This is one of my favorite pictures that I have taken of Taylor, her huge smile and bright eyes just make me smile. I'm sure glad i got this picture it shows her mouth full of teeth! Well one of these teeth we will never see again, she'll always be missing a tooth (well until her adult teeth come in). Now everytime i look at this picture I just want to cry! It reminds me of the terrible week we've had this past week. It started off last Thursday night. Jimmy had just got home. We were getting dinner ready and relaxing. Taylor was right in front of us playing and jumping around being her usual silly self , she likes to put pillows on the floor and stand on them and try to jump, well this particular time the pillow slid out from under her and she fell forward hitting her mouth on a wooden foot rest. I ran over to her to find a mouth full of blood and her tooth pushed forward just hanging there! We took her to the ER(not nowing where else to go) and they told us that her tooth had popped back into place and that it might fall out but it might be ok too. So we went home with a little hope that her tooth might be saved! well two days later... we went to run some errands. We went to Wal-mart to pick up a few things and while we were in the deoderant isle Taylor started standing up in the cart trying to reach the deoderant. i sat her back down in the cart and told her not to stand up again (silly me thinking she would actually listen to me!) I turned back to grab some deoderant off the shelf and then turned back toward the cart just in time to see Taylor flipping over the edge of the cart FACE FIRST!! I tried so hard to catch her but couldn't, luckily i did manage to at least break her fall a bit, she landed on her stomach and hit her face! We picked her up and realized the tooth had popped right out onto the floor. She was screaming and bleeding everywhere! And all i could do was sit on the floor and cry! I felt like THE worst mom in the world! Why wasn't i paying better attention to her? Why didn't i strap her in? I felt awful and still do! But there's nothing we can do now except learn from our mistakes and never let her sit in a cart again without being strapped in, no matter how much she cries! Anyway this story will most likely haunt me for the rest of my life! :) But Taylor seems to be ok even with a missing tooth. She's happy and still as active as ever and still has a big smile minus one tooth! I guess it could have been worse!

Are we there yet?!

Well, It's down to just 2 more weeks of Jimmy's final internship! Then we have a week of vacation time (i told Jimmy he can't even think about anything school related during that week, he really needs a break!) and then we are headed back to the mainland to start another chapter in our lives! It's all so exciting and scary at the same time!


This past week and 1/2 to 2 weeks has been a little crazy and just frustrating, to the point that i decided i am ready to go home, don't get me wrong...i have really enjoyed Hawaii, it's been an incredible experience and opportunity for our little family and i'm grateful we were able to come but i think we're ready for a bit more stability in our lives. The frustrations have come from Jimmy not being able to find many jobs to interview with because we are in Hawaii and pretty much everyone wants to meet with him right away, which isn't possible. Then i have been dealing with kidney stones and Taylor got pretty sick with an ear infection. I think the thing that put me over the top was Taylor being sick! She's had ear infections before but this one really hit her hard! The Saturday before easter she had a fever of 102 (she's NEVER had a fever before) we took her to the Dr. and they gave her amoxicillin (which she ended up being allergic to). We did everything we could think of to get her fever to break, finally after the 3rd day after a blessing and lots of prayers and crying (from mommy and Taylor) and sleepless nights her fever broke! It took awhile for her to get back to herself but i finally have my active, happy little girl back! :) In all of the stress and sickness though we have found opportunities to smile and have some fun!
Anyway, the purpose of that long story was to explain why i'm ready to GO HOME!!!




This is Taylor's new favorite spot to watch her cartoons, it's a
magazine/newspaper holder.


This is right before she got sick, doesn't she look like a little tourist!



There was an easter egg hunt on saturday at Gunstock Ranch,
this was before we realized she was sick, now i feel bad for taking
her!


She had fun though and caught on to the picking up eggs and
putting them in your bucket idea!


she found 5 eggs!

Got to see the easter bunny...

a cow....

AND.....Ride a horse!


After her nap that day is when we realized she was sick! :(
Poor baby!


But even with being sick, she was still trying to be her silly self!


when she was feeling a bit better we took her to the Temple for
fresh air. she loves coming here to see all the flowers and Jesus!




she's such a social butterfly! she saw this little girl sitting there
and went and sat by her and "talked" to her!


After we found out she was allergic to amoxicillin and they gave
her a shot at the hospital daddy felt bad and bought her a kids meal
and a juice.


She doesn't go anywhere without eeyore, and she definitely won't
sleep without him!


talking on the phone...probably to grandma!


Taylor, Eeyore and Daddy taking a sunday afternoon nap!


she's obviously feeling better! She was playing with this plastic
eggs in the tub and trying to stack them inside of eachother one
shot off and flew across the tub, she started laughing and said "fuh'ee"
(funny). Now she says it all the time when something makes her laugh!

so happy!

Just being silly! I'm glad she's feeling better!