Merry Christmas 2009

We loved spending the holidays with all of our loved ones. We feel thankful to have so many of our family members near to us, and cousins for Tag to grow up with. I hope your Christmas was splendid as well! Tag in his Christmas Eve Jams.

He was pretty stoked about wearing Elmo all over his body.

If he could, he'd probably cut off Elmo's skin and wear it to his birthday party:)

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas tree,

I love to trim you

at 75% off from last year's sales...Score!

Delish Chocolate Pomegranate Cake

I made for Christmas Eve.

My gifts to the girls. I was so excited to give these!
It made for a lovely Christmas season listening to Christmas music
while sewing these for the gals I love.

Abel grandkids
Doing what he does best!

This just makes me laugh. What cuties!

Tag's first Caterpillar from Grandpa Bush.

Grandma Bush with Kaleb & Maliya.

Christmas Card 2009

Dang it, Tag, Smile!

I'm afraid we have completely passed over that stage where Tag will smile at anyone on cue. We've also passed that stage where pictures are fun and easy. These sure weren't simple like the old days, but after just a few tantrums, running full speed away from us, and some serious coercion, I think we got some great family pictures;) Thanks, Amanda!

I love this one. That little boy has my heart

in the palm of his little hand.

Tag's First REAL Haircut

I know I was doing an awesome job of cutting his hair without any beautician training, but we decided to treat Tag with a professional cut before family pictures. Lucky guy. We even took him to Cookie Cutters where he got to play in a little car and watch Elmo. $17 dollars later he was looking just spiffy....back to mom haircuts:)

Weird thing is I didn't even get an final picture of his do!? You'll have to look at our Christmas card pics.

Thanksgiving 2009

We are so lucky to have two Thanksgiving celebrations. This year we went with the Abel Family the Sunday prior to Thanksgiving. My mom did a beautiful job as always, and the kids were stoked about their new table.

I didn't do so great with pictures. Sadly, I didn't get any from the Taggart celebration down south held by Karen. It was also beautifully decorated, with yummy food, and lots and lots of cousins to play with! We sure are grateful to have so much family near us!

New Moon

Opening night. We enjoyed: Costa Vida, Milk Duds, acting like 17 year olds, Jake, Edward, Bella's awkwardness, and starting yelling matches in the theatre for our fave man.

He we are at the junction celebrating Bella's B-day

before going in to stare at Jacob for 2 hours.

And, what is this Amanda? She's always complaining

about never being in pictures since she's a photographer,

then when I put her in one she makes a silly face;)

The Twilight Group: Me, Aunt Jo, Mom, Nikki, Amanda, Janet, Ketty

Till Eclipse Ladies.

Toddlerhood, you have arrived.

Lotion+Tag Boy=Messy combo

A Sleepy Hurrah for the Yanks Win!

Only true yankee fans keep their kid up till all hours

of the night to see his first World Series win;)

Halloween Night

Guess who we are!

The Man in the Yellow Hat with George.

He really doesn't have a name in the books,

but in the movie they named him Ted.

Professor Wiseman with George

We dropped by to see the Princess Ballerina.

Sweet Dorothy with the train engineers.

Cereal Killer.

So fun that Grandpa and Grandma Bush dressed up!

Really, isn't this idea great?

Katie made the costumes with felt, and her

necklace with marshmallows. I loved it,

and Amoree was a perfect Pebbles.

Yes, this was the best one I could get.

Boo at the Zoo & Black Island Farm

I'm quickly learning that whenever you have huge expectations for a fun time where you pay money and get all excited for your child's reaction is the same time they will be ornery, and been way happier to have stayed at home playing ball or watching Elmo. That kind of sums up Halloween for my darling Tag boy. Didn't really love being fussed over, but he is still the cutest monkey around.

Here we are at Boo at the Zoo where he was only nice to one person. Isaac.

To everyone else he was a kind of like that monkey who ripped that lady's face off.

Woo Hoo! A smile! See how cute he is!

Picking out our pumpkins on the hay ride at Black Island Farm.

Cousin Savana and Tag.

These were so stinkin fun!

If I remember right,

he wasn't so thrilled about dad sending him down on his own.

I love that he's not afraid of animals!

Llama.

Llama.

First Big Boy Hair Cut

Compliments of Mom and Dad. You can thank us later, Son.