Okay, it's been since March!

Okay people, I haven't written since March....that's embarrassing. So a lot has happened and still happening, Suzie is growing like a weed. I love watching her everyday, the faces she makes, the sounds she makes, how she reaches out to us! I just love this little girl. What did we ever do without her? So around Jun 8th, 2013 she started crawling at first it was a little slow but I think someone gave her an energy pill or something because now she is all over the place. She is a really fast crawler. It's so fun to watch her learn new things. Now she is beginning to pull herself up on couches, chairs, and pretty much anything she can get her hands on! :) We've heard from people that walking is just around the corner....oh dear! :) She says: "dada", "dad", and she's trying to say "cat" at least that's what it sounds like. Since It's summer now and 100 degrees everyday (ok almost), we decided to buy Suzie a little kiddie pool. It's shaped like a crab, she looks so cute in it and she has a blast! She loves the water!

(this is without water obviously...but just wanted to show the pool) We have had a few adventures with our little Suzie: we went to Bridal Veil Falls twice which was a lot of fun. She loves being outside and she loved seeing the water:

We took her to the Zoo which she loved seeing the animals:

We loved showing her the different animals! We took her to the Living Planet Aquarium, it was so fun for her. She kept making noises at the fish and other water creatures!

We just love being outside with her, and showing her new things, new animals, waterfalls, all that nature has to offer. We want to raise her to appreciate what's outside and that it's fun to be outside. She makes us laugh all the time especially recently, she will pull funny faces, make weird sounds, pull funny poses she just cracks us up.

She loves playing with her cousin Abigail, they are best friends. They make each other laugh all the time. It's so cute to see how they interact together. I have a few videos from my phone of the under a blanket and Abigail starts laughing and it makes Suzie laugh...they go back and forth for about a minute. Cutest little thing.

So for those of you who don't know, I have a been a nanny for the past 2 years for my brother and sister in law. I've been watching their little girl (who is pictured above). It has been a huge blessing for us because I've been able to take Suzie with me and not had to worry about a daycare or babysitter. Suzie has made lasting friendships with her cousins and it's been super wonderful! :) I'm stopping at the end of August, so the past few weeks I've been trying to find a job either nannying or CNA (because I just got my renewal papers for my CNA license). For a few days there I had no idea what I was going to do and how I was going to do it. (I was stressing a little bit). But when I went and got my CNA papers signed by my last CNA employer and asked them if they had any openings and they said that assisted living didn't but that the memory care part of the building did. So I gave her my info and expect to her back in a few weeks....but I heard back the next day! The lady pretty much handed me the job over the phone! :) Huge relief for me. Sometimes God answers prayers differently then you expect but HE does answer them! So I will be doing graveyard shifts on Friday and Saturday nights for right now and then at the end of August I'll probably pick up one or two more nights. I'm really excited for this new part in my life but kind of nervous at the same time. I've never done just graveyards so it'll be interesting. But this way Suzie can still stay home and we won't have to worry about daycare. :) I'll just miss her at night. I just love spending time with my girl whatever time it is. So other then that life has just been carrying on. Both Cameron and myself recieved new callings in church: I'm a relief society teacher, which I really enjoy. I enjoy teaching, it kind of reminds me of my mission a little. Cameron got called to be in Young Men's which he likes. He says sometimes the boys are a little hyper but boys will be boys huh? We are doing great, we love where we are in life, we love being parents, we adore our little suzie!! I will try to be better at this!! Happy 4th Everyone!!

Hello again!

It's been a while since I have blogged I figured it was time again. :) I used to be so much better at writing stuff down, I love to record important things that have happened in my life. It helps me relax and realize all that I am grateful for. While I was serving my mission in Pittsburgh PA I kept a journal (well several actually ha ha.) Out of the year and a half I was out there I only missed 1 day. I was so mad at myself for missing that one day. I am so glad that I did keep a journal though...on any given day of my mission i can look back (and pick a random day) and see what I was doing. It really fascinates (sp?) me. There were some times though that you cannot make out what I wrote because I was so tired, I would fall asleep half way through or at the end and just scribble off the page. (I usually wrote at the end of the day....and yes I stayed up a lot longer then I was supposed to....but I didn't care because I was writing down memories, experiences i had and amazing people I met.) Anyway off my intro....so I think this entry is going to be a mixture of different things....memory keeping, holidays, family, etc. So you'll just have to bear with me as I might switch through different subjects! :) So it is now March....is that crazy to anyone else? My baby is almost 6 months old! Oh my goodness. She is growing way too fast...but at the same time i'm excited for her to grow and learn. I'm excited to see what she will be like when she is 1 or 2. I love the baby stage though...it is so much fun!! I know I have said this before but I Love being a mom! I love having a family! My Little girl and my husband are my everything! I try to be the best mom I can be and give her the best life possible! Sometimes I find myself comparing myself to other moms and how they raise their babies but then I step back and realize she loves me for who I am and because of the love I give her. We are all different on how we do things...why compare? It would crazy and boring if we all did the same things for ourselves and our children. What I care about is that I raise her right, that I love her no matter what she does, that I provide for her, and that we (her daddy and me) keep a roof over her head. She is learning so much lately. She is giggling more and more and it just brings a huge smile to my face every time. She is starting to eat some thing other then just milk. I love to try new foods with her...I hope she isn't a picky eater. I hope she turns out like me: I love all fruits and veggies! If she is a picky eater then that's ok too...we'll deal with that when it happens. :) she has started to roll over more! Which is so fun to watch...when she does flip from one side to the next she has a look on her face of: "what the heck just happened to me?" she likes it though. She loves our puppies and they love her...we have 1 black lab/collie mix and one corgie/everything else mix. (we almost got rid of the corgie not too long ago...people were maybe interested but as soon as I saw them asking more and more questions about him I just couldn't bring myself to get rid of him. I'll admit I cried. :) It's probably a good thing because that seems to be her favorite dog out of the two. Our cats (we have 2) really could care less about anyone but themselves....I guess that's how cats are. But that is ok...I still like them. I LOVE buying clothes for our little Suzie....I go to Ross or TJ Max or Walmart and sometimes carters (but usually ross and tj max have carters stuff that is cheaper) It's just so fun to buy little clothes for a little girl!! Her new thing recently was screaming! Not just little tiny baby yelps...but full on scream at the top of her lungs...it was so dang cute! She would especially like to do it when people were talking! :) They are getting a little more quite but every once in a while she'll let out a good one! I think her favorite toy right now is hair...ha ha ha. she loves peoples hair. I've learned to always have mine up....which I don't mind at all...cuz I hate hair in my face anyway. I just love her face, I love taking pictures of her, I love hearing her talk, and move and learn. I'm so lucky she's mine! So Cameron and myself had a pretty good valentine's day! I found a project that I wanted to make for him for a present. I found it off of Pinterest it was called: 52 reasons why I love you! You get a deck of cards and decorate them with scrapbook paper and write reasons why you love this person. some of them were: I Love how you make eggs for me even when you hate them, I love how you hold my hand, I love how you spoil our little girl, I love how you haven't given up on me, etc. I loved doing it. I love doing gifts like that that are meaningful. I've done calenders with our pictures and photobooks from our wedding...I just think it's really fun! I mean he could probably look back five years from now and know what I got him as a gift. :) I LOVED his gift to me as well. He got me (well, ok us) a king size bed!! I absolutely love it. It's huge...there is so much room. we got new pillows, new comforter, new sheets! AHHHH it's so nice! I think he loves me. Then for dinner...(we really didn't do anything fancy and I was just fine with that...as long as we were together that's what counts.) We went to Panda Express! I love love panda...it's so so yummy!! :) We still had a little bit of a wait. we had to wait about 15-20 minutes before we could order food. but it was worth it! So all in all it was a great valentine's day!! I want to talk about my family, my close family and extended family! (I'm not sure who all is going to read this) but can I just say: I LOVE YOU ALL! I don't know if I say it enough or too much. I really just want all of you to know that you are a piece of who I am...and I love you! I try my best to be a good sister, aunt, or cousin...hopefully i'm doing a good job. Sometimes I worry about what I might have said, or what I might have done, and I just dwell on it. I know I shouldn't but I do. I really hope I haven't hurt any of you in anyway. I'm just a worry wart sometimes. This goes out to all my friends too! I love you all! Okay well this isn't as long as the other ones but I just wanted to put something out there to let you know that I didn't give up on this blogging thing! Hopefully you'll see me sooner then last time! thanks for reading!

Great times!

So here we are again! So today being Sunday you'd think I would be in church at this time (since we made the change to 9 am church). All three of us though have not been feeling 100% the last few days. It's sad. I hate being sick and I sure don't like it when the ones I love are sick. With Cameron being sick yesterday I sure got a lot done around the house...sometimes I just get into cleaning mode! I got the kitchen cleaned and dishes washed and all the laundry done and our room cleaned! Ahhh it feels so nice to have things clean! :) Little Suzie wan't feeling well...she had a stuffy nose and a little tiny cough. :( She was still super happy though. I think for the most part she just needed rest. Cameron put her to sleep around 5pm for a nap saturday night and she didnt wake back up till 7 am the next morning! 14 HOURS! I wish I could sleep that long. On Friday I had the chance to go to the Temple with a great friend! It really was exactly what I needed even if I didn't know it until after I went through. I hadn't been to the temple in a very very long time. In the back of my head I thought over and over again "Ok I need to go...this is when its going to happen." It never happened. We (me and my friend) finally set a day where we were going to go and we made it happen. We went to the Oquirrh Mountain temple...I hadn't been through that one since me and my husband got married! I Love going to the temple...it's a place where we can just get away from the world, feel the spirit of the Lord and get answers to our prayers! It's such an amazing thing to be there in the house of the Lord! Cami (my friend) and I decided that we are going to set a day every other month to go to the temple with friends...make it a girls night out! :) I Loved being there! After the temple we got dinner...but I had forgotten my money. :( Cami to the rescue! :) I felt so bad...but I guess I can blame it on mommy brain. I guess my brain doesn't work quite like it used to! ha ha. We went to Applebee's. It was really nice to just sit and talk and catch up with Cami! I think it's been a long time since her and I have just sat down and talked. We talked about memories from high school, friends we knew, each other, our families, etc. Sometimes it's just really nice to talk to a friend that is a girl....not that I don't love talking to my husband but it's just nice to have girl to girl time. So thank you Cami! I hope we have many more of those times! :) So I don't know why but I really wanted to write about our Christmas this year...and since it's my blog I can write about whatever I want. ha ha. :) This Christmas was different...We welcomed our first baby into our lives! We Loved having her here celebrating with us. This year I had a few people ask me what I wanted for Christmas but I told them that I really didnt need anything or want anything. This year I cared more about my little Suzie then myself. I wanted her to have the best Christmas! I could have cared less if I got any gifts...as long as she was loved and taken care of, that would be my Christmas gift! She did get some new things: outfits, toys and a picture of Christ holding a little child that we hung up in her room! Even though she doesn't understand yet about Christmas and gift giving and receiving I always want to instill in her the true meaning of Christmas! I always want to have a nativity somewhere in our home out all year long! Why only put the Christ Child and his family out once a year!? This year in our ward I was able to be a part of the Relief Society program. They focused on the women in Christ's life! I was asked to read Mary the Mother of Jesus Christ. Whoever wrote these parts did a magnificent job. Maybe it was because I had just had a baby but I almost cried during my part. Let me just include a little: "Motherhood is a sacred thing, the opportunity to form a partnership with God in providing a mortal temple for the spirits of His Children. Mary was blessed among women for she was chosen by God to bring the Savior, Jesus Christ into the world. The Love of a mother for her child is pure and undefiled. (In Mary's words): Like you, I cared for the child I loved. He taught me of life and of Love, of this world and the next; partly because He was the Christ, mostly because He was a child." What a wonderful thing it is to be a mother...and a father! We as parents partner with God to help raise and nurture one of his sweet spirit children. He trusts us enough to send one down to us and we need to love it like he loves us. Amazing! Cameron and I are sure trying our best! Cameron is an excellent father who adores his baby girl, he takes care of her, watches her when I have girl's night, feeds her, plays with her, reads her stories, etc. I couldn't have asked for a better father for my baby!

New Year....January 2013

Welcome to our blog! I have done this before but it didn't really last very long so we are going to try it again. It's a new year, with a new year comes new year resolutions. Mine? I want to do better at writing down memories and things that happen. So I am really going to try hard to stay on top of this! So the name of this blog has to do with our sweet little girl, that was born in September! She fills our lives with sunshine and our hearts with LOVE! Before I get into a lot of detail with her let me start a while back... For as long as I can remember I have been "baby hungry". I think all girls look back and can remember when they had their first dolly and took care of it, "fed" it, dressed it, and loved it. I do remember some of those times. As my siblings got older and started having kids of their own I just loved being around them and babysitting whenever they would let me. Then i started getting older...Jr. High...High School...some college (more later)...I then chose to serve an LDS Mission. I was called to Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. I LOVED every minute of it. Of course I was nervous, I was scared but who wouldn't be? Being away from family, being sent to a place you've never visited before (I had to find Pennsylvania on a map because I didn't know exactly where it was.), knocking on strangers doors, but I learned so much and it made me grow in so many ways. I met so many wonderful, amazing people! I hope the relationships I made continue! The companions I had were amazing as well! Each one of them taught me so much and I look up to each and everyone of them! After I came home I was a typical RM, I was so bored, so lost as to what to do. I remember putting my room back together and cleaning and stopping in the middle and asking my mom what I should do because I was bored. I didn't have anything scheduled. ha ha. I eventually found a job that was perfect for a return missionary: I started work at a LDS Distribution Center. That is where I met my amazing husband...Cameron. Cameron wooed and wowed me when we were dating...He treated me like I was the only woman in the world. He left me roses in my car several times after work, filled my locker at work with tons of caramels because I said one time that I liked caramels, bought me ice cream, left little love notes on my car, built me a build a bear, he made me a cross stitch and many more things that made me fall deeply in love with him. He put so much effort into our relationship and I will forever be grateful to him for that. He proposed on February 18th, 2012 while we were out on one of our usual walks. We stopped at a park and there was a tube slide. He told me he would go down first and then I would go down and he would catch me at the bottom. So down he went and I to follow and let me tell you...he sure caught me...caught me by surprise that is! There he was down on one knee with ring in hand asking me to marry him! Of course I said yes!! We were married on July 8th, 2010 in the Oquirrh Mountain Utah LDS Temple! What an amazing day that was....I got to marry my best friend! I Love Cameron so so much, he is my better half, he is my strength when I have a hard day, he is my eternal companion, and more! I think after about 8 or so months of dating Cameron and I started talking marriage and kids. How many we wanted, names (yes we had a huge list for boys and girls), future plans, etc. I knew that I wanted kids as soon as we could, but i knew we had to take some time to get go know each other a little more. After about a year and a half we decided that we had reached the point where the only other thing to do was to start a family! YAY! We were so ready to be parents! We found out we were pregnant on January 9th, 2012, Oh my goodness we were so incredibly excited!! We were going to have a baby!! I took multiple pregnancy tests just to make sure that it said positive! Ha ha! I went through morning sickness like crazy....from week 7 to week 20 all day, everyday...morning ritual to the bathroom. ugh. We found out we were having a little girl on April 10th, 2012. Mommy's little girl was on her way. Our Little Susan Taylor was born on September 25th. What an incredible day! Loads of tears. Happy tears, excited tears, tears of overwhelming JOY! [FIRST WE HAD EACH OTHER THEN WE HAD YOU NOW WE HAVE EVERYTHING!] She is our pride and joy. She makes me so incredibly happy. I can't believe she's mine...ours! I'm a mommy! It is the most amazing responsibility! We love her so much! I can't believe the joy and the happiness she brings into our lives! She is smiling like crazy, and starting to make new noises! I have taken so many pictures of her making silly faces I just don't want to miss anything! She is growing like crazy....she turned 3 months old on Christmas. Wow how time flies! I Love holding her, kissing her and rocking her to sleep. I could look at her all day while she's awake and happy and all night while she sleeps. We want to give her the best life we can.....she deserves it! She's our precious little girl! Till next time....