A New Year and A New Start

January has been such a wonderful and refreshing month for Tanner and I. We have started our goals and are doing pretty well at them for a month so far and hoping that continues.
This month we have been able to get back into a little bit of a normal weekly schedule. Even though we have a birthday a week so there are still family get togethers almost once a week it is back to a more consistent week overall.
We already had New Years Day and Andrew and Jacqui's wedding. The rest of the month was all about playing and going on mini adventures together.
We decided to go to the Museum of Natural Curiosity. It was so incredibly fun for all of us. Tanner said that he would have loved to have this when we was little. There was a "motion" room and Tanner could have stayed there for a while. Layla loved the water room and the little jungle area. It was so much fun! We bought a pass so we will be going there a lot.

We had a "Stay-cation". We decided to treat one of our Friday and Saturdays like it was vacation, We played games, stayed up late, we went swimming and we went out to eat. We love it. Since we weren't able  to go on a real vacation that weekend we still made the best out of the situation and still had a lot of fun!

Then we decided to go to the park on one of our Sunday walks. The weather has been so nice to us that we have been able to go to the park and go running outside! I REALLY am missing the snow but I think Layla is loving to get to run outside.

Layla and I got to go up with Tanner to work on a Saturday. You would think having your husband have to work on a Saturday is now fun but then when you get to go up with him it turns into being fun. Layla and I got to explore and play at Tanners work while he was fixing and replacing some thing in the server room. That was a adventure for Layla for sure.




 Layla's hair is long enough for pig tails and I am loving it. She wont sit down long enough for me to put them in most days but when I get her to I love it!

I was also able to spend a night out by myself for the first time since Layla was born almost. For Christmas Tanner got me tickets to the Hale Center Theater in Orem and I was able to go see the show Bare Foot in the Park. It was so funny. I would definitely see it again and would recommend it to anyone.
Our month has been so nice and we are glad to finally get back to more of a routine. Here are just some pictures of our month. We had so many videos I couldn't choose which ones to post so I decided not to post any. Maybe one day I will post more.

The Chalk Bus outside of Smiths. 

Playing with her cousin Tessa.

 Layla with my dad's birds. 

Layla with her free cookies at the store and if you go late enough in the day/night she can sit in one of the fun shopping carts. 

Taylor Family Pictures 2014

On Christmas Eve my mom's side of the family had everyone together for the first time in a few years and probably the last time for many years. Which means we needed to do a large family picture. My siblings and I decided to give my grandma the gift of getting a real photographer take pictures and not just a neighbor and to give her all the pictures and print them for her house.
We were lucky that my sister in law Aubrey was willing to come take pictures of our family. They turned out great. Here they are,

The whole family minus one missionary.

Grandma with her daughters

Andrew and Jacqui's Wedding

My younger brother got married on January 9, 2015. They are so happy and I am so happy for them.

They got married in the Draper Utah Temple. It was a little cold that day but it was sunny and nice. We got to the temple and dropped Layla off with her and mine cousins to play with while we went to the sealing. It is so nice to be able to be in the temple with my parents, siblings, grandparents and aunts and uncles. Having a family that is able to do to that together is amazing and wonderful. My Grandpa Woolley was the one who performed the sealing for Andrew and Jacqui. That was such a cool experience to have him be able to perform that ceremony. It made me laugh and cry a little. Then we got to see Andrew and Jacqui smiling so big at being married. After the ceremony we congratulated them and went to get Layla to change her into her "wedding" dress. We got changed and went out to wait for the newly married couple to come out of the temple to take pictures.
We took pictures and then Tanner and I went home for the hour and a half between the temple and luncheon and we relaxed and put Layla down for a nap.

They had their luncheon at Rodizo Grill in American Fork. It was nice to be like the only people there during luncheon time because we go the meat to be circling around a lot and pretty consistently. It was great and we all stuffed ourselves. We were so full for most of the rest of the day. It was fun to see part of their wedding video and getting to watch pictures of their relationship and then growing up.

The reception was down at the Provo city library. It was decorated so pretty. It is so hard to explain. I hope the pictures can show how pretty it was. We talked with family and friends. They did the normal cutting the cake, tossing the bouquet and throwing the garter. It was fun. Then they did the first dance and had a little dance party after. Layla was loving the music and dancing. We got a few videos of it but she was loving it.

Then, they left on their honeymoon and we cleaned up and it was a beautiful wedding and reception. I cant wait for their life together and for us to get to know them as a couple better.

Their wedding pictures:
http://nuttallphotography.smugmug.com/Wedding/Wedding-Day/Wooley-Wedding/

I posted a few but they have so many and  they are wonderful so go give them a look.