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!