Christmas Day 2007

This Christmas was a great one. I love to be with my family and to see the expressions on their faces when they see what Santa has brought. This year was great because little Charley knew what was going on and kept asking when Santa was coming.

The kids were lined up ready to go but wait we are missing one. Where could she be?

There she is sound asleep.

The kids were so happy to see that Santa did come and didn't leave them coal in their stockings.


Michael made me this beautiful hutch to go in my entry way. I was so impressed by his handy work. He is still working on the doors but they should be done soon.


Santas little elfs painted this kitchen that was pink red so that it would match the little girls room. It turned out so cute. I love walking by and watching them playing with it.

Christmas Eve

This year we went to mom and dads for christmas eve. We had a great time with family from dads side and loved eating and eating all the food. I ate so much I was sick. The kids had a great time opening presents and were ready to go home by 8:00. We love seeing family during this holiday time and missed everyone that wasn't able to be with us. Next year for sure!!!!!!!!

Taylor really wanted to be able to go first but we started babies first.


Kauner was so happy to open his gift. Don't you just love the gangsta hat.


Ellie opening her gift from Grandma Abby!


Charley Hayden were waiting for the old people to get in the living room to open presents!

Christmas time

I love Christmas time. I love how my house looks with all the Chirstmas decor. It makes me happy to get up everyday and see my beautiful tree and other decorations. I love listening to music and watching the great movies on during this time of year. I thought I would just post a picture of our beautiful tree. The kids did a great job picking it out. Merry Christmas everyoneand a Happy New Year.

Taylors oral language

This past month Taylor was able to participate in her schools oral language program. She was in the verse choir catagory and was in a group of 8. Her book was Doo be doo be moo. They took second place at her school and moved on to district where Michael and I were able to go watch. She did such a great job. Their journey ended there but it was a great experience for her.

Ellie's birthday

Today is my sweet Ellies birthday! She was my craziest labor by far. I woke up at 1:00 am and was having pretty good contractions so I just paced around the house waiting for them to get harder. Around 1:30 I was really begining to have some good ones. I went in and woke up Michael and told him it was time to go. He got up called Elaine and my mom and off we went. I was really starting to hurt but thought we would be ok. About half way to the hospital it was time to push. I was really having hard ones and alot of pressure. I kept screaming at Michael to hurry and was trying to breathe like they tell you to. It didn't work. We pulled up to the hospital and I had a huge urge to push and could no longer hold the urge. I felt Ellie's head come out. I layed the seat back and thought I was going to have the baby in the car. Michael told me to sit back up!!!! He was really starting to freak out now and went running for help. Michael and the security guard lifted me out of the car and Ellies head slid back up. Up the elevator we went and when the doors opened I had another huge contraction and her head came back out. The nurses would not listen to me and just kept telling me it would all be ok and to not push. When the nurse pulled down my pants her and Michaels eyes were huge. They realized I wasn't lying about her head. They threw me up on the bed and with one push out Ellie came. She was beautiful!
Ellie's is such a sweet spirit. She can sometimes be alittle bossy but for the most part she is a complete joy. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Ellie Belly!

Happy birthday Kauner

Well 9 years ago today I was in labor at the Salt Lake hospital waiting for Michael to get there so that this sweet little boy could arrive. He has been such a blessing since day one. Kauner is so tender hearted and is always making sure everyone else is happy. He also is such a great example to me. Happy birthday Kauner!!! We love you.



Today for Kauners birthday we went and had a softball game with all the guys!!!! They had a great time. I was so happy to see all the family support Kauner on his special day!

I've been tagged

Ok so my cute friend from Arizona found my blog about a month ago and it has been a lot of fun catching up on what has been going on in each of our lives. I checked into her site last night and saw that she tagged me so I thought I would take a moment to answer the questions! Hope everyone enjoys.
First is: Paying jobs I have had since high school.
1. I graduated from high school and started working right away at Baskin Robbins. I really did love that job.
2. I started life guarding my sophmore year in high school and after I graduated I continued so I thought I would add that.
3. I moved away to live in St. George and worked at a daycare center until they were shut down by the state for not paying taxes.
4. Moved home and life guarded again until moving to Rexburg Idaho and working at a Hogie Yogie as a shift manager!!! Thats right I was in management.
5. Moved home after a year there and worked for my dad until getting a job at Hallmark.
6. Finally got married at 21 and moved to Utah where I got a job at Victoria's Secret in the lotion department. Loved that job also. They gave great deals to employees.
7. After a year there I had baby #1 and have been doing that job ever since.
Second is: 6 random things about my life
1. I have a route 44oz of Dr. Pepper everyday
2. I am addicted to Target and have to at least walk into one once a week even if I don't buy anything.
3. My sister in law and I have a sticker business and have been having a lot of fun making signs and such.
4. I love when my husband sits next to me on the couch and rubs my feet.
5. My favorite family vacation is when we head up to bass lake for a week with no worries and just ski and relax.
6. Nothing makes me happier then Christmas time with my family!
now that I have answered the questions I guess I will tag: Courtney, Shanti, and Stephanie

Thanksgiving

Well today is the day to say what you were Thankful for so I thought I would share with everyone a few of my things I am very Thankful for.
1. Having the most wonderful patient husband ever
2. The five beautiful children I am able to watch grow each and everyday
3. My family who is there to always listen when I need to vent
4. Having a beautiful home to live in with my family
5. Sunni buns who puts up with me calling daily
6. Being a member of the one and only true church
7. The knowledge of knowing I will be with my family for eternity
8. Sonic!!!!!!!!
i could go on and on but that might get boring so I will just end by saying Thank you all my family and friends that make me feel so loved. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Hello once again. This blog is for my family members. Last week I posted a blog about the update on the gift exchange. Sorry if I sounded rude I didn't mean for it to sound that way. I just thought it would be better if we forgot about the list I had posted and talk about it at Thanksgiving time. Sorry if I offended anyone. see you all next week.

Haydens football

Hayden is now old enough to play flag football through the school. He was pretty excited when he found out that his dad was going to be the coach. Michael has been having good time working with these little boys but it is a challenge. They are in first and second grade so they really don't know much.

I am not able to get very close but Hayden is the one with his hands up in the air.



Michael getting ready for his big game.

Michael has new eyes!

On Friday morning Michael had surgery on his eyes. He had no problems what so ever during surgery and said that it was alittle scary. He is seeing great and was already 20/25 the day after! I am excited for him to not have to wear glasses any more. I took this picture because I thought he looked so funny in the glasses he has to sleep in for a few nights!

Ellie's latest pictures

I never really have had a chance to really enjoy my camera so the other day I dressed Ellie up and we went into the back yard and I had a great time having her pose for pictures. I was really happy when they turned out.

She is here!!!!

I just thought I would share with friends and family that Spencer and Shanti had their second baby girl today! She was 6 lbs 1 oz and 18 1/2 inches long. Pretty good for three weeks early. I am so excited for them. I can' wait to see her. They named her Sariah. They weren't sure on a middle name yet. Congrats to them!!!!!!!

More of the girls photoshoot

I was finally able to add more pictures from my moms photoshoot with the girls.

Halloween

Ellie was so happy to wear her costume. She wanted to sleep in it.

Charlie was a butterfly like Ellie but I couldn't get her to wear the wings. I do love this picture of her looking at the pumpkin.

Taylor was a muskateer girl. Her costume was a lot of fun to make although I had to add a few inches on the bottom so it was soooo short.

Here are the boys of star wars. Hayden was Darthmaul and Kauner was a jawwa. Haydens makeup took me forever to paint on. He was a good sport.

Grandma's photoshoot

I have been trying to download pictures from my moms photoshoot on Halloween but my computer is not letting me so here is the only 2 shots I was able to upload so far!

Ellie's Halloween parade

Ellie's little pre-school had a Halloween party on Tuesday and so Ellie was able to wear her costume early. She was very excited about that. She was flapping her wings as she walked around in the parade.

Our october pet

The weekend that Michael went to Miami I was helping him pack and notice a spider climbing along the ceiling. Later that night I saw him again crawl into the vent and so I thought for sure he was gone. I was wrong. He came back and so the kids and I watched him for awhile. The kids named him Bob and asked that I not kill him. I figured that since he was just on the ceiling and seemed to never come down that would be fine. Almost two weeks had gone by and everyday the kids checked on our pet spider. Two nights ago Michael and I were getting ready for bed and as Michael walked out of the bathroom he noticed something on the florr. It was our pet Bob. I poked him to see if he was alive and he crawled away from me but the next day I found him dead on the floor. Poor Bob has left us. I have never been good with pets. Even ones I don't have to feed.

Michael's trip to Miami

Well as most of you have heard Michael was invited to go with Spencer, Mikey, and Nick to see Joey Porter (Who plays for the Miami Dolphins) play the New England Patriots. They had a great time and haven't stop talking about it. Here are just a few pictures from his trip.

Michael holding Joey's superbowl trophey

And the winners are!

Ok everyone I have finally had a chance to sit down and blog again. I have decided that since there was only four people who had made a comment I would do something nice for all four! I just need Megi and Courtney to email me your addresses so I can get alittle something in the mail for you. I will give Steph a call to set up her drop off date! Sunni I have your address so I will start get things together! I just wanted to say thanks for the comments and I hope you enjoy spreading kindness as much as I have! my email is taykaunu2@hotmail.com

I won!!!!!

I am so excited! I won the pay it forward on my sister in laws blog page! I want to say thank you to her for the great meal she made for my family. The cake was to die for. I now have the chance to pay it forward to three lucky people!!!!!!! I guess that the drill is that you make a comment on my blog and your name is put in a hat for a drawing. On October 25th I will pick three people to receive something from me. I look forward to hearing from you!

Halloween through the years!

This year my mom was having me help her with her blog page and she had a great idea to post pictures from the past halloweens. I had such a great time looking through old pictures and seeing how cute the costumes were I wanted to do the same. I thought I would walk down memory lane and let you join me. I have posted some of my favorite Halloweens starting from our very first one as a family!
1998
This was our first Halloween and grandma Abby made the cute costume.

1999

2000
I think this has been my favorite year so far. They were just so cute.



2001


2002
This year my mom went crazy with the costumes and we did the wizard of oz with all the cousins. It was a blast!




2003
This year I made Taylor and Hayden clown costumes and Hayden refused to wear it. It still to this day has never been worn.


2004
Ellie was able to wear the lady bug costume of Taylors.


2005
This year Taylor and Ellie were 50's girls in little poodle skirts, Kauner was batman, and Hayden was Darthvador. I couldn't find a picture though. How sad!!!!
2006
This was last year! Taylor was a pirate, Kauner Indiana Jones, Hayden Harry Potter, Ellie little bo peep and Charley her lamb.