Sunday, January 15, 2012

What Do You Think?

I decided to change things up with a new header and background. The lemon wallpaper looking thing appealed to me for some reason. The picture is one we took for our Christmas card.

So...It's been a couple of months. During that time we celebrated Halloween, Thanksgiving, Rusty's Birthday, Christmas, and New Years. Fun was had by all.

2012 is looking like a good year, so far. Ryan started his second semester at Snow College. He had a blog now. Getting in Tune. You should check it out. It's awesome. The kids just finished up the second term at school. Tracy is ready to start teaching piano lessons using the Simply Music method. That should be great. I am still anxiously awaiting word from my editor about the schedule for Defenders of the Covenant. Pray that I'll hear from her this week, okay? I have been invited to speak at Timpview High School's Career Fair in February! I am excited, but also nervous. And I feel a little like a fraud. Hopefully, it'll go well.

Here are some pictures, since no blog post is complete without those!

Our Christmas Eve jammies
Camary got a horse
Sam got an electric bass
Finlay got computer games
All the big boys got Rubik's cubes
Xander got "crashy cars"
Not sure why I don't have a picture of Ryan. He got an mp3 player. A Sony Walkman, actually, which I find kind of amusing. Rusty got one for his birthday. Incidentally, we had church at 9am on Christmas. We came home, got back in our PJs and opened presents afterward.

On January 2, we went for a hike up our canyon and happened to run into my dear friend Suzette.

Camary's art work on our new white board. I use it to announce what we're having for dinner,
Xander's prize for using the potty consistantly
Well, hopefully it won't be another two and half months before I post again. See y'all later!

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Punkin Carvin'!

Yesterday was pumpkin-carving day at our house.  Here are a few pictures.
 




This pumpkin is waaaay creepy...
Just ask Xander!
The lighting of the pumpkins.
The final display on the front porch.

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Taylor Family Halloween Party

The Taylor Halloween Party was last week on the 15th. Before I went to the party, I went to my friend Michelle's book launch party. That was fun! I can't wait to have a launch party of my own. (Soon!)


She had it at this great little dessert place in Orem called The Chocolate. Mmmm. After that, I met up with the rest of the fam at Grandma's house for the party.

Sam went as Rusty. Hahahaha

Xander went as a pumpkin. Silly kid.

Camary was a cowgirl. Cute!
Finlay was a Jedi. Awesome. (And Tracy went as a photographer.)
I put on a witch hat for the occasion.
There were various activity stations for the kids:

My storytelling station was not all that popular.
We did the Monster Mash on the front porch.
We also had desserts and went trick-or-treating to Grandma Taylor inside. Very low-key compared to some Halloween parties past. We didn't have Rusty or Ryan with us, but it was still fun. It's nice to get together. It was a bit weird not to have Grandpa there telling us all to keep the door shut. ;)