Our DisneyWorld adventure and Cruise

So this year our family decided to spend the christmas season in Florida and the Bahamas on a disney cruise. We had a lot of fun. Coming back was an adventure. We flew from colorado to salt lake only to be flown back to colorado due to the airport being closed indefinately!!! We stayed at the denver airport for six hours before we could fly back to salt lake city. The only other mishap was the last couple of days tayva developed this horrible cough. I didn't have my stethescope on me but I could hear wheezes when i listened to her back with my ear so when i got back to cedar i took her to the doctor and she had a really bad ear infection and the dr also said she had RSV. I am not sure about the RSV i bet she had bronchitis or pneumonia. But anywho I had to purchase a nebulizer machine and she is doing treatments every six hours on top of taking a couple different antibiotics and steroids. Well I will tell more about the cruise later. I just wanted to hurry and post some pics. We had a blast. My brother, tayva and i had one stateroom and my parents and uncle had another stateroom on the boat. I'm already planning my next cruise with some friends for the near future!!!

Tayva gets glasses

So this past year tayva has been bumping into things more frequently and not enjoyed reading as much and having a hard time jumping down to the next line. I decided it was time to get her eyes examined. Well the dr said she has great vision but has an astigmatism in both her eyes. He said that glasses should correct the problem within a year. We also found out that she is not color blind----which makes me question her taste in clothing then since sometimes I wish could follow her to school and announce that I had nothing to do with her wardrobe. Anyhowzers, here she is. She thinks and feels so smart now. She better after a pair of Hannah montana glasses and a 180 dollar eye visit. Yikes. I told her we were going to be eating rice for the next few weeks!!!!

Every year the high school has a craft fair and Dancers from different companies are able to perform. This year tayva is on the Junior company and so far is really loving it. She does miss her friends that she danced with on mini company last year but is making a lot of new friends with her new team!!!!

For Halloween this year I decided to be a "plus size" Victoria's Secret Model!!! (since anything above size 00 is considered plus size in their eyes! :) ) Two of my CNA's wore their clothes inside out and did a few other fun things with their attire that I will leave unmentioned to spare their dignity!! I took the first 4 hours of work off to take tayva trick or treating. Our church had a carnival and then "trunk-or-treat" in the church parking lot so Tayva hit the jackpot early on with candy. We stopped at a couple other houses to see her friends and then I took her over to my parents so she could help my dad pass out candy--that has become a tradition for the two of them. My dad and Tayva have so much fun racing to the door--actually my dad has slowed down his pace over the past couple years-ha ha.

Tayva got these goggles at the halloween carnival and she put them on and started doing this crazy dance. It was so funny. I could not stop laughing. She is always doing silly stuff to make me laugh. Never a dull moment with her. OR at work for that matter with my fun crazy CNA's that make the night go by so much nicer.

This is Amber, April and me right before our workout at work one night. we decided on our lunch break we were going to "sweat" with some hip hop video. It was hillarious. Good thing most of the residents were sleeping...........It's amazing the crazy things we come up with at two in the morning at Kolob Regional!!!!

Halloween Carnival

Well today was a long yet very fun day for Tayva and me. I promised her I would take her to the pumpkin festival this morning at 10 am and then go to her school halloween carnival later this afternoon. I worked all night but decided that if I tried to sleep for a couple hours when I got home I would not want to wake up so I just stayed awake all day so that we could have this fun outing with her best friends and their mom (one of my best friends-Kim) Enjoy the pictures. Tayva wanted to be a Zombie Cheerleader this halloween but when I finally had the money to buy it online it was sold out everywhere.....so this past week I went to St. George to find her a "very scary" (that was her criteria) costume while she was in school. I decided the vampire costume would have to do after going to about 5 different stores. It worked out perfectly for me since I am such a Twilite Junkie!!!! Yes I was actually lame enough to request 11-21st off of work to go to the movie opening night---but that's a whole other story in itself!!! Goodnight everyone. After being up for over 32 hours straight now I am signing out.

Baptism-October 11th at 0500 pm

Well this was a very special day for my little girl. She made the decision to be baptized. My dad was so thrilled and honored to baptize and confirm her a member of the church. One thing that I will always remember about this day is that is snowed. I told Tayva it snowed to remind her of how pure she would be when coming out of the water. After the baptism we went out to eat. She stated that she wanted to be baptized again. I explained that you only needed to do it once and then after that there was the gift of repentence and being forgiven. She said "well i just want to be baptized again because the water was soooooooooo warm!!!!"

Fiesta Fun

So Tayva decided to have her birthday party at fiesta fun this year. These are some of her cute friends that were able to attend. My dad sure had fun teaching all those girls how to play minature golf!!!!