The Church is True!

Here is our story about a bear named blue bear. Just a little history about this bear, my mom bought him when I was pregnant with Tayton and it used to play music and I would play it for Tayton inside my belly and Tayton would kick and kick to the music. So this has been his bear even before he was born. He has slept with this bear every night. Tayton says blue bear is his best friend, and mom even gets a bit jealous of blue bear because sometimes blue bear will kiss Taytons owies better. Well anyway, last Sunday Tayton took blue bear to church and we couldn't find blue bear after church. We looked for about an hour after and we just couldn't find him. Tayton left church just sobbing and kept saying he would never see blue bear again. I told him if he would say a prayer to Heavenly Father and Jesus then they can help him find his blue bear.

Well all week Tayton was praying that we would find blue bear, and to keep blue bear safe. I was getting worried because I thought that if we couldn't find blue bear I didn't want Tayton to think that Heavenly Father and Jesus weren't real. So I was going to stop telling Tayton to pray so he might forrget about it when I thought where is your faith Kali? So we kept praying for blue bear.

Sunday came and Tayton did not want to go to church. I told him we had to go to find blue bear, then he couldn't hurry fast enough. We got to church and when we pulled up Tayton said, "Mom, Jesus is going to help me find blue bear." We looked around for a while and then we found him! Tayton picked him up and kissed him and said, "Don't ever leave me again blue bear, I missed you". Then he said "Mom Jesus really helped me find him, I love Jesus." I was so cute, really hard to hold the tears in.

It might not seem like a big deal but this bear means everything to Tayton. I am so glad that Tayton and me learned a really great leason. Even though you are only 3, Heavenly Father will still answer your prayers. Yea, the chuch is true!


Tayon is only a couple of days old in this picture.


Tayton, blue bear, and black bear. (He isn't attached to black bear like he is blue bear)


I just had to put this picture in, Tayton loves to climb in Tanna's crib and turn on her mobile. She just loves Tayton. It is so fun to watch them together. I never thought Tayton would be so cute with her. They seriously have such a special bond together.

Eureka Nevada, here we come!

Here is a picture of Main Street.


Eureka during winter time.




An overview of Eureka


Another picture of Main Street



Yep we are officially moving again! We have been married 6 years and this is our 7th move. I guess we just like to move. Levi got a job transfer and he is really excited about it. We are moving out of this 120 degree heat and we are headed up to Northern Nevada where it snows and the mountains actually have trees on them! We won't miss the heat but we will definately miss all of our friends that we have made down here.

We also bought our first home! It is a brand new home straight from the factory. (They only have manufactured homes in the entire town.) There are no contractors there and no places to rent. Yep it is that small of a town. We are hoping we can move in around the 15th of September. I wasn't to excited when he got the job but when I went there I loved it. Our house is actually really nice inside. It has 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, and it is on 1 1/4 acres. I will put some pictures of it when we move in. Tayton is really excited. He told me he wants a yard with grass so he can play soccer and he also wants a playground. He can't wait to move. Anyway, that is the latest at our house. We are starting to pack up and hopefully if our house is ready we can move in soon. Here is a picture of our new stompin ground.

More pictures from our trip!

Uncle Dante fixed this bike up just for Tayton. Tayton was a pro, he started to get a little crazy and crashing into everything. We definately need to get him a bike helmet. Thanks Uncle Dante, Tayton had so much fun.


We stopped to see Taytons best friend Daxton. It was so fun to see them together again. Dax was even nice enough to take him for a ride on his 4 wheeler. See that little yellow house in the background, that is where we used to live before we moved to Nevada. All 500 sq feet of it!



We went up to Logan and had my favorite thing ever. Aggie blue mint ice cream. It is soooo good. Tayton loved it as you can see.


Levi's parents have a motorcycle and Tayton and Levi loved it.


This is Tanna with her cousin Azlyn. Tanna is 2 1/2 weeks older, even though it looks like she is months older. I took Tanna to the doctor yesterday and she is in the 50% for her weight and in the 90% for her height. Tayton was always in the 2-5% for both weight and height.


Tanna and Packa. When Tayton was learning how to talk he couldn't say grandpa, all he could say was Packa. So now we just call both grandpas packa.


Four generations of Winward boys, and my niece Carli.


Dad and Tanna


Tayton with his cousin Kaden. Tayton had such a fun time with all of his cousins. He thought the bucket worked better as a hat. Look at how gorgeous the mountains are. It is so pretty up there.


Tayton just getting ready for the river. He loved playing in the rafts.



Braxton, Tayton, and Tristan getting ready for the rapips.


I had to throw this picture in here, I finally got a picture of Tanna smiling. She is so much fun and still such a sweet little thing.

Happy Anniversary to us!

Can you believe it, we have been married 6 years! Here is just a little info on how we came to be Mr. and Mrs. Winward.

This picture is when we first laid eyes on each other. Thanks to my friend Bridget because she asked him to one of those high school dances. (I am such a great friend I know.) I was a junior and Levi was a senior. Too bad Levi wanted nothing to do with me or any other girl for that matter. All he cared about was hunting. I had a boyfriend at the time so I didn't pay too much attention to him either but I did think he was gorgeous. We would say hi to each other but we never really hung out or anything like that.



Well after Levi went on his mission and I went to a couple of years of school we met up again at church. We talked for hours and then later that week I asked him to go to institute. Then we were inseparable. After one entire month of dating he came on vacation with me to Nauvoo and he purposed at the temple, it was so cute. He was so nervous.



Then 3 months later we were sealed in the Logan temple. Here are some pictures. Back in the day people weren't using digital so here are some great scanned pictures which is why the quality is so extraordinaire. Well it is has been a great 6 years and I hope there are many many more. I am so grateful for Levi and for everything he has done for me these past 6 years. I don't know where I would be without him. I love you babe, you are the best husband and daddy ever!


Yep it's official. We are holding our marriage certificate, now Levi is mine forever, dun dun dun.



Now I know everyone says they have the best looking husband it the world but ladies you know you are all wrong. Look at how cute he is. Mmm


Together Forever, no better place to be:)

Our trip to Utah!

Sorry I haven't put any new posts up for a while, but we have been in Utah and Idaho and when we got back the new Twilight book came out. I am almost done but I started to get a headache from reading so much so I had to put my book down. Anyway, out trip to Utah was a blast, we had all of my family there except for my older brother Jaren, he is serving in Iraq. His wife Emily came from Washington, my sister Shanna and her family came from Texas, and then Christa came from the far land of West Jordan. The beginning of the week we went rafting on the Payette river in Idaho and it was Taytons first time ever! He had so much fun but he was a little scared with the big waves at first, but by the end he was a pro. He loved being outside and in the mountains.

He loved to ride with dad in the kayak but when the big waves came Tayton had to come and sit with mom in the big boat.



Here is Levi, look at those sexy muscles:)


Then last Sunday we blessed Tanna. My sister Christa also had a baby girl 2 1/2 weeks after Tanna was born and they blessed their little Azlyn too. It was so fun to have their blessings together. They looked so cute.