Dancing Queen

Don't mind the sad face, she really was excited to start dance!

Tayah began her first dance class in January. She is taking from Amy Fillpot and is loving it. She is doing so good and has even been brave enough to show off her moves to our families. I love to see her cute little tush in her dance clothes and love her excitement.

She will have her first recital in May and I can't wait!

December Fun (Part 2)

Family Parties:

We had a few more family get-to-gathers in the middle of the month, and of course I forgot my camera.

We went to Classic Fun Center with my Mom's family and went skating. It was a lot of fun, my kids just rode around on their scooters and I even strapped on a pair of skates.

We went bowling with my Dad's family in Morgan. The kids loved it and Dallin bowled really well.

We got together with our Friends and had dinner at Derek and Erin's house and let the kids run wild in their basement. We decided to skip out on the lights, but enjoyed the time together.

Christmas Eve:

We usually spend Christmas Eve at my mom's house. We go over early and hang out and snack, and then the rest of the family gets there a little later. We always do presents from Cousins that night. Tayah got some cute little puppies from Ava.

Dallin got a Paper Jamz from Cooper.
We did sibling presents that night and my parents gave the kids their second gift. They all got head lamps with their names stitched on them. They will love them for camping.
We finished it off with some jammies from us.

Christmas Day:

Dallin and Tayah woke up around 7 and we started with presents. They were so excited and cute! I love Christmas and all the joy you get to see in others.

Tayah got this Barbie 4 wheeler. She loved it and because it was a beautiful morning she even got to try it out.

Dallin's big gift was a big remote control truck. He loved it too.

Here he is with one of his Star Wars guys.

After we opened presents we headed over to my Mom and Dad's for breakfast. We have a tradition to get together with my Aunt Amelia's family and eat. It was great to see everyone. Then we went to Brians parent's house and did presents with them. Needless to say, the whole room was full of gifts.

Cute Dallin waiting to open some presents.

Tayah and I with her stack.

What a wonderful month we had. Full of the good things in life. Family, Friends, and Food!

We love the spirit of this time of year, especially remembering the birth of the Savior of the World.

December Fun (Part 1)

We were super busy this December... Which is very typical for everyone. I love all the parties and time spent together, and, we had so much fun!

Ward Party:

Our ward did a "Night in Bethlehem" which was really nice. They had people dressed up and little shops around the gym for us to get our food. We also had a live Nativity. Some other fun things we did, Santa came for the kids. And, we have a great photographer in our ward and he took family pictures and then they printed one for us.

Dallin and Tayah with Santa. He gave them a picture of Christ and a candy cane.

Progressive Dinner:

My family does a fun tradition at the beginning of the month. We have a progressive dinner, where we visit every one's homes and see their Christmas decorations. Then we end up at my parent's house for dessert. They always give the Grand kids a their big gift that night. That way they have all month to play with it.

My cute family in front of our tree.

If you can't tell, Dallin is pumped to get Super Mario Brothers. I love his face in this picture!

Tayah got Alphie. This is a toy that was out when I was little, and they came back out this year. She loves to play games with this little Robot.

Visit From Santa:

Santa stopped by our house one night, on his way home to the North Pole. He just wanted to make sure that Dallin and Tayah were being good. It came on a perfect night... they had been fighting!

Barker Family Party:

This year the Barker Party was also on Brian's Birthday! But it was good to spend time with family. Santa came to visit the kids as usual.

Grandma Barker always gives the kids a pair of cute PJ's and the kids change right into them. I love this tradition.
Dallin and Grandma Barker
Tayah and Grandma.

Thanksgiving 2010

I didn't take any pictures for Thanksgiving, but we had a great day. I love to spend time with family and just enjoy and relax. It was a great holiday.

I had my kids make a cute little turkey craft for their Grandparents and put it on some yummy pumpkin cupcakes. The back of the turkey had this cute little poem.

We wanted to make a turkey

For Thanksgiving day,

But our oven's kind of slow,

Much to our dismay.

So we'll just have to sit and wait,

And hope that time will fly.

Because our next little turkey,

Won't be here till July!

We are so excited to be welcoming in another little one soon!

July 2nd, 2011 is our due date.

Kid Pictures

I am a horrible slacker, and haven't had my kids pictures taken in a long time. So, I finally got it together and had Kami do a photo shoot. She is so amazing! She always comes back with awesome pictures, even when the models aren't cooperating (Dallin).

Here are some of my favorites

Dallin: November 2010

Tayah: November 2010

I couldn't get the ones of them together to load for some reason, but you can imagine that they are are adorable as the others! Thanks Kami!

Halloween 2010

We always do a lot of fun activities over Halloween.

We started off with carving pumpkins, and I forgot to take pictures of their finished products. But they did a great job.

On Friday afternoon, we headed over to Brians parent's to have a little party.

The kids had lunch, played bingo, did a craft, and decorated cookies.

Tayah with her Bingo necklace.
Dallin with his cookies.

On Friday night, we had our neighborhood Halloween parade. This is a favorite! The kids parade up and down the street, and get a ton of treats from people sitting in lawn chairs along the sidewalk. It was a lot of fun.
Dallin and Tayah were the Scarecrow and Dorothy from Wizard of Oz.
Brian's family did a Wizard of Oz theme... and we had every character. They were so cute!
Korbin (tin man), Sammy (Glenda), Tayah (Dorothy), Bailey (Wicked Wich), Bohdi (Lion), Ty (Flying Monkey), and Dallin (Scarecrow)

A close up of our cute Scarecrow.

A darling Dorothy.

On Saturday, we went to my parent's house for another little party. We had lunch and then the kids went trick-or-treating to all the aunts to get their special prizes.

Front Row: Dallin, Cooper (ninja), Jax (yoda), Tayah, Redd (giraffe), Ava (witch), Griffin (Mario)

Back Row: Chloe (disco girl), Jadon (Rocker), Berkley (Alice), Cord (disco boy), and Brad (Luigi)

The funniest costume was my brother in law, Judd's. He came in dressed as my dad! It was so funny. When he walked in, he got all our attention by yelling a famous Blake statement.... "Hey kid, get the h... off my bus!"

It was hilarious!

We had a great Halloween and hope you did too!

Tayah's Birthday

I really can't believe that she is already 3! Time has gone so fast and she is so big! And couldn't be any cuter, we just love this little one!

On her actual Birthday we she wanted to go bowling and then to McDonald's. We had a good time with just our little family.

A few days before that, we had her Birthday party with our families.

She chose Strawberry Shortcake.

Blowing out the candles.

Of course, she had an adorable cake and cupcakes! Brian's mom, Ruth, does an amazing job on these and they are always so special.
All the kids got a cute strawberry cupcake.

This is the cake.

Our little princess opening some presents. She got spoiled by everyone.

I made up a scavenger hunt game for the kids with all of Strawberry Shortcake's friends. It started it out with the evil Purple Pie Man trying to steal all the treats for their goodie bags... So the kids had to find each character and get the candy for their bag.

Here is one of the clues. The kids really loved it and were so excited to find all the prizes.

One last picture of our cute little birthday girl, during the game!

Oh, how we love you Tayah girl!