Ashlee

Hi
They did a laporoscopy on Ashlee today. They removed a cyst from one of her ovaries, but that's all they found. they didn't find any endometriosis, which is almost sad, as we hoped they would find it, and remove it, and that was the problem. They are again playing the wait and see game.... please keep them in your prayers.

Wild Ride

Ok, first off, I want to say that I have the best wife in the world!! For my 30th birthday this year, she got me the best gift I have ever had. I got to go to Las Vegas last Saturday and fly a fighter airplane! It started out with a classroom session on the basic maneuvers on how to control the airplane. Then I was suited up in a flight suit, helmet, and parachute and got strapped in. There was a pilot sitting next to me and he handled the take off and landing, but everything else was all me. We flew out above the desert alongside another airplane with another guy who was doing the same thing as me. We got to practice some basic maneuvers and then the dogfighting started. The airplanes were all set up with laser tracking and smoke screens that showed when you hit your opponent. We did 4 "engagements" and I won 2 of them.(Not bad considering the other guy had his pilots license and I don't) I got to do a lot of rolls and loops, and the whole thing was videotaped. The flight lasted about 45 minutes and my stomach really thanked me when we got back on the ground. I guess I can check that one off the Bucket List!

EXCITING NEWS!!!!!

Ok, I'm going to see how many actually read the Taylor Blog by only posting our exciting news here! Yeah, I'm evil!!!


Anyway... the news.........



Being the youngest of the "BIG 5", I take great pleasure in announcing that I'm FINALLY going to be a GRANDMA!!!! Yeah, some time in mid April, right during finals, Jeremy and Rachel are going to have a baby!!! We're pretty excited about it.

We have hopes that Ben and Ashlee aren't far behind. Ashlee is having surgery tomorrow in hopes of correcing what they think is endometriosis, so they are able to have a baby soon, too!!! Please keep them in your prayers, too..

Anyway, had to announce our exciting news!!!

TTYL
Love
Soon to be GRANDMA PEARSON!

Conference Today

HI
If you watched conference today, Jeremy and Rachel were in the audience. During the rest hymn, when it says When in splender he'll descend, then all wickedness will end, Jeremy is in the lower left hand corner and the Call's are next to him. You can see him fairly clear for a little while.

Delrey's Dad

is getting married to Wilma Hardy, Oct. 25th in the Memphis temple. Not sure much more than that except she's 68 and has 3 adopted children. They met online. She's moving to St.George, for the time being, and then they will probably sell both their homes and go from there. Phyllis died the end of Jan. this year... yeah.... anyway... not sure how we feel. Everyone feels they are rushing it, but what can we say........

And the winner is....

Thanks to everyone who voted on Anthony's pictures! He decided that he's going to go with the picture of the rushing water! We're going to get it enlarged to 8x10 and then mat it to 11x14. He'll put it in the contest at the end of the month! I'll keep you posted on how he does!

Anthony needs your vote!

Anthony took these pictures and wants to enter one in an art contest at school! The problem is, he can't decide which one he likes the best! The theme is "WOW!" Which picture do you think is the best? He has a month until he has to turn it in, so we might go a few other places, but these are his top two for now! He took them in Little Cottonwood Canyon.

Pictures of the Against Abuse Shelter Project

Against Abuse Shelter

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20134369&BRD=1817&PAG=461&dept_id=68561&rfi=8

Hi
I was privledged to help with an amazing project, off and on for about 3 year. I spent 3 days recently, helping decorate and clean, the actual shelter. Our ward donated 15 quilts, some that you can see in the pictures. Everyone who went in the nursery cried. Sad a place like this is needed but cool they have a place like this to go.

Getting ready for the CIRCUS

All he needed was the wig...

Ryan- age 7 1/2- 2nd grade

I took my boys up into Provo Canyon on Monday and took some pictures of them. I thought I'd share the pictures as well as a little bit about each one!
Ryan will be 8 in April! He's growing up fast, (he's up to my arm pits) but he still takes time to snuggle with me! He loves to play video games, ride his bike, and do whatever Michael is doing!

Anthony- age 10- 5th grade

Anthony turned 10 last month. His favorite things to do include riding bike, playing video games, drawing, and begging me to let him use my camera! He's got 6 inches to go until he's as tall as me! He's a HUGE Boise State football fan! Go Broncos!

Michael- age 11 1/2- 6th grade

Michael will be 12 in March! He's only got 3 1/2 inches to go until he's as tall as me! His feet are already bigger than mine! He's very active and can usually be found riding his bike or hanging out at the park with his friends after school.

My UPS Job

I have two shifts at work with a lunch inbetween and I have a picture of what I do on each of those shifts. My first shift goes from 5-9:30 PM in which I work the Sort Aisle. I have someone who unloads packages from a trailer which are sent across a conveyor belt and down a slide to me where I take them and sort them by state and zip code to the conveyor belts behind me as shown in the first picture. I have to sort them at a rate of 1,000+ packages per hour which means only three seconds for each package. You really have to know the material to be able to keep up with this rate.

My second shift goes from 10:30-3:00 where I am still sorting packages, but this time it is just for the packages in the Salt Lake area. We have what we call the boxline where we sort the packages by zip code into the boxes. This time it is easier because we have little labels put on the box which tells us which color and what level to put the packages in. The boxline has 155 sets of boxes that are on wheels that slowly move by. We prepare the people in the sunrise shift with these packages where they load them into the fameous brown trucks that deliver them. Our volume should start increasing until the end of the year to be really heavy in December. Last year I averaged fifteen hours of overtime each week.

Well, that is a sumary of how things go at my work. Oh yeah, I received the Employee of the Month award last night at work.

More Haroldsen family

Family pictures

Haroldsen clan

Ryan's Blessing

We had Ryan's baby blessing yesterday.   It was very nice.  I had a lot of family support there, which was wonderful.  My mom made the blessing outfit, and it looks pretty handsome on him, if I do say so myself.  

Best Friends

After our long walk this morning my dogs were tired enough that they actually sat down next to each other without trying to chew on each other's ears. Stephanie and I went to the Fair last night and had a good time. Things are going well.

In Memory Of

This was taken by the Sandy City Hall today. They call it the Healing Field. There are over 2000 flags! They put them there every Sept. 11 in memory of those who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001. The yellow ribbons that you can see on some of the flag poles have stickers on them with the name of a soldier from Utah that died in combat. It's very touching!
As a lot of you know, I'm VERY patriotic! I'm proud to be the 4th Great-granddaughter of a member of the Mormon Battalion, the Great-granddaughter of a WWI vet, the Granddaughter of a WWII vet and the Daughter of a Air Force, Special Ops. vet! This country means a lot to me! Thanks to all the men and women who have fought to keep it free! GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Thanks to Aunt Janet for telling me about the Healing Field!

Mary & DJ's Family

I finally remembered to bring my SD card and reader with me! Here is a few pictures from the summer!

Taylor Association

Hi
This is a website with stories about the Taylor's. There isn't anything about Jed Taylor or Margaret, but there is about our other Taylor ancestor's.


http://www.taylorassociation.org/

Just a brief history of our family.

Gail Taylor son of Jed Taylor, son of Joseph Alan Taylor, son of Joseph Taylor (who served in the Mormon Batalion) son of William Taylor. Will get more if you're interested. There are some cool histories to read, and pictures. It's well worth checking out!

Fun at the Utah State Fair!

On Friday, we took the kids to the State Fair. The kids really liked seeing the animals, especially the sheep. But they had the most fun riding the rides. Bradley was big enough to go on all the kiddie rides by himself, but Olivia needed an adult to ride with her.(Although she didn't think so!) We rode the slide about 15 times, and then went through a couple fun-houses. Bradley was just barely big enough to go on some of the adult rides, so I took him on a hangliding one. Olivia just screamed the whole time because she wanted to ride too. There was a FFA exhibit and the kids got to be a "farmer". Before we left, we let the kids play one of the games and they both won a prize.

My Little Tomato Plant

This year I planted my first garden.  I got a tomato plant from my bishopric for Mother's Day, and put it in my garden.  This is that plant.  I don't know what we did to it, but this is only one tomato plant.  I've never seen one this big!  How big do they normally get?

Carma and Roy Prete Decendants

I hope everybody likes this, I am also going to slightly modify it for the Prete Happy Land Logo as a better logo. (That's why everyone is smiling or doing something goofy.)

From, Anna

P.S. I made this on Microsoft Publisher- I love Publisher.(I copied it onto Paint for it to work on a blog.)