Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was great- but I think the age of our kids makes all these little occasions so much fun!

First, here's Alecia with her plate full of food, (she's the best eater out of the Taylor Grandkids!)
Look how happy she is!!!

Then of course, there's our annual "Magic Christmas Tree" taste test! (The Taylor trees are all from the Magic Forest and magically grow candy canes every day during the Holiday's!)



Yes! Cozy has just recently learned to "Cheese!"


What adorable cousins! Aren't I a lucky girl???

Trick or Treat!

This year's Halloween was wonderful. The girls looked adorable in their costumes. Rainbow Brite and Chicken Little!










Then of course we met up with Iron Man, (David,) and Princess Arora (Emma). We went Trick- or- Treating and ended up at the Calvary Christian Church's carnival- which was a blast! What a great Day!



Pumpkin Patching!

Here's to what we DO have! Cheers!

Well, I wish I had some pictures of my kids to post, but today I don't. Yesterday, I was talking with my friend- we'll call her Lori who said, " I have been in a bad mood for a month!" Well, I think I have been in a "Bad Mood" for longer than that! There is sure a lot of depressing things going on in the world, even within our families and friends. I have been thinking a lot and trying to make sense of it all- of course I don't have any answers yet- but I was reading this article my Mom gave me today, (it was concerning Financial Freedom,) and it had the 10-10-80 plan. It said for you to put 10% of your income in savings, then 10%- you give to a charity, then you make do with the other 80%. It said that even though you may be having a hard time financially, giving away something each month, makes you even that much more grateful for what you have.

And so, I am grateful for my good family and friends (who keep me sain- daily and joke with me, make me smile, and watch out for me,) a roof over my head, a job and my darling girls- who are so sassy I could just ground them forever- but in the next minute have me laughing my guts out!

With this all said, and nothing really being solved- I leave you with a thought my Dad and Grandma Deon have always told me, "Keep your Chins up- this too shall pass!"

What do ya think- do we look like sisters?

Is something missing from Coz?

Yes, today when I went in to get Alecia up from her nap- she was naked from the bottom down. I told her if she did it again, she was going to have to get potty trained. I sure told her! Just Kidding! Gotta love the stages of life!

Pumpkin Time!

On the second Sunday of every month, Nathaniel's family gets together for dinner. This time the ideas was that everyone was to bring a pumpkin and decorate them. The kids loved it. What is that that Katelin created? No one knows- but she had a blast!!

Don't mess with the Coz!

Cozy is not quite 17 months old yet, but she is a spit fire. Today at Daycare she went down the slide and sat at the end of it with her arms folded and her face stating, ' If you want me to move, you gonna have to make me!' Well all the little kids were telling her to move, so Tonya had to finally come and move her- what a pill!!!

Little moments that touch the heart!

I don't know what it is with kids and bad dreams- but a lot of that seems to be going around. Well, Katelin ended sleeping on our floor for some of the night last night- then when I got up and started getting ready, she took my place in my bed. Well, I just saw her peaceful, beautiful face sleeping and I stood there and watched her. It is always in those moments, (when they're asleep,) that I appreciate my girls, and remember how much I love them. So, I snapped a picture of Sleeping Beauty to share with all of you!

Should we tell her she's backwards?

I feel like I have had a lot of pictures of Coz lately- but she's done so many crazy things. When I saw her getting into the old walker backwards, I wondered if I should correct her, but then I saw she liked so I thought, 'Why spoil her fun!'

Yes, she can climb!

So, Alecia has been throwing these major melt down temper tantrums! So I have been putting her in her room for 1 minute. She quickly forgets why she is in there and makes her own fun! Well, in 60 seconds, she figured out how to climb to the top of the changing table. Then she got stuck once in the middle! Needless to say, we disassembled the changing table, so she won't break a leg while she is in "time out!"

Apparently, McDonald's causes BR!

Well, the other day Katelin was asking someone, "How come you don't like to go to McDonald's to eat?" Well, the person replied, "I don't like to eat there because it give me Butt Rash!" Katelin replied with a simple, "Oh." Little did that person know that it would be locked into her memory forever! So today we were having a yard sell with my whole family and Grandpa offered to head to McDonald's to get breakfast. Well Katelin perks right up and says, "Oh Grandpa, I'd better go and help you incase you get Butt Rash!" Needless to say we all cracked up. However, to this person, and you know who you are, thank you, thank you, from the bottom of my heart!!!

Cozy's Personality!

So, I have to say that I love the girls' day care provider! Her name is Tonya Fails. Her family adores my girls, and our families have become great friends. I especially love that Tonya shares stories about my girls and the cute things they do. Among the most recent: (Well to get you up to speed, a few weeks ago Alecia was bit by a kid from day care, so this is her revenge!) This boy, the offender, was playing with something that Alecia really wanted to play with. So, Alecia didn't hit, she didn't bite, or scream. She just turned her back to him as he was playing on the floor. Well, she started backing up on him, (literally on him,) until he was backed out of the way and she got what she wanted! What a smart little girl!

Working hard!

This cracked me up when Katelin was working at the table doing her "homework" and I saw Alecia trying to do just what big sister was doing! How dang funny!

Templates!

Thanks to Lisa which in turn I suppose thanks to Bonnie for teaching us about the new templates. They rock! Now maybe someone knows how to add more fonts????

Katelin and Aspen- the trouble twins!

Katelin and Aspen always have some kind of plan that they conspire when they are together. This time they wanted to fill up buckets to water Grandma Pugh's plastic grass. But Grandma, spoiled them with an even bigger bucket and let them have at it! By the end, all the kids were soaked, and the fake grass looked like a monsoon had just hit it!

What a happy girl!!

Just look at this cute girl! She is really a great little girl- easy to please. Don't worry she still throws her fits and holds her own with her big sister- but she is usually content!

My 4 year-old Princess!

This beautiful picture of Katelin was taken this Summer at Balboa Park. Isn't she a beautiful girl! I am a lucky Mom to have two little Princesses!

We're selling our car!

We sold it! We're both kinda sad, because it was the first car we bought together! But we're glad too! It is one less thing to have to worry about.

I wanna be like Katelin!

Today Alecia brought me Katelin's clothes and then showed me that she was putting it on her head. So, after contemplating this action for a while, I preceeded to dress her in Katelin's clothes, and man was she happy! She just wants to be big!

Summer Fun!

This is one of my favorite pictures of Katelin, Alecia, David, and Emma enjoying the summer. They were playing in the sprinklers and got cold, so they layed on the sidewalk to get warm!

This is us!

I've never blogged- so I am just starting with a picture of us! Mind you this picture is about 1 year old and my how things have changed. But, at least you get the general idea!