Taylor's Birthday

I can't believe my little girl is 3!  Taylor is such a joy to our family.  She is always so sweet and so fun to be around.  We love you Taylor.
Taylor's 3 year stats:   Height 35 1/2 in. tall, 28 lbs.

We still had the Christmas tree up so we decided to just put the presents under the tree and it was like Christmas all over again.

The kids had fun with Grandma.

Taylor loved her Princess Cake.

Happy Birthday Taylor!!

December...

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas. (Now that it is 3 months later:)

We had a great month and a lot of fun.  We missed out on some of our favorite "Richmond" traditions this year... the Live Nativity at the Zoo and the Tacky Lights Tour, but we did find "Candy Cane Lane" that has some decorated Christmas houses, Santa was even there to visit with.

We had a few friends over to make some Gingerbread houses (or graham cracker trains).  The kids had fun playing with friends and eating all the treats!

We had a fun night out at Chuck E. Cheese.

On Christmas Eve the kids got to open their Christmas jammies and then we watched a Christmas movie.


Christmas morning was very exciting.  Whit came in and woke us up at 7.  Thanks for letting us sleep in Whit!  Then he went in and woke Taylor up.
She was so cute, all she said was, "Heey! I was sweepeen!"
Whit said, "Lets go see if we were good!"
As soon as they get down the stairs Whit said, "I can't believe we were good!! This is the best Christmas ever!"
They had fun opening presents.  Whit was definitely the fastest at opening presents.  Taylor would open one and then play for a while until Whit talked her into opening another. 

Grandma came to visit after Christmas and got to stay for New Years and Taylor's birthday.

I love these cute kids, even if they only give me silly pictures.

They love snuggling with daddy.

November...

We went to the zoo.  The kids had fun watching all the animals and running around.

My little Kayli girl is starting to smile some more.

These two kids are so funny.  They are playing a lot better together lately.  (I think Whit is supposed to be the Rockstar and Taylor is his biggest Fan:)  I love her in my boots, I just wish we didn't have hard wood floors.

I love these girls!

Kayli's Baby Blessing
Kayli was Blessed on November 20th.  It was a great day.
My Mom made her beautiful dress.  She did a great job.  Thank you Mom, I love it!  She looked so sweet in her long flowing gown.

Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving was our first Thanksgiving with our little family.  It was nice to relax, spend the day together and eat yummy food.

Thanksgiving morning when I woke up I could hear Whit and Tay getting into something.  When we came downstairs,  we found Whit with the Christmas tree out of the box that he had pulled up from the basement.  He had been so excited to to put up the Christmas tree, he didn't want to wait one more day.  The kids had fun helping me put up the tree and all the Christmas decorations.

This was one Sunday after church the kids were having fun playing on the couch while I was trying to take some pictures. (... and Whit did not wear those clothes to church, he just comes home and changes before I can tell him to wait for a few minutes.)

October...

Whit went on a field trip with his class to the pumpkin farm. I came along with Taylor. They had so much fun. I think Whit's favorite part was riding in the school bus, he didn't even want to ride home with me.

There were a lot of fun activities to play.

Then we rode the tractor out to the corn maze and we had to find our way through the corn maze to get to the pumpkin patch

When we got home we carved and painted our pumpkins.

Kayli is such a sweet girl.  She is happy and sleeps all the time.   One Month Stats: 10lbs. 2oz.

The kids love painting and doing any sort of crafts.

Whits school halloween parade...

Jake decided to go as missing man on the milk carton for Halloween this year.  It also doubled as a great entertainment for the kids...

 Iron Man and Rapunzel made a pretty cute pair. 

I tried to take the kids trick-or-treating around the neighborhood but as soon as they saw a haunted house with the scary sounds they started crying and wanted to go home.   But trick-or treating at the medical school turned out much better.

No More Training Wheels

All summer long Whit kept asking me to take off his training wheels.  I wasn't quite sure he was ready, but one day I came outside and found him on his bike with one training wheel.

 

I really shouldn't have been surprised, he always figures out how to do whatever it is he wants.  He was so pleased with himself that he could take off his training wheel all by himself and ride his bike.  He rode it around like that for a few hours until dad got home to take off the other one.  It only took him maybe 15 minutes to figure it out.  Now he's doing awesome!

Whenever we go to this park we see a few people riding these bikes that you sit low in.  Whit always thinks they are so fun.

So he wanted to try it on his bike.  Good thing he did it before he took off his training wheels.