School Christmas party

The class started out the party with a book exchange!

This is Ms. Williams. Izabella gave her a foot massager for Christmas, it looked like a pair of froggy slippers!

Then it was time to make "gingerbread" houses. So cool the way they did it. A little milk carton, graham crackers, cake frosting and decorations. They turned out pretty good, I think.

And, then it was time for some good ol' silliness!

Girls just wanna have FU-UN!!

1. Turn the music off at the bottom of the blog...
2. Turn your speakers up!
3. Hit play...
4. Sit back and enjoy the show!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Merry Christmas Everyone!!!

Merry Christmas Everyone, thank you for all the gifts. Our only wish is that we could've been with everyone, but we love and miss you all so much! Thanks for making our Christmas so wonderful!!

Happy Birthday Taylor Rae!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR TAYLOR!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!

It's hard for me to believe you are 17 today! It makes me think back to when you were a baby and what JOY you have brought to our lives and what a beautiful young lady you have become. I love you like my own and your sister adores and idolizes you. I love to see the 2 of you together, it's always so much laughter and fun. We can't wait to see you in a few weeks!

Love, Dad, Susan and Izabella

All I want for Chri-th-ma-th is my 2 front teeth!

I knew it wouldn't be long until that other one came out. This one was a little traumatic. So far, each of her teeth have come out differently, this one was no exception. It has be dangling for about 3 days now and this time Izabella thought she could pull this one out all by herself. She started to pull it out and the minute there was blood involved, then came the tears. She wouldn't let Daddy look at it and I heard her calling for me. When I got upstairs I asked her to let me see it and literally it was just hanging so I just pinched it and it came right out. OMG! what an ordeal! It took a few minutes but then came the smiles! I thought I would also give you all a look back at the past teeth that have come out. I can't believe we are up to 5 already! AND, there's one more on the bottom that won't be too far behind this last one.

Time to play catch up....again!

Taylor's Grandfather bought her a new car about a month ago. One of those everything presents for the next 5 years all rolled into one :) She drove herself down here for Thanksgiving, we met her in Chattanooga just to make sure she knew how to get here from there. She did great and now, she gets to do it from now on. It's a great "first" car (technically her 3rd, but this one is HERS!) She loves it as you can imagine!

Sisterly love...

Thanksgiving recap...

Deck the halls...

He loves me, he loves me not....

So, we found this little hole in the wall mexican restaurant near our house that we just love. Viva Mexico! Izabella has a crush on one of the waiters there, his name is Oscar! He waits on us all the time, it makes me wonder if he remembers us, the way that Izabella remembers him. One time, she ordered a strawberry daquari and when he brought it to her he touched the back of her head and when he walked off she said, "I think he loves me too!" so stinkin cute!

The last time that we were there, Steve made sure to ask for his section. Izabella gets very shy when he's around, but by the end of the dinner she's got some nerve up, so this time she wrote him this little letter. I thought it was so cute that I took a picture of it with my cell phone (that's why the quality is so bad!) He was very sweet when she gave it to him, she can't wait to see him again!