Tales from the Taylors: October

Variah came home with this cute bear and a memorized poem from preschool

Our pantry was out of control!! Things were just way to messy for me and so I decided to get things organized

I bought some lazy susans to put in the corner and baskets to contain all the loose items. I think it looks so much better! I'm not embarrassed anymore if people need to get something out of it!

My little giraffe Everett

I made this chocolate zucchini cake and man was it yummy!

This girl found a love for puzzles. She did all 3 of these ones by herself and she did them quickly too!

For the Women's General Conference Meeting we got together at my mom's house for dinner and to watch it. We were lucky and Ciara was in town!

This boy sucks his thumb and rubs his other hand like this! Haha

One afternoon when Lexi and Sophie were over playing, Variah got out a book of mormon from the garage and was reading it. Sophie wanted one too, so Variah got another copy out from our garage. After that anytime Sophie came over she wanted to sit in a blue chair and read a "blue book". The Jeppsons don't go to a church so it makes me giggle.

Everett loves taking pictures with the IPad and Variah loves to pose!

I love her creativity!

Her chalk version of herself

Everett's version of a man bun

Helping me roll out the scone dough for our traditional general conference scones

Nutella scones

They were a hit

To eat during conference I made popcorn and kettle corn

Nothing like the baby belly shelf

I made cookies to reveal to the kids if we were having a boy or a girl. In the inside of each cookie was a colored piece of cookie dough-pink or blue.

The kids before they ate the cookies and found out if we'd have a sister or brother in February...

It is a GIRL!! We couldn't be more excited!

Look at that cute face!

Sucking her thumb

We went to Farmer Luke's to pick out our pumpkin and explore the farm

The slide was lots of fun

The kids loved being able to pet the animals

Helping dad push the wheelbarrow

If they could have picked 20 pumpkins they would have!

My sweet family

Cute farmer and her pumpkin

Riding the ponies was the highlight of the day. Just before our turn one of the ponies went crazy and ended up flipping over the pole! We made sure we chose ponies far away from that one!

This little girl just giggled the whole time

Playing in the corn pit...we had corn in every pocket and in shoes

Santa was even there!

I love when these two play nicely together

Variah colored this family picture while at church. She did such a good job staying in the lines!

Anniversary gifts-a acupuncture pillow for me and replacement pads for Daniel's noise cancelation headphones.

Daniel was gone for our anniversary, but I think this car made up for it!

Variah did my hair and used as many bows as possible

Chalk tracing

I love this little boy and his love for reading

Daniel sent me these gorgeous flowers for our anniversary

This is how I celebrated our anniversary- chocolate caramel apples, popcorn, cream soda and a chick flick.

Sweet variah decorated this table for my "birthday" all by herself. It was pretty cute

Variah had her very first primary program. She was supported by Grandma Taylor, Larlie and Pop. She sure is loved! It was so fun watching her sing all of the songs and hear her say her part "I love to see the temple and walk around the outside". She said it so nice and clear that I couldn't help but feel proud to be her mom.

A picture was emailed to me of the program

We went to food truck night at Farmer Luke's. We had corn dogs from Survivor's Neleh Dennis' truck and yummy sliders and fries

Variah was a fan of the corn dog for sure!

And we topped the night off with Art City Doughnuts. MMM my favorite!

These kids love when Aunt Cait comes to visit in between her college classes as Salt Lake Community College

This girl told me at dinner that "she will always snuggle with me. And when she is dead she is going to do this with her arms so when she goes up to heaven her arms will look like she is snuggling with me" Oh melt my heart!

Painting our pumpkins

She had so much fun painting all of her pumpkins

I melted crayons onto my pumpkin

These cute kids and their pumpkins

Variah gave her first talk in primary about praying. She told the story about Daniel in the Lion's Den. She had most of it memorized and was able to do most of it all by herself just looking at the pictures.