Happy Fathers' Day, Birthday, and Summer

Its been a good month. It started off with my 25th birthday that I got to celebrate with family. Fathers' Day was a good day. I am grateful for all the dad's in my life. Justin is an awesome dad. Taylor LOVES her daddy, in fact she doesn't call for me when she wakes up or is sad, its "daddy". But I love that. It's only "mommy" when she gets hurt. We are grateful for him and all he does for this family. We had a picnic and then went to dinner at the Wirig house. After we got to go spend some time with his grandparents. Taylor LOVES them and instead of calling them grandma and grandpa Great its Grape. WE showed her a picture of them and she smiles and says "grapes!" They are so sweet and we love them so much! It was a good day. Now one month from tomorrow Justin's sis and mine too, gets home from her mission in Kirtland! Can hardly wait!

Grandma and Grandpa "Grape"

Loves her daddy!
My awesome family
Fun fun
Tay with her cousin "grantie" and she loves him too
Birthday BBQ with new soft serve ice cream machine!!
Swimming time

Happy summer

A St. Georgey Memorial Day

This weekend was way fun. We decided to go down to St. George and spend some time with our favorite family down there. Taylor loves hanging out with her big cousins and we love hanging out with everyone too. We went somewhere past Mesquite where its a natural hot springs pools and park and stuff. So we spent saturday there and it was fun. Sunday was church and just hanging out. Monday we woke up, and the boys and Joss went fishing while Danielle and I took the 2 littles and went shopping and got some killer deals on some kids clothes at the outlets. Then we came home and watched the kids play outside on the slip and slide and in sprinklers. I don't think anything beats just hanging out in your backyard playing in sprinklers. They were having a blast. We had a little bbq and then headed home that night so Justin could make it back to work by morning. It was a good time as always! Taylor is growing up and its crazy how much she learns without me even knowing. She will copy anything you say pretty much, she sings songs, and she has got a way funny personality. I must say though, she is a girl with attitude and if you make her, she WILL show you! Crazy there are going to be 2 little girls in this house soon. Almost to my 3rd trimester and I can hardly wait to not be pregs anymore. Oh we also bought a new car... Honda Pilot and we are liking it :)

Here are girl cousins riding and singing "wheels on the bus"

Best Buds Taylor and her cousin Emma at their dads' baseball game
Taylor LOVED the trampoline down there!
Watching the big kids slip and slide

And loving it herself

Blondie and we love her

The squires bunch ready to slide...these kids are HILARIOUS...and we love them too

Just resting at the park and pool

On the road again

Gotta love tramp hair... and by tramp I mean trampoline

Washington Trip and Baby

(Taylor ready to load up and go flying on the airplane)

Taylor and I went on a little trip while Justin stayed home and went to school and worked...(he got a job at Adobe so thats exciting) We flew to Washington to visit my parents for the week. It was fun and Tay got spoiled to death by "damma" and "campapa". The weather couldn't have been more perfect. We played outside and went shopping and just mostly hung out and had a good time visiting. We got to skype justin everyday so we could talk to him.. that was fun and we wish he could have come with us. My parents have a huge great dane and a cat... then there are a ton of animals running all over the fields and yard all the time... Taylor was in heaven! We aren't around any animals here so it was fun for her to see real life things instead of in her books.

(Below: Teaching taylor that the smell of washington rocks is THE best smell in the world)

BJ and Katie had their second little girl on Tuesday... welcome Ellie... Taylor LOVES her cousin already and asks to go back and see her

(Below: Found her this morning stuck in the toy box a panic...took just a sec to take a pic)

Where to Start?! and we're having a...

Yes, first off we went to get our ultrasound yesterday and saw our baby GIRL! So cute and she was moving all over. We have a dvd of it and pictures. I love her a ton already. It will be fun for tay to have a sister so close and for us not to have to buy all new boy stuff!!!

I said I was going to update this once a week... that was a month ago or something. A LOT has been happening so get ready for a big ol post!

Justin and I got to get away by ourselves for the first time since we have had Taylor. His parents watched Taylor for us down in St. George with his sister's kids while they went on a get away as well. They are the best! We went to California and just basically did whatever we wanted. We met up with Danielle and Stuart at Disneyland on friday and that was a lot of fun. Other than that we just took it easy, visited some family, and drove around.

My old roommate, Mikale, Came into town too so a few of us got together to for a little bit and catch up.

Then we had Easter. Tay had a lot of fun this year! Thanks to her grandma and grandpa Wirig, they had an easter egg hunt for us all at their house! It was conference weekend as well and my whole family was here for my sister Michelle's wedding. It was really good and for some reason I have no pictures of it. But we are really happy for them! It was fun, as always, to spend time with my family!

Taylor loves hats and getting dressed. She brought me everything to wear right here except the sweater. Not bad I guess.

This is Taylor in our parking lot...she would NOT cross the big ol cracks. Now she has gotten more brave and doesn't care. But it was pretty funny.

Don't mind the heart attack on the plate, but we went out to dinner at the Outback.

I came out of the bathroom and taylor was staring up at me with this cheeser smile and put the glasses on all by herself...she was very proud! She LOVES wearing glasses as well!

Another thing she LOVES is basketball. She loves to watch it and play it. The ball is as big as her still, but she loves it and it was her first "BIG" word a while ago. "Bat-ket-bah!"

We all went to Thanksgiving point petting zoo place with the Tay's cousins. It was fun and she loved it...she even rode a horse!

Families ARE Forever!

This past week I have felt so blessed to know that I have a knowledge of the plan of happiness, that I get to be with my family for eternity. There is no end, I love it! My heart is squished with love for my two families...Katz's and Wirig's... but I am super grateful that Justin and I have made the best decision to be married for time and ALL eternity, and now our little Taylor and this other little little on the way are always going to be with us.. plus the other ones that I don't know about yet... I love family... but mostly I love these guys....

One of my favorite hymns:

"I have a family here on Earth. They are so good to me. I want to share my life with them through all Eternity.
Families can be together forever, through Heavenly Father's plan. I always want to be with my own family, and the Lord has shown me how I can. The Lord, has shown me how I can."

~I teach the primary every sunday, and when they sing this, I cry like a baby... how embarrassing, but I just love those dang little kids!

Scouts?

Yep, we have been called to be Webelos leaders in our ward... I know NOTHING about boys or scouts, but I think it will be fun. It will be the best to do this with Justin. I just wish they sold those dang cookies...

Now Announcing...

So, we have been busy with school and life, but it doesn't stop us from having fun. I guess now I can officially announce that we are having another baby in September! We are really excited. Had the first doctor appointment today and we got to hear the fast little heart beat! Love that sound! Everything is looking good and we are just excited.

Made this little sweatshirt for taylor to wear... thats how she told Justin the good news... she went up to him and said "baby"

She is the cutest... I don't know how this next one will be, but if its at least as half as good as her, we will be happy happy!