Christmas Family picture 1984

Who would have thought that this would turn into this!

Family Christmas Picture 2008

This Christmas was our turn to have all our children home for the Holidays.

What a great time we had!!!! We had Sean Fischer and his wife Bree come over and take our pictures.

I LOVE THEM!!!!!!

I've Been Tagged

MIke and I Have Been Tagged.. We Haven't Done This Before so here Goes........
Abby's First
3 joys

Marrying Mike taylor
Having beautiful healthy Children
Be Coming a Grandma{ I Truely Love Being a Grandmother}
3 fears
For a Long Time my Number One fear was Spencer Dieing... But Not any More
I'm Really Not a very fearful person..I Have Faced Most Of My Fears to Losing Children& The Lose Of all Material Things.So I'm Not afraid any More....
3 Obsessions

My Grandkids
My Family
sewing

3 Regrets
Being a Better Mother[ Many Things I'd do different}
Not staying Thin Or Healthy
Stopping exercising

3 Facts about Me
I Have a Hard Time being happy Daily.
I Bite My Fingernails terrible
I Love To Create....



Now here is Mike's Tag

3 Joys
My Wife
My Children
Music and Cars


3 fears
Not being able To Find a bathroom
throwing Up
losing family

3Obsessions
sex{ I wrote That.. HA! HA!}
My wife
Sports
Perfection

3 Regrets
Really Don't have any Regrets.. But
I do wish That I would have Taught My Kids the Guitar.. etc
I wish I was still In a Band
Spend More Time with My wife when My Kids were so Young.

3 Facts about me
I Love To Create Things
I Love To Make people Laugh{ specially My Kids and Family]
I Love My wife More than anything That exists

I also Just wanted To let my Kids know That They are all adopted and That You Parents are still Virgins!!!

A week with Grandma

Taylor doing Crafts at Grandmas

Ellie with her Creation

The Whole Group having Crafts

Kauner playing with His Sisters,, so Cute!!!

This was The Day we went To The Dollartree,, Just Look at Ellie's treasures

Taylor has Redecorated Mike's Old Room,,,, It's Now The Jonas Brothers Room,,

This Is The Blanket That Taylor made while she Has been here.. what Fun!!!!

Beach Trip

Jo and Will's Wedding Day

I am up at Sunni's visiting and while I was up here my niece Joellen had her wedding up in Pine Valley. My kids wanted to see all the pictures because they were sad they missed it, so I thought I would put some on my blog. Here are Joellen and Will right after they were married.

The Wedding Party

Grandpa was sitting outside the reception giving directions when people walked in....and Luke got so excited to see grandpa sitting there. He loves his great grandpa.

They did a wonderful job decorating, it was beautiful.

Here is Amanda (Joellen's sister) standing next to the wedding cake. She made it and did a great job!

Luke had so much fun running around with Kristi. He was worn out by the time we left.

Logan also had a great time just watching them run around everywhere.

Will and his mother dancing during the mother/son and father/daughter dance.

Joellen and my brother Mike.

Joellen and Will

Joellen's little boy Hank and Grandpa Mike

Mothers Day

Greatest Mother in the world!



Great memories

Favorite mother memories

Happy Birthday Mike

Here are some memories of the past 57 years! Happy Birthday Mike.

Happy Birthday Spencer

How excited we were to have Spencer be our first boy! We thought the whole time that he was going to be a she, but to our surprise she was a he. We were very excited. He has been such a joy and adventure all in one. He had a very creative mind and kept us on our toes. I remember one day I couldn't find him he was about 6 years old and I began to panic looking for him calling everyone that might know where he was when he walked through the front door with a hat on and his sisters pom pom sticking out the back of the hat. I asked him where he had been and he said DANCING! I sat what do you mean dancing? Him and his friend Jason were going door to door dancing for money. They came home with 7 dollars in change. We love you Spencer Happy birthday.

Spencer and Shanti's new kitchen

Spencer and Shanti have bought a new home in Las Vegas and have worked very hard to make it beautiful. Mike and Mikey worked on their kitchen cabinets and were able to install them a few weeks ago. It is amazing how a few new cabinets can make such a huge difference. It looks so beautiful in there and they are so pleased with how it all turned out. Mike and Mikey did and great job and everything just fit. All that is left now is the floor to be tiled!

What are they feeding her!!!!!!!

Can you believe this is the same baby. Sariah was one month old in the first 2 pictures. She is 5 months old in the next picture. She is such a chunk and still is just drinking breast milk. You just want to kiss her all day long.

Spring Break went by very fast this year. The first part of the week I drove over to the coast with Jaime and her little family. We enjoyed sitting on the beautiful beach in the sun and watched the kids play. The weather was beautiful during the day and very cold at night but we still had a great time. Then I was able to drive up to Las Vegas for Easter weekend and spend time with Spencers family and Sunnis family. Mauris family stopped by on their way home from Utah so we got to see them for awhile. It was a wonderful trip and I was sad when it was time to go home. I look forward to the times we are all together.

Las Vegas Weekend

Leo Carrillo

Happy Birthday Mikey!

Our youngest son turned 29 this past weekend! What a wonderful journey we have had with him.
Michael Lawrence Taylor II was born here in Bakersfield. It was a scary time because I developed toxemia so they put me in the hospital. Two days later Mikey was born. Everything went well and he was a healthy 8lbs 8 oz.
He has always been quiet from the beginning. After all he had two older sisters and one older brother to do all the talking.
Mikey ( as we have always called him) was a thumb sucker who folded his ears while he sucked. It was pretty cool to all the kids. He didn't speak until he was almost three but, when he did finally talk it was fast and in full sentences. If any of you know Mikey you know he talks fast, eats fast, and plays and works hard!
His dad thanks Heavenly father everynight for the blessing of being able to work with him everyday. They are the best of friends and show great love for one another.
He loves sports, fishing,hunting,scuba diving,eating and traveling. He is always going somewhere exciting and always learning something new.
Our whole family and extended family have loved and enjoyed Mikey for all 29 years. I think it would be almost impossible to find another brother, son,or friend more loving, thoughtful, or kind then he. I cannot believe that my Father in Heaven picked us for such a priceless gift of being his parents.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIKEY! We love you

Thinking of you!