Happy New Year!

So it's 11:30pm, and I'm trying to stay up and watch the ball drop in my time zone. We already saw the new york time, so I believe I'm good to go. Taylor and I are looking forward to a great 2008. We each have big birthdays this year. Taylor hits the double digits and I hit the big 40! Still trying to decide what to do for my big birthday. I guess it will all depend on the finances.



Here's tay and omni relaxing watching the ball drop in new york. I still fool her with the time zone issue. She stays up til midnight somewhere!

So whats all of your new years resolutions? Mine is still the same as last year....ORGANIZATION. I want to be organized in all aspects. Home, finance, work. I have succeeded in the work one. I am on the ball there, so this year I will tackle home and finance. Of course putting the finance part last. Home is about half way there. I got started a little late this year on my home improvements but they're coming along.

Now, for the rest of this week, I need to put away the xmas decorations. BUT FIRST get over this cold! I can't believe I picked up a bug after xmas. Taylor is on antibiotics too. We just have some bugs over here.

Have a great new year and lots of love and luck in 2008!

LOVE YA
Steph and Tay

Post Holiday Blahs....

So here we are 2 days after xmas and I'm tired. My sister, her husband and son came up for a visit..jeez I forgot how a little one can tire you out. (And I wasn't even the one taking care of him!) We had a great holiday. Taylor got many of her "list" items. She's very happy with Santa this year. Now it's time to clean up. That's the blah part!
So here are some pictures from the holidays....

David discovers his love of trampolines!


Courtney volunteered her services to help make some appetizers for everyone. She was very helpful even though she was fighting a cold!

The kids couldn't wait to open presents on christmas eve. All of taylors cousins were there for dinner. We had a full house! We also met our cousin rebeccas new man, mark. A very nice guy. It was nice to see laurie and rebecca again. I'm holding mark and rebecca to my wine date in the future!


David became friends with omni. (or rather omni gave up running from david) I think omni discovered the benefits of a toddler. David was omni's little salt lick! And oh boy, when david was done with dinner, omni went in an cleaned up the high chair. What a help!
We never really saw madison the cat. She saw david and the dog and took off for under my bed and didn't come out until today. She's still mad that the dog is here but at least she's roaming around the house now.
Taylor spent christmas eve night with her dad and his GF and her son. So she had to wait until she came home christmas day to open her presents. She was very excited that her uncle got her a keyboard so she can practice her piano skills.

Taylor and david loved their christmas presents. They played with them until it was time to go to grandmas for dinner.


My sister and her husband at moms on christmas day. They do this popper thing after dinner and everyone has to wear paper crowns. It's fun after a few glasses of wine!


Me and my bro being silly with our crowns. All in all a fun few days. I'm definately looking forward to some down time. Too bad there's some cleaning that is involved in that. If only I got a merry maids certificate. I'll ask santa for that next year.

Happy Holiday and a great new year!

Cold December Weekend

Well the big game was here saturday night and we lost. It was too bad, but the kids had a great season and were proud that they reached the championship. Their first time ever. This game was televised on FSN too. We have TV time outs. My cousin and her friends were also excited to be cheering in the Oakland Coliseum. Quite different from the High School bleacher experience. It was so cold at the game, but we had a great time. Even though our football team lost, our cheerleaders were better and our band was better. SO THERE!
How cute are these girls. This was their last football game to cheer for and they are sad it's over.
Taylor and her cousin Nick, stayed at my house and destroyed it with the babysitter. They were a little miffed that they couldn't go to the game, but they would have been miserable and in the end, they enjoyed the babysitter.

On Sunday we had a piano recital at school. I put her performance on the page. My little prodigy. It was a cute performance as seen below.

We also have the house decorated and put the tree up. .

It's small but does the job. Already the gifts are under taunting my child. HAHAHAHA. So we're ready for the christmas holiday. 2 weeks of school left and then VACATION.

Have a great holiday!