Halloween 2009

Taylor begged for these pumpkin decorations and honestly

I didn't mind not digging out the pumpkins:))

a whole bunch of Hewgley's...

batman and a cute little leopard



Trick or Treating at Aunt Traci's

fun at the beach!

Yes...I had to make them hold hands and walk away, but I got a cute pic!!

We got a very nice invitation to the beach to meet friends and stay at their parents condo with them....uh let me think about it.....OKAY, be right there:))

It was so much fun and Taylor has only talked about going to the beach and building a sand castle for like, forever. Honestly, I didn't think he would like all the sand and salt but they both loved it!! They also travelled better than I expected!! Let the road trips begin.

Cuties

Riding horses

Below is Taylor's first haircut at the barber shop....and his bribe in then next pic. It has not been fun cutting his hair the last, almost 3 years....he has shed alot of tears. The biggest problem seemed to be the hair falling on him and we tried MANY MANY things to prevent that. At the barber shop they have a flowbie type thing that sucks the hair up....cool!

Just being honest

Last week I was not feeling 100%, probably more like 50%....and then I worked 3, 12 hour shifts in a row, Thurs, Friday and Sat. So Sunday morning I get up and am just wiped out. James gets up and was making us pancakes and since noone has mentioned church yet, Taylor asks "mommy are we going to church?" and I said, "ask your daddy", so he did to which James replied, "I don't know ask your momma", to which I said "Taylor we haven't decided yet". James then asks Taylor "do you want to go to church?" and Taylor says, "yes, and we need to thank Jesus, right..." So guess what I got up and got my behind in gear and went to church. If you give the devil any space, man he will drag you down, but then my sweet precious 5 year old just got me right back on track!! Thank you Jesus!!

August

Taylor making Rachel hold her head up for the camera!
Rachel not liking getting her picture made!!

right after a bath, look how long her hair is getting!

the card Taylor made for James for his 38th birthday (on the top left pic is a car and then on top right when he was writing his name he ran out of room for 'r' so he went to the left of his 'o' and wrote it)

He wanted to write daddy's name on the front of the card!

Rachel and ayi

No, that doesn't say 83...LOL!!

Taylor's birthday

Today was Taylor's birthday. One thing he asked for was a race car driver costume. He took a nap in it today and is asleep right now in it tonight. He ended up getting two bumble bee transformers so tonight we went to Target to swap one of them. He was so excited to get the money back and get to shop. Poor thing was kind of carsick on the way there, then we stopped at Cracker Barrell, he ate some grits and milk and seemed fine. We then went to Target and then on the way home he had to throw up. I told him I was so sorry he got sick on his birthday, he said 'I OK mommy'!! He was fine the rest of the way home. I really thought he had beaten this car sick thing...it had been probably 9-12 months since he had been sick in the car.

The race car driver got to make a couple of laps around the yard with daddy!

Happy 5th Birthday Taylor!!

I can't get blogger to let me rearrange pics and copy and paste and it's getting on my nerves...so go to http://www.journeytome.com/ and look at adoption stories and look for Rachel Lian and you can see this post.