Haappy Newww Year!!!!

May your new year be filled with many

happy memories!

Happy Birthday Taylor!

Dear Sweet Taylor!

So beautiful and funny!

My baby, my joy!

Thirteen today!

When did it happen?

Where did time go?

WHY?

I love my girl!

Happy Birthday Taylor!

Holiday Hustle

I know Christmas will be here every December 25th. It never changes, same day every year!

But I cannot for the life of me be prepared!

This year we got our tree up the week after Thanksgiving.

Rick decorated outside.

We listened to Christmas music all day.

Then time stood still!

We did not shop, bake or mail cards.

It was even 70 degrees outside, how could it be Christmas?

We now have less than a week till Christmas.

Will I be ready?

Usually every year we are out shopping Christmas Eve, we grab a guick bite to eat at the mall and hang out with all the crowds.

We are just never ready before then.

This year I wanted to be ready, to have it all done by now.

I wanted to have a wonderful dinner on Christmas Eve.

Something nice, with pretty dishes and maybe candles.

The kids are old enough now.

My dear friend Lisa does. One year we enjoyed the festivities with their family.

I want that.

We will see.

Oh the weather outside is FRIGHTFUL!

Yes it is cold!

Yes they are outside!

Yes they are having fun!

Cutest snowman and snowgirls EVER!

But inside it's so delightful

YES I am INSIDE where it is warm!!

Thanks Tay for being an awesome almost 13 year old!

Bubble Blowin' Gal

As luck would have it I left the cord to my camera at Rick's office...and downloading pictures is IMPOSIBLE without it, so my CUTE pictures of Six Flags and Halloween will have to wait. ( I did ask Rick to check for it and bring it home...HE ASSURED ME it was attached to our home computer! It is not here. I will gladly apologize for being grumpy about it if he can produce it here! UGH!)

Miss Taylor Loves Pictures of Herself!

Each time I get on the computer I find new pictures of Taylor.

They are all cute...

However, these really tickled my fancy! Yep, fancy words for I loved them!



Remember the joy of a big bubble?

Remember hoping it wouldn't get in your hair when it went....

POP?

(Wish it had popped...it would have been priceless! sigh)