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!

Exciting Week Ahead

Well if you haven't heard if I don't have the baby by Thursday (20th) I am going to be induced on that day! Kelly was only concerned that he already had that day off so he didn't get to skip out on work. The kids are so excited they are counting down days till the baby is born and days until Christmas. It really is a busy and exciting time for us. Our house is coming along. Almost all of the windows are in, the shingles are about 1/2 way done, and between my dad, Kelly's dad, Chase, and Kelly the basement is mostly framed (thanks for the help!).

Construction Update

Here is the back of our new house and here is the front.



We are hoping the shingles and windows and doors will all be done by the end of next week, we will see!

Pregnant Picture

Here is a nice profile shot about a week ago. Right now I have just under 4 weeks to go. We are all getting really excited for this little girl to join our family. Hopefully Kelly and I will be able to agree on a name by then.