Boston

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!

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?

Valentine's Broadway!

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

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

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!!

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!