Taylor comes to play........

Yay! Taylor came to visit us over her Spring Break last week. She got here on Friday before Steve's birthday and was able to spend his birthday and Easter with us this year. It's been a long time since that's happened, if ever! The day I picked Taylor up, I took off work to go to school with Izabella to attend her Easter egg hunt and party there and then we left and hit the road. We met Tay about 3 o'clock and then headed back home. We spent the rest of that day and night shopping for Daddy's birthday presents. Then the 3 of us girls went to our favorite Mexican restaurant for dinner. Izabella loves this place because they have the Mariachi band and a big stage that she's always to afraid to get on, but she loves it anyway! Then it was home. Taylor got to go to Izabella's first soccer game which was so cool to Izabella. We think they actually won the game, although there's no real score keeping at this stage. But, Taylor thought it was cute and they ended up in the backyard at least once a day practicing, which was fun to watch. Daddy was in WI and came home on Saturday, his birthday. We had planned on going out to dinner, but he'd had a long day getting home due to weather delays and he wasn't up for going out. So, we ordered in pizza instead and then opened presents and had cake. The cake was fun! I ended up having to make 2 of them because I let Izabella help me and she set the oven too high and I didn't notice it until I pulled out 2 chocolate hockey pucks and knew that meant I had to start all over. This is one of those times where it's nice that Taylor can drive because she was out the door before I could even ask her! I swear any excuse to get behind the wheel! I remember those days......we also started dying a bunch of easter eggs too! We took Soxy to the dog park on Sunday and it ended up being a lot colder that it was supposed to be so we didn't stay too long. We just ended up hanging out at the house and staying up way too late, just talking.

I took Mon, Tues and Wed off so I could spend some time with Taylor since every other time she comes I'm working. The school schedules are different here so everyone was in school. We did a lot of shopping, got my hair done, got our toes done. Oh yeah, we went to check out the high school that Taylor would be going to if she decides to move in with us before next year. She was nervous because this school is much bigger than the one she goes to now. But, it's not too far from our house and we talked to the counselor about all the things we need to get in place and done before the next school year starts. So, now it's up to Taylor to decide what she wants to do, we'll see what happens here but we'd love to have her and I know it would just make Izabella the happiest little sister ever!

On Wed, Steve, Tay and I went to Izabella's school and Taylor read to her class before lunch. We stayed and ate lunch with her and she just loved that. She was sad though when we left because she wanted to go with us, but she couldn't. They eat lunch at 10:21 in the morning so it was a bit hard for the 3 of us to eat school food that early in the morning. But, we managed! I went back to work the rest of the week and Friday night we took the girls to Chili's and then to see Horton hears a who, because Taylor was leaving on Saturday. We didn't get home until about 10:30 which Izabella just loved! But, by the time we pulled up I think she'd passed out in the car, but she was adamant about the fact that she wasn't tired!! Too funny! Doesn't want to miss anything.

I have a ton of Easter pictures from the city egg hunt, the school egg hunt and the one we did at home in the front yard. While Izabella was looking for the eggs that were clearly in plain site, I was telling Taylor about how when David, Carrie and I were little we'd have Easter Egg hunts at Auntie Ann and Uncle Rob's house. That was some fun back then! I remember the house was always decorated for every holiday and Easter was no exception! Anyway, I'll put together a little slide show with all the pictures from Taylor's visit and put them up over the weekend!

Take care everyone! Until next post............