Fun Faces

Why is it that you really get the best smiles when you are not all spiffied up and lined up in an organized manner?!


Merideth enjoying the ice storm, yes this is the gear that Marc put on her to "drive" around.
Merideth enjoying some "beach" time while we were cooped up in the house. She truly is my girl, we are so ready for some beach time!

Ice cream always brings smiles.

"Let's go get some ice cream", says mom.

"And some chocolate milk too," says Samuel.

"Let's save the chocolate milk for a special day," says mom.

"What makes a special day," asks Samuel.

Mom breaks into tears saying that every day with them is special. Really, I am not just being cheesy, I broke down.

Who says we can't have ice cream and chocolate milk EVERY day?!

Bread bears!!! It literally took sweet little Merideth our entire dinner plus ten minutes or so to finally eat one of her bears feet! She had to talk to it and let it know it would be okay, but she could only bear one foot tonight.

Samuel had no problem eating both feet, both hands, ears eyes, I think he ate the entire thing!

Should we be teaching them this?!

Marc was very excited about the ice storm and enjoyed "driving" around in it...

but should we really be teaching our children to enjoy it too?!

Merideth cracks us up!

Samuel, Merideth, and I went down to Plano to visit Robert and Danica for the weekend. It was a fun trip, thanks Robert and Danica!

While we were there we saw a coyote in Plano crossing a very busy street. Both of the kids missed it, but Merideth said that we needed to go pick it up and take it back to Danica's house. I explained to her that coyotes are not the typical house guest and that I am sure he was on his way home for dinner. The next day we were driving to church and Merideth said we should keep our eyes open for the coyote and I said we sure should and she said, "and maybe we will see all the other mascots too"...the Coyote is the Spurs mascot. She really thought in all the coyote talk that we were talking about the character, she cracks us up!

Silly Kids

Kids clothes are so much fun to buy, but it is amazing how often they prefer to wear costumes or wear someonelse's clothes:

Samuel wanted to try on Merideth's jacket in the midst of me trying to get it on Merideth as we were heading out the door to gymnastics, a bit small.

We traveled to Disney world while Isabella was over one day.

Bingo Night

Samuel very much enjoys playing Bingo at home so I thought it would be fun to go to their school's Bingo Night...it was a fun time, but my nerves were shot by the end of the night due to managing an over stimulated Samuel and a tired Merideth. We never got Bingo, but there was not a lack of effort as I was trying to run 5 cards while helping Samuel with his 1. We will certainly try again next year but I think I will bring backup!

Very Focused!
Merideth enjoyed the stickers, drawing on the table cloth and the candy.

Happy Birthday Grandpa Taylor!

We hope you have a great day doing whatever it is that YOU want to do to celebrate the gift of YOU!

Here is a classic view of the sibling love that goes on in our house along with some good ol' compromise for your birthday blessing:

Happy Birthday Grandma Paula!

Today is mom/Paula/Grandma Paula's birthday! Happy Birthday mom! We hope you have a day spent specifically on YOU. We are thankful for the mom/mother-in-law/grandma we have in you. We can't wait to see you again VERY soon!

Here is your birthday blessing performed by Merideth with videography by Samuel: