Welcome Dillon William Taylor

Dillon William Taylor was born October 26th at 5:02 am, weighing in at 7 lbs. 12 oz., 21 inches, at the UPENN hospital in Philadelphia, PA! Lindsey went through only 10 hours of labor, with no epidural, tough girl! They are doing very well!

Waiting for the Baby

We joined in on the Philadelphia 1st ward's service project to clean up a cemetery. It was 350 acres and we were only able to get ab out 2 acres cleaned up. We got to wear the famous Mormon Helping Hands T-shirts. It was a fun day as we waited for the baby to arrive.

We met some beautiful ladies in Lindsey's ward who had come to the US from Liberia, South Africa. They shared their testimonies of paying tithing during the RS lesson.

Lindsey has the nursery all prepared for the baby's arrival!

Apple Farm

We visited the Linvilla orchards on Friday after we arrived to help Lindsey with the baby when he decides to make his grand entrance. This was actually his due date, October 21, 2011.
We enjoyed fresh apple cider and apple cider doughnuts. It was a beautiful fall day.

We toured an old mansion and Lindsey checks the mirror to see if the baby has dropped.

Lindsey Graduates from College!

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Lindsey finished up her credits online to graduate with a degree in Leadership from Bellevue University. She really enjoyed the online classes that she took as they pertained to the Constitution and our founding fathers. She had previously majored in dance and elementary education. She has workd at the National Constitution Center while living in Philadelphia.

She received her associates from Dixie State College, then studied at Utah Valley University where she was 1st runner up to Miss UVU. She was a Pinnacle dancer for the Utah Flash NBA development team for a year. Then she served a mission in Vancouver, BC, Canada. After her mission she attended BYU. She married Carlton and he was already accepted to UPENN Dental school so she moved with him last Fall. She was just a few credits short but didn't want to pay out of state tuition in Philadelphia, so she finished up online at Bellevue.

I'm so proud of both of my daughters for not only serving missions but then pursuing their education and graduating with their Bachelors. I appreciate my parents for encouraging me to do the same; even though it took me 6 years to finally earn my Marketing Education degree from Utah State University.

October 3, 2011 Visit from Elder Dawson's Bishop

Dawson's Bishop from his branch in Salinas came through St. George on his way back from attending General Conference. Bishop Davidson and his wife stopped by and brought us pictures from their Oakland temple trip last week. I prepared a box of stuff to send back to Dawson and his companion. I made home made break, cookies and some homemade strawberry jam, as requested by Dawson. I gave sister Davidson a hug before she left and told her to pass that along to Elder Flake when she saw him. I miss him but he will be home in 3 short months!!

Whistler, BC Part 3

9/21/2011
Wednesday we drove a bit to Pemberton to see the "salmon run." We saw a lot of salmon, but there were also a lot of dead ones so it was too stinky to get out for a picture... We had a picnic at one mile lake and also went on the hike Nairn Falls. For dinner we ate the most delicious BBQ I've ever had at Bob's BBQ and then went home for games.

9/22/2011
Thursday was really rainy, bummer!!! We played games a lot and later went shopping in the Village.

9/23/2011
Friday was our last day. We left the condo by 8:30. We drove through Vancouver and then went by the new LDS temple in Langley. Lindsey and Carlton served their missions here a few years ago so it was fun to think of them while driving around. The temple was beautiful. We then had to wait 40 minutes to get back in to the US.

 We missed Lindsey, Carlton, and Dawson! ... next time! Love you!

Whistler, BC Part 2

9/19/2011
Monday we rented 3 mountain bikes and rotated who rode them all day long. Whistler has tons of amazing bike trails, Dan and Andrew were in heaven! During the day we saw a black bear and cubs by the lake, no pictures though because I didn't have my camera most of the day. Alexa liked us to push her around in her stroller on the small BMX type course. She also got to play in the Whistler Village playground. That night we ate the the Spaghetti Factory in Whistler Village.

9/20/2011
Tuesday was a great day. It was sunny, warm, and beautiful! We rode the gondola up to Whistler peak and then got to ride the Peak to Peak gondola across to the Blackcomb mountain peak. It was really amazing up there! We went on a couple of hikes on top of the mountains. At one spot there were these friendly birds that would land on you if you held out your hand. We also rand around on some glaciers up there.
Later that afternoon we went to Lost Lake and the boys went on a rope swing into the freezing water.
We had some tacos and then went to another lake park. The lakes in Whistler are so pretty!