A New Year!

Okay, since the last time I posted we have turned the calendar from November to December and now January. So much to fill you all in on. I will do my best this week to get you all up to speed on our Christmas festivities and also explain the latest with Taylor's health.

December was filled with much craziness. Not only were we busy with Christmas activities, shopping, decorating, baking, wrapping, church, etc. We also had a nice round of the stomach flu which affected all of us and kept us down for a while. We were also nice enough to pass it on the Neal's mom since she cared for the kids while I was sick (kind of hard to be a mom when you can't make it out of the bathroom for more than 10 minutes - uggh!).


Thankfully that passed and we haven't had too many germs since.


The month started with a trip to Homestead Christmas Tree farm to pick out the Austin Family Christmas Tree for 2008. We chose a skinny one this year because we had to gate it off thanks to Mr. I Get Into Everything These Days (aka Bryce). Luckily our friends the Drowns had extra gate to loan us (they had to do the same thing at their house for twice the reason - twins boys). Thanks Ryan and Holly for helping our tree stay pretty and presents remain wrapped until Christmas arrived :)!


Heading out to find the perfect tree.

Taylor enjoying the first snow of the season. Sure wish we would get more so she can go sledding. She asks about every day. :)




Bryce walking in snow for the first time.

This is the one. Neal found one he liked - I found one I liked - Taylor had the final say.

Stayed tuned...look for more posts this week. Thanks for checking in with us.

More later...