New Years Eve 2008

Since we didn't get to see Nana & Paw Paw on Christmas we invited them up to spend New Years with us. They watched the girls while Lance and I went to a early New Year Eve party with some friends. Then we came home and make all sorts of yummy snacks and rang in the new year!!

Gracie enjoying the New Years Eve spread!!!

Gwynie eyeing the sausage balls!

After a few snacks we got to have Christmas Morning all over again and open up presents from Nana & Paw Paw + aunts & uncles.

SNOW!!!

The Saturday we were in Amarillo we woke up and looked outside and it was SNOWING!!! Gracie spent the night with Brylie so I don't have any pictures of her in the snaow but here are some cute ones of Lance & Gwynie!!!

The Sun Sets on 2008

I snapped this picture in the car on the way to a New Years Eve party.

Christmas 2008

Gracie woke us up bright & early Christmas morning to let us know that Santa had come and he left PRESENTS!!! She made her way around to all the exciting new toys then decided she couldn't wait anymore for Gwynie and just HAD to go and wake her up. Gwynie was not too excited about that at first but quickly changed her mind when she heard that Santa had left her toys!! After we opened all our gifts we sat down to our annual GIANT Christmas breakfast!!!

After breakfast we packed up the car and drove to Amarillo in time to make it to Great Grams house for Christmas Dinner. After dinner the kids opened their gifts and the adults had a Christmas Knick-knack exchange. We all had a good laugh when we realized that EVERY one of us hit the Kohl's 70% off sale for the exchange. Lance joked that in hindsight we could have just exchanged Kohl's $5 gift cards.

The next morning was Christmas Morning take two as we open our gifts from Grams & Grumps!!

Christmas Eve 2008

We celebrated Christmas Eve by decorating cookies for Santa. Then we got all dressed up and headed to Christmas Eve Services at church. We all had a wonderful time and Lance & I were blessed to be the Lay Readers during the service.

We came back home and had a big Christmas Eve Dinner. Lance read "The Night Before Christmas" to the girls then we each got to open ONE gift. After that it was time to set the milk & cookies out for Santa. We tucked the girls in...Gracie said she was going to try really hard to have visions of sugar plums dancing in her head while she slept. We all settled in for a "warm" winters night...in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there!

Christmas Eve Eve 2008

We started the count down to Christmas by putting together a Gingerbread Cookie Christmas Tree!! The girls and I had a blast!!

2008 Taylor Family Christmas Card

Christmas Card Photos

A few days ago we went out to the Frisco Heritage Museum with Lauren Liles of lkl creations to get some pictures for our Christmas card. They turned out really cute. Here is a link to Lauren's blog if you want to take a look.

http://lklcreations.blogspot.com/2008/12/taylor-family-photos.html

Family Photos

A couple of weeks ago we had some family photos taken. Here is a link to see some of the proofs.

http://justoneyearphotography.blogspot.com/2008/11/taylor-family.html

Gracie's 1st Visit From The Tooth Fairy!!

Gracie lost her first tooth about a week ago on 11-23-08. It was loose for weeks so she was SUPER excited when it finally came out (with a little help from Daddy)!

I can't believe that the Tooth Fairy brought her $5...I guess inflation effects everything. She has another tooth that will come out any day now. She knows that the tooth fairy will bring her $1 for each tooth from now on.