HaPpY LoVe DaY!!!

I got this idea from my sister and thought it was AdOrAbLe!!! Brayden was super excited this morning to get to school and show his friends! Happy Valentines!!

Where has the time gone??

I feel like we have been on vacation since Christmas and are having a hard time getting going again after the new year! We had a fantastic Christmas and have LOVED Brayden being home for the month of January! New things that are happening in the Tannahill family.... Brayden turns 6 at the end of the month and is rockin at Jr Jazz, Jack is a free man with his new walker and tested into a new preschool where he will get PT TWICE A WEEK instead of twice a month, Mom's back in school, and Dad got a different job at work and is crazy busy!!! All in all we are loving life and excited for whats to come in 2011!!!

1ST walk through TARGET...... yep it was a BIG DAY :)

TREE HUNTING 2010

Every year we go to the Manti La Sal mountains and cut down our Christmas tree!! This has become one of our most favorite Holiday traditions!! This year it took us 2 trips up the mountain to find the "perfect" tree!! Our first trip Uncle Chris and Aunt Sabrina came along to experience the joy of tree hunting! After playing in the snow for hours, being scared to DEATH by fresh mountain lion tracks and a long day in the car we came home empty handed! We went again yesterday and thanks to JT's lumberjack skills got a beautiful tree! The boys and I didn't get to help cut it down because the snow was so deep(above my knees) but we watched and yelled timber from the road! Such a fun adventure and another awesome year of memories from the tree hunt!!

"This too shall pass"

D&C 121 7-8

"My son, PEACE be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a SMALL moment; And then, if thou ENDURE it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt TRIUMPH over all thy foes"

It was not part of the plan for our little family to be blessed with our 3rd baby. We were able to hear a sweet little heartbeat at 8weeks and then at our second ultrasound at 10 weeks there was no longer a heartbeat. We are so grateful for our faith and love of our family and friends!!

NUMBER 3!!!

Tannahill baby #3 due May 2011 :)

NeW PrOjEcT!!

This is my most recent PILLOW project! My new color obsession is GRAY so when I saw this GRAY felt the possibilities where endless!!

Yep... 81 circles!!

I'm trying really hard to love our "old" red couch in our freshly painted GRAY room!! It's amazing how a new coat of paint can make you want to buy all new furniture :)

Herriman FIRE!!!!

What a whirlwind these past few days have been!!

Sunday afternoon walking into church we could tell Camp Williams was on fire and by the time we left church Sunday afternoon around 4pm we knew it had gotten REALLY serious, REALLY fast!!! JT was called into work as soon as we walked in the door to go help fight the fire... he was changed and in the air 45 minutes later (which is REALLY fast for the Army... haha)!! Around 5:30 my little brother Christopher was listening to his police scanner..... yes I said police scanner...... and heard the Unified Fire department taking about evacuating The Cove in Herriman (our neighborhood)! By the time Chris got to my house and we started packing every "important" thing we could think of into my van, the flames had come up over the top of the ridge from Camp Williams!!! I have to say I don't think I will ever forget standing on my front porch and seeing flames 30ft high come down the mountain towards our house!! The police department knocked on our door around 7pm to tell us it was our turn to leave.... the nice police man counted the number of people who left with me, watched us get into my van and then tied CAUTION tape to my front door!!

As we drove away that's when the tears started!!

The next 12 hours felt like a week waiting to hear if our neighborhood and our home had survived the fire!! When we finally turned the news off at midnight the fire department had estimated 150+ homes would be lost in the following hours! The next morning JT took off at 5:30am along with 3 other Blackhawks to keep fighting the fire and discovered only 3 HOMES had been lost during the night!! What a MiRaClE!!! The first thing Brayden asked when he woke up was if our house had burned down.... I told him it had not and he said.... "oh I LOVE Heavenly Father"!!

Today we are grateful for the NOT so subtle reminder of whats important in our lives!! Our hearts go out to the families who lost their homes and we are all anxious to start helping them rebuild their lives!!!

ksl.com - Herriman fire crews concerned about predicted winds (Gallery Viewer)

ksl.com - Herriman fire crews concerned about predicted winds (Gallery Viewer)