Tuesday, December 10, 2013

12.10.2013 -- Looking Back...

Notable Tayler Family events
(and exclamation marks) for 2013:

  • January: Brian turns 40.  Successful surprise Utah surf party!
January: Gabe and Lucy in the snow.

  • February: Brian and Val both involved in car accidents within 36 hours.  (Winning!)


  • March: Gabe starts his first ever soccer season. (Dreams do come true!)
March: Zen and the art of learning to ride.

  • April: Charlie wraps cars in towels, calls them “babies.” Maximum cuteness.
    March: Charlie checking out the train museum.

  • May: Brian manages 544 weeks of employment as a professional Estimator/Project Manager!  (Estimated.) 
May: Charlie's first train ride.
    May: Lucy and Gabe hike the big hill at the park.


  • June: Celebrate 15 years of (almost) constant marital bliss!  Gabe puts first toad on head, also has first stitches in head (unrelated).

June: Gabe on his way to our friends' moustache party.


  • July: Val slalom skis.  (Not since 1993ish!)  Val also learns that tiny orange newts are babies.  (Efts.)
July: Waiting on Maddox fried chicken.
  • August: Month of weddings and lots of swimming at local pool. All kids do divingboard!

August: Lucy's work.

  • September: Charlie comes home from Lake Powell with an agenda.  Potty trains himself!
September: Southern Utah.

September: Lucy and Gabe tubing at Lake Powell.

  • October: Miss Kansas 2013 (in fatigues), Firefighter and SuperWhy.  Lucy gets baptized!



  • November: Gabe’s 5th birthday falls on Thanksgiving AND Hannukah!  Solar System Cake.  (Dreams do come true: Part II)
 
November: Lucy with cousin Eliza at Eliza's signing party.



  • December: Lucy has 4 violin concerts!  Plays Jolly Old St. Nicolas & Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.
December:  Charlie loves to build towers.  Built this with his momma.