DECEMBER 2016 /JANUARY 2017

December and January have flown by and we have had a few APM related interactions!

We met up with Conner Dickson at Blendtec getting  a couple blenders!!

December Dinner Group: Dani Robinson, Jenny Greenwood, Prescott Jackson, K'Loni and Scott Weston, Holy and Paul Wilson, Jordan & Sonya Hastings.

December was a busy month in hospitals for President Taylor...

...but he was a good boy and got lots of stickers!!

He has had to take it easy a bit for a while, but is doing really well now!  The first surgery uncovered an underlying problem that really needed attention immediately, so he went back in for a second surgery within the month!

For Christmas our daughter-in-law found this very cool pillow cover that fit exactly for our APM Family Room!

Elder Bednar's injunction to "STAY WEIRD" is not lost on us...we are as weird as ever!! And we hope you are too!!

Christmas Day found us in the MTC with our missionaries making their phone calls home.  This has been our tradition for the past 3 Christmases now!

We hope that your mission memories are close to the surface and that your mission is a part of who you have become.

In early January we  had a couple of RM wedding Open Houses or Receptions to participate in.  First was Nate Handy out in Eagle Mountain...so good to meet his wife Mariah and spend some time talking.

Next was Heather Belnap and her new husband Tanner.  We have enjoyed getting to know him at one of our APM dinners last fall.

HAPPY NEW YEAR from the Taylors!

We still love serving at the MTC with missionaries several times a week.  This group is going to Romania!  (Well, all but me!)

And here are our Sisters headed to Italy!  I love Sister Manning's family tie...with a pin for each family member that has served a mission...she is taking it to Italy to find a pin and add to the tie then send it home!




Our JANUARY DINNER GROUP:
Alex Whipple, Andy Marble and fiance Rachel, Calvin Madsen, Collin and Alyssa Christensen, Zach Jensen, Daniel Shurtleff, Natalie Dayton, Tyber Parsons and Tanner Gardner.

And when President Taylor gets up on campus for any work related things he is always keeping his eyes open for our RM's.  Today he was lucky enough to run into Shea Smith and that made his day!!


So...HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM THE TAYLORS!
Please message us to join in a dinner group sometime this year!  WE LOVE YOU!

November 2016 APM

NOVEMBER 2016 was a slow month in our APM lives, but an incredibly busy one in our MTC lives.

Lucky for us, we started off our month with a big APM group at the house for dinner!

We had Parley and Heather Scott, Joseph Barley, Melissa Chord and her friend, Arianne Holmes, Aubree and Tyman Weiler, Maria Garcia, fiance Tanner with Heather Belnap, Sarah Neary, Valu and Amanda Vallejo M. (I cannot spell it let alone pronounce it!!)
We loved visiting with all of these great RMs and their friends/family!  They are all involved in doing great things!!



Later this month we met up with our blender dealer, Conner Dickson to get some Christmas presents for family that have been very good this year!

Great to see him as always!









I spent most of November VERY BUSY with the Thanksgiving Program for missionaries in the MTC over Thanksgiving.
I was in charge of writing up the program, so you can imagine it turned into a SKIT which we then added in all the video clips and musical numbers and such to make a wonderful evening for the missionaries.

We involved many missionaries by taking their photos all over the MTC and then President Taylor put together a couple of great videos set to Nashville Tribute songs..."I Was Born" and "My Call To Serve"  They were AWESOME, just like our old transfer videos!


I was blessed to find just the right District of missionaries to serve as my actors for the program.
This District were learning Portuguese and going to Mozambique!

We spent a lot of time together practicing and it came together beautfully!

I know that Heavenly Father provided all the people we needed for this program!  We had just the group of Korean Sisters that could dance...just the incredible group of Polynesians to sing an upbeat song with ukelele...just the talented musicians we needed for all the musical numbers we had planned.

It was a very cool experience to be involved in something so much like being out in the mission field!  His hand is in the details of our very lives and He desires our happiness and JOY!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!  Message me to join a dinner group and know we love you!

OCTOBER 2016 APM RELATED ACTIVITIES

PLEASE CLICK ON THIS LINE TO SEE ALL THE PHOTOS FROM THIS MONTH>>>YES THERE ARE MORE!


We still love serving at the PROVO MTC!  Here is our last District of Romanians...getting a very cool SLC TEMPLE PUMPKIN from home!

We had the privilege of being at Jake and Madison Lowers sealing in Ogden this month!

Seriously one of our favorite things to do!!

And well, hiking is right up there too!

So, we planned a DONUT FALLS repeat!

It was surprisingly cold that weekend so we sort of froze...

But Colton Anderson and President T went right up the center of the stream to the DONUT HOLE!

You can see the snow all around.

It was such a beautiful day to be together.  Our daughter and her boyfriend Elliot joined us along with:
Lexie and Shae Morgan, Jenny Greenwood and Colton Anderson.















We were so surprised to meet an Elder Wood in our branch...that when we teasingly asked if he had a cousin named Derek...and he said he had a BROTHER named Derek and we about passed out!  Pretty cool to get the siblings of RMs coming through the MTC!




 

This is just to show how beautiful the Provo Temple is in the fall!  We love walking there weekly with our branch!

I had an IN-HOUSE PHOTOG with Caleb Brown at the monthly dinner this month!

Hence, the candid shots that I am too lazy to take each month!

We love these get togethers!
Tegan McCuch was the brave only other female in this group!

And here we are with the cursed TRIPOD SHOT!
Greg and Tegan, Daniel Jones, Lance Cabral,  Us, Spencer Cardwell, Caleb Brown, Scott MOore and Brady Jones.

Good times!  Thanks for coming!

I had to teach the day that Alex got sealed, but luckily President T was able to make it over for Alex and McKenna Beck.
They are the definition of HAPPY!

President T had to be at some meetings at BYU and ran into a couple of APMERS while he was there!
Nick Cardoso...

...and Alex Whipple!  Cool!

We got to tour the new LIGHT OF THE WORLD GARDENS at Ashton Gardens Thanksgiving Point.  Well worth the walk and the time!

Here are just a few of the great scenes in bronze.

The detail is stunning.

And for LDS...the FIRST VISION...very cool!

We had our weekend LOGAN ROADIE last Saturday.

The only way I can describe being in the temple with about a dozen APMers is CHRISTMAS CONFERENCE.
It is the sweetest thing in the world to be in that Holy place with people you love!

 Dax Fackrell, Thomas Buttars, Jenessa and Tyler Lemon, Sarah Neary, Jessica Scott, Jackie Barlow and us.  Also there was Melissa Lechner Dickey and the Syndergaards.


We than took lunch fixings over to Thomas Buttars home for an open house style lunch and were joined by a bunch more friends!

Dax and Taylor Fackrell

Christian and Megan Blake

Sarah Neary and I with Melissa's twins!

Tanner and Megan Jones

Kelsie Taylor Jessica Scott and us

Todd Severe rocking the cowboy look and getting away with it!

 Cortland and Melissa Dickey and the twins.

Thomas Buttars, Devin Pierson and Joey Malmberg.






Sarah, Corinne Coleman, Jackie, us, Thomas, Devin, Joey, Bramdon Linkogle, and Chris Hunsaker.

OK, this is just for fun and for the SMALL WORLD thing.  I get a message from one of Braden's converts the night before Logan telling me that Zach Syndergaard's brother is serving in their area!  How cool is that?!!

WE LOVE YOU ALL!