Monday, November 26, 2007

Building Memories and Remembering







The month of November has positively flown by! I can't believe Thanksgiving is over and the rush of Christmas has begun. We've not started our holiday decorating, but the boys have been busy building a fort in the back yard. And really, what better way to start the season than spending time together building something--that experience in itself will hold a lot of good memories..not to mention the good times they'll remember spending in the finished building. To me, that's what the holidays are all about--remembering. Remembering family and friends, remembering good times, and most of all remembering the reason for the season--the birth of a baby destined to become the most important person ever to walk the face of the earth. What a wonderful time of year this is!

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Happy Halloween!


Here are the Taylor kids (plus a friend) in their costumes--can you tell what everyone is? We've got a hobo, Dr. Phil, a three-hole-punched paper, Robin Hood (Kevin, the friend), a dementor (from Harry Potter), and a ninja. The kids had a fun time trick-or-treating (yes, even the high school kids!), and we had fun scaring people who came to our door with fog, a strobe light, a scary looking guy, jack-o-lanterns, and a fortune telling head in a glass ball. And believe it or not, they didn't go into candy overload! They all had fun bartering and trading favorite candies around, and now they're set for candy until Christmas!