Fairfield is Wonderful

Mom, Dad, and Taylor (7 1/2 mo.)
Mom and Emilee Jake in the truck and on the trailer

McKay harvesting
Jake and Tate
The whole gang

Taylor Mae in the middle of the field
Colton

Kelly and I moved into our new house on the 5th. We spent 4 nights there and then I took advantage of my chance to visit my family in Fairfield. Here are some pictures of the harvest. I have great memories of playing in the grain when I was growing up so I am glad that my kids were able to spend a little time in the field and on the combine during the harvest.

THIS IS A TEST

It is only a test. I just want to see if anyone still checks my blog. Don't worry I won't feel bad if no one responds, I haven't even checked it for over a month or updated it for like 3 months. Our house is nearly done. The carpet will be finished tomorrow, a/c installed and rock put on the front. Kelly and I need to put up the interior doors, stain the front door and replace some sheet rock in the garage (long story). Then we need to build a deck. Piece of cake, right!?
My life may become somewhat normal within the next 2 months or so. But I won't hold my breath, you had better not either!

Sheet rocking (still)

I am using the large sized letters so that this will appear like more words. Kelly and I have been sheet rocking for about 2 months now. We planned on 2-3 weeks. All I can say is that 2500 sq. ft. & a triple car garage is a lot of sheet rock and work! We do have to take into account that in that time period Kelly got type B influenza (yuck!) and we took time off to go to a funeral. We are seriously so close to being done (with the sheet rock). The garage is partly done and there are only a few small things left to do in the house! I am so excited to move in although there is still a pile of work for us to do. Taylor gets to hang out with us in her play pen. She really has been good and she is growing like crazy. I will put up a picture soon. Jake, Colton, & Britnee don't really appreciate me hauling them out there after school but they are good troopers most of the time. They like the big pile of dirt and have big plans for a garden this summer.

Happy Birthday Jake!

Today is Jakes birthday, I absolutely can not believe that I am old enough to have a 10 year old. Happy birthday Jake I love you! Jake chose corndogs and BBQ potato chips with ripples for his birthday dinner. I added banana chocolate mini-muffins to the menu (they were somewhat healthy and I was the only one who liked them, maybe when Kelly gets home tonight he will like them). We will be having angel food cake later on. I am so glad to have Jake as a son he is a good helper and he is very smart. He likes to hold Taylor, play with legos and bionicles, he also likes to read books that he is interested in (Levin Thumps) and knows Book of Mormon stories better than me (thanks to Tennis shoes among the Nephites.)

Smile

It seiously took 19 minutes to upload these 2 pictures. Actually it took longer than that because the first time I tried after 10 minutes the internet connection disconnected. How long does it take you to upload a picture? I want to know what I have to look forward to at my new house. Here is Taylor smiling she started smiling about a week ago. I think I was scaring her with the camera because it took a while to get a shot of her smile. We also made valenine cookies last week as you can see Jake, Colton, and Britnee had a lot of fun decrating them!

I'm still here!

It has been a while but I really am still here. My only excuses for my lack of blogging are that I have a new baby, we are trying to build a new house, and my internet service is extremely slow. Maybe when the house is done and I have hi-speed my blogs will be more regular. This picture of Taylor is only a week old, I took it in Fairfield when we visited Mckay. It was so fun to see him again.

Taylor Mae Atkinson

12/26/2007

Christmas Eve

One day old

Taylor was born at 2:57 p.m. on December 20th. She weighed 7lb. 11oz. and was 21 inches long. We are enjoying her so much!