Happy Birthday Alyssa!

Tonight we celebrated Derek's sister Alyssa's birthday (a day early). We had a nice relaxing evening enjoying pizza, garlic knots (YUMMMM) and birthday cake! Here are a few pictures from our evening...Taylor really enjoyed playing in her cousin's bouncy chair while we were there!

Hope you have a HAPPY Birthday tomorrow Alyssa!!

Happy Retirement Grandma Moon!

Today was Bonnie's last day at the library, she is retiring after 25 years! Taylor and I were invited along with Alyssa and Beatrix to attend her going away party. Instead of a retirement party they had a "Grandma Shower" for her. She got a lot of fun things that I know the girls will love to play with at Grandma's house! They had great food and cake for us too. Thanks so much to all of Bonnie's coworkers for including us and inviting us to attend, we had a really nice time! Congratulations on your retirement Bonnie!

One more Christmas!

We had our third and final Christmas today with Derek's family. Unfortunately I did a horrible job of taking pictures, so I only have a couple to share. It was fun again watching Taylor work on grabbing the wrapping paper and pulling. She was really into the paper that Grandma Moon had put in the gift bags, I would help her take it out and she was not excited when I took it away. She was super interested in a Leap Frog refrigerator toy that Aunt Alyssa, Uncle Greg and cousin Beatrix got her, she did not want me to put it down! They also got Copper a present, she opened it all by herself! As you can see from the picture it must have taken quite the effort, she was snoring during the rest of our gift giving!

I can't wait to play with the Leap Frog table to Grandma and Grandpa Moon got her, it is bilingual...so I might try and pick up a few words in Spanish with her! We had a really nice day with everyone, I can't wait for next year so I can put out all of my new decorations that I got as gifts!

New Year's Eve

We had a great time on New Year's Eve...an early night but still fun! We spent time at our friends Nick and Michele's. We enjoyed a TON of delicious food and the boys had a great time playing horseshoes. Taylor and Caleb had a great time playing with the shiny noise makers that Michele bought for the party! We had to do our champagne toast around 7 due to little ones bedtimes! Even though it was an early night we had a great time hanging out with Kimels and Troyers! Thanks so much for having us over Nick and Michele!

Back to Reality!

We got back to Arizona last night from our wonderful trip to IN! Taylor did pretty good on the flights again, she just did not enjoy having to get in her car seat after a long day of traveling! I can't say I blame her.

We had a great time while we were back spending time with my family and getting to see so many friends. I figured I would do more of a picture blog to capture some of our favorite times since I didn't do a great job of updating while I was away.

We had a really fun first Christmas with Taylor, she got to open a few presents with the family but then she was ready for a nap so she got to open presents a couple of times that day! She did a good job again of holding on to the paper and tearing!

We really enjoyed getting to see all of our friends too! Thank you so much for everyone that came to see us or made special trips to meet up with us, we had a great time seeing everyone!

Our Visit to Indy

Derek, Taylor and I headed down to Indy yesterday to visit family and friends. We got to see a lot of people while we were in town! We enjoyed introducing Taylor to my friend Megan from high school at lunch, and meeting her boyfriend! We stayed with one of my friends from college Mindy and her husband Mike. Two more of our friends Erin and Carrie came over with their families...as you can see we had a lot of fun! Taylor slept through the night and wasn't around for most of the evening! We also got to see my friend Christine from college and her newest baby Ava who was born on Thursday! Congrats Christine and Brian!

On our way out of town today we got to have brunch with Derek's aunt and uncle as well as his cousin and his family! We had a great time seeing everyone, thanks so much for making time for us!!

A Few More Pictures

Here are a couple more pictures from Taylor's Baptism. We will have to post one with Grandma and Grandpa later, those aren't on the computer yet!