Emily or Chantal who will it be???

So its getting down to the wire for the Bachelor season.  Who is your pick?? I am hoping for Emily.  I think she is a classy down to earth girl and she would make a great wife.  But what do I know?? I don't like to pick a winner because it seems like whoever I want to win never does. And usually they end up in a break up.  Why I spend my time watching this show I have no idea but I love it and I look forward to every season :)

Michelle she is another story.  Who knows whats wrong with that girl?? I little bipola?r I don't know.

Ashley that just got kicked off.  She looks ten times better as a brunette don't you think?

And I think the new bachelorette should be sweet Ashley.  The one that got kicked off in Vegas! My guess is that its going to be Dentist Ashley.  I hope not I think she is kind of annoying.

So thats my take on the Bachelor this season.  It is now 11:30 and time for bed.  Can't wait for next week!!

Milestone..I think so!

    I took this picture before my surgery so its a little late in coming to the blog. I had to add this cute picture because it is a milestone in Taycee's life.  Pig tails!  Are you kidding me.  This little girl is finally starting to get hair!  I think it's wonderful (maybe a pain too because she doesn't like to have her hair done.)

I don't think she was as thrilled about them as I was :)

Osteo what....???

Osteochondroma is a type of benign tumor that consists of cartilage and bone.^[1] It is a benign capped-cartilage outgrowth, connected to bone by a stalk. They generally occur at the end of the growth plates of long bones, often at joints. They most commonly form at the shoulder or the knee.

Yes this is what I had removed on my knee on Wednesday. Recovery is going pretty good besides being sore and throwing up on the first day due to anesthesia. Today I am limping around without crutches. But mostly I am just sick of sitting on the couch in the same position. Hopefully things will look upbeat tomorrow because I got Scott some Jazz Phoenix tickets for his birthday and I am bound and determined to go...even if he has to throw me over his shoulder and carry me to our seats (we are still a little uncertain of our fan status with the Jazz now that Jerry Sloan retired)  :(


I am thinking I am going to have a pretty big scar?? Hopefully not! And there really is a knee cap there it's just super swollen.



And I had to post a couple of the pictures from Taycee's last photo session with Tasha Price while we were home in Idaho.  I was so shocked at how many good ones we got because she was not loving the idea of having her picture taken.  But I was very pleased with how they turned out.  Here are just a couple of my favorites.

Vegas Baby!

For my birthday this year Scott and I decided to take a weekend getaway to Vegas.  My mom came down and watched Taycee.  It was the first time I had left Taycee over night so I was a little nervous but of course she was fine and we had a blast!  We stayed in the Aria hotel which is one of the newest hotels on the strip.  It was such an awesome room.

                                                          Our room. Everything was so contemporary

 We went to the Terry Fator show.  He's the ventriloquist that won America's Got Talent a couple years back.  He was so talented.  It was so funny!

 The World's Largest Chocolate Fountain at the Bellagio hotel.  Its in a pastry shop.  They make the best crepes there.  We had to go back twice they were so good!

                                                            At the Bellagio Hotel

                                                                            New York, New York Hotel

 On the way home we stopped at the Hoover Dam to take a picture from the newly built bridge.

  This is the new bridge that just opened up.  It makes it so you don't have to go over the Hoover dam and you can bypass all the traffic going to the Hoover Dam

 And I can't have a post without pictures of Miss Taycee.  She is so much fun lately and is getting so much attitude.  Just love her and all of the new things she's learning.

 Yes she does have a serious space between her two front teeth!

I love seeing this cute face every morning and when she wakes up from her naps!

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!!