Birthday Fun

Growing up our Birthday's always got spread out over a few weeks because of family parties, friend parties and so on....that has never stopped for me, I still require a long drawn out Birthday celebration. With this year being my 30th, I decided I would celebrate for 15 days before and 15 days after...30 days of celebrating. I haven't really made Derek celebrate everyday but we've done some fun things in the last few weeks and I am so thankful he is such a trooper and continues to let me celebrate!

Today was another celebration! Derek's family had a Birthday lunch for me with yummy food...especially my two favorite pies (chocolate and strawberry)...of which I had BOTH Thank you Bonnie for making both for me, once again!. Thank you everyone for a great Birthday day!

More Birthday celebration pictures to follow in upcoming blogs...it is a big one after all so maybe I should post 30 pictures :)

"Baby"

One of Taylor's favorite toys right now is her baby. She likes to rock it, sing to it, feed it, give it water/milk, scold it, put it "night, night", cover it with blankets and favorite of all is burp it! She puts a burp cloth on her shoulder and holds the baby up while patting her and says "burp" in the cutest voice I have ever heard!

She is so into her baby right now that when our friend Michele has stopped by with their baby Colton, Taylor is very quick to direct Michele where to sit and promptly holds her arms out for Michele to just hand him over! Of course, she was not given the opportunity to hold him for a while, given she does tend to just toss her baby aside when she is done! During Colton's last visit she was lucky enough to get a chance to hold a real baby! She was very serious at first and then we sat Colton up a little straighter on her and she just laughed and laughed at him! Thanks Michele for letting Taylor fulfill one of her biggest dreams right now...holding a REAL baby!

Happy Easter!

What a great day we had today! Before church this morning we had an Easter egg hunt for Taylor at our house, and then after church she got to go on another one at Grandma and Grandpa Moon's!! We had such a fun day watching her run around and collect her eggs and so much fun watching her with her cousin Bea! They loved opening the eggs and eating the treats right away! I am not looking forward to the day she expects candy to be in the eggs!! We hope everyone had a very Happy Easter!

Easter Eggs

I am really looking forward to this year and being able to do a lot of the activities with Taylor that she wasn't ready for last year! We decided to give dying Easter eggs a try today..while she isn't quite ready for the dipping part (hence the first picture when we decided the dye was going to be far away from her!)... she was an expert sticker placer!

Afternoon at the track!

Yesterday was so beautiful outside we decided to spend the afternoon at Turf Paradise! We love going to the track where there is always sunshine and great people watching (my two favorite parts about going!) Our friends Nick, Michele and Colton Kimel joined us..I'd say Colton had a great time...he slept the entire time we were there :) Such a sweet little boy!

Taylor had a lot of fun this time...she wasn't into dancing as much as last time...this time she was really into the tractors and waving at them when they would drive by and she really like watching the horses! As you can see here, she is also very good at picking which horse will win, she was counseling Nick and daddy on who to choose!

New Hobby..

Taylor is really into squeezing herself into tight spaces right now....until today the smallest thing she has squeezed herself into was a huggies overnight box which is I would guess only about 15 inches by about 12 inches...she somehow got herself in and had the time of her life just sitting in it!

She loves boxes...so they get to stay around until she breaks them! As you can see she likes to make herself comfortable with friends in the box and usually a book or two! Today was the best I've seen, as far as, things she has crawled in to, I was sitting watching her play and she crawled into her shopping cart, it was hilarious. Once she was in and seated comfortably she requested a book and proceeded to sit and "read" it in her shopping cart. I will say it was pretty impressive as you'll see this shopping cart is taller and not completely stable, she had to actually balance to get in!

Happy Birthday Grandpa Moon!

Happy Birthday Grandpa! We hope you have a great day! We are looking forward to celebrating with you tomorrow!

Taylor sends a special Birthday Shout Out to say Thanks Grandpa for always walking me around the house and playing outside with me when no one else wants to!

We love you Grandpa! Happy Birthday!