we're off

So you probably thought we were already away on vacation or something, due to my lack of blogging. But we haven't gone anywhere...I have just been lazy, too busy doing other things, and just never sat down to post. And now we are off to Vegas with my family to spend Thanksgiving. We are SO excited to get away...it has been a long time since we have gone anywhere and it will be fun just relaxing and hanging out with family. Taylor and Jack have not seen each other for months and Taylor can do so much now that Jack and her will have a blast.

This is what we plan on doing:

*eating out for our feast at Ritz Carlton at Lake Las Vegas
*maybe seeing Twlight(yes I didn't rush out the midnight shows...never been that big of a fan)
*golfing for the boys
*lounging around
*shopping for the ladies
*lots of play time for the kids
*maybe some swimming at the hotel
*eating at In 'n' Out and Capriotti's (our favorites)
*and what ever else we think of, basically just some good family time

And being the holiday of thanks I have to share some of the things I am grateful for:

*my husband, best friend, and partner
*our sweet girl, taylor
*my supportive family
*my great in-laws
*a beautiful place to live in
*the Lord
*my faith
*my health
*the chance to be a stay at home mom
*friends near and far
*my education

There are so many more things I am thankful for, but my list could go on forever. We will be back next week and start preparing for the arrival of Connie and Phil! We are very excited for them to come home(but that means we have to give the house back:( but we are more excited for them to meet Taylor...we just know they are going to love her.

Until then...Happy Thanksgiving and travel safe!

don't forget...

Holiday Show #2 & #3

{hope to see you there}
{click on the picture to get the directions & map}

something to blog about

I have found myself so busy lately that I don't really care, or have the time to blog. My sister-in-law informed me that I haven't been updating my blog and that I need to. I sat down to the computer to blog and drew blanks about what to blog about. I feel like it has been all about Taylor lately(which doesn't bother me) but thought the readers of this blog might be getting bored with my Taylor tributes.

So I needed something to blog about...

And I came up with....

NOTHING!

I don't have any creative juices flowing. I blogged surf to see what everyone else was blogging about and nothing excited me. Don't worry all your blogs are fun to read and I enjoy it. Just nothing seem to get ME excited to blog about.

So now you are getting....

Taylor!

I wish I had something fun to share with you about where our family went...or what fun thing we did the other day, but like I said, I have been busy. With many custom orders, preparation for the holiday shows, getting the house ready for my in-laws(coming on dec. 2!!!), and of course my #1 job...hanging out with taylor, we just haven't done much. But tonight we are going to Disney On Ice...thanks to this friend. This is pretty eventful for us and we hope taylor enjoys it.

Back to Taylor.

I mentioned before that she finally learned to crawl, the real way, and now she is all over the place. I took this video of her awhile ago. It was at night so sorry for the horrible picture. She had just begun crawling so you can tell she is a little slow.

Also, like I said, Taylor is all over now that she figured out she can go places faster, and one place she ends up are the stairs. She climbed up the whole flight of stairs the other day(hasn't done it since...but she did it, right?) and it is not a small stair case.

{here i go}

{look at that bum}

{she got a little frustrated half way up...it was a long way}

And just for fun...another video. She is doing her animals sounds...the first one right off is a cow. She just said "moo!"

photo tag

4th picture in my 4th folder

Of course it is Taylor. This was in Vegas, visiting the P*. She is about 5 months old and we were just playing photo shoot with the kids. Look how little...and bald:)

just me and my girl

I wish this was how taylor and I look and feel right now, but we both had the flu this weekend and it seems taylor has got is again! Poor girl. I feel so bad she has to go through it. I hate being sick at my age, it can't be fun for her. Luckily she sleeps it off! I love our good little sleeper. She has barely eaten anything all weekend. We just keep pumping her with liquids as best we can.

Soon, when we are feeling better I will take her swimming! Yes...I know the pools are closed, but I want to take her to the indoor pool at my parents house. I only took her once this summer so I feel she needs some swimming fun!

until then...we are staying inside and hoping Eric stears clear of the bug.