http://taylorsrus.com/wp taylors family website Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:32:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We're up in Tahoe for Paul to do some extended study time on Galatians and to have some nice family time in the evenings. And this morning is started snowing. We totally weren't expecting snow in April and it has been really warm here. But it was really coming down ... http://taylorsrus.com/wp/2008/04/15/snowing-in-tahoe/ Silas is really into Lightning McQueen from the movie Cars. A few months before his birthday we were in Michael's and he saw a Lightning birthday cake pan. I told him I'd make it for him on his birthday so we bought it. Somehow I forgot that cake decorating is ... http://taylorsrus.com/wp/2008/01/09/lightning-mcqueen-birthday/ We started what may end up being a family tradition today: a Christmas Eve hike. In between getting some last minute stuff done in the morning and other errands and getting to church by 5 PM, we got away to Fremont Older Open Space Preserve in Saratoga. It is so ... http://taylorsrus.com/wp/2007/12/24/christmas-eve-hike/ Here's another something we like to do in our house. The rules for the "naked" dance are that you must have your underwear (or diaper) on (so it's not really a naked dance), you must stay on the black carpet, and you must dance as long as the music is ... http://taylorsrus.com/wp/2007/12/14/christmas-naked-dance/ The holiday projects continue. We had an old fireplace insert in our fireplace when we bought the house, but it didn't work because the fan on it was broken. We wanted to be able to sit by the fire, so we took it out and just replaced it with a ... http://taylorsrus.com/wp/2007/12/09/fireplace/ We got this a few weeks ago, but I just now thought of posting it. Our little schoolgirl... http://taylorsrus.com/wp/2007/12/08/elianas-kindergarten-picture/ Well, after several mishaps, including (but not limited to): not having enough lights; having to wait for another weekend since it gets dark at 5 PM here now; realizing that the new sets of lights I got were shorter than the old ones; thinking that the gutter would be a ... http://taylorsrus.com/wp/2007/12/08/christmas-lights/ My latest thing is to call Ava a "turkey jerkey" just to hear her response. I think it's the cutest thing. Watch this video and listen for yourself... [flv:/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/ava_turkey_jerkey.flv 320 240] http://taylorsrus.com/wp/2007/12/06/turkey-jerkey/ Today we had another first tradition as a family: cutting down our own Christmas Tree. It was really fun. We traveled down to a Christmas Tree Farm just south of Los Gatos called Black Road Christmas Tree Farms. It's amazing that we can drive for 20 minutes and feel so ... http://taylorsrus.com/wp/2007/12/01/cutting-our-christmas-tree/ For the first time since we've been married, Rachel and I hosted Thanksgiving at our house. It was a really fun experience. Rachel's mom, Karen came the Saturday before and her brother, Paul, and his wife, Sarah, arrived on Wednesday morning. I volunteered to be in charge of the Thanksgiving ... http://taylorsrus.com/wp/2007/11/26/taylor-thanksgiving/