A very Merry Christmas!

We had a great Christmas Eve and Christmas Day spent with all of our families. It was such a great year for us, we are so thankful to have Taegan here with us and to be able to be with our families. We spent Christmas Eve with Justin's side and Christmas Day with my side. Little Miss Taegan loved the paper and ribbons/bows. She was not much for the presents this year. Once I could get them out of the box and she could play with them she was a little more interested. She got tons of new toys and clothes...she also got some formula and diapers:) Thanks to both sets of our parents. That was very welcomed. We have been busy, busy, busy since I have been off for break-will it ever slow down?

A funny or not so funny story: The other night Justin got home late from work and I did not have dinner made so we decided with an hour before bathtime and bed that we would run out and get something to eat. Trying to save money we decided to go somewhere that we had a gift card to...all of which happen to be sit down places. Against our better judgement because of time we chose Chili's!!! There was no wait on a Friday night and we couldn't believe it. Sat right down in a two person booth with Taegan asleep in the car seat. This is going to work out after all-maybe. We waited ten minutes for the waitress to come take our drink order, but she would not take our meal order at this time. Just drinks and appetizer. She returned with that in about 5 minutes and took our order. Once this happens it all goes downhill. We did not see the waitress again for over 20 minutes. During this time we have empty drinks, empty chips and salsa, cold queso now because of no chips, Taegan is awake and sitting on my lap(in a small booth), and I am losing my patience. Another lady brings out our dinners and asks if there is anything else we need right now. Well, she got the brunt of my complaining. She returns with new drinks, chips and salsa and two free coupons for dessert! She also gets another earful because my meal is WRONG! So she takes it back and will have it made again. Still have not seen our waitress yet-Taegan is now eating snacks on my lap and drooling everywhere. A manager returns with my new food and refills our drinks again. I am heated!!! I take a few bites and the waitress returns to ask if there is anything else we need-are you kidding me? I tell her a box, the bill, and a manager! Taegan is now gagging on one of her snacks and begins THROWING UP all over my food.....WOW!!! At this point my food is ruined she is covered and I am covered. Justin puts his food in the box(that he went and got himself) and heads to the car with Taegan. I am waiting for her to return with the check-which she does and nothing has been adjusted on the bill. I lay into her about all the issues and to top it off my daughter just puked on everything. A manager comes over and asks about my night...lucky guy!!! Needless to say they took off my meal and I was on my way. This has to be one of the worst times we have had out to eat!!!

I will post pictures tomorrow....

So much to say...

Sorry it has been a few days since I have been on here. It has been crazy busy since I left on Christmas break from school. Just now getting a few minutes to update here to let you know what has been happening. I think we are all set and ready for Santa to come tonight! Should be fun...Taegan is getting into everything. She is now officially crawling for real. Look out world. You will see in the pictures all the fun things she is doing now that she can crawl and get anywhere she wants to! We are having Christmas tonight with Justin's parents and brothers and tomorrow morning we will do our own Christmas here at home. After that we head over to my parents to celebrate with them. Should be nice relaxing Christmas with lots of fun stories to share. For now-enjoy the pictures and have a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Taegan has learned how to open the bathroom drawer-no fun!
Little Miss Helper in the kitchen! She decided she wanted to mop!

This is what happens when mommy leaves the room for a minute, I come back to find the dog's water dish dumped over and her playing with it.

Here is Taegan playing with a cup while my mom and I baked away!!

Thanks for my new bows, Amy!!

Having fun playing in chocolate pudding. What a mess-but so fun to watch her!

Life is rough sometimes! I need a break.

Taegan has discovered the tree and the ornaments.

This is what you find when someone isn't tired at night...playing with her buddies!

1 more day...

Can you believe it?? One more day until my students are on Christmas Break. WOW-time flies. Taegan continues to cough miserably at night and is just overall under the weather. You would never know it until the evening, but she is just not feeling well. Poor thing. She has been up and down at night coughing. And getting in some good snuggle time with mom and dad to help her feel better. We are so excited for another Christmas this weekend, we are doing the big Ross one on Sunday. I have a day of baking with my mom on Friday night and can't wait. This is my favorite time of year and I love baking with her. I just can't wait until Taegan is old enough to help....or play in it! Should be a good time.

The cookie exchange last weekend was a hit-we got tons of great cookies. Justin and I had fun taste testing each one! Taegan had fun trying real bananas and yogurt. I think we have an eater on our hands. She loved it all!!!

I will post Friday:) When my break has started!!!!!

Nothing much...

We are just plugging along! It has been a busy week, but we are at the end of it. Tonight I have a Christmas party for the staff at my school which should be fun. Grandma and Grandpa will be watching Taegan tonight for us! Tomorrow morning at 8:30 we have a cookie exchange at my best friend's house. I am super excited for that...I can't wait to try all the new yummy cookies I will get! I spent last night baking my 6 dozen so that I can come home with a new 6 dozen cookies tomorrow. Like I really need 6 dozen? But who doesn't love new ideas??? The rule for the party is that you have to come in your pajamas. So that should be a fun one!!! Taegan has a new set of pajamas to wear for it:) I have some really cute ones of her in front of the tree playing with the lights that I will post this weekend.

Have a great weekend, we will be busy trying to eat 6 dozen cookies!!!

Christmas at Grandma's and a visit with Santa~

What a full weekend we had. Friday evening started it off with a visit to Santa at the mall. Taegan did great with Santa. She sat on his lap and clapped for him and really did well. The flash broke right as they were taking her picture so she had to sit there for about 5 minutes while they fixed it and did great. I was very happy with the pictures...

Then it was off to Grandma's Saturday around noon. We timed it just right so that she would nap for the two hour drive. She did great and woke up about 5 minutes outside of town. What a good girl. We had a great evening hanging out with everyone and catching up with the family. We relaxed and let the kids play. Taegan was pretty quiet and not herself as much as she usually is, but she was great nonetheless. Sunday morning arrived and it was her big day. Her first experience with presents and all the commotion. She decided to give Dad a nice wake up in the morning-
Once we got Dad up it was time to get all dressed up in her Christmas outfit and show the family. Here she is with Dad ready to go out and play with everyone.


We ate breakfast, played with cousins for a little bit and then it was time for presents. We were doing presents at about 10:15 which is prime naptime for Miss Taegan so she became rather fussy. She had been an angel the whole visit and decided that now that the whole family was all together in one room she needed to make a scene! Needless to say we quickly opened her presents and removed her from the center of the room. Here she is still pretty interested in the gifts.

Losing interest in the gifts rather quickly and deciding to cry instead....

Settling down for a few minutes with Grandma to play with a new toy....
And happy to have her shirt off(she was SOOO hot) and standing and playing away from the action while everyone else was opening theirs.

Overall, we had a super weekend and a blast with Justin's family!! I love going out there and spending time with them. We don't get to see them often at all so it was nice to have a night where we hang out and relax. Taegan did super well for her first stay over away from a familiar place. We expect to have more Christmas adventures as the month goes on! Hope everyone had a good weekend.

Oh yeah-we have tooth number 2!!!

A mess

Well, our house is still a disaster from taking out the decorations on Sunday! We have not had a chance to finish putting them up yet. The goal is to do it tonight and tomorrow night with hopes of taking Taegan to visit Santa on Friday night. We leave on Saturday after lunch to go to Grandma K's in Kanapolis!!! So we have no choice but to get it done soon. We are racing against time right now. I love the holiday season-but not if my house continues to look like this. I can't even walk through the basement of living room. What a mess.

On another note-Taegan had an accident Monday night. I was a cleaning fool and was in our bedroom cleaning. She was taking her bedtime bottle and was laying on the bed-can you see where this is going???? You guessed it, she finished her bottle and started rolling around to see me. I was watching her and we were talking and I bent down to pick up something and she rolled off the other side....how SCARY was that?? She was fine, but I was a mess that I let her do that. I mean really it was 10 seconds. No more laying on the bed unattended.

Happy Wednesday.

7 months old....

Check out little Miss Taegan!!!!!

Happy 7 months Peanut!!!!

My sweet little girl is 7 months old. She is growing so fast and changing so much we can hardly believe it. She LOVED Thanksgiving. Taegan got to try mashed potatoes and gravy which she could not get enough of. And she got some Cool Whip that she seemed to enjoy as well. Also, on Thanksgiving she decided to figure out this crawling thing and is now army crawling. She can't quite get her tummy off the ground-but she can get where she wants to go!!! She was 7 months old the day after Thanksgiving so these are all milestones she hit at the 7 month mark. Just this past Saturday she decided she wanted to clap as well-what a BIG girl she is getting. She loves clapping for herself and anyone else. She has also recently starting saying "da-da" and it actually sounds like that now. Although, I am not sure that she can put the word with Daddy. We have been working on that. Just last night she decided to say "ba" so we have now started calling her bottle "ba-ba" to try and associate that with the sounds she is making. And the last thing that has happened this month was that she has a tooth that has broke through the skin-and we did not even notice it from her behavior!!! What a difference a month makes for her. I can't wait to tell you what she is up to next month....

Family picture on Thanksgiving!

We are here:)

I know it has been a while since I have posted and I am so sorry. I have been really sick and have been home trying to get better for the last 6 days. Terrible sore throat, body aches, fever, really you name it and I have felt it. The doctor said no strep, but it is viral and could be mono. Needless to say-I think he could be right. I have had it before and this is what I felt like. Oh well-just plugging along. Gotta work and gotta get it done. So here we go with a NEW week for me:) Since I last posted we have been busy. We celebrated with my mom for her birthday-we went out to eat and then to the Cheesecake Factory. On our way there we stopped at Nordstroms to get little Miss Taegan some shoes. Grandma bought her some UGGS!!! and some little Pumas. She has better shoes now than I do. She also loved the car that she could sit in and make noise with and the horse she got to ride on. What a big gir she is getting to be!!!

Here is the fun car she rode in.
And the horse she played on!

Here she is in the bathtub without her seat anymore-big girl

sits in the bath all by her self and plays now.