HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAYT!!!!!!!

Happy birthday to a little boy who since the day he could walk could make most all of us melt with those big brown eyes! I kid you not, in the past either Courtney or I would scold him and his lip would stick out and he would look up at us with those huge brown eyes and I swear we both wanted to say we were sorry for making him feel bad! He is 5 today and going on 40, no kidding! He is a favorite at his pre-school with everyone. I told Randy the other day that I felt like I was on a episode of Cheers, we walked in a few minutes late and all the kids yell "TAYT!!!!" He is a wonderful little guy and a treat to be around! Hope you have a wonderful birthday T-bug! We all love you!

Christmas - 2011

St. Marys Xmas concert, Peyton, Lia and Austyns school.

Meg made cookies with Luke, concentration!

Randy's sister Pam's beautiful Xmas village!

Xmas Eve with Randy's family.

Games!

Handing out gifts.

Cousins

Xmas day with my side of the family at Courtney's house.

Ah Christmas! Family, food, concerts, gift giving, games......just endless fun for 2 days! Love the holidays! Hope everyone had a wonderful time with all of their families, we sure did!

Happy Birthday Drew baby.....a week late!

This beautiful little girl turned 1 last week, I'm behind as usual, but better late then never! We all thought she was going to be the quiet one in the family but these last few months she has come into her own and pretty much rules the house. She is very content, cries very seldom but has shown she has a bit of a temper when the other kids try to take something from her! I love that she is getting sassy, I think she knows in this big family she needs to claim her spot and even at 1 she is doing a pretty good job! So Happy First Birthday pretty Drew baby!

Xmas Tree Hunt!

 The weather yesterday was soooo gorgeous! Perfect for hunting down the perfect Xmas tree....well, almost perfect. I'm not sure if our family is all about the "perfect" tree as much as having a good time looking for one. Randy and I have always gone and cut down a tree since the girls were very young. It's getting harder every year for everyone to make it but whoever can meets up and off we go! Kids, dogs and adults!

Austyn pulling Drew, who was totally ok with being pulled around the whole time! Never a peep out of her!

Mal, Chris(on the ground) and Jax.

Luke and Jax

Mal and Jax

Drew bb

Peyton

Austyn and Jax

Tayt

Randy cutting ours down.

Mighty tree hunter!

Look carefully at this picture, Randy is carrying our tree, watch what he does with it!

The "tree" is attacking Megan! Right.....

Now Jax is going to help carry it.

Look carefully at Lia's face in this and the following pictures, she is pretending to go in slow motion, what a crazy girl!

Hilarious face!

All done and walking back.

Another paparazzi picture.

Mallory and Courtney all bundled up!

Megan and Luke

The moon was just beautiful coming up last night, thought I would try to get a picture but this is as good as I could get, still pretty tho!