MARCH 2016/ REXBURG REUNION

We had such a fun and busy March!  Full of APM activities and visitors.

We were delighted to meet Rebecca, Ty Pemberton's fiance when they were in town for the Provo City Center Temple Open House.

And Ty just happened to be wearing the coolest tee shirt ever!!
CATCH THE WAVE!!

The Buechter family stopped by for dinner one Sunday, and we got our traditional pose of Wil kneeling to be even remotely the same height as me!

Here we are with his Dad, sister and her friend.

Wil finds his nametag on our tag frame.

And we had a visit from Nicole Okeson Elkins pre-baby.

We are just loving seeing our RMs start families of their own!  It is so rewarding to see the Gospel in action in your lives!!










Our March APM Dinner Group: On couch: Elizabeth Young, Sarah Neary and Amanda Vallejo.  Standing: Holly and Paul Wilson, Rachel and Alex Ure, Tyman Weiler, Katherine and Harrison Wardle, Carson Hatch and Alexa Walker.

We got our NATIVITY print back from the framers this month...LOVE IT SO MUCH!!!

We keep asking ourselves...should we keep going up to BYU-I to do a reunion?  Are there really that many RM's up there still?

And the answer is a resounding YES!
We still have close to 100 RMs in that area!!

We really have a fun weekend up there in Rexburg starting on Friday night where we have an Open House.

Here is Kyle Wilkinson, who visa-waited in our mission for a couple transfers.  Awesome to connect with him again!!

Taylor and Kristy Bird

Dane McFarland and his fiance Katie.

Here is Desirrae Barnett and Ezra

Cody Hamilton

Meg Eisele and Jill Ratto

Louis Rusk,  Michael Kellett, Desirrae Barnett and Jill Ratto

Joseph Fife, Dallin Hernandez and Jeremy McMillan

Levi and Mackenzie Walpole

Nick Egan and Mark Nelson

Me with Kayla Probeyahn

Ben Fagersten

Austin Lane and fiance Kimberly

Louis and Joseph

Qwinton Brothers

Roger Pollard and fiance Ginny  (They have the best conversion story ever!  Ask them sometime!)

Nate Nelson and Alicia

Quincy and Ashley Wilson

Jonathan Lovstedt and friend (sorry, can't remember her name)

Zeb and McKayla Dye

Austin Smith, Jaxon and Taylor Wrigley

Jeremy McMillan

Matt Mason and Michael Kellett

Tyler and Amanda Johnson

Joseph Weeks and his Mom and sister.

Logan Longhurst and Lauretta, me and Jake Ogden

Andrew Parks and Nathan Handy

President T with Kailee and Douglas Hicks

Barry and Cristina Taylor

Aubree Fluckiger

 Nathan and I sporting the APM

Ryan Fluckiger and fiance Amandee Brown

Kurtus and Kari Beck

President T selfie with Chase Hochstein

Jessica and Michael Nield



We do a Saturday morning temple session:
Us, Chase Hochstein in front, Andre Gaspar, Louis Rusk, Tyler and Amanda Johnson, Roger Pollard, Rachel with Austin Smith, Joseph Fife, Nama and Courtney Kamissoko, Tosha Brown.

Us with Austin and Rachel

Andre Gaspar

President Taylor and Tosha Brown

Selfie with Roger Pollard

President doing the GQ thing with Joseph Fife

Very cool thing, Ty Pemberton and  his fiance Rebecca were at the Open House the night before and early at the temple for her endowments that morning we were there

We have a lunch get-together at PIZZA PIE CAFE where we met up with more RM's.

Here is Jill with Lindsey Schlund.

Jill and Hailey Beazer.

Also there were Jason and Kendra Martin, Levi and Felicia Barker and a bunch more who were with us at other events.


THANKS FOR A GREAT WEEKEND!  SEE YOU IN SEPTEMBER!!

FEBRUARY 2016

 February 2016 was a great month for the Taylors and our APM friends.

We had a visit from Cameron Lindsay and his family when they were in town for one of his BYU swim meets...yup, he's famous!
Great to meet his family too!

And we got Catie Swallow Paulsen over with her husband John and little Ava.  We had seen lots of photos of her on Facebook, but not met her in person til now.


It was delightful to let her frost a sugar cookie!
She was super focused!





We were so happy they took time to stop by after their visit to the Provo City Center Temple Open House!

One day when I was at Norman Rockwell Show at BYU Museum of Art, the Janulis said they thought they saw the Morris...and they were right!!  So good to run into these great friends!

We went up to Rootstech with the Janulis as well, and met up with Brooke Zollinger Murphy and her hubby Mikey...they have a cool company in the field!

We made it up to Logan for the early AM sealing of Quincy Wilson and Ashley.  Beautiful sealing and so great to meet his family!

We made it to the reception of Marc Forson and Hannah.  Saw Eric Cassity there and Jenny Greenwood!

We were able to meet up with Andrew Crandall when he was in transit home for more surgery on his arm he broke...which made it necessary for him to pull out of BYU-I for a bit!  Tough for a right hander to badly break the right arm and have nerve damage!  But he'll be back!!






It was a privilege to be at the sealing of Nick Stevens and Alyssa Staker.  They were just so cute together and the sealer did a wonderful job teaching beforehand!

To make it even sweeter, we were joined at the sealing by APMers Qwinton Brothers and Ben Crane and one of Qwinton's great Phoenix friends, Stuart Farrens, who has since moved to CA.
Great time visiting with all of them!

And to finish up that week, it was back up to SLC for my third time, for a bridal shower for our own Ryen Seaman.
And I was blessed to find 5 more APM Sisters when I got there!!
Corinne Coleman, Ann Hunt, Kaitlyn Tolley, Ryen, Me, Shannon Magee and Rebecca Handley.

So much fun!!

We got a call from our own Tye Barrett this month telling us exciting news in his life.
He and Mary also went to visit Phoenix and met up with the Williams while they were there...oh how we miss both these great families!!





Here are our latest and greatest MTC missionaries headed to Italy in 2 weeks.
Sisters Leathern, Carver, Sargeant, Romano, Arndt, Poletz, Bonzo, Rushton, Teague, Keglovitz, Hess, Rogers, Angerhoffer and Harris.  Elders Kim, Zito, Bentley, Morlack, Younce, Perfili and Palombo.

 And...our FEBRUARY APM DINNER GROUP:
couch: Conner Albrecht, Emily Walker and Bethany.  Back: Taylors, Logan Williams and Sarah Jenson, Jonathan Timm, Jihun Jeong, Kaila Harris, Dallin Anderson, Kadee Esplin, Caleb Arave, Lise Bennett and Anna DeMille.

What a great group of RM's to share a meal with and a few memories!  And it is so great to see life getting better and better for these people who have given so much to the Lord!  The blessings of your mission just keep coming...I promise!!

JANUARY 2016 APM

 We have started off the year right!  We practically lived at the new Provo City Center Temple!

Our favorite was getting to take our kids through the temple and give them a personal tour!

We really enjoyed helping with the Special Guest tours and by the time they were over, we were exhausted.  This was the last night of those tours, we went up and sent home the last tour host couple and stayed till 10 PM handing out CDs to the remaining guests as they came up.

We love getting to see familiar faces!  Jonathan Timm took time to come over for a visit one night and we really enjoyed that!



We really enjoy seeing all of our APM family!!

This is just to remind some of you that served in Flagstaff...our MTC missionaries made these cute snowmen when we walked up to the temple one Sunday this month.



And here is our latest Zone that we just sent off this week to ITALY!


Front:  Sisters Ensign and Hatfield, Taylors, Brother Whiting, Donahoos, Sisters Wise and Hunter. Back:  Sisters Weber, Zohner, Seymour, Williams, Swensen, Elders Carroll, Pineau, Gibb, Tilton, Harris, Dunn, Wheeler, Schwiermann and Farneman, Sisters Deem, Hills, McHardy and Bindrup.

 APM Sunday Dinner Group: Front: Andy Marble, Juan Castanos, Nicole Barton, Kassie and Ethan Bruegger, Jacob Baldree.  Back:  Taylors, Andrew and Sam Ripley, Joseph Barley, Jordan Freeman and Bailey, Garrison Nuttall, Rachel and Joseph Cotton, Kyle and Natalie Dayton.

 We had such a fun time together!  It was Natalie's BIRTHDAY!  Great excuse to bake a cake!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NATALIE!!

And we finished up the month on Jan 31 with a visit from two missionary companions...Sisters Brooke Zollinger (Murphy) and Bobbie Pilcher (Fluckiger)
It was so fun to listen to them reminisce about their time together and just great to see how they are still BECOMING!

And, it is also great having MISSION GRANDKIDS that Grandpa Taylor can entertain!  Aria Fluckiger is just adorable!

We love all our interactions with all our APM related friends!
Messages, visits, you name it!
WE LOVE YOU!!