My Graduation Pictures! (Finally!)

Hey, so, here are my graduation pictures. I actually just barely got these from my sister, so I had to be just as patient as you to see them.











There are more, but you can check either my Facebook profile for those or you can email me and ask me to send you some.

LG enV Touch

I just got a new toy!

It's pretty awesome.

It's the LG enV Touch. At first I was hesitant about the whole touch screen on the front. Now I just absolutely love it. It has a really nice camera on it (3 megapixels) as well as the internet and VCast Videos so I can watch tv shows on it if I wanted to. I've already watched some clips of shows just because I was bored. That and I was experimenting with it. Oh and it also has GPS and basically a YellowPages built right in which will come in handy when I'm on vacation and whatnot.

Anyways, that's my latest obsession.

Gigi's 2nd Birthday!

Ok so I'm just going to post about this even though I don't have any pictures of it. My camera decided to die. We didn't go picture-less for it though. My parents' camera worked fine.

So we had a good day for Giselle's birthday. It was more fun this year because she had a little more of an idea of what was going on. During the day we didn't do a whole lot out of the ordinary. That evening, though, we went up to Kelly Canyon and took family photos. We had Lavinda take them. She did Katie and Rico's wedding photos and did an amazing job. It will be good to see what comes out of this photo shoot. We wore navy blue and a bright green which went really well with the scenery. We chose a spot next to the South Fork of the Snake River. It was absolutely gorgeous up there and all three little ones did surprisingly well. The only problem we had was getting them all to look at the camera at the same time.

Our photos went a little long so we had a late dinner and opened Gigi's presents. She got a baby doll stroller that was actually a Christmas present that we never gave her cause she wasn't old enough for it then. And she got a baby doll to go with the stroller, some building blocks, a PlaySkool house, a Book of Mormon (kiddie size) with her name on it, some pom-poms, a scarf, a purse to carry her Book of Mormon in (or whatever suits her fancy, and a random magnifying glass.

Gigi had an awesome birthday! After presents we had some chocolate cake, talked for a bit, then went to bed because it was almost 11 by the time we got done with everything.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GISELLE TAYLOR!

Slacker

So I have things I want to blog about but I wanted to wait til I could get the pictures. Here's just a little preview of what I need to tell ya'all about.

The Art Taylor Family Reunion 2009. We took a trip up near Ashton, ID to the Mesa Falls and Big Springs then went into West Yellowstone. I will give details later.

Gigi's 2nd Birthday! Oh my goodness, Gigi Bottoms is 2 years old today! I can't believe it!

And finally,

My new toy I just got yesterday. It's a LG enV Touch. So far I love it!

So keep holding your breath. I'm going to blog about all this jazz when I have pictures. Yay!

Long Week

Holy cow. I just finished a really long week with work. For some, 46 hours a week is nothing. For me...it's been a long time since I worked that much so it made for a really long week. We had inventory so, that day, I worked for just over 12 hours that day. And today we had our annual sidewalk sale in Blackfoot (btw, Blackfoot, ID is an odd little town). I woke up at 5:30 and was in Blackfoot by 7:00. I stayed for the sale until 1:30 then went back to Idaho Falls and worked at the store until almost 8:00 pm. Needless to say, I'm exhausted.

And, also needless to say, I am going to sleep very, very well tonight.

Up! And Away on a Date!

So. I've never been a fan of blind dates. Well, I take that back. I like them. Ok. I don't mind them. I groan a little before the fact, but it usually ends up being decent. Besides, it's a good way to see how well your friend or family member (whoever is playing Cupid) knows you. If they know you really well then your date should go well. Theoretically.

For example, I was set up by my dad on a date with a girl in his ward up at the college. She was nice, but it was one of the worst dates I've been on. The whole night was awkward. I could tell she didn't want to be there and I wasn't sure why which only made me more frustrated. I spent loads of money on this girl, too. She is now engaged to a guy she started dating not long after our hellish date.

I've only had a handful of good blind dates. So maybe I'm masochistic because I still agree to go on these excursions. My good friend, Jeremy, wanted to set me up with a girl who was a sister missionary on his mission. I surprised even myself and agreed to go. It took me awhile to finally call her up and set up a date.

We did a classic dinner and a movie date. The dinner was at Winger's. I had not known there were still people in Rexburg who had not been to Winger's, but my date was one of the dying breed that hadn't. So it was a treat. And she enjoyed it. We had good, easy conversation throughout the whole date.

My original plan was to do dinner and a walk around the park, but we were waylayed by some unexpected rain. So I made a quick backup plan and figured we could go to a movie. We ended up going to Disney-Pixar's new flick: UP! It was a fun movie that had consistent laughs and a few sad moments. All in all it was a good pick.

I had a really good time. It's dates like these that make me realize that blind dates aren't always such a bad thing. :)

Alzheimer's

I went to my sister and brother-in-law's house the other night and hung out for awhile. I brought brownie bites and cashew clusters to them and, in return, they fed me dinner. We fed the twins and put them to bed and watched Ice Road Truckers. Somewhere along the way we got talking about Alzheimer's. Kate, my sister, had a great definition of it which still cracks me up:

"Like you're a guy who cuts wood. And you still think you cut wood. Only you're in an alzheimer's unit. Locked down."

It might have been one of those things you had to be there for, but it had me laughing for like five minutes afterward. I still chuckle about it. What would I do without my Farfig?