A Corry Story

Corry Update

2011-12-29T10:18:00.000-08:00

I realize I'm not good at keeping up with posting, but I've decided I'm not going to give up! So, here's some major events that I don't want to pass up:

JULY

My mom, Marvin, and sister Hannah came around the 4th of July and took the kids and I (Taylor was really busy in school and clinicals at the time) to Palmyra for a few days. We had such a wonderful time, and were able to see the Hill Cummorah Pageant, which none of us had ever seen before and it was fantastic. It even held Caden's attention the entire time. If you look closely at this picture, you can see the Palmyra Temple through the trees behind us. We are at the Joseph Smith farm.

This picture of Caden in front of the temple is kind of precious to me, not just because it's sweet, but because of the story behind it. We stopped here real quick just so my mom and Marvin could jump out and snap a picture of them in front of it, on our way to some other sites. When Caden saw them out there taking pictures, he burst into tears. He said, "the temple is so special to me, can we take a picture of me in front of it too?" How could I refuse then? It was really sweet.

SEPTEMBER

Caden's first day of Preschool! He was SO extremely excited, for probably weeks before it actually started, and to this day, he LOVES going to preschool. If it works, at the bottom of this post is a video of him walking up to the building, it's pretty cute.

Taylor came home one day and suprised the boys with this GIANT teddy bear, they snuggled right up to it.

OCTOBER

For Halloween, Caden really wanted to be Harry Potter, and Tyson to be Ron Weasley (with his red hair) and me to be Hermione. Taylor was in Ohio for the weekend for a Boards Study Course, so we weren't able to have him with us, darn, he probably would have been Voldemort :)

Another really fun thing that happened in October is that Taylor's mom and grandmother were able to come visit us! It was so good to see them and we had a great time! They were able to visit some big sites in NYC for a day, and we all went up to Boston and took a fun bus tour for another day. I wish I had some pictures to show for it all!

NOVEMBER

My awesome husband, took the kids for an entire weekend in November and let me take off to Tennessee to visit my dad, it was so much fun, we also went to Dolleywood for a day, which was AWESOME and just had a great time.

Well, in case someone doesn't already know, we are expecting a baby girl on March 5th! We are all so extremely excited, (especially Caden) and so far things are going really well. Taylor is getting so close to being done with school and clinicals, only one more semester and he graduates in May! He's doing really well and seems to be keeping up with everything alright (church calling, family, classes, studying and clinical work), and no physical injuries since last April/May's back surgury, thankfully! :)

Caden's 5th Birthday

2011-06-27T11:50:00.000-07:00

Caden just celebrated his 5th birthday, I can't believe we have a five year old in our family!! Caden is such an awesome boy, he is learning so much, growing so tall, is so kind to everyone, and is such a great big brother to Tyson, and we are so proud of him. He decided to have a "pirate" birthday party with a bunch of friends this year.

Taylor and I had a lot of fun planning this party, we had a scavenger hunt-treasure hunt, some fun pirate games, and we planned to have a "battle at sea" with squirt guns, water balloons, and splash balls, which would have worked out had it not been raining most of the time.

Taylor, reading the next clue for the hunt.

Yes, Taylor definitely made this cake, and I think he did such a great job. He really had fun with this party and made it quite special for the Cadester!

Here is just a few more things that we've been up to the last little while. Caden has been pretty exited to try out his new fishing pole, and he happened to catch a fish on his first cast ever! (He'd been practicing casting on the grass for a while with Taylor)

It was really fun for him, he and Tyson were both excited as you can see. (This picture was taken with my cheep phone, hence the not-so-great quality.)
We had a fun Easter, we didn't do much, but the Easter Bunny came and the kids enjoyed an egg hunt.

I just had to add this. Taylor found this outfit out here in Connecticut of all places, for our dog to proudly wear! It's probably meant for a different sports team, but it's definitely close enough, right? Haha...

And last, I just want to add (in case some of you may not know) that Taylor had back surgery last month, due to a severely ruptured disc in his lower back (and sadly we had to miss his brother's wedding because of it), but he has recovered remarkably! He has had back problems for many years, and the day after his surgery, he said he feels better than he has in probably 7 years. He hasn't had any problems since and has just felt great. He had to miss about 6 weeks total of clinical rotations, but his school has worked really well with him, he's kept up with his class work, he's making up for the clinicals he missed, and all around we just truly feel blessed and are so grateful for so many prayers, and that everything has fallen into place so well for him. We now have a little less than a year before he graduates, time seems to be flying!

To cover it all (condensed?)!

2011-03-21T10:19:00.000-07:00

This is going to be as brief as I can make it, I'm just going to point out the major events. I'm going to start at Halloween!! I know, how many months ago was that?

HALLOWEEN

Taylor started developing this hobby where he would make all kinds ofcakes! I was really impressed, and he really enjoyed doing this! (And I really enjoyed eating the cakes)

THANKSGIVING

This was our families first Thanksgiving dinner with no one but our little family. We miss all our extended familly, but we had a nice time together.

Look closely at Taylor's ear in this picture. Thanksgiving day, our Elder's Quorum had a turkey bowl (football, for those like me who didn't know what that meant:)). He ended up getting a concussion, and got his ear ripped slightly, to the point where he needed stitches! He decided not to go to the hospital, he just used steri-strips instead and fixed it!

While I'm talking about Taylor's injuries...toward the end of January, Taylor was playing basketball after Mutual, and he slipped and broke his arm! My poor husband... He also has lower back problems, and he pulled a major muscle in his leg recently (which still hasn't healed). I feel so bad for him, I told him he's not allowed to play sports any more at least until he's done with school! We'll see if he listens to me...

MY DAD'S VISIT

My dad came and visited in early December, we had a really nice time! He sure spoiled us all:)

He took us to the "real" Santa in NY at Macey's. It was a blast, this picture was awesome of Tyson! Poor guy, he didn't like Santa much.

CHRISTMAS

We had a wonderful Christmas!! It was nice to have Taylor home for school break.

Yes, my husband IS Hott Spiderman!

MY MOM'S VISIT

My little sister, Hannah, and my mom came to visit right after Christmas! It was so much fun, we also went into NY City and had a blast.

SNOW, SNOW, AND MORE SNOW!

We had snow storm after snow storm that lasted for weeks and weeks, it would dump 2 to 3 feet of snow, and then a few days later, it would dump another couple feet of snow, then it would go maybe about a week and dump 18 inches more! This continued for SOOOO long. I absolutely love snow, but this was kinda ridiculous! The piles of plowed and shoveled snow were so high, that when it would snow again, there would be no where to put the new load. As beautiful as it was, I've really been craving spring!

TYSON'S BIRTHDAY #2 !

On February 4th, sweet Tyson turned 2! I can't believe my baby is now a toddler. It's crazy how time flies. He still has his red hair, he still loves to cuddle and beat up his big brother, he is starting to put words together to make small sentences, he loves to color, and snuggle his stuffed animals. We love you Tyson!

Taylor's still doing really well in school. The program is getting more intense, and he's busier, but he's handling it all nicely. He now gets to be on call a few times per month on top of clinicals, studying, and classes (and church callings, and injuries! :) ). He's doing well, and I'm very proud of him and his hard work!

Family Pics and Autumn in CT

2010-11-30T10:38:00.000-08:00

Sorry Babe, I just had to :)

Thanks Matt and Jen for taking our family pics this year!

The autumn here is absolutely gorgeous! These pictures don't even show just how beautiful it is. Since we are constantly surrounded by trees, it's quite breathtaking when the leaves change color. I wish I could have gotten even better pictures.

Out our back door.

The view from our balconly.

Yup, it's that time again

2010-11-30T06:54:00.000-08:00

Time for me to blog again! So, I need to backtrack a little...

Around the end of August, Taylor had a bit of a break between semesters, so we flew to Utah for the first time since moving out here, and visited some family. It was really fun! Taylor was about to start a very busy semester, so we decided it would work out really well for me to stay at my mom’s for a few more weeks after Taylor flew back home so he could get a hang of his schedule and have some non-interrupted study time at home, while not having to worry about us. We knew that we wouldn’t be going back to Utah for another visit for a really long time, so we figured we may as well make it last a little longer. It was so great to spend time with family, but it was also really nice to just let the kids run and be noisy without me worrying about bugging neighbors under us or around us. We had such a wonderful time, both our families were so generous and kind to host us. I’m so glad we went. And then it was so good to be reunited as a family and be with Taylor again.

I really hope I don't offend any family by only posting pictures at my mom's house and my brother Clinton's house. Those were the only times I remembered to take any pictures!

My sister's friend brought his horse over one day and the kids went nuts over him.

They didn't really ride him, just sat on him happily.

Caden all geared up for the trampoline with the sprinklers on.

My cute sister, Hannah.

My cute mom.

Tyson loved the unripe tomatoes from the garden.

The sniper in the garden.

My brother Clinton and Kylee's baby boy, Maddox. He's so adorable.

Cute boy in the car on the trip home from Clinton's.

This was one of the highlights of Cadens trip, my mom's jetted bath tub. He thought he was in a hot tub, and was more excited about this than the horse.

Lately....

2010-08-17T11:51:00.000-07:00

I thought I should probably update what has been going on here lately. First of all, my dad came and visited us for a few days when we got back from our vacation in May. He was the first family to come visit, and it was really fun! I feel bad that I completely spaced taking pictures with him, so I'll just have to write about it. We took him to Boston for a day and we played at the beach, ate some good clam chowder and lobster, and visited the oldest lighthouse in the Nation. Then we took him to New York City and went on top of the Empire State building and visited Ground Zero both for the first time. Then he took us to Korea Town there and showed us which Korean food is good to order (SO yummy), and we went through Times Square for a while, it was a great day! Then we made Dowse chocolate chip cookies and sang and played the piano for a while (traditions :) ) I'm so glad he came and visited, we had a blast!

Then, at the end of July we had more family come and visit! Taylor's brother Jason and his wife Becky and their kids Joshua and Breanna came and visited for a few days, it was really fun! We hadn't seen them for over three years, it was really good to catch up. And once again, I didn't take pictures of our time with them, what is my deal? Anyway, we had a great time in New York City as well, we road the Stanton Island ferry to see the Statue of Liberty, we went into the Hershey's store, the M & M's store, the Nintendo store, and the LEGO's store. They were awesome, as were other things around Times Square that we saw. We ate at China Town and it was very good as well! We went to the beach for a while and had fun there. It was sad to see them go, Caden really bonded himself to Joshua. Joshua is 12 and Caden wanted to be just like him. When Joshua walked with his hands in his pockets, Caden had to do it too, it was pretty sweet. We are glad they came and visited us!

Taylor has been doing really well this semester, and tomorrow is his last day of his second semester! He's been a little busier this semester as he's started doing clinical rotations, and next semester he will be even busier, he said that he will start DOING epidurals by himself for the first time! That starts in less than 2 weeks. And he will have evening classes after he gets home from clinicals, which means there will be less available time for him to study. It's getting quite intense. But I'm so proud of him and how he's handled everything, he is such a good student, it might be stressful, but he will do well.

Here are some updated pictures of the kiddos!

Here's some 4th of July pics, we went to a fireworks display at the mall parking lot.

Well, at least one of them is smiling:)

To top it off, I'd like to end with a rendition of "Stayin' Alive" by Caden Corry:) Enjoy!

"Cougar"

2010-08-17T11:23:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures of Cougar with the kids.

As you can see Tyson is not scared of him at all! (Sorry he is only in a diaper in some pictures and videos...)

In fact, they are pretty good friends...and sometimes a little TOO good of friends:) Tyson loves to share his drinks and food with him, which means that I have to watch him really close to make sure he doesn't give him something he shouldn't have.

The kids really love to cuddle with him, he's a very wrinkley lazy dog, and he'll get more lazy as he gets older, which will be nice for me (hopefully that means less work!).

Rockin' Tyson

2010-08-11T06:59:00.000-07:00

Tyson and Caden wanted to dance and play their toy guitar today, and I just HAD to post this one.

The ending was so unexpected... don't worry no major injuries:)

Palmyra

2010-07-05T20:00:00.000-07:00

So, I never did finish posting about our family vacation in May! After we went to Cooperstown (the Baseball Hall of Fame), we then headed up to Palmyra, New York to see some church history sites. We were all really excited for this trip because neither of us had ever been there.
The first place we went to was the Joseph Smith family farm. This is the Joseph Smith family cabin replica.

Us inside the cabin.

The farm and the Sacred Grove in the background.
This picture is really neat, it's of the Palmyra Temple taken from the Joseph Smith farm.
We learned that when they buildt this temple, they put glass windows inside that look out at the Sacred Grove. And they cut through the trees here so that you could actually see the Grove.

Here is the Sacred Grove!!

It was quite the spiritual experience and so peaceful just walking through it as a family.

The next place we went to was the Hill Cumorah. This is the hill from the freeway.

This is taken from the top of the hill.

This is also from the top of the Hill Cumorah, the monument was really nice.

This is the LDS chapel that is between the Sacred Grove and the temple. I just thought it was pretty neat looking.

Next we went to the Book of Mormon publishing building. This is one of the rooms they first published the Book of Mormon. We had such a good experience in Palmyra! I'm so glad we were able to go, it was really fun, we learned alot, the kids did quite well, and it was just nice to actually be there and see things with our own eyes that we've only seen pictures of or read about. Definitely worthwhile!

ESPN!!

2010-07-05T12:04:00.000-07:00

So, Taylor had this rare opportunity to take a tour of ESPN, which is only about an hour from where we live. He absolutely loved it, he said it was really awesome. Yes! It is actually Taylor in this picture of Sports Center!! Doesn't he look so natural sitting in those famous seats?!

While I'm talking about Taylor, I just wanted to say how great of a dad he is! I know it's not Father's Day anymore, but here is my Father's Day post! I've posted this picture before, but I love it of these three cute boys.

They sure love it when he plays with them.

And smushes them with pillows.

And poses in their cowboy hats.

And makes them DELICIOUS breakfast omlets.

As busy as he is, I love that he tries to spend lots of time with Caden and Tyson and they sure enjoy that time, thanks for being such a great dad!!

Happy Birthday Caden!

2010-06-18T16:12:00.000-07:00

(I don't know why it's posting as Friday the 18th since I posted this Sunday the 20th morning... oh well.) Caden turned four on Tuesday! We had a joint party at a park on Monday with two of his friends who also turn four this month. Then on Tuesday he opened presents and played with his new toys and the wii all day, and when Taylor got home we all made his dragon birthday cake. Then on Saturday, we took him to the movie Toy Story 3, that was really fun.

Caden is such a sweet boy, I can't believe he is four already. It's amazing to think about how fragile his life was when he was born, and to look at him now so healthy and enjoying life! What a miracle, we sure love you Caden!!

Baseball Hall of Fame

2010-06-06T10:48:00.000-07:00

So, Taylor made it through his first semester! He did really well, got good grades, and I'm really proud of him. He had about 2 weeks off before his next semester started, so we decided to take a family vacation and see some places that we've always wanted to see. We were really excited to have some fun family time. We started with Cooperstown, New York where the Baseball Hall of Fame is. Taylor was WAY excited for this place, he's always dreamed of going there and we live only 4 hours away.

This is the drive there, I just wanted to show how green and foresty (is that a word?) it is out here.

This is right in front of the Hall of Fame.

This is kind of random, but it's called the "holy cow". Caden really wanted me to take a picture of it.

Taylor had fun showing Caden everything. The kids did suprisingly well through it all, I even enjoyed it!! It was a lot more interesting than I thought it would be, and I really don't know anything about baseball:)

I'm probably not going to do the description of these pictures justice, but these are the Chicago Cubs' (Taylor's favorite baseball team) original jersey and glove.

This one is great. It's the 756th ball Bary Bonds hit, to break Hank Aaron's all-time homerun record. The story behind the asterisk is that the kid that caught the ball sold it to a sports collector who then held an online auction asking what he should do with the ball. Fans could vote for him to either keep the ball for his own collection, send the ball to the hall of fame in its original state, or mark the ball with an asterisk (Barry Bonds is accused of using steroids and many fans don't think he deserves to own the homerun record) and then send it to the hall of fame. Well as you can see the asterisk won out, and so here it is proudly displayed for all to see.

This is the locker dedicated to the Cubs. Taylor really wanted to get pictures of it. The uniform is Greg Maddox's (according to Taylor one of the best pitchers to ever play) and the locker is full of various memorabilia that apparently means something to Taylor:-)

Easter

2010-04-23T12:36:00.000-07:00

Be sure to read on after this post, there's more! We had a good Easter this year. We just spent it at home as a family, nothing too fancy, but we had fun! Caden really got into the egg decorating this time. We had a small Easter egg hunt and the Easter Bunny came and brought him and Tyson a basket of candy.

And Taylor also got into the egg decorating :-)

Happy Easter!!

My Boys

2010-04-23T12:21:00.000-07:00

I'm posting a ton of pictures of my family, but they are just so cute, I had to share it with everyone! Here are just a few pictures of my boys. Caden and Tyson LOVE their daddy. Whenever he comes home from school they both bolt to the door and jump in his arms.

The "serious" look. (Can you tell Cade's trying to make a serious face? :) )

These two rascals are now at a point where they can play together and they NEVER fight! hahahaha, I wish :)

As challenging as it is at times, I sure love motherhood!

Caden

2010-04-23T11:59:00.000-07:00

I haven't posted pictures of just my kids in a while, and I think they've been growing and changing a lot lately. Caden's had a blast here in Connecticut so far I think. He's made some really good friends. We've started Joyschool a little while ago with a few people in our ward. It's kind of like a preschool, but us moms switch off teaching the kids, and Caden REALLY loves it, and I think it's great for him. He's learning a lot and having fun. Anyway, here are some updated pictures of our Cadester!

Tyson

2010-04-23T11:10:00.000-07:00

Here are some updated pictures of our sweet Tyson. He is growing up so fast, it's fun to see him doing things that I remember Caden used to do. Yet he's a lot different too, he's definitely our cuddler. He'll just come up to you and give you a soft hug and lay his head on your shoulder for a minute and then he's on his way again. Then he'll be back a few minutes later to do the same thing, it's sweet. But his favorite thing to do right now is climb. If I hear him laughing really hard somewhere, it usually means he's climbed up on something that he probably shouldn't have, I've had to watch him really carefully lately!

The End!

Boston

2010-03-31T11:32:00.000-07:00

I'm not really sure why, but our Ward is assigned to the Boston, Massachusetts Temple even though we are much closer to the Manhattan, New York Temple. So, for Spring Break we decided to take a little vacation and go up to Boston for a couple days. We had never been to Boston before so it was a fun opportunity to explore it a little. We went with our two families of friends from Utah that are here for school with Taylor, which was fun and made it possible for us to even attend the temple. (We switched off babysitting all the kids.) I can't believe, however, that I didn't even think to take a picture of the temple and it was the main reason that we even went to Boston, oh well:)

Taylor was really excited to see the Fenway Stadium as we drove by so we took a picture with our phone while we were driving.

We went to a big aquarium in Boston which was actually really cool and the kids loved it. They had penguins, sharks, jellyfish, seals, and all sorts of fishes.

Taylor says that he would love to own a jellyfish some day. I don't know when, but we'll probably get one. He's really serious about it. I really like how they look, but ever since I saw the movie "seven pounds", I've been a little creeped out about them:)

We want to go back again and see a lot of the historical sites next time. This is Caden and Addison. They sure had fun!

The Beach!

2010-03-16T14:41:00.001-07:00

When it's pretty good weather (not raining or snowing) we like to go to the beach and play. It's nice because it's only about 15 minutes away. Caden loves to collect sea shells and Tyson loves to swing (yes, there's swing-sets on the beach!), and Taylor and I love to relax and let the kids run around and use up energy that's been so pent up. So, here are some pictures of us at the beach!

Too much sugar?

2010-03-11T13:34:00.000-08:00

Valentine's Broadway!

2010-03-11T12:56:00.000-08:00

For Taylor and my Valentines celebration, we decided to go to a broadway musical in New York. We saw the Phantom of the Opera, and it was awesome! Ever since I was a little girl, I wanted to go to New York Broadway and see the Phantom, so I was really excited. Especially the fact that Taylor was excited to go to Broadway too, made it even better. I'm not sure he enjoyed it as much as I did, but it was really sweet of him to take me to it.
We decided to try out the train system for the first time so we didn't have to drive in New York, and we are so glad we did. It wasn't too expensive, and it took us right to the heart of New York City. It was great. Time Square was basically on our walk to the Majestic Theater. Yes, that's me in the picture, it was pretty windy.

This is Taylor at the Grand Central Station, I just recently got a new camera, because, if you can't tell, my old camera was not working very well, I think it was going out on me for quite a while, so that's why Taylor is glowing in the picture.

We were only allowed to take pictures during intermission, but here is the Majestic Theater. We had a really good time, it was a great experience I'm glad we went!

The Apartment

2010-02-22T11:43:00.000-08:00

Here are some pictures of the inside of our apartment. This is definitely NOT to show off my decorating skills, since I have none, but we just wanted people to have a picture in their minds of where we are living. One interesting thing about the area is that they don't put ceiling lights in the rooms. We had to buy 3 lamps just to have some sort of light.

Yes, that is Taylor's foot on the floor, he was trying to avoid being in the picture so he quickly dove to the ground:)

The Campus

2010-02-22T11:02:00.000-08:00

Here are some pictures of the Campus at Fairfield University. Some of the buildings are really cool, and the campus is very pretty, we keep hearing from tons of people how awesome it is in Spring when all the trees start blooming.

The Nurse Anesthetist building.

A very cool building.

This is the path they take to the Library to study. There were squirrels everywhere, and wild turkeys and Canadian Geese. So, besides the Bridgeport Hospital, this is where my husband lives most of the time!

The Tyger Turns One!!

2010-02-14T05:57:00.000-08:00

Well we can't believe it but our littlest guy has just turned one. It is amazing how fast time flies. It seems like he was just taking his first cry in an operating room in Utah thinking that we would be living in Spanish Fork for another 18 months or more, and now here we are a year later on the other side of the country!! How funny life can be. So here are a few pictures to celebrate the event. Taylor's dad started the tradition of making the first birthday cake for the kids before turning the duties over to his mother. Taylor has kept up the tradition in our family and has really looked forward to doing it for the kids. He was a little worried that he wouldn't be able to this year because of how busy school has been keeping him, but in the end he was able to squeeze it in. He decided to go with the pirate ship for Tyson and it really turned out cute. I think he did an amazing job. I really want him to do all the birthday cakes in our family, but I'm still trying to convince him!

Like most families we made a bigger cake for friends and family to eat, and then a little cake just for Tyson to dig into. The plan is easy in theory -- strip Tyson out of his clothes so that he can dig into his cake with both hands, smear it all over his face and body, and basically just have a ball. So here is his cake...

...And here is Tyson after he had had his fun. I don't know what it is about our kids but neither one of them have really gotten a good grasp as to what this game entails. We put the cake in front of him, got out the cameras to get some good footage of him just pigging out, and all he would do is dab his finger in it! He just never really got into it, so here is the finished product. You can tell that he just loved the cake, right.

At least he was happy to open presents. He has such an awesome smile, and a really cute personality that is starting to show through quite a bit. We are glad he was in such a good mood for his birthday, he had been sick for a good 4 or 5 days before it, so any smile at all was greatly appreciated. He had a good time opening presents, but Cade had an even better time. Cade was more than willing to open everything up for him by using the excuse that he was teaching Tyson how. It was fun.

It was hard to decide what to get Ty for his birthday. He already has all the clothes and toys he needs, and we couldn't think of anything else so we ended up just getting him a few toys from the grandmas and grandpas, and then a new car seat. I love it when they can finally turn around in the car and face forward! Anyway in the end it really didn't matter what we got him because his favorite thing to play with when all was said and done was...you guessed it, the plastic covering that came with the toy. Why do we even try? :-)

Happy birthday Tyson, We love you!

Our new home!

2010-01-28T11:49:00.000-08:00

Yes, we have made it to Connecticut!! We arrived in Trumbull safe and sound after a very long road trip that lasted 7 days! There were ups and downs of course: the truck breaking down, the weather, sicknesses, but thankfully the kids were happy in their car seats for the most part, my mom and Hannah came along and helped with driving and keeping kids happy, and we stopped in Omaha, Nebraska for a day (where I grew up). That was really fun, I hadn't been there since I lived there 12 years ago. It was also nice to see the Winter Quarters temple for the first time ever. Needless to say, we were very exhausted and happy to be in our new apartment when we finally arrived.

It is so different here in so many ways. It is beautiful, though, there are so many trees everywhere you go, in fact our apartment complex is set in a grove of trees. I've heard that it is quite stunning in the Spring and Fall seasons when the trees have bloomed. We are so close to the ocean shore, we've driven by many times, the sunsets are amazing. I love driving through the neighborhoods because the houses are so cool! They're really nice old fashioned styles. One thing that we are going to have to get used to is how expensive it is here. Holy Cow!! We live in Fairfield County and we learned that it is the most expensive and the richest county in the Nation! BUT, Bridgeport (our neighbor city) is 6th in the Nation for poverty (and used to be 6th in the Nation for crime). So, there is obviously a lot of diversity too. We love our new ward, it consists of about 5 different cities, and everyone is so welcoming and nice. It's also been really nice to have some friends out here, too. We have two families from Utah starting the program also, so the husbands car-pool and study together and the kids and I have friends. It's nice to not feel completely alone while Taylor will be so busy.

We went to New York the other day, it only took us an hour and a half to drive to the Statue of Liberty! That was our first time ever being in New York City, it was nuts for Taylor to drive in, but we want to go again sometime soon (maybe after figuring out the train system), there are so many things that would be fun to see, and I can't believe we live so close.

Taylor has been enjoying school so far, he was pretty anxious to start and now that he has started he's been doing really well, and is liking his classes and learning alot. Taylor amazes me with how good of a student he is, he really enjoys school and learning. And now that he is learning how to do what he will be doing for the rest of his life, it's a lot more motivating and fun for him to learn.

This was only a small update, I feel like we have been going non-stop for a while. Sorry if this was boring, I will post a bunch of pictures really soon!!

Santa!

2009-12-17T11:23:00.000-08:00

So, Santa Clause came to storytime yesterday, and Caden was so excited to see him so that he could ask him for what he wanted for Christmas. I think he was a little too excited, because as soon as he sat on his lap, Santa asked him how old he was and if he's been a good boy this year, and Caden just started saying, "legos batman, fingerpaints, (etc.)..." It was pretty cute.
In this past month, Caden and Tyson have been having a blast wrestling with each other, Tyson's been walking all over the place and is starting to scoot a little on his tummy, and Taylor and I have been keeping busy preparing for the big move, and we've also done a few big projects. One of them was helping Taylor's family paint the inside of their mom's house. She decided to have it be two-toned. I'm not very experienced in painting walls, but it was fun and I learned alot. We did the upstairs, then later we did the downstairs. This is Taylor publically expressing his love for me (hahaha!) with the leftover paint from the upstairs walls. Obviously this happened before the walls were done being painted. : )

I can't believe that we leave Utah in 11 days!! Where is the time going? And can you believe Christmas is in just 8 days? We are pretty excited!

What? Walking? Crawling is apparently overrated!

2009-11-05T11:51:00.000-08:00

CAUTION: Caden is awesome with camera. (You'll have to turn your head sideways to watch this video:-) ) Actually I was quite proud him. He kept Tyson in the picture the whole time. Oh, and PLEASE ignore my annoying, overreaction of excitement at the end of it.

Tyson turned 9 months old yesterday, and has still made no attempt to crawl. However, for quite a while he has been holding on to our fingers and "walking" everywhere. He is not often happy when we sit him down to play with toys, he just wants your fingers so he can stand up and walk. It's cute how he thinks he is so big and I guess it makes sense since everyone he sees is walking, not crawling.

Well last Monday, Taylor and I had him walk by himself in between us, and he took a bunch of steps all by himself, and with pretty good balance!! We were so excited!

Our Halloween

2009-11-01T21:02:00.000-08:00

We had a fun Halloween this year. It was nice because Taylor didn't have to work so he could come trick or treating with us. Caden gets to spend a lot of time with some of his cousins because they live so close, so we all went trick-or-treating together. We just hit the houses around the neighborhood that Taylor went to as a kid and it was really fun. Caden came home with a bucket full of candy so he wasn't complaining either.

This is Tyson giving us his best growl. We thought it appropriate to dress him up as a tiger as we have called him the "tyger" since he was born.

Caden decided to go as an elephant this year. We found a costume for him at Costco which turned out to be a little small. He took it all in stride and was more than happy to don the grey socks. It ended up being really cute with his big fat elephant suit and then two skinny little legs holding it up. It drew more than one smile as we would run into people we knew. Caden did really good with the trick or treating this year. He walked the whole time and never complained about being too tired. He just kept saying "one more house" and never wanted to stop. In fact the only complaint he had the entire time was right close to the end he grabbed my hand and asked me to carry him. When I asked why he just looked up and as innocent as could be said, "because my wedgie is starting to hurt." I figured that was a valid excuse :-)

Taylor's birthday was the 1st of October and one of the activities he wanted to do was bake a cake as a family activity. We had so much fun. We asked Caden what kind of cake we should make and he decided he wanted a Mario cake. So we went to work. It took us hours to make, cut, fit together, and frost, but the finished product was worth it. It turned out really well and we were really happy with it, so we thought we would post a picture here.

It has been a month full of fun things in the Corry house, and this may have been the topper. Taylor's mom got her mission call!! For those of you who didn't know, Taylor's mom has been preparing for a mission and has waited a while for the call to finally come. Well it is here and she is proud to announce that she will be serving a full-time mission at the family history center in Salt Lake City. She is so excited, and we are excited for her. Thanks Virginia for being such a great example for our kids!!!

Hair, Teeth, and Blue Eggs

2009-10-05T15:28:00.000-07:00

Okay! I have a lot of catching up to do, so first of all please forgive me, and second, please read on!
About a month ago, we went to the zoo with Taylor's sister Becky and her family. It was a lot of fun, this is a picture of Caden, Tyson, and their cousins sitting on some statues of tigers, it was amazing that we got a shot of all five of them contained in one area! They have lots of fun and lots of energy!

Some of these pictures may not be the best quality because I took them with my phone, but what's important is that I got a picture of my two little Cougars all excited for the big game!! yeah, we like BYU Saturdays!

Tyson makes the cutest and funniest faces sometimes, I just had to add these two pictures as I caught the moment.

You may be wondering about the title of this post, so here is the explanation: I finally broke down and decided it was okay to give Tyson a haircut for the first time. I love the color of Tyson's hair and I have been somewhat paranoid that his hair may change to either brown or blonde as he grows, and so I never wanted to cut any of it off. But I was finally convinced to trim at least the extremely long wisps around his ears as long as I could save the hair in a ziplock bag. So I did, I know I'm kind of pathetic. Anyway, this is our adorable 8 month old after his "haircut". You can barely even tell the difference! So I'm happy.

We had a hard time getting him to smile for the picture because he didn't really like the haircutting process, so this was the happiest we could get.

This is him showing off his four new teeth. He likes to grind them and it's kinda noisy. I hope it's not bad for his teeth!

And this is Caden last night. He wanted a bed time snack and he asked for eggs. So Taylor asked him "What color do you want? Yellow or white?" Meaning scrambled or non scrambled. And Caden said he wanted blue. So Taylor decided to use food coloring and make him some blue eggs, and this was the gourmet result. However, it was kind of weird looking and Caden decided not to eat them after all that work, Oh well! Thanks babe, I thought they tasted good:)

Anesthesia!!

2009-08-09T21:08:00.000-07:00

So it's official!!! Taylor got accepted to Nurse Anesthetist school in Fairfield Connecticut and we've decided to go!! We'll probably leave in December sometime because school starts in January. We are a little nervous but really excited at the same time for this new adventure. And here are some fun updated family pictures taken by Tynelle, (thanks again Tynelle) she does such a good job. Anyway, yay Taylor!! I'm so proud of him, he's worked so hard to get here!

We're back!!

2009-07-13T13:12:00.000-07:00

A lot has happened since the last time I posted! Most importantly, our sweet little Caden had a big birthday!! He turned three years old on the 15th of June. It was really fun celebrating his birthday this year since he's actually old enough to understand what's going on. We are so grateful to have Caden in our family, he is such a wonderful boy and has been a great blessing in our lives. This is the first time I've tried to add a video to the blog, I hope it works, (it's at the bottom of the post) Caden was really cute singing happy birthday to himself as he was waiting to blow out his candles so he could eat his cake, hope you enjoy! These pictures are in a random order, but I wanted to show off my three cute guys!!
This is Taylor and I trying our first tomatoes from our garden! They were so delicious, and we're also getting lots of zuchini squash, yay!! We're so glad that it worked :)

An update on our lives right now: We're in the middle of getting graduate school figured out for January, we still don't know what's going to happen yet, so were waiting and trying to prepare right now. Tyson is about 18 lbs at 5 months old (which, funny enough, is as much as Caden weighed when he turned one year old!) and he just rolled over for the first time a few days ago, pretty exciting. We call him Tyson the tiger because he growels so much, it's cute! Caden still has so much energy and is suprising us every day with his vocabulary and loves to sing alot. He makes me laugh so much. Yesterday we told him that we're going to church so he needs to go put on some "nice" cloths, and he just looked at us and said, "but I want to put on some mean cloths!" hahaha!

The fruits of our labor. It's been fun to actually get something out of our garden.

Gardening!

2009-06-03T07:41:00.000-07:00

As some of you know, we're renting our house right now, so we're not here longterm and we're going to graduate school hopefully in January. However, we really wanted to try and have a garden for this summer. Neither of us have ever gardened before and we wanted to try just for fun, so my talented husband built these boxes and did all this landscaping and we planted some tomatoes, squash, peppers, strawberries and flowers. We really have no idea what we're doing, so we may never get any veggies from it, but at least we had the experience and maybe we'll learn what to do better when we have our own house someday.

Taylor has worked so hard to get our yard looking good, he really enjoys it, and as you can see Caden wants to be just like him. He followed Taylor around the entire backyard and frontyard just mowing along beside him, it was so cute!

So, Caden has been trying to refuse his naps lately and as a result this is what happens when we tell him to sit down for dinner! Yes, he honestly just fell asleep trying to get in his seat it was so funny!! ( I promise that my child DOES wear cloths sometimes, I know that a lot of the pictures I post are of him without a shirt on, after he eats anything he usually takes it off because he got it dirty or wet while eating and I can never get him to put it back on! Should I go back to putting a bip on him at almost 3 years old??!?)

Tyson's Blessing

2009-05-07T12:30:00.000-07:00

As you can see, Tyson is growing a lot and his big brother loves him so much! Life here has been wonderful, Taylor recently got hired on to doing only night shifts now, which will be fine, a little rough on his sleeping schedule but it will work out okay because he prefers the night shift over the day shift anyway. He says the atmosphere is better and he's not running all over the place. He'll work 6 nights in a row and then have 8 days off in a row, then 6 on, 8 off, etc...we're excited! It should be good. Taylor took the GRE test and was happy with his score, now he's filling out applications, getting references, and other preparations, so...keeping busy!
Tyson was blessed by Taylor last Sunday, and it went really well!

Seeing as it's close to Mother's Day, I thought I'd point out that Taylor's mother and my mother were both able to be there, we sure appreciate and love them both, they are wonderful!

This was my first attempt at crocheting something other than a blanket or scarf, I think it turned out okay, but wow, Tyson has been growing so fast, I was afraid he wouldn't fit in it by the time we blessed him. I think the pants were supposed to be "pant length", and they only went down to his knees! Oh well, it was still fun and he is still cute!!

Smiles!

2009-04-06T13:42:00.000-07:00

Things are going well for us in the Corry household, Taylor just finished a Statistics class he's been taking online (a requirement for graduate school), and he did really well! Now he's busy studying for the GRE test that he'll be taking at the end of this month (another requirement for graduate school). So, obviously we are busy getting ready to apply for graduate school soon. We're hoping to be able to get in somewhere that starts in January. We have about six different schools we're applying for.

Another exciting thing that's happened in the last little while is that Tyson is now smiling!! Yeah!! Here's a cute picture of his sweet smile, I can't believe how big he is already!!

My two sweet boys!

2009-03-21T12:12:00.000-07:00

There is no particular order to these random pictures, you'll have to bear with me because I've posted a lot of them!!
Here is our hansome Caden in his new Sunday suit, he'll wear it for Easter for sure!!

Yeah, smile it up kid

Tyson, so content in Daddy's arms

Caden has been wanting to do EVERYTHING by himself lately including putting his belt on,

He's especially good at matching his cloths!

Tyson is six weeks old now, I still can't believe how fast the time is going, it has been really fun, life is sweet and we are all adjusting very well now.

Caden took this picture of Tyson, I think he actually did a pretty good job!

Here's our BYU stud, I know football season is over, but our family really gets into March Madness, and we all (including Caden and Tyson) filled out brackets this year! Even though BYU went out quickly, we are still having fun competing against each other. Tyson and I are winning in our brackets so far!!

So, Tyson has RED hair. These pictures don't show it very well, but in our opinions it is quite red, especially in the sun. When Caden was born, his hair was slightly red as well, but it quickly lightened up to blonde. So far, Tyson's hair hasn't made any attempt to change, I think it would be fun if it stayed that color, I guess we'll have to see!

So Fast!

2009-02-28T13:56:00.000-08:00

Time has gone by so fast since Tyson was born. I can't believe how fast they grow when they are so little. He has already gained over a pound.

Life has been wonderful, (and tiring at times) but we have definitely been counting our blessings.

Our very talented neighbor, Tynelle, has taken these pictures of Tyson when he was one week old.

You would think she had a studio or something, but she just took them in about 10 minutes while I was at her house one time and they turned out so well!

Pictures of the "Tyger"

2009-02-09T09:49:00.000-08:00

Here he is!

Caden absolutely loves him, always asking to hold him and wanting to kiss him as you can see. Tyson is such a sweet baby, we are so grateful for how smoothly everything went. We are home now and enjoying just being home and relaxing (well, I guess as much relaxing as a two-year-old will allow!). It has been really fun! We've had a lot of help offered by family and friends, thanks guys! My wonderful husband took work off for almost 2 weeks, it's so great to have him here!

Tyson Eugene!!

2009-02-06T12:42:00.000-08:00

Hey guys, sorry for the quick post, and the lack of pictures, but I just wanted to write a quick note and let you all know that Tyson Eugene was born on Feb 4th. and everything went really well, much to our relief. Liz is still in the hospital and should be home sometime tomorrow, hopefully. She is still in some pain, but otherwise doing very well. Having a new little baby isn't hurting things at all :-) Tyson is doing very well, and hasn't given half the excitement that Caden gave us 2 years ago (thank goodness). It has really gone well and we feel very blessed. We will post some pictures once we get home, but in the meantime for those of you who have been checking up on us waiting for news, just know that all went well!!!

The sun'll come out, tomorrow!!

2009-02-03T13:04:00.000-08:00

We are having a baby tomorrow morning!! We are having another C-section. Apparently there is a chance of the same complications I had with Caden to happen in other pregnancies of mine if I were to go into labor. For those of you who don't know, with Caden, I was six hours into labor when my placenta abrupted and we had an emergency C-section and Caden lost almost all his blood, he needed six blood transfusions, CPR and had to be life-flighted to St. George to the NICU and was there for a whole week (Taylor went with him). I wasn't able to hold Caden until a few days later since I was still recovering in Cedar City. It is a complete miracle that Caden is not only alive but made a complete and full recovery, we've been very blessed. So! We're just going to avoid it all this time, and I am very excited about that! They're going to give me an epidural, which means that I'll be able to be awake this time during the procedure!

I'll try to post pictures and updates as soon as I can! I've been asked to measure my waist line before and after, so, whether you care or not, here it is: today my waist measures 42 1/2 inches. I'll let you know what tomorrow's measurements are when I update on everything else!

Blending fun!

2009-01-19T19:55:00.000-08:00

We are absolutely loving our new Blend Tec that Taylor's mom gave to us for Christmas. We had no idea how cool it was when we first got it, but since we've been experimenting with it and reading the recipe book, we realized this is like a blender on steroids!!

It can puree baby foods, make icecream, make and heat up soups, fondues, grind wheat into flour (good use of our food storage!) and do tons more things! We have been making breakfasts, lunches, dinners, snacks, and deserts nonstop just with this blender, super awesome! Thanks so much Virginia, we feel so spoiled!!

This is Caden all geared up and excited for his yummy milkshake daddy is making for him.

And these are just pictures that I couldn't help but post on here because I thought they were cute.

Caden's personality has made Taylor and I laugh so much lately. His vocabulary is just soaring and it's so fun to see him learn so much. I can't wait to see his reaction to having a baby brother. I hope he does well. Today I am 37 weeks along, which means I am considered FULL TERM, yikes! I can't believe how fast the time has gone by, I am really excited but pretty nervous, too. Not only am I nervous about having a safe delivery and a healthy baby, but I want so badly to be a good mother to both of my boys, I hope I can do it! It will be such a great adverture, right?

Long Time No See

2009-01-13T13:31:00.000-08:00

Well I figured that I have given you all a good enough break of us, and figure that now is as good a time as any to bore you with more pictures of us. It has been awhile, and we haven't even posted about Christmas so let me go back a bit and catch you up.

This Christmas was really fun. It was the first Christmas that Caden even had somewhat of a clue as to what was going on, and that made him really excited for Christmas to come. Though he didn't fully understand it, it did give us a look into what it might be like next year for him, and that has Mom and Dad pretty excited now. Anyway, as you can see he got his first bike, which he was really excited about. What you may not see is that the bike is a BYU cougar bike. Which obviously Liz picked out, and simply couldn't pass up, because of her love for the cougars :-)

We have tried to start a few of our own traditions around the Christmas holiday, and since Taylor was supposed to work both Christmas Eve and Christmas this year, which meant we wouldn't be traveling to far away places to visit family, we would spend the time together with our new traditions. We have always done the traditional ride around looking at christmas lights while drinking hot chocolate, but we have decided that it would be fun to build a snowman on Christmas day as a family (weather permitting of coarse). So this is this years creation. Caden named him Frosty (after his new favorite cartoon), but he didn't help build him at all (I think he was having too much fun watching his dad and eight months pregnant mom trying with all of their might to put this thing together). Oh well, maybe next year! We are pretty proud of our accomplishments this year though. Old frosty stood a good 7 feet tall, and in his prime was the envy of the neighborhood. People would stop all the time in front of our house to admire him in all of his glory!!

Anyway, sorry for the gap in posts other than christmas it is just life as usual in the Corry household and we tend to think that that is probably pretty boring for the rest of you. Good luck to all and Happy New Year.

Just like daddy

2008-12-12T15:59:00.000-08:00

We got our family pictures taken by our awesome neighbor, Tynelle, the other day. She is such a talented photographer, thank you Tynelle! She took tons of really good ones, it was tough to decide which was our favorite, but I think it's between this one and the one at the heading of our blog. Can you tell the difference?

Sleepy head

2008-12-12T15:46:00.000-08:00

They sure are precious when they sleep.

Liz-apotamus

2008-11-21T11:38:00.000-08:00

Taylor's been teaching Caden some tricks lately, this one is called "chest-bumps".

Caden loves his baby brother, he likes to give him hugs and kisses, and when he says the prayer he always blesses "baby Tyson", even if we don't remind him to. It's really sweet.

Caden posing like mamma. Every now and then, he'll say that he has a baby in his tummy, too. It's pretty funny.

I really don't like showing pictures of just myself, but I decided I should show the full, as my brother's call me, "Liz-a-potamus", for my friends and family who live farther away and don't see me very often. This is me with a six-month supply of chocolate for, um... the baby. It's truly amazing how strong my cravings have been. At this moment, as I am posting, I'm snacking on chocolate-peanut butter fudge, mmm...yum.

Updates!

2008-11-12T11:25:00.000-08:00

I know, I know. It's been forever. A lot has happened since the last post! One exciting thing is that Caden got to go "trick or treating" for his first time ever! I'm not sure if it was more fun for him to dress up as Curious George and get lot's of candy, or for me to watch his excitement (and cuteness) as he realizes that all this candy that everyone is so generously handing out to him, is for him to keep and eat all to himself! The only sad thing was that Taylor couldn't be there, he had to work that night.

These are some of Caden's friends that we went with, Hallie and Porter. Caden sure likes his friends.

I think this look says it all!

Baby Boy!

2008-10-16T08:34:00.000-07:00

Yes! We can now post again!! Our new laptop arrived just a little bit ago, horray! Anyway, since our last post, we had our mid-pregnancy ultrasound, and found out that we are having another boy! We are really excited. It will be nice because we already have almost everything we need for a boy. That way we don't have to buy much.

Caden absolutely loves the Wii. His favorite game right now is boxing. He is hilarious when he really gets into it! We just had to video tape him the other day, even though he was only in his diaper. It was just so funny!

Let us Explain

2008-09-26T20:03:00.000-07:00

Sorry about the lack of posting lately, Liz is really excited to post some more things, but our computer crashed recently and we are waiting for a new one to arrive, as soon as it does we will go ahead and update everyone on the fun things happening in the Corry house. Until then we hope you are all well.

Kung Fu Caden!

2008-09-17T16:43:00.001-07:00

Our little rascal now has a favorite movie. We decided to try and see if he would do well at the movie theater the other day. We saw Kung Fu Panda (and absolutely loved it!) and he sat through the entire thing! All three of us laughed our heads off, and ever since we went, he's been asking to go see it again. Since he did so well the last time (and since it was the dollar theater), we finally gave in and went and saw it again! Amazingly, he kept in his seat again. Maybe it was just the popcorn...

Official Announcement

2008-09-08T14:03:00.000-07:00

Well I just thought that I would let you all know...that I have officially turned over all blogging responsibilities to Liz. Obviously I have just been too busy, or not creative enough, take your pick. But from here on out Liz is going to be taking over as the official blogger for our family, and I am sure that you all will appreciate that greatly.

The Great Outdoors

2008-08-20T01:07:00.000-07:00

Liz and I had a little free time this week, so we decided that we would head for the great outdoors for a little camping experience. Our good friends Ches and Melissa (along with their daughters came with us). We all had a really good time, especially our dog who couldn't believe he had so much room to run. Seeings as how Ches and I graduated from nursing school in May and passed our boards in June, we felt that it would be a really good idea to put all that stress completely behind us. And what better way to do that then by buring a book that was meant to prepare us for the boards. Amazing what a little "pyrotherapy" can do to ease the troubled mind.

Sleep Over!!

2008-08-09T11:22:00.001-07:00

Sorry for the break in posts, but we just didn't have anything fun going on...until last night. Nate and Derrek came over for a sleepover and did we ever have a blast. We played guitar hero all night, mixed it up with a little smash bros, (Grandma those are Wii games in case you were wondering), and when those got to be a little too much we watched the opening ceremony of the olympics. We really had a great time, and I just wanted to post this to thank Nate and Derrek for coming over. You guys are great!

Happy 24th

2008-07-24T10:21:00.001-07:00

Happy 24th everyone, we sure hope that you are all enjoying it. We took our family to the 24th parade today and I have to say that Caden enjoyed every minute of it, (with the exception of all of the floats that didn't throw candy, the big loud cannon that scared him right of the bat, and the 26 different cities that all felt like they had to put their "royalty" in the SF parade. Other than that he loved it.) He got so much candy that we had to come home and put him straight into the tub so that we could get the 6 inches of sticky off of him. Anyway we had a good time, Liz really enjoyed watching the cheerleaders and Taylor really enjoyed the fact that since we now live in Utah county Cosmo (BYU mascot) gets to be in all of the parades. Happy 24th to everyone out there.

Catching You all Up

2008-07-18T13:18:00.000-07:00

Well, Liz and I have had such a normal week that we have had a hard time coming up with something to post to the blog. So we finally decided that since some of you have never seen the puppy that we bought last month we would put him up. I think that I am the only Corry that really is proud of the fact that I have a dog, so I thought it would be good not to hide him from any of you. So here he is. His name is Dobby. He is about 10 weeks old now and he is a boxer. He is a blast and good with Caden, which is good seeings as Caden's favorite thing to do is tease the dog. Anyway, here are a few pics of him, and no Jason, in the first one he is not doing his business! I know you were wondering.

I Have the Best Wife in the World!!

2008-07-11T14:13:00.000-07:00

Well, it is official. I have the best wife in the world. Liz and I have been talking about changing the look of our upstairs room. It is the room that we mainly use to watch movies and let Caden run around and cause havoc. Well I halfway jokingly threw out the idea of turning it into a BYU room, and decorating it with as much blue and white as possible. I didn't think that she would go for it, but when she didn't shoot it down into a million pieces within the first 3 seconds, and then eventually came around to thinking that she would have fun doing it, I almost began to cry tears of joy. So anyway, before she had a chance to change her mind I ran to the store, bought the paint and had it halfway painted before she woke up the next morning. And now here it is. The room is not quite finished obviously, I am still waiting for some posters and things, but I think that with this you can get the idea of how much fun I have been having since my last post. Go Cougars!!!

Trying Something New!!

2008-07-06T10:36:00.000-07:00

Hi to all of our families and friends. Liz and I have decided that we are going to try something new. Knowing that many of you would like to see more pictures of Caden as he grows, and Liz because she is so cute, (and probably less of Taylor's bald head), we have decided to give this blog thing a try. Please feel free to stop by often and see what is new in our family. We will try our best to keep it as updated as possible. We hope that you like it. Since we have just started we thought we would do a quick slide show of our lives up to this point, and then we will update you from here on out, so we hope you enjoy.

2008-07-03T21:53:00.001-07:00