Sammi and Spencer!!

Yesterday afternoon while Sariah was sleeping Sammi wanted to hold Spencer while she watched TV, I stayed right there and watched her hold him and took some pictures! She was so happy to hold him and he was very content as you can see below!! Later that evening I had Spencer sitting with us on the couch and Sammi went and got her books and started to read to him!! It was so cute and brought back memories of when she would read to Sariah when she was a baby!

Hanging out!!

Can you tell Sammi made a really loud noise! ha ha!!

Reading to baby brother!

Fun Day At The Park!

On Friday my friend Andrea and I decided to take the kids to the park! Andrea has two kids a little boy Landyn who is 2 and a little girl Lilly who was born in October. Our kids get along soo well, the girls just love playing with Landyn! The weather was really nice that day so they played for a couple of hours! They would have played longer but we needed to get them back for naps so we were not paying for it later!! Here are some pictures from our fun day! Sariah and Landyn!!
The best of friends!!!
My cute little blue eyed girl!!

Sammi's "Cheese!" smile!!!

My cute little Sammi having some fun on the swing!!

Sariah

Sariah on her favorite toy, it spins around and around!!

Our Sweet Sammi!!

So I had to blog about how truly blessed I am to have such a sweet little girl!! Yes we all have our moments but for the most part Sammi is such a sweet little girl! She loves to help me and loves to help others!! She loves playing with Sariah and loves to try to teach her!! She loves her new baby brother and loves to be a little mommy to him already!! She is growing up so fast and lately I keep saying to myself "Did she just say what I think she said?" Not expecting her to say such grown up stuff!! She asks lots of questions and really remembers EVERYTHING you say!!! I wish I had her memory, its no joke when I say everything!! Here are a couple pictures I took this week while playing!! Sammi!!!
Best Friends!!

Guess Who Slept Through The Night???

Yes our little guy slept through the night for the first time last night!! Whoo Hoo!!! I put him down at 9:30pm and he didn't wake up until 5:00am!!!! I know I shouldn't get too excited, but I am hoping for another one of those nights!!! He is starting to stay awake longer during the day now and the last two days have been kinda the same routine!! I love when there is more of a routine!!! Little Spencer is smiling all the time now and is even cooing and just started to bat at objects!! I cant believe it!! This is going way to fast!!! Hanging with Daddy!!
Smiling it up!!!

Such a sweet little boy!!!

Happy Birthday To Our Sweet Sariah Jo Jo!!

Sariah 6 days old

Our sweet Jo Jo turned two this month!!! I cant believe it!! These past two years have gone by so fast!! Sariah has turned into such an outgoing sweet little girl!! She def. is not as quiet as we all thought she was going to be!!! She keeps us on our toes that's for sure!! She loves playing with her sister and loves to play with her babies, dancing, reading and dress up! She loves going to the park. And loves her daddy dearly!!! She is adjusting pretty well to having a new little brother and loves talking to him and helping me change his diaper. She loves to sit next to me while I nurse and cuddle with me!! She is talking really well and you can really understand her!! We are truly blessed to be her parents!! Our day started out by taking Sammi to pre-school and then off to the Dr.s we went for her two year check up! I know, I will never do that again!! What a mean mom!! It was quite the Dr.s app. but that's another blog entry!! My mom had called and sang happy birthday to her so Sariah kept saying "Happy Me!!" the whole day! It was soo cute!! We later picked Sammi up from pre-school and headed over to the park!! We then went home and took naps!! I wanted to have a little birthday party for her with all her little friends, but thought we would skip this one seeing things are crazy here right now, since we have a new baby and lack of sleep!!! We did have a little family party for her the night of her birthday! I had a stake RS meeting so I didn't get home until like 8:45!! Spencer was in charge of getting a cake. He did an excellent job as you can see below! Sariah LOVES Dora so it was perfect!! We sang Happy Birthday to her which she absolutely loved and opened presents!! She didn't get to bed until 11:00pm poor thing!! But she enjoyed her special day!! Thank you to all of you that called to wish her a Happy Birthday and to all who sent such wonderful presents!! It was so thoughtful!!! Happy Birthday Sariah Jo! We love you!! Her Dora Cake
Look at that face!! We were all singing to her!!!


Taking it all in!!


Helping Daddy blow out the candles!!

Enjoying her yummy cake!!

Showing us her Dora rings!!

Sammi enjoying the Birthday cake too!!

Yummy cake!!

Opening presents!!

Her new Beauty And The Beast microphone!!

Her new Ariel toy!

Her new Cinderella toy!!

Princess Sariah!!

Riding on her new princess scooter!!

Loving her new Dora movie!!

Two Months Old Already!!!

Our little guy is already two months old!! I swear since having three children I wonder all the time how my day can go by soo fast!! Its just CRAZY!!! We are all enjoying our sweet baby!! The girls love there baby brother and constantly want to hold and touch him!! We still have to be real careful with Sariah around him but she is getting better! Sammi on the other hand is absolutely great with him! She loves to sing to him and loves getting him to smile at her!! He is such a good little baby!!! I am soo blessed to have such a great little boy, I couldn't ask for anything more!! We took him last week to his eight week check up and the Dr. said he looked great!! Here are his stats!! He weighs 11lbs, he is 21 1/2 inches long and his head circumference is 15 1/4 inches. He hated the bath at first but is now liking it!!
All ready for bed!!

Sammi holding her baby brother after his bath!!

Sariah holding her baby brother before his bath!!

They love giving brother lots of kisses!!

Happy Halloween!!!

What a hectic day Halloween was!! We woke up and Sammi had gymnastics and then we were off to find Spencer and I a costume for the Halloween party we were all going too! What a nightmare that turned out to be!! We finally found a costume for us at 4:30 pm and the party was at 6:00!! And we didn't even get a picture of us!! We were a receptacle and a plug!! ha ha!! The costume was quite funny looking!! The kids had a lot of fun at the party we went to and loved going trick r treating!! They got lots of candy that we went through and put Sariahs separate from Sammi's, (because of her nut allergy) she had no clue and was just so happy to have some candy!! They ask for candy all day!! Especially our little Sammi! She has a major sweet tooth!! It was all gone by day 3!! My mom bought the girls there costumes and she brought them when she came to see the baby being born. The kids looked soo cute! Sammi was Ariel, Sariah was Tinker Bell and the baby was a dragon!!

Pumpkin Patch!!

The day before Halloween my neighbor invited us to this really cute pumpkin patch!! It was at this little farm off of Dean Martin way!! It was super cute and the kids had a blast!! They got to feed all the animals which Sariah was not too sure about!! She didn't want to get out of the stroller, but Sammi on the other hand LOVED feeding them!! Sammi was non-stop and once Sariah got used to it she too was non-stop!! They had a hay ride, horse rides, a place for the kids to dance, snacks, and a swing set for the kids to play on, and of course a big pumpkin at the end!! The baby was really good the whole time, he just layed in the stroller and fell asleep!! At the end of it he woke up and wanted to eat so that was our que we should go!! Here are some pictures of our fun little outing!! Sammi ran right up and started feeding the horses!!
Not afraid at all!!!
Sariah and I

Our cute little boy!!!

Me trying to get Sariah to touch the horse!!

Sariah not liking it very much!!

Sariah soo excited she fed the pony!! I told her to stick the carrot through the fence and to feed the pony, instead she threw it over the fence and threw her arms up and said "Yeah!!"

Out cute little Jo Jo getting ready to take a bite of the carrots that we got for the animals!! Ha Ha!!

Sammi not too happy about riding on the swing!!

Sariah riding on the swing!

They had this really cute spinning thing!! The kids loved it!! Here is our cute little Sammi enjoying the ride!!

Sariah getting her groove on!!

The clan!!

I thought this was so funny of Sariah!! I told her to look at me and smile and this is what she did!!

Sleeping it up!!

My girls and I!!

Our Smiling Litte Boy!!

This past weekend Spencer started to really smile!! He loved smiling at everyone except me! ha ha!! I even tried to change my voice to get him to smile!! Yes I know I am a dork!! Sunni took these great pictures of him!! Isn't he the cutest baby ever!!!

Spencers Blessing!!

This past weekend we blessed our little Spencer!! We had a lot of family come to town as well!! And missed all those who couldn't make it!! Spencer did such a great job blessing our little Spencer it was definitely an unforgettable day!! The girls loved having there cousins Luke and Logan here for the weekend as they always do!! Mom and Dad watched ALL the kids so all of us adults could go do some shopping on Saturday thanks so much again!! That night we watched the fights with the family and some friends!! Thank you all for coming and being a part of our little guys special day!! Here are some pictures of our eventful weekend!! All the little kiddos with there shirts off!!
Getting ready to go to some shopping!! Jaime and Michael met up with us a little later!!

Our little family on Spencer's Blessing day!!

The Taylor's!

The two Spencer's!!!

Father and Son!!

Our Funny Little Girls!!

Our girls are constantly making us laugh!! They bring smiles to our faces everyday with the things they say and do!! Here are some funny little pictures of them!! They think its so funny to sit on each other!! The one on bottom is usually always screaming!!
So while Grandma and Grandpa where here we put the girls in to sleep together!! Sariah was in the pack and play so we thought and Sammi was in her bed! I went to go tuck them in and here is what I saw!! Too cute!!

I went back into the room for something and this is what I saw when coming back in!! ha ha!!

Pumkin LOT

This month a group of girls went with all our kiddos to the pumpkin lot at the Sunset Station. The kids always love going!! As you see I wrote lot instead of patch because it is in a parking lot! ha ha!! That's Vegas for you!! There were rides and a jump house along with a little petting zoo! The girls loved it all, well except Sariah hated the petting zoo!! She wanted nothing to do with the animals! She actually clung to my leg the whole time while little Sammi chased after all the animals trying to hold them!! Here are some pictures of them having some fun!! On one of the rides!
Sammi holding a rabbit!!

Waiting there turn!

Sariah on the swings!!

Sammi on the swings!

Sariah playing in the little pumpkins!

All the kids on the little train ride!

Sammi's First Day Of Pre-School!!

Our little Sammi had her first day of pre-school this last month!! She was so excited as you can see in the picture below!! We went the week before and she picked out her little Tinker Bell backpack! She kept telling everyone how she was going to school and would ask me daily if she was going to school today!! We went for orientation the week before so she could meet her teachers! We are in the second month of it now and she is absolutely LOVING it!! She has made lots of friends and loves her teachers!! I am so happy we signed her up it has been so worth it!! The teachers were so impressed that she knows all her ABC's! Her teachers tell me that she loves to help all the other kids!! What a cute girl!!

Little Spencer-Sabraw Photography

When Spencer was 11 days old Dawn took his newborn pictures!! She did such a wonderful job!! Spencer was a little trooper through it all!! Most newborns like to be all curled up in the fetal position but not our little one!! He wanted to be all sprawled out!! We kept trying to get him to curl up it was so funny!! There were soo many pictures to choose from, but here are some of my favorites! Thanks again Dawn!!!

Spencer Michael Taylor

As many of you know heavenly father blessed us with our baby boy Spencer on August 29! Here is the story of how our little boy entered this world! My Dr. had to take my cerclage out early due to my contractions. The following day Spencer drove with the girls to Bakersfield to be there for his brother Mikey's wedding. He was going to hurry home if I went into labor! My mom flew in to be with me so I was not alone. We had a lot of fun together the next couple of days! I will admit it was soo nice to have my mom all to myself!! Thank you mom for coming and staying with me!! The wedding was on Friday afternoon and the reception was in the evening. It was really weird I started contracting right when the wedding was over, I took one of my pills terbutaline to stop my contractions but they were not stopping!! My mom called Spencer and told him he should come! Of course about 2 hours later they had stopped!! Spencer and his mom and the girls drove all night to get there, they arrived around 3:00am. We all went to bed and woke up it the morning and hung around the house. We all were able to take a nap and when we woke up the contractions started again!! They started out about 15 min apart and then got to 5 minutes apart. We all got in the car and dropped the girls off with Dawn and Megan Tatum who the girls absolutely love!! Thank you guys soo much for taking them!! And we were off to the hospital! When we got there the contractions were 2 minutes apart! They got us in the room and after about 20min. told me they were going to keep me, keep so I told them to get that epidural in route!! ha ha!! My labor and delivery nurse was the best I have ever had!! Her name was Haze and she was so funny!! Come to find out she too was LDS so that just made it even better!!! I was soo happy to have Spencer and both of our moms there!! Well during my labor little Spencers heart rate started to drop a lot so they got Spencer all suited up to take me in for a C-Section.His heart rate started to normalize so I was good to go!! It was really scary though! Poor Spencer was so worried! Our moms had gone to grab a bite to eat in the cafeteria so when they got back they were like what in the world, when they saw Spencer all suited up!! When I was pushing they realized the baby was post terior, meaning facing up so we was stuck so they had to use the vacuum to get him out, not only that but I had a placenta abrubtion, meaning my placenta tore away from my uterus, so the baby ingested a ton of my blood. Our little Spencer came into this world at 7:32pm weighing 6lbs. 8oz and was 19 1/2 inches long! After he came out they took him right over to the little heat table to suction all the blood he had ingested. He was a month early so between him ingesting my blood and his little lungs not being quite ready he was put into the level 3 NICU. He was there first level 3 patient. The poor little guy stayed there for a week. He was on oxygen and on a feeding tube the firs 6 days of his life. They had to give him servectin for his lungs and he was also on an antibiotic. On day one our dear friend Pat Thompson came to the hospital and Spencer gave our little Spencer a blessing! Each day he progressed, I was able to hold him on day 3 for about 5 min. so that was soo nice! I had only held him for a min. when he was born. On day 3 he had a little set back and they had to put him on a si-pap machine, but they were able to take him off of it the following day. He was a little jaundice on day 4 so they had him under the lights for a couple of days. In the middle of the night on day 5 they started to feed him a little, it was so nice to be able to hold and feed him regularly. I was able to nurse him a little starting on day 6. He came home that Saturday!! During his stay at the hospital we were able to room there for free, what a blessing that was. We didn't want to leave him. We would go home to see the girls during the afternoon for a couple of hours and then hurry back to the hospital. The girls were such troopers during all of this. Thank you to both our moms for all you did for us!! We are truly grateful. The girls were so excited when we went to go pick him up to bring him home!! They couldn't wait to hold him!! Thank you all for all your prayers! Here are some pictures of our eventful week! Waiting for them to let us in!
On our way to labor and delivery

We got in our room at 3:39pm and delivered him at 7:32pm!

Waiting for him to come!

Spencer all suited up and me on oxygen

Our little guy!

6lbs 8oz, look at his head! He had the biggest cone head ever!!

Our little blessing!

Soo cute!!

Loving our new baby boy!

Daddy and his boy!

Under the lights in the NICU

His little set back

Spencer holding little Spencer in the NICU

Me holding Spencer in the NICU

So sweet!

Sariah so excited to see baby brother!

Bringing him home!!

Sammi already being a little mommy!!

Sammi holding and loving her baby brother!

Sariah so exctied and trying to touch his eyes!!

Taking it all in!!

Love it!!!

Our little Spencer on his second day at home! Welcome home little guy! We love you!!

Family Pictures!!

A couple of days before our little Spencer was born our neighbor Dawn, who is the owner of Sabraw Photography (www.sabrawphotography.com) did a photo shoot of our little family!!! She did such a great job!! There were soo many good ones, but here are some of our favorites!! Thank you soo much Dawn!!!The Taylor Family!! So In Love!!

Our sweet girls!!

Baby brother

Loving the tummy!

My Sweet Jo Jo!!

My Sweet Sammi!!

Our little family!!

True Love!

For all eternity!!

Proud Daddy!!

Being goofy!!

Big hugs!!

Sammi's 3rd Birthday!!

Our little Sammi one day old!!

August 16th was Sammi's 3rd Birthday!!! We had a little party at the park for her!! Sunni and Nick and the boys surprised us right before the party!! It was soo fun to have them here!! Sunni helped me soo much, I wasn't as prepared as I thought I was!!! I did have the cupcakes done though! ha ha!! So many friends showed up!! Thank you all that came!! The kids had a lot of fun playing and eating the mounds of frosting on the cupcakes!!! Our friend Chris brought a pinata and they all went to town on it!! After the party we went back to our house and had pizza with Sunni, Nick and the boys!! Sammi opened all her gifts so she could play with them!! They were everywhere to say the least!!! Our friend Chris brought over his little monkey Zoe!! Sammi was so excited!!! Here are some pictures of Sammi's day!! Happy Birthday Sammi!! We love you!!! Sammi's Birthday Invitation


Waiting patiently for the cupcakes!!

Getting Ready for some cupcakes!

So excited that everyone was singing to her!!

Blowing out her candle!!

So happy!!

Sariah and Landyn enjoying there cupcake!!!

Too cute!!!

All smiles!!

Luke enjoying his cupcake!!

Logan loving his cupcake!!!

So many presents!!

Sisters!!

More presents!!

Sammi so excited to see what mommy and daddy got her for her birthday!!

The pinata

Daddy watch out!!

Nick helping Sariah out!!

Sammi and Zoe!!

Too cool!!

Rock star on a quad!!

Taylor Family Reunion!!

In July we had the Taylor family reunion at Carpenteria State Beach!! It was soo much fun!! Spencer was able to get some time off work to go!!! We all had a blast! The girls loved camping!! It was a very tiring four days and it took us about a week to recuperate but we cant wait to to it again!! Here are some pictures of our fun trip!! Group Picture!
Being Silly!!

Logan and Sariah

Spencer and Sariah having some fun in the water!!

The 2006 babies growing up!!!

Sammi and Luke!

Having fun in the water!!

Ring around the rosy!!

Spencer and I-8 months pregnant with little Spencer!

Spencer and his dad!

Spencer and Sariah putting the kite together!!

Sammi hanging out by the fire!!

Sariah very fascinated with the bubble machine!!

Ellie and Sammi after a game of bingo!

Sammi and Spencer playing bingo!

Jaime and Sariah!

Too cute in there itty bitty bikinis!!

Sammi showing great grandpa her sea crabs!

Sariah all worn out from a fun day at the beach!!!

California!!

In June we went for a visit to California! We flew out on a Friday night, our plane had been delayed like two hours so that was just wonderful! We finally made it there around midnight!! Jerrol picked us up from the airport and we stayed the night with him and then in the morning headed to my moms! Oh did I mention little Sariah did not sleep all night long!!! ha ha!! What a fun night that was!! We all got to my moms and they were having a barbecue that evening so we enjoyed visiting with everyone! Spencer had to leave on Sunday to go back to work, so him and Jerrol took off that afternoon after a game of golf! My mom and Pat were leaving a couple of days after that for Canada. My Grandma was there with Tucker and Logan so we got to have a nice visit with them!! We also got to go spend a couple of days with Elizabeth and the kids and also got to see Kai and Jesse at there fire stations!! We had such a wonderful time! The plane ride home was a complete nightmare! Our plane was delayed once again!! the girls were overtired and pretty much cried the whole plane ride! I had a girl in front of me that obviously didn't have kids that kept huffing and puffing in the seat in front of me because she was trying to sleep!! ha ha!! So needless to say I don't think I will be flying alone the kids anytime soon!! But we did have a wonderful visit!! Here are some of the pictures from our visit!!! The Girls!!!
Playing on the search and rescue boat at Uncle Kai's fire station!!
So excited to see her Uncle Jesse!
The girls driving in the fire truck!!

Jesse and the girls!!

Great Grandma and Sariah

Swimming at Grandmas

The girls with my moms dogs!! Sammi played all day with the dogs!! She loved it!!!

They loved taking the dog for a walk in there stroller!!

Great Grandma and Sammi!!

Sammi, Logan and Sariah!

Sammi, Tucker and Sariah!

Little Spencer is already looking for trouble!!

Well today was Shanti's 32 week check up and so she was given the treat of a 3D ultra sound. And to the surprise of everyone little Spencer wanted to see what was going on so he opened his eyes! The ultra sound tech screamed, this being only the second time she has seen a baby do that so she was surprised. Our Doctor said he was a first for her. He is a big boy at a estimated weight of 4 lbs 5oz. We have to move Shanti's date up to remove her stitches because his growth is good and Shanti's contractions. So the new date is the 31st of this month right after Mikey's Wedding. So the big question now is who does he look like?