Taylor Grayce

Taylor started preschool 3 weeks ago! She was so excited, she has been wanting to go to school for the last 6 months! She was so excited! While trying to figure out where to send her things where just not working out!  A lot of the places I found where Tues, Thursday and she has dance Thursday or it was in the afternoon, Taylor still naps so that did not work! I finally found one that would work out so I signed her.  Right away something did not feel right. It was 20 minutes aways and I was not excited about how all the driving, as I prayed about it I knew it was not right for her to go there.  The day I told her she cried and cried so I was hesitate again.  I decided to follow my feelings and just keep her in dance...Well then my neighbor who has a little girl Taylor's age called and said she had been thinking about starting a preschool!  Right away I knew this was right!  It has been so good for Tay.  She loves Miss Crystal, and has learned so much in just 6 times of going.  She is learning the sounds of letters, numbers and has learned the pledge and can say it all by herself!  I can't believe how fast she is growing... she will be 4 in 20 days!

Thankful to have her in our lives!

Shout out to Mark

Mark has accomplished 2 BIG things recently! First, he ran his first marathon! He has been training countless hours preparing and the day finally came! I was so proud of him, and pretty jealous watching everyone come in! I have a tendon problem in my leg so I can hardly run =(!  He felt really good until mile 20 when his leg that he had hurt a month or so before started to really hurt!  Let's just say the last 6 miles he ran withour a ton of leg pain and a lot slower then he wanted BUT he finish!  He was a walking zombie the rest of the day and even the next day!  He has rebound and is planning on running another one very soon!

He also graduated this month!  He has worked very hard and been very busy with work, church, school then he added training for a marathon... he's crazy!!  He is so great and I love him very much! Thanks for all you do for our family! Your girls love you! 

Happy Birthday Madi Moo!

Madi turned one almost a month ago! I have been a slacker blogger as of late but I have lacked motivation as probably no one read it anyway!



The Birthday Girl!

We call her Madi Moo, so we had a cow themed party for her! 

 

We had a really good day!  After her party I was able to cuddle her and even got kinda sad that she is not a baby anymore!  She is walking, and she is very proud of her self!  She is happy most of the time!  She says, Momma, Dadda, TayTay, Dani(day), Bompa(Grandpa),light, drink, hi, bye bye, ought oh, book, baby!  She is always making noise, loud noise!  She is so loud, especially at church!  She has become a Daddy's girl in the last couple months, and puts up with almost anything her sister does to her!  She is our little eater and out eats her sister almost everymeal! 

We love having in our home!  Thinking about the last year it has been fun and tiring!  She definately has a mind of her own!  She loves  her binky, I am okay with that for the moment! It helps her sleep, which has been full of ups and downs!  Without it she is whiny and does not want to play but wants to be in our laps! So, maybe in a couple months I will tackle that but right now I am just not up for the task!

We love you Madi

CHIRSTMAS 2010

Christmas morning was so much fun at our house!  Taylor loved all her presents!  Almost every time she opened something she would kiss someone and so thank you!  At my parents she opened and present ran over to my mom gave her a kiss and said this is just what I wanted for 2 dollars!  Madison was a blast too!   She was going crazy and it was so much fun to watch!

We went to St. George for New Years!  New Years Eve we played WII!  It was fun!  We even got my Grandpa Sprouse to play!  We laughed so hard, between Grandpa Sprouse getting lucky, me bowling a strike with Madison on my hip when everyone told me I could not do it, and Dad being Dad competitive... wonder where I get it from! 

We could not get Grandma to play instead she spent some time with Taylor in her homemade tent!

 

Jingle, Jingle, Jingle

 

 Taylor waiting in tha hall with her class!

Taylor had her 1st dance concert!  She did a fantastic job!  She look so cute!  She was very excited to wear make up... thanks to my Mom for helping me... she is much more patient with my Grammie!  I loved watching her, she made me so proud!  Here is to many, many more dance concerts!

tAyLoR gRaYcE

TAYLOR GRAYCE

Taylor has been learning and growing so much the last couple months!  She has become such a tease, she likes to tease her Dad and her Bompa!  She likes to go to my parents and either cook or bead with my Mom or jump on the bed with my Dad!  Everyday she makes me laugh! She is always telling me when she gets bigger she can have gum, or when she gets bigger she can shave her legs!  Another thing she askes me everyday is if Madi can get bigger!  She does not foget anything you tell her or anything you say!  You really have to be careful, my parents dog Annie is always getting herself in trouble, she eats rose bushes, her food dish, trees and anything she can get her paws on... one day we found part of a rose bush with thorns all over it half eat,  Someone called her a stupid dog... well guess what!  Taylor heard and the next day she was in the bath with Madi and in the cutest little voice asked if she was a stupid dog... she did not know what it mean't, the way she said it was like is was a good thing!  I had to sit her down and explain that that is not a nice word!  I am very lucky to have her as a daughter, from the time she was born to now she has been such a good girl!  She has her moments but for the most part she is very well behaved!  She has her times when she does not want to listen or cries over everything, but most of the time she will realize she is being naughty and say she is sorry!  Today after I got her out of the bath she gave me a hug and told me I was a good Momma... nothing makes you feel better then that!  She is very loving, always kissing you tell you she loves you!  She requires her sleepm if she does not get it she is does not cope well.  Most days it hits about 1 oclock and she askes me if she can take a nap!  She is still very much a Daddy's girl and tells me all day she misses him! 

Miss Madison Danielle

Madison

Little Madison, well she is not little anymore!  She is now 5 months old as of yesterday!  She is so much fun, we is usually happy... but make her mad she will let you hear it!  She never stops moving, she started rolling at 3 1/2 months!  She likes to be able to see whats going on, she is not a huge fan of laying down!  Her Bumbo seat is a lifesaver! She would rather be held then be on her own!  She will sit in here Bumbo seat and watch her sister play, but lately she tries her hardest to get out of it... she just wants to play with her sister.  Madison LOVES Taylor! When we drive if Madi is awake she is looking at Taylor and she will sit and talk to her!  Luckily Taylor loves her too!  We have started giving her food... she loves sweet potatoes, carrots, potatoes, and bananas!!  She started throwing fits when we would eat, she wanted food SO bad!  She is not super interested in her bottle and most the time does not finish it!  She sleeps from 8pm to 7 am!  Her naps are not very consistent but are getting better, she will go down around 8:30 and sleep for 30mins to an hour, stay awake tell 11:30 then she usually sleeps until 3:00, then at 5 she needs a little cat nap!  I wish her nap schedule would be better take two naps, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, but she thinks otherwise!  She brings so much joy into our lives, we love her! 

Playing Dress Up!

   A couple of Thursday nights ago I came home from Young Women's to find Mark and Taylor doing this....

She dressed him all up and was calling him a baby!  What a good Dad and sport he is! 

LOVE these girls!

I love these two little girls!

Taylor has taken to being a big siter better then I could have ever ask for! She loves her little sister! She is always kissing her and telling her she is so cute. Most of the time she calls her that baby but she is getting better about calling her Madison or Madi. She is grwoing up so fast, she is a joy to have around... most of the time!! I feel really lucky she is such a good girl, she of course has her two year old moments but they dont last long and they could be much worse. She likes to be on the go, many mornings she wakes up and wants to go to Grammie's house or she will tell me she is going to Walmart or Target. She loves to color, ride her bike, cook with Grammie and follow Bompa around and she is getting really good at teasing him...whatever she wants Bompa does!! Her favorite Dani is one of her BIG time favorites! She continues to be such a good sleeper going to bed around 8 or 8:30 and usually waking up around 7:30, she stills to take naps and most of the time she is telling me she wants to go to bed. I love her so much, I love her random kisses she gives and I LOVE when she tells me she loves me.


Madison reminds me a lot of Taylor as a baby! There schedules are so much the same, and neither like the idea of nursing! Madison, like Tay, only wakes up once in the night to eat and every night is about the same time, she eats and most nights goes right back to sleep! While Tay rarely cried Madi is more vocal but most the time its only if she is really mad cause she is tired or REALLY hungry!! Our biggest problem is the spitting up... its random and sometimes worse then others but its a pain in the butt. She likes to be cuddled and is not a huge fan of being swaddled but I dont it anyway! We are so lucky to have in come into our lives and look forward to watching her grow and interact with her sister!

Madison Danielle

Madison Danielle was born April 20, 2010 at 6:28 weighing 7lbs 2 ounces, 20 inches! She came almost two weeks early! She is doing well, she is a great sleeper just like her sister! Just like her sister she is a good eater BUT only from the bottle! We are so happy to have her with us!

THANKFUL FOR...

A few things I am thankful for...

1. Mark- A great husband and father. I cant explain how much I love him! I am extremely blessed to have him in mylife. With all he has going on,work, school and Bishopric he is so good at balancing it all. I am thankful for his love for me, sometimes he knows me better then I know myself. I love to watch him with Taylor, they both love each other so much. He is in trouble when she gets older, she has him wrapped around his finger!! All day long she tells me I just want my daddy come home and the second he is home he is doing whatever she wants to do from dancing to playing babies! He is an amazing man!


2. TaYlOr GrAyCe- What an angel... for the most part! I am lucky to be her momma! She keeps me happy all day long. I love the little things she says to me throughout the day... some cute examples... she will come up to me and say Momma your not Jessica, your momma, for about a week she did not like baths so in order to get her to like it Mark would sing her a song We wash our bodies yes we do, now whenever she wants to take a bath she sings we wash our bodies yes I are! She is so sweet, if she can tell something is wrong, either your sad or dont feel well she is all over you kissing you and hugging you then she will say you not sad anymore. I am so thankful to have her as my daughter.

3. My family- First Mom, she is such a great example of being a mother. She is always there for me knowing my needs and helping my when I need her!!! Taylor loves her grammie and is always following her around helping her cook or clean! Second Dad, he is such a hard worker and has always taken care of his family. I am thankful to have him as my workout buddy. I am very much like my dad, which can be a good and a bad thing. He is stubborn and competitive and so am I!! While those can be bad things they can be very good too. He is such a great grandpa and so great to deal with all his girls he is surrounded by! After he gets home and Taylor is over at there house you cxan find him either in her room playing kitchen or taking he outside to see Annie! Anything she wants she gets from Grandpa! Third Dani, I remember my mom telling us that one day we would be best friends and it happened! She is a great big sister, and Taylor's favorite Dani. I dont know what I would do without Dani, she always listens to me and encourages me and she watches Tay almost everyday so that I am able to go to the gym!


4. Pregnancy! Hardest thing I have ever done in my life but most rewarding!! I am thankful to be pregnant because I know what I am doing is bringing another of Heavenly Fathers children into this life and giving them a chance to return to him. I also know at the end I will have this new little angel to hold in my arms and to love and have her love me! I am also VERY thankful she will be coming very soon and I can begin to return to normal!

5. Working Out!! This too his my Dad's fault, I am totally addicted to it. I am thankful that I am able to still workout being 38 weeks pregnant! It makes me feel good and happy!! I am excited to be able to push myself soon and be able to run again... I CANT WAIT TO RUN! Its been a good ten weeks since I was able to get a pretty good run in. I am thankful that we took up swimming a year ago it has been a lifesaver with workout and being pregnant! I am able to keep the same pace I had before I got pregnant!

6. YOUNG WOMENS! I love, love, love being called into this program! I love these girls! I love the ladies I serve with! I know that the Young Women's program is inspired and is so important in these girls lives and I am thankful that I get to chance to take part in it as a leader. With this I am thankful for the Church. I would be lost without it, it gives me direction and meaning in my life.

BABY UPDATE!

I hav just about 4 weeks and about 3 days before my due date! I went to the doctor on Tuesday and I am dilated a finger tip, 50% effaced and she is at a -3 station! I am happy to have any progress towards labor at this point =) I am feeling... well like I am 35 weeks pregnant! Luckily I have been able to continue to workout. I have been able to keep up with swimming and have not had to back done, I am just barely feeling pregnant in my swim workout... and I blame my dad. A couple weeeks ago he found a website with some great tips and after applying what he learned he was able to increase his speed a little leaving me a lap behind him by the time we are done grrr!!! Cardio... running has been a different story!!! I stopped running about 5 weeks ago due to the fact that I could not hardly walk the next day much less get out of bed!! So, I started walking on an incline but even that has begun to KILL!! So, I have decided to mostly swim and eliptical for my cardio! I am very grateful for being able to workout through my pregnancy not only for my sanity but makes me feel somewhat in shape with my belly!! My blood pressure is all over the place... sometimes is normal and sometimes its elavated. This happened with Tay too but progressively got worse so not slo abnormal that its happening again. Its not bad enough that I have to be down, Iwas just told to take it easy and rest throughout the day BUT I can continue to workout!! I will be going every week from now on! Here is to hoping for progress at every visit!!!

Our Little Family

It has been a great sabbath day today. Mark has been able to spend most of the day with us!! I LOVE IT! When we came home from church and he was here with us it felt kinda odd! It has been a year since Mark was called to serve as 2nd Counselor in the Bishopric. I loved spending some time with Mark and Tay before church. Since Taylor was in her Easter dress we took some pictures. I have made all of Taylor's Easter dresses with my mom's help! This year I got a cut pattern that was simple and easy and I with little direction I was able to sew the dress all by myself!!

Last Couple Months

I have been a slacker as of late, one because our camera does not like to hook up to our computer and two cause I have not been in a blogging mood!!! To catch up(kinda) I am just going to post some fun pictures of what we have been up to!


Dani's Christmas to us! BYU Basketball Tickets, We LOVE this present and would be so sad if we did not get it!!!! We have been to 3 games this year and have had so much fun.

Us at Zions! We spent a long weekend in St. George and Taylor got sick so on the last day we took a ride out to Zions with my Grandpa and Grandma Sprouse. It was fun to see the sites and good for Taylor to be able to rest!

One of Taylor's Favorite Christmas presents was her tent my parents gave her. I think everyone took a turn spending some time with her in there because she did not want to get out and would beg you to come in!

Christmas morning picture, waiting on the staris to go open her presents!

Another one of Tay's favorite past times! Cooking, she has a kitchen and our house and myparents and she loves playing with them. One time I went to check on her and this is what I found! She insisted on him sitting down and our course he did!

We have had a great couple months. Taylor makes us SO happy, she is such a fun and happy little girl. She loves to be busy, either playing or coloring BUT she loves to help especailly in the kitchen! She loves to help Grammie Kerrie cook and is so serious about it! She can count to eleven but dont ask her to cause she will not do it... infact she does not like to do anything unless she wants to do it... wonder where that comes from!! She can almost spell her name, can sing Sunbean, I am a child of God, Cougar fight song and so many others! Loves her big girl bed and her sleep, if she is tired she asks to go to bed!! She is our sweet little stubborn girl!

I have been busy with Taylor and being pregnant. I am 29 weeks now, and I am truely counting down! I am exicted to have a new baby girl in our home but I am ready to feel normal again! My pregnancy has been fairly good! I have been able to keep active, but even that is becoming harder. Until now I have been able to run but my ligaments and sciatic nerve or putting a stop to that... guess I will have to stick to walking as fast as I can and swimming, a workout I can do and not fell the affects of pregnancy. This child never holds still and is constantly letting me know she is on there with sharps kicks!

Mark is busy with work, school and Bishopric stuff, but is always so good to give us the attention we need!! I love him dearly and I think he is SO amazing! With his busy schedule I sometimes miss him so bad but he has a way of making that better! I know the sarcifices he is making now are helping our family and we have been so blessed for them.

Life is good and busy but would be boring if it where something else... RIGHT?

ITS A...

We had our ultrasound this week and found out we will be welcoming another baby GIRL into our home! We are very exicted for Taylor to have a sister! I am just about 19 weeks and hoping to start to feel better any day now...PLEASE!

Update on New Baby Sandgren

So, in July I took a pregnancy test... it was positive! I called the doctor scheduled my first appointment. When I was about 4 weeks along I spotted for two days, called the doctor they said not to worry, I did for a couple days but stopped because I felt like this baby was meant to be with us. As I prayed I got the feeling that this baby was eagerly awaiting its time to come to earth. Well, a couple weeks went by! I was nine weeks along when my first appointment got cancelled...grr I was annoyed. A week later my rescheduled appointment got cancelled and was told my doctor was taking a leave of absenses. So, I got reschedule with a new doctor for the next week. This appointment never got cancelled and I finally made it to my first appointment. During this appointment the docter could not find a heartbeat... and since I bled they decided I had better have an ultrasound to check everything out. Before we left he told me my uterus only felt about 9 weeks along... we thought I was 12. So, we went and got an ultrasound, this is where we where informed that we where off on our dates... okay but by how much? Our baby was only measuring 6 WEEKS... which means it was conceived early August. Also the heartbeat was only at 117 and had to be moniter until it got to 120 I told her I had a positive pregnancy test in July... hmm. Well, she said I could have miscarried and got pregnant with a couple of weeks. The next week I went back in and it was up to 142!! At this time I found out my doctor was back and was taken to her office. Looking at my ultrasound she tells me baby is healthy... thank goodness! She also has no explanation to what happened... still dont know for sure what happened. We where just happy to have a healthy baby, with a little frustration to learn that I was 5 weeks less then I thought. 4 weeks later went back in for my regular scheduled visit and we could not hear the heartbeat, being only 10 weeks my doctor was not too worried. So today I went back in the make sure we could hear it and we did!!! This pregnancy has been for more stressful then the first, but am finally glad to know everything is progressing and doing well. This puts me due on May 1st!

Our Lil Cougar

Taylor loved watching the first 2 BYU games on the with us. She got very into them, cheering and yelling at the tv! We decided to give it a try and take her to her first game at LES! She LOVED it, so we took her to the next game! I was in a better mood, since it was a good football game, so I took so pics. Taylor loves BYU but she calls them YU, cant get her to say the B! She can spot anything BYU from forever away! She has started to learn the fight song, if you say rise and shout she quickly says Cougar Out! This week my Dad pulled up infront of the stadium to drop us off, she got SO excited when she say the stadium and started yelling "That Cougar!" She likes to sit on her dad's lap, or on the seat next to him. She cheers and claps and dances! She also asks "what happen?" a lot! She is our families youngest Cougar fan and fan she is!

Here our so other pics I took!

Bear Lake

WE had so much fun at the beach this year. Taylor loves to swim, which can be scary cause the water does not scare her. She also LOVED playing in the sand with her Dad. We went over the 24th and came home the following Monday! The beach was so nice on Monday cause it was not over crowded with people. We also took a boat ride on Monday morning Taylor enjoyed that but only if she was on Grandma's lap where the wind was not hitting her. Towards the end she started to beg "I swim I swim I play I play...okay?" It was a fun, relaxing trip... We LOVE Bear Lake!

4 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

Mark and I celebrated 4 yeas of being married on June 30! The weekend before we, just him and I, were able to go to St. George. We had so much fun being together! We left Thursday night and got there late. Friday morning after sleeping until we felt like getting up we went to the St. George temple! What an experience, it was great to be at the place that makes it possible for us to be together forever. Then we went to eat Cafe Rio, yummy! Then we went back to the house and relaxed until it was time to go get a massage! Then we relaxed again, I must admit we watched coverage on MJ's death! Then we went to see The Proposal. When we got home we went over a played some tennis, with bats(it was really scary!!) then we got a wonderful idea to go for a little jog... it was nine oclock! So much for a little jog, my parents house is up on the ridge, quite the climb to run up. After we got back we felt like we had run 15 miles we fell into bed and slept like babies! Saturday we woke up got so breakfast and then headed to the pool, nice and relaxing. After we hung out at the pool we decided to go tour Brigham Youngs house, Mark had never been and its been awhile since I had! Then we just relaxed and spent some quailty time with each, by this time we both miss Taybug so BAD!

Us at Brigham Young's house


Then our actually anniversary was on a Tuesday. We planned to go to the park

and have a dinner there. Dinner was all packed up to go when Mark pulled

into the driveway. When he pulled up he was on the phone so when he got

out I asked "who was that?" He paused for a second and said he

had an interview at 6... I will admit that I was

super unhappy!! So, I picked Taylor up and we went and ate lunch

at the park. About quarter after 6 Mark should up in his suit!!

We ended up having a lot of fun that night too!

The next day Mark told me his interview did he show up!