So I'm doing pretty good if I post once a month. :)

Noah is now 21 months old and he is saying new words every day - it's so cool. I went to NC for 5 days and when I got back he was saying 'phone' and 'bus'. His favorite phrase lately is "all done", which means he wants to leave the dinner table. Here are a few recent pictures, including one from last weekend when Trevor took Noah to the North Texas Irish Festival!

Frightening leprechaun, but Noah wasn't scared!

Just chillin' in the car...

Do you think this pot holder is too big?

While we were in MD, Trevor got to take a "Discovery Flight". If you are interested in getting your pilot's license, you can sometimes take one of these flights from a local school. It's supposed to get you all psyched up about flying. Trevor isn't getting his pilot's license, but he took the flight anyway just for the experience. It looked like so much fun and he said he had a great time. They take you up for about 30 minutes and then they let you take over and fly! How cool is that?

Other flight pics: http://www.taylorzoo.com/gallery/xmas_2007_flight

While in MD, Trevor and I took a short trip to Washington, DC. It was way too cold and rainy, so it was kind of a crappy trip, but I'm sure we'll have plenty of opportunities to go back. We stayed in the Air & Space Museum for a while because it was so warm. :)

The Constitution of the United States

The space suits were really cool

The Capitol...from afar

Advice from the 50s on what to wear on a plane. Greatness!

National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial - names of thousands of fallen officers are etched on these walls

Link to all DC pictures: http://www.taylorzoo.com/gallery/xmas_2007_DC

We spent Christmas in Baltimore. My grandparents, brother & his wife, aunt & uncle, cousins, etc., all live there, so we go every year. Noah still doesn't understand what Christmas is all about, but he had a great time opening his gifts.

Quit tickling me, Uncle Rich!

Link to our Christmas picture gallery: http://www.taylorzoo.com/gallery/xmas_2007

Did you miss me?

I know I haven't updated the blog in a while. I wasn't able to add any pictures to my online photo album because I ran out of space. So, I made all of the pictures smaller and reposted them all...which caused my host to shut my gallery down completely because I was using too much bandwidth. Oops.

But I'm all set now and will try to catch up on a few things...here goes.

Trevor graduated from college on Saturday! He jokes that it took him 17 years, but I am so proud of him. He received a Bachelor in Criminal Justice & Criminology AND he graduated Cum Laude.

Here we are after graduation (and after I changed Noah into his jammies for the trip home).

Here's Noah & Grampy watching the graduation. Noah very politely clapped when everyone else did. :)

"Stop with the tassle, Dad!"

I have sucked at keeping up with this blog, as I feared I would. Mostly because I hate Blogger. I'm sure it's me, but every picture I upload looks like crap - and I had to remove the "Pic of the Week" feature because those pictures went way beyond crap and looked like total shit. All pixel-ly and everything. If someone wants to tell me what I'm doing wrong, I'm all ears. I've tried resizing and resampling and re-everything else.

We went to the Frisco Police Department Christmas party on Dec 6th. For those with kids, you drop off a gift at the PD before the party and then Santa comes and hands the gifts out to each child. Noah wasn't too sure of Santa...

...but he was happy to get his favorite kind of toy - a "BALL!"

Last Sunday we went over to Amanda & Cameron's new house to watch the Cowboys beat the Giants. Noah wore his new jersey so he could look just like dad.

Halloween! This was Noah's second Halloween, but his first one for Trick or Treating. We just went to the houses on our little section of the street (11 houses). He walked up to each door and said Trick or Treat (Mommy helped him a bit, of course) and put the candy into his pumpkin basket. He had no clue what was going on, but seemed to have a good time.

After Trick or Treating we hung out at the house and handed out candy to the other kids. Four of Noah's grandparents (my parents and Trevor's parents) came up to see him, which was fun. We had a ton of kids come by. The house across the street had a huge Halloween display, as always. It was really fantastic.

Here is Noah, dressed as a golfer. His dad picked out the costume - surprise!

Helping dad hand out candy. Me & Mom at the house across the street. I didn't know that I was supposed to be scared.
Dad's already trying to train me. Here I am with his new golf club.
Hanging out on the front stoop...just about ready to head to bed. It was a fun night!