  We feel extremely blessed even though we had a couple of difficult trials in 2010 and are so thankful for the blessings that we recieved through it all.

About 4 days after Christmas I got a call from my neurologist for my MRI's I had done before leaving AZ for break.  He was full of great news and it was an answer to all of our prayers.  He told me that the Medicine has been doing its job and he saw great results in my MRI.  A lot of my lesions are inactive right now which means that they aren't damaging the Mylin Sheath that surrounds the nerve, and the lesions have shrunk in size so they aren't as inflammed right now.  It doesn't mean that just because they are inactive they will stay like that, but for the time being thats how they are.  I was so thrilled to hear that news.  It was one of the best Christmas presents I recieved.  The doctor said he doesn't usually get to give this good of news after only being diagnosed for 6 months and he said "Whatever your doing keep on doing it because its working." So between the shots and all the many prayers I think we are on the right track to keeping me healthy.  Its just great to know that I am not giving myself a daily shot for nothing. So, I hope that this great news can continue into 2011 for quite a while! I hope everyone had a great holiday season!!

Christmas 2010

This is a picture overload from our vacation in Idaho for X-mas.  It was so much fun to go home and spend time with our family and friends.  We were all spoiled rotten and got a lot of great things.  We stayed at Scott's house on Christmas Eve and spent Christmas morning with them.  We told Taycee that Santa had come to visit and brought her presents.  She was so excited and when we walked down the staris she walked right past the toys that were sitting out and looked around the couch.  She turned towards us and said "Where 'Danta'" She was a little confused and thought Santa was downstairs waiting for her.  It was priceless and so cute!

 Christmas Eve night at the Holms with our new PJ's on

I need to give the story to the next two pictures to understand what Scott is wearing.  Our sister-in-law Whittney had drawn Scott's name for Christmas on the Holm side.  She asked him if he would want a hat with Cody's company's name on it.  Scott replied with "I would rather have a hat that said 'I am Gay' on it." So sure enough that is what he got......

 I just love this smile....

 Taycee was spoiled rotten by both sets of grandparents.  My parents got her a cute little kitchen set.

 Taycee and Aunt Alli

The best thing that happened over the break was being able to go to the temple and take my Grandpa Bailey's name through for his endowment and also sealing my Grandma to him and to their children.  What an awesome experience that was.  I know that Grandpa Bailey was smiling that day!




Its a lot of work to get a kid bundled up to play in the snow.  By the time we all got ready I was sweating. 

Then we got outside and Taycee wanted nothing to do with the snow.  She didn't like it when we put it on her snow pants.  So lets just say it was a lot of work for the total of 10 minutes we actually played in the snow.  Oh well...maybe next year? :)

Why am I sitting on this man's lap? I don't like it!!

Mesa Temple Lights

We went to the temple lights with some friends. It was so beautiful (pictures don't do it justice.) Taycee couldn't stop saying "Lights"

Thanksgiving 2010

I don't understand why we went home to Idaho for Thanksgiving because this is what we left...



And this is what we came to...



But we had a fun time regardless of the weather...


And when you get snowed in for a couple of days everyone starts going a little crazy...




And sometimes we get a little mad...(this is her new face when you ask to see her "face")


But we made it through the bitter cold and are safe and sound back in Arizona...(for a couple of weeks till Christmas) We hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!

Trick-or-Treat

I think she is the cutest trick or treater ever!

October

I really love October. Especially because it finally starts to cool down in AZ and we are able to get out and do some fun stuff without sweating to death.

There is a fun Children's Museum in downtown Phoenix so a couple of Saturdays ago we took Taycee to it. She had a blast. The Museum was so fun and so creative. It was great for all age groups.




This vent blew up air. It took Taycee a while to get used to it but she eventually go brave enough to stand close to it.

Carving Pumpkins

Oreos kept Taycee entertained while Scott and I carved pumpkins. Yes she was a mess afterwards though.



We went to the "BOO BASH" that Scott's school puts on every year. I was so excited to dress up in our Flinstone costumes and though for sure ours would be the best...until we saw another couple in his class with the same costumes :( Ha Ha It was so funny. But...we had a pebbles and they didn't. I am pretty sure that she was the best part of the costume!





Fred, Wilma, and Pebbles

Also Taycee had her 18 month check up on the 29th. They had to remeasure her because the nurse thought she had totally measured her wrong...but she got the same measurement twice. I guess Taycee had been going through a growth spurt?? She had grown 3 inches in 3 months. WHAT?!? The Doctor said that usually at 2 years they can double their height and thats a good estimate as to how tall they will be. Well if we doubled her height at 18 Months she will be 5'10. So who knows what she will be at 2 years. I guess we will have a volleyball player/basketball player/ballerina/model on our hands? I always wished I was taller. But I really hope for her sake she isn't 6'0 tall!