We finished up today putting in our cookie order. It's been a busy couple of weeks in that department. But, very rewarding! Liv sold about 400 Girl Scout Cookies! Thanks to EVERYONE who helped her. It's going to bring a good chuck of change to our Troop, letting us be flexible with what we do this next year. Thank you, thank you, thank you for all the lovely people who bought cookies. We truly appreciate it. Now we get a bit of a break before all or cookies arrive about the first week in March. Then it will be SUPER busy trying to get everyone their orders. We kick of this weekend with our first over night trip to Camp Treefoil. Mommy has been working hard to put it all together. We are super excited to meet lots of new people and go have some fun in the snow! While we are off having a weekend with the Girl Scouts, Josh is planning to hike into his Aunt Stephanies cabin to spend the weekend. The last rummor we heard was 8 feet of snow. He better be safe!
We spent Saturday, the 29th, at the Guns and Hoses Charity Hockey Game. It has become an annual tradition. One I look forward to! The Hoses had a rough year and lost 10-4. It was still an interesting game. The Grizzlie Game after was good also and they won 4-0. It was nice to spend the day with the family and friends for a fun and good cause. Josh and I got home really late, I talked everyone's ear off till amost two in the morning. Yikes! Time sure does fly when you are having fun! Thanks for everyone who joined us and Grandma Ginger for watching the girls while we had an adult evening out. I look forward to our day of hockey again next year!
Monday, January 31, 2011
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Girl Scouts
It's official, Mommy and I are now Girl Scout Leaders of the Brownie Troop 106! We have teamed up with a new friend Allison to help us lead these sweet girls! So far we have four girls in our troop and have room for two more, if anyone is interested. All are 2nd grade girls so that they can move up in Girl Scouts together. It's been very fun getting this going and we have lots to do still. Our timing is kind of crazy because it coincides with the Girl Scout Cookies going on sale. We have actually started selling Cookies before we have had our first meeting, which is Friday! We will be meeting twice a month on Fridays for our troop meetings. But, there always seems to be something fun planned in between. We are going to our first over night camp the first weekend in February at Camp Treefoil. Olivia is beyond excited to be doing all these new things. Especially Selling COOKIES!
If you are interested in buying some cookies send me a message. We will be selling them until the end of the month. You pay when we deliver them, which should be the first week in March. All boxes are still $3.50 each. The list of cookies are:
Monday, January 17, 2011
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Happy 2011
We rolled in the New Year... BARELY. It was pretty boring at midnight, Josh was playing WOW and I was working. Though the peeps at work and I toasted sparkling cider. Very festive! We had our Taylor Family Party on New Years Day. That was a down right wonderful way to start the New Year. We opened our Time Capsule
It was fun to see how everyone had changed in the last ten years. We also wrote letters to ourselves about what we wanted to be doing in ten years. We put in the time capsule something that represented one of our our greatest achievements. I put in my first oil painting.
It's good to see it again, and I hope it motivates me to do some art again. In my letter, my goals were to be married, happy and a mother. Just to name a few. The big one I didn't keep was to still be painting. Gotta get going on that one, art used to bring me lots of happiness.
Liv and Jorja with Great Grandma Taylor
It was great to be all together as a family. We played some fun games that helped us learn some things about my Grandma and Grandpa Taylor. It was fun to go down memory lane with my Grandma.
We quickly got into the Birthday Mode after New Years. January is a very busy month for Birthdays in our family. My nephew Jaye turned three on the 3rd, we had a fun get together at his house to celebrate.
The cupcakes were very yummy that Lindz made.
Jaye was so funny slurping up the soup Grandma Launi made him for the shin-dig.
Atticus is getting so big... well sort of. He is crawling and moving like CRAZY. He's into EVERYTHING. He is my little pixie elf. Can't get enough of my cute boys!
Daddy and Sherrie helping us party!
Jorja and Jaye played and played in this new Toy Story seat that Grandma Launi got Jaye for his Birthday. It was a big hit!
We then turned our efforts into planning Olivia's Birthday. I can hardly believe my little girl is EIGHT! I was freaking out! I was not ready for her to be grown up. I'm so proud of her and we had lots of fun celebrating her. We did family dinner on Sunday the 9th and then let her have an all friend party on her Birthday after school. It was the first year she has ever had just a friend party. She decided on a camping theme for her birthday this year. We had lots of fun planning everything. Of course she was SPOILED rotten! She is so lucky so many people love her.
For her family dinner she decided on Mac and Cheese and spinich. She's a simple girl. We did some chicken and jello salad to round the menu out. I fussed over the camping cake and I think it turned out great. Everyone seemed to enjoy it. Though, the Birthday girl thought it was her best one yet. Which makes all the mess and stress worth it. We had a wonderful evening with the family celebrating. I'm glad it all worked out. Thanks to EVERYONE who made it possible. I had lots of help!
Grandma Launi and I fussed over the Friend party on her Birthday. I would have been lost without her help. Uncle Blake let us borrow his tent and we put it up in the big room. We moved the Christmas tree(minus the ornaments) out by the tent and layed out all our sleeping bags. It was great fun. We had the kids sing camp songs, put together first aide kits, and made a little bag they decorated with foamies to hold all their party goodies. Which we filled with a flashlight, little creatures, glow sticks and smore's treats. I think it all went well. We ended with presents which we opened in the tent and Smore's brownies with candles in it. They did not eat those in the tent though. =0)
I hope all the kids had fun, I know Olivia did and really that's all that mattered.
The funny thing was when the party ended. We didn't plan ANYTHING after that. Which means we ended up at IHOP for dinner. It went over well. Liv was happy and we didn't have to cook or clean up more of a mess. Plus for all!
It took me a few days to recover from those two days of fun. Which meant... on to the the next Birthday!
My amazing Mother turned 55 on Saturday the 15th! We spent the day out getting our nails done, shopping and then we ended up out to dinner with the family at Lorena's Mexican Restaurant. Hopefully she had a GREAT day... because no one deserves it more. I hope ALL her Birthday wishes come true. I know she is keeping her fingers crossed for a judge to rule on one of her wishes. We are all keeping our fingers crossed for her!
For Sunday dinner we had to have cake and sing happy Birthday. It was fun to end the day playing Settlers together. I hope she enjoyed her weekend and we all had lots of fun celebrating her day. I have the best Mommy in the whole world! She always goes ABOVE and beyond the expectation. She is my hero and I would be lost without her. She deserves all the happiness in the world.
Happy Birthday Mommy!
Josh's Birthday is on the 21st... so look for MORE Birthday pictures soon!
It was fun to see how everyone had changed in the last ten years. We also wrote letters to ourselves about what we wanted to be doing in ten years. We put in the time capsule something that represented one of our our greatest achievements. I put in my first oil painting.
It's good to see it again, and I hope it motivates me to do some art again. In my letter, my goals were to be married, happy and a mother. Just to name a few. The big one I didn't keep was to still be painting. Gotta get going on that one, art used to bring me lots of happiness.
Liv and Jorja with Great Grandma Taylor
It was great to be all together as a family. We played some fun games that helped us learn some things about my Grandma and Grandpa Taylor. It was fun to go down memory lane with my Grandma.
We quickly got into the Birthday Mode after New Years. January is a very busy month for Birthdays in our family. My nephew Jaye turned three on the 3rd, we had a fun get together at his house to celebrate.
The cupcakes were very yummy that Lindz made.
Jaye was so funny slurping up the soup Grandma Launi made him for the shin-dig.
Atticus is getting so big... well sort of. He is crawling and moving like CRAZY. He's into EVERYTHING. He is my little pixie elf. Can't get enough of my cute boys!
Daddy and Sherrie helping us party!
Jorja and Jaye played and played in this new Toy Story seat that Grandma Launi got Jaye for his Birthday. It was a big hit!
We then turned our efforts into planning Olivia's Birthday. I can hardly believe my little girl is EIGHT! I was freaking out! I was not ready for her to be grown up. I'm so proud of her and we had lots of fun celebrating her. We did family dinner on Sunday the 9th and then let her have an all friend party on her Birthday after school. It was the first year she has ever had just a friend party. She decided on a camping theme for her birthday this year. We had lots of fun planning everything. Of course she was SPOILED rotten! She is so lucky so many people love her.
For her family dinner she decided on Mac and Cheese and spinich. She's a simple girl. We did some chicken and jello salad to round the menu out. I fussed over the camping cake and I think it turned out great. Everyone seemed to enjoy it. Though, the Birthday girl thought it was her best one yet. Which makes all the mess and stress worth it. We had a wonderful evening with the family celebrating. I'm glad it all worked out. Thanks to EVERYONE who made it possible. I had lots of help!
Grandma Launi and I fussed over the Friend party on her Birthday. I would have been lost without her help. Uncle Blake let us borrow his tent and we put it up in the big room. We moved the Christmas tree(minus the ornaments) out by the tent and layed out all our sleeping bags. It was great fun. We had the kids sing camp songs, put together first aide kits, and made a little bag they decorated with foamies to hold all their party goodies. Which we filled with a flashlight, little creatures, glow sticks and smore's treats. I think it all went well. We ended with presents which we opened in the tent and Smore's brownies with candles in it. They did not eat those in the tent though. =0)
I hope all the kids had fun, I know Olivia did and really that's all that mattered.
The funny thing was when the party ended. We didn't plan ANYTHING after that. Which means we ended up at IHOP for dinner. It went over well. Liv was happy and we didn't have to cook or clean up more of a mess. Plus for all!
It took me a few days to recover from those two days of fun. Which meant... on to the the next Birthday!
My amazing Mother turned 55 on Saturday the 15th! We spent the day out getting our nails done, shopping and then we ended up out to dinner with the family at Lorena's Mexican Restaurant. Hopefully she had a GREAT day... because no one deserves it more. I hope ALL her Birthday wishes come true. I know she is keeping her fingers crossed for a judge to rule on one of her wishes. We are all keeping our fingers crossed for her!
For Sunday dinner we had to have cake and sing happy Birthday. It was fun to end the day playing Settlers together. I hope she enjoyed her weekend and we all had lots of fun celebrating her day. I have the best Mommy in the whole world! She always goes ABOVE and beyond the expectation. She is my hero and I would be lost without her. She deserves all the happiness in the world.
Happy Birthday Mommy!
Josh's Birthday is on the 21st... so look for MORE Birthday pictures soon!
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