Tay's first BYU game

Saturday was Taylor's first BYU football game with dad, Uncle Ben, and Aunt Nicole. He had such a great time, Jake said he became a little wiggly after the 3rd quarter, but for the most part was completely entertained. He loved the Cougar chant when they made a touchdown. He has a couple more this season he will go to, but I think he just loved some one on one dad time the best!

Awwww.....so cute!


Uncle Ben and Aunt Nicole

Grandparents Day

Taylor has been excited all week long and actually looking forward to going to school on Friday because it was Grandparents Day. What a cute tradition to have. The 2nd graders all sang a bunch of songs, even in spanish, and then had time to eat treats and interact with their grandparents. I was so glad that July and Dad could go and be there with Tay, he told me he was so glad they were there. My Mom feels bad because she was in St. George and couldn't make it and Grandpa Murph was at Tay's cousins grandparents day. So we were just so grateful to have 2 of the 4 there. Thanks you guys for coming and making Tay's day so special.

Tay showing a picture with Meema!


Thanks Grandpa Tom for being there with Tay, and especially for taking such great pics!


Meema helping Tay with a grandma, aka Meema, worksheet.




Tay singing his little heart out at the program, they even learned a spanish song and Taylor was SOOO excited to sing it for Meema!

How adorable is this???

All the Murphy grandkids looking as darling as ever!
Taylor, Mya, Dallin, Triston, Jaden, Jovie, and Quinci

Jake's dad recently went to Mexico and brought back all the grandkids some authentic clothing. We thought it would be cute to get a picture of all of them together looking oh so cute! Thanks Grandpa Murph!

Mya just loves her "brocci"!

Yum Yum "brocci" as Mya would say!

How lucky am I that my little Mya actually LOVES her veggies. She will seriously ask me for a bowl of broccli for lunch, and I LOVE it. Just thought I would snap a few pics of this cutie eating her healthy lunch!

Temper Tantrum

Ok, so my first thing I want to say is, "Boys are way easier than girls!" With that said, I have to document one of my sweet little Mya's temper trantrums she had the other day! Please let me just say, there are SOOOOOO many wonderful things about my little angel, but I had to laugh when she was awfully dramatic at only 2 1/2 years old, WOW what is to come?? And this was all because she wanted to sit under a certain tree at Taylor's soccer game that had a whole family sitting under, and one right next to it that had plenty of shade and NO ONE there. She threw a fit because we were going to sit under the one with no one there, I just laughed and I took the pics. I love you my little princess!!!!

Oh the anger!!!


Just look at the glare she's giving me! Hee Hee


Waaa Waaa


Pout Pout Pout!

Canyonlands 2009

Corn cribs at Canyonlands!
This year was no different than any other year that I have in Canyonlands, it's honestly my very favorite place ever! From the sites, to the smell I just have SOOOO many good memories and I love that I can share them with my kids now. This year not all of my family came, which was sad, but for all that did, we had a great time. It was my family, Dad, July, Jennifer, Tanner, Brittany, Brighton, and our friends Mario and Marta. I loved being able to show things to people that have never seen them. We hiked a lot, relaxed, ate lots of food, and saw breathtaking views. I look forward to this trip every single year, and LOVE that my kids look forward to it too. They always ask, "when are we going to the Bat Cave?" I love the memories that we create!

There are LOTS of pictures so sorry if it's quite long!
We also try and hike to Delicate every year too which is in Moab, and this year we did it first on our way down to Canyonlands, it's amazing!

Meema and Dallin hiking up to Delicate!


Me and Dally Goo on the steep part!


Is this not the most amazing site ever, LOVE LOVE LOVE this place!


Family pic by Delicate!


One week shy of 8 months, probably crazy for hiking to Delicate, but so worth it!


My dad thought it would be funny to put my belly in the hole, kind of clever huh?


Dad and Delicate


Meema with the kids on the way down from Delicate!


Grandpa telling Mya the 3 little bears story, she was so intently listening, cute!


Dad building a cool volcano for Dallin's cars!


Mya taking a little nappy with mom!


Ready to hike!


13 faces pictograph! Okay so there's something really cool about this, my dad has known about this place for over 40 years and all the sudden they took it off the map and the rangers don't even tell you that it's there unless you ask about it and then at that they assume you know where it is because no one should know about it. I love that we have a little secret place to go. It use to have 13 faces, kind of like Jesus and his 12 apostles, but 3 of them have been washed away by the floods of 1984 I think that's why they don't tell you where it is because they want to preserve it. It's pretty dang cool!






Look at the heart shaped rock above us, awwww.....so precious! I know kind of cheezy!


Handsome boy!


July sat on her camelback, I think she really peed her pants, ha ha!


The big group, we had such a good time!


I love this picture of my dad telling a funny story to Jake, look at his expression!


July looking oh so cute!


Hiking around!


Cute cousins!


Grandpa and the kiddos!


Okay look at the top right corner of the pictograph of 3 red men and a white one x'd out, so we took a picture of our "brown" men and our white man x'd out, it was funny!

The famous Peek a Boo ladder, my kids favorite part!

Mya and Daddy!


Jennifer


July


Dad


Marta


Our Tay


Mario


Our Dallin


Me


Bros!


It was fun to have Brittany and Brighton with us this year, they were both such troopers!


Taylor caught this cool frog!


Dallin and the frog!


Okay, could this picture be any cuter! So so sweet!


Hanging out by the fire.


Mya and her bro!


Dallin working on his Canyonlands booklet with Grandpa Tom!


Playin in the dirt with Brighton!


Can you tell this kid likes watermelon???


My kiddos!


What a little sweetheart!


This a view of our camp site from the top!


Dally Goo and Grandpa Tom!




Climbing the ladder at "Cave Trail"


I thought this was a cool pic of Jake and Mya!


The fam!


My handsome dad!


We named this lizard, "Cheetah"


Eating my mom-in-laws amazing Mexican Food!


Hanging out!


Mario, Marta, and Tay went for a cool bike ride!

Goofballs!!


We went to this really cool presentation about the Anazi culture!


Chillin with dad!


I don't know why this picture keeps coming out sideways, but it's too cute to pass up, Dallin just LOVES smores!


Awwwww.......precious!


The "Bat Cave", which is actually called Split Top!


The kids being sworn in to be Jr. Rangers, they had to complete this little booklet about Canyonlands, and I have to say we all learned a lot about our favorite place!


The kiddos with their Jr. Ranger Badges! They're so so proud!

We had such a great trip!