HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRAVIS!!!!

Best day of my life May 2, 2009

Love of my life. hahah he swore he would never like cats, and now we have 2 that he loves!!!


i love that he is athletic and competitive.



our honeymoon in Hawaii

playing rockband!

Oh my dear sweet Travis Allen Taylor, Today you turned 24!! This boy is not a boy he is a man, and what an amazing one at that. He is so funny too he keeps saying, "Ya next year when i turn 25 ill get a discount on my car insurance!" what a goof ball. I love him so much. Travis is such an amazing person, he is always worried about others and is always willing to take care of them and help them out in any way he can. Anytime someone calls him up for help he is there! Travis would do anything to provide for our small family and he is such a hard worker. I am so blessed to have been able to know him and then marry him. Many may not know our story so now is as good a time to tell it.

THIS IS THE CONDENSED VERSION

about 4 years ago my oldest Sister and her family moved to West Virginia for her husband to go to medical school. While living there, a missionary named Elder Taylor was in that area/ward and got to know my sister and her family well. One day while at my sisters house elder Taylor's companion saw me in our family picture and asked if he could write me. My sister looked at him and said, "No your not her type, but you are elder Taylor, you should write her." Elder Taylor said no i gotta keep focused and not be distracted.

Well after about 2 weeks of my sister bothering Elder Taylor to write her sister he finally caved.

I was a Senior in High School, my sister called me up one day and asked if id like to write a cute missionary, i thought that's kinda weird but ok sure.

Long story short we wrote for 18 months and fell in love, we knew most everything about each other over our letters of writing.

Once he got home from his mission Travis moved in with his sister who lived very close to my parents house. we dated for 3 weeks got engaged, then were married 4 months later in the Mount Timpanogos Temple.

People who didn't know we hadn't been writing for so long thought we were stupid and young to rush into a marriage when we hardly new each other, little did they know we knew each other very well. I love Travis so much more than ive ever loved anything. He is my whole life, and im so grateful for his choices in life, and im so grateful that he was able to beat his cancer and survive so that he could go on a mission and we could meet and get married. He is such a special person and i feel so honored to be in his life. Thank you babe for all that you do and continue to do.

I love you and hope that you have an amazing birthday!

EEEWWWW

(ewww.. no this is not the actual picture, i stole this from google. just to give you an idea)

So the other day me and Travis woke up, went and did a little grocery shopping and then realized we hadn't eaten. This is very rare for me since the first thing i do in the morning after putting my contacts in, is eat cereal. So needless to say i was starving, all i wanted was a bagel sandwich from Burger King but it was 12 and breakfast was over :( ha ha i was so mad, but then Travis suggested we just go to Denny's since it was right by our house. I was so excited it had been forever since id had a breakfast like this!!! We got there and i ordered an Ultimate Omelet, when we finally got our food i was so excited i just dove right in, and then about half way through it i noticed a long black curly hair in the middle of my omelet.... yeah SICK!!!!!! i was so mad cuz i was not even close to being full from my food. We told our waitress and explained that we understand it happens but i didn't want another omelet, she apologized and said she would comp the meal but in the end didn't and we were ok with that it was only a few dollars but man will i never go to Denny's again. I have never had that happen to me ever. So now i feel a need to finish this omelet that i never got to finish... So i am determined to go to the Village Inn or to Ihop to fill that void, sometime this week... hahah oh man.

Anyways, Travis' birthday is this FRIDAY!! man time flies by when you have alot of things going on in life.... i cant believe that today is Halloween either! with work, remodeling our house, and grandpas funeral and all that stuff we completely forgot and are totally unprepared :( so sad, but our first Halloween in our own home will not be the most memorable one, since we don't have any decorations even up, but at least we have candy to pass out. Now to figure something out for Travis' birthday :S oh boy... that's all for me today!

In Loving Memory....

A great man passed away this last Sunday. Vern Wood Taylor, Travis' grandfather passed away peacefully in the Utah Valley Hospital. Vern was 90 years old and lived a very full life. I didn't know him for long but in the 3 years i did know him i felt like id known him my whole life. He was such a sweet old man, always made you feel right at home and always had the best stories. for the 6 months that Travis and i lived below him we bonded more. As we went to the hospital Sunday to say our good byes Travis went to give him a big long hug and then after i gave grandpa one last hug he wouldn't let me go. He just held my hands tight and rubbed them on his face for a while and then just held them by his chest and woldnt let me go. After about 5 min. of this he looked at Travis and winked. Shortly after that he started feeling pain in his chest so Travis and his dad along with a few others in the room gave him a blessing to not be afraid and that he could go peacefully. But before they even started as they were all standing around him grandpa asked, "Where is Travis, is Travis there?" He sure did love his Travis. After the blessing the nurse gave him morphine and an anxiety medicine to help him relax after about an hour and a half of watching him sleep he was gone. This is a happy thing for him since he has been without his sweetheart for 17 years, but it was so sad for all of us to lose him. i found out after we left the hospital that Grandpa had told Travis while he was hugging him that he was gunna send our kids down here real quick so we wouldn't have to wait anymore :) this made me cry harder, the thought that our kids will never get to know this great man on earth. But it was time, and im glad he is finally now at rest and with the love of his life, we love you Grandpa Taylor and we will see you again. Your stories and memories will live on through your kids, grand kids and great grand kids. xoxo RIP Vern Wood Taylor.

New renovations!!!!!

Coming soon.....

The remodeling of our upstairs bedroom/ office into one grand master bedroom with a big walk in closet and a 3/4 bathroom all in our master suite!!!! :) before, during and after pictures soon to come! :)

Family

Yesterday Travis' cousin and best friend Brock got home from his mission and had his homecoming yesterday. It was so fun going up to Tooele and seeing him and his family again! Being up there made me realize how much family means to me, i love family get togethers and just talking and catching up, it was so fun. It made me miss my family and our big get togethers very much.

When we got home from Tooele i decided i was going to make banana bread since i had some bananas that would work perfectly for it. I had gotten a recipe from my sister a few days earlier. It was so fun to bake for the first time in our new home especially since Travis was home to enjoy it with me. The bread turned out perfectly!! It was so yummy.

Anyways that's all i got for now!!