May is my favorite month of the year! It's got our anniversary, Mother's Day, my birthday, and more! Here's what we were up to May 2021:
We've gone on lots of walks together to unwind and catch up on our days.
We stopped halfway (about 3.5 hours) in Grand Junction for dinner at Wendy’s and then while Chris drove across the street to get gas, the kids and I walked across to stretch our legs. It’s tradition. Got some pics of our cuties in front of an old car and Fox fighting with a bear.
We watched The Greatest Showman, Back to the Future, and started Dan in Real Life. By then it was the part of the drive that’s super flat and it was very windy and a piece of the car broke off! It was loud and stressful so we turned off the movie and instead I went through Our Travels and in order we reminisced about our 4 years in Germany. I got the news from the pet sitter that Rachel wouldn’t take her pills so I was upset. Luckily she put the pills in Rachel's food and she ate them that way for the rest of our trip so I was relieved! Once we got off the freeway we drove right by the prison for kids. I told Fox & Jane if they were bad we were going to send them to the place where bad kids go and Jane replied in a terrified voice, “JUVI?!” How did she know that the penitentiary for kids is called juvi?
We pulled into the BYU Creamery at 9pm to meet my parents for ice cream, but it closed at 9pm instead of the advertised time of 11pm, whomp whomp. Instead we bought some cartons of ice cream and met my parents at the Taylor’s to chat for a bit.
Then we went to our airbnb down the street which is a whole other story... I walked into somebody living in the basement! They definitely didn’t disclose that information when we booked this super expensive place to stay... Luckily we didn’t spend hardly any time there.
Saturday May 8th was our 14th wedding anniversary!
In the morning we woke up early to get a head start on our busy day! My dad suggested we hike up to Troll Cave.
I was expecting a 20 minute or so walk. It was 2 hours, 4 miles, 75 floors, and I got way over 10,000 steps by 10:30 in the morning! Ha! I should have known lol. This is Tom Taylor afterall!
Fox almost fell into the bottomless pit inside the cave which was super scary. Chris and Jane gave up less than halfway up so he took her to McDonald’s while the rest of us completed the hike. Once my parents got ready for the day we drove down to BYU to go to the bookstore to do some shopping.
Then we walked over to JDawgs for lunch.
They added fries to their menu, mmm!
My parents went back to the Taylor’s to give Uncle John his lunch. We drove by the Tree Streets - this is a view that I used to see all day every day.
We passed the Warner’s old house. So many memories here.
Then we went to the Bean Museum for the first time as a family and I can’t even remember the last time I went - never when I lived in Utah crazily enough! Jane loved the room filled with birds.
The butterfly made of butterflies was fascinating.
Mural in progress.
After visiting the museum we walked over to the bridge in front of the Bell Tower where Chris proposed to me, a fitting way to celebrate our anniversary!
We were planning to walk around campus more but at this point we were pooped and it was still pretty early in the day with a lot more activities to do so we stopped to smell the flowers in front of the ASB before heading out.
Chris dropped me off at the Taylor’s while they went to the airbnb to chill. My mom, dad and I drove up to the Taylor’s cabin in Sundance.
It’s still cute and quaint. It’s so fun to see all the old pics and think about how much history fills the walls.
Back at the Taylor’s, I visited with Grandma Cathie for a half hour, one-on-one, and I got to tell her how much I love her and how much she means to me. It was really really really really hard. But I’m so glad I was able to talk with her one last time before she passed away.
Later while I was sitting chatting with my mom I noticed @johnsonfiles had posted in their stories - they were going to be live at Comedy Sportz that very night and to swipe up for tickets! I could hardly believe it! I was soooooooo excited and booked seats right away - Malm said yes to babysitting! Best anniversary date ever! So serendipitous!
Lots and lots of family was there for awhile: John Jr. and Daniel with his girlfriend Abbie; my dad and mom; my family (me, Chris, Fox & Jane); and David and two of his kids Ben and Naomi.
We all (except John & Cathie) went to Bam Bams BBQ for dinner.
Chris ordered me the wrong sandwich lol but luckily my dad traded his with me - so nice of him!
After dinner we went down to the BYU Creamery and we all ate our ice creams outside. We spent another hour or two back at the Taylor’s and Jane & Naomi colored and played the Burn the House Down dice game.
Around 8:30pm (usually I fall asleep around then, no joke hahaha) we dropped my mom, Fox & Jane off at the airbnb then Chris and I went to Comedy Sportz on Center Street.
Shaun and Nicole are real people! We saw them with our own eyes!
Oh my goodness the show was sooooooooo funny, I laughed sooooooooooo hard! I didn’t even mind being out so late, it was worth every second of being tired for days afterwards hahaha. Such a great night. After the show all the comedians were outside and since we were sitting in the back I was able to go up to Shaun really fast and fan over him, not my finest moment hahaha. But I’m glad I did that. I drove Malm back to the Taylor’s and we quickly went to sleep. I haven’t stayed up that late in I can’t even remember! The next morning, Sunday May 9th, was Mother’s Day! We packed up everything and then drove to the Taylor’s to say goodbye to my Malm and Dald. We’ll see them again soon in a couple months in Wallace, ID for the 4th of July along with the rest of the family, I can’t wait!
We made it home in record time - less than 7.5 hours even with stopping for lunch and gas. Chris has a lead foot lol. But it didn’t even seem like he was driving all that fast! It was much less windy the drive back, or maybe on the way there it was a headwind and on the way home it was a tailwind? The cherry on top is it rained super hard the last half hour so we got a free car wash! PS - we saw 44 of the 50 US license plates on our short drive! What are the odds?
Grandma Cathie Taylor passed away just two weeks later on May 24th at the age of 90 from pancreatic cancer. Her obituary is so lovely. What an accomplished and fine and beautiful woman! I hope to be just like her!
Spring is sometimes in the air.
Sometimes it feels like an eternal winter.
The outdoor pools opened on my birthday so we went and had fun!
Chris went with the youth group to clean up roads and they got featured on our city's Facebook page.
I took Jane to a birthday party down in Castle Rock which is where the closest Crave Burger is now so I took myself for lunch. I read a book (Hail Mary - so good!) while I was there and stuffed my face with yummy sweet potato fries, a chicken burger, and a shake.
It was Margi's 70th birthday so we went to her house for a special dinner.
I love this color! I'm actually kinda glad the HOA made us pick a new color, I couldn't love this one more.
The whole painting experience on the other hand has been a total disaster. What should have taken a few days has now turned into a few weeks. I guess it's hard to please two artists? We're picky and perfectionists. But breaking our AC and furnace and lights and windows (such a long story...)... come on now. Anyway! It'll be good in the end!
Bring on the flowers!
New mirror.
Me throughout the month.
These flowers are so delayed in growing this year, but they're finally sprouting!
We went to our first Rockies game! It got progressively colder as the afternoon went on and and 3 of the 4 of us ended up getting Rockies sweatshirts to stay warm.
We won 7-6, woohoo!
Tasty treats!
For my birthday we went out to dinner to Perry's with my in-laws and Hailey. Yummy food!
We watched the Friends reunion. So so so good to seem them all together again.
We saw this movie. Kinda lame lol.
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ON THE SCRAPPY FRONT!
I shared 4 projects here on the blog this month (well, a couple more, but I included them in April's roundup): Wonders MemoryDex Cards // Wonderful Layout // Family Walk Layout // Oh Happy Day Layout
On May 28th I turned 36th! I have officially been scrapbooking for 20 years! WOW!!
I had some friends over the next day for a birthday crop, it was so fun.
Jessica from Color Cast Designs created this for me to put in my Happy Scrappy Place! I love it!
I designed and gave away 3 more cut files in my Happy Scrappy Place Facebook Group:
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