**Snow Storm**

Call me crazy but I have loved the snow storms we have had lately! We have gotten so much snow! Leave it to good ole' Idaho weather to bring on the snow storms early. Hopefully the snow will stick around through Christmas!

Short and Sweet

It has been a while so here is a really "Short and Sweet" overview of a view highlights of the last few months.

HALLOWEEN: Taylee had a BIG Halloween all starting off with a party at preschool on that Thursday, trick-or-treat at my work on Friday, and then a Trunk-or-Treat with my In-laws ward. Needless to say come Saturday I was pretty lazy at dressing her up so she was a "Jazz Fan". It actually was the best costume, she got LOTS AND LOTS of candy. This is what people would tell her, "We LOVE the Jazz!", "Go JAZZ" and then they would give her a handful of candy!! It was awesome. The other two days she was a Fifties Girl but I failed to take any pictures of that costume.

FAMILY PICTURES: We finally got our family pictures taken and I think that they turned out pretty cute.

RECENTLY: And just last night......Taylee literally drew herself to sleep!! TOO CUTE!

Student of the Year

Cody and I just made the trip to Boise where he was honored and given the IAHPERD (Idaho Association Health Education, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance) State of Idaho Student of the Year Award!! It is such a great accomplishment and we are so proud of him!!!

Taylee's First Day of Preschool

Taylee started preschool this week. I cannot believe that we are at this stage already. She has an amazing teach and she just loves her. It makes me so sad to think that she is growing up so fast and turning into a beautiful little girl!

Little getaways...

Here is a small preview of our little weekend adventures that we have taken the past month. We have spent a fun day at Bear Lake and had a great Labor Day Weekend getaway to Jackson Hole Wyoming and Yellostone National Park. We had so much fun!

Another digital slideshow by Smilebox

It's Began....

This time of year is the start of many things for us, Cody begins school, I start coaching volleyball, and Taylee will begin Pre-School. Then added in between these things are our normal work hours and routine responsiblities that we have to take of. I honestly don't know how we get through the day in one piece but we do. Thanks to help from some great family to help us out.

We are so excited that Cody is able to get his Master Degree be able to have a Graduate Assistantship to help get experience and to pay for school. We are not going to see him very much at all this next year between school, teaching, and working his School Bus driving job on the weekends. But that is okay. I keep telling myself, "One more year and he will be done with school".

I have started coaching volleyball again at Pocatello High School. It is a lot of fun and I really enjoy being around the sport again but it is A LOT of work and takes lots of time. We should have pretty good teams this year so I am excited. I have having a hard time juggling this new routine but give me a few more weeks and hopefully I will have it down to an art! :) Lets hope.

Taylee is so excited for Pre-School. I think that she is really going to love it and learn so much from it. I cannot believe that she is at that age already. It makes me sad to think of my little Taylee growing up and being so independant.

I just think of how really blessed we are, when we are away from home it is because we are able to work, when we don't see Cody it means that he is able to attend school, I clean and organize because we have a comfortable home to live in, we have to buy Taylee new clothes every season because Taylee is healthy and growing, we are happy and have so much joy because we have each other. When I get all wrapped up and consumed thinking about how busy we are and all that I need to do I just remind myself of these wonderful blessings. Life really couldn't be much better than this!

On Impulse...

So we were headed on our way home from our stay in Salt Lake on Saturday and we decided "hey, lets bid on a hotel room for tonight and if we get it we will stay if not we will go home." Well.....we won the bid and we ended up staying the night in Downtown Salt Lake Saturday night. It was so much fun. Taylee loved that we were going to stay in a hotel. We walked around Temple Square and took Taylee swimming at the hotel swimming pool. We had so much fun! We slept in and took our time coming home on Sunday. It was a pretty impulsive move but it was a very much needed one. We had so much together just us as a little family.

It was worth the stay!!