Snow!!

It snowed a few weeks ago...which means that we, of course, bundled up the little man and let him run around outside for a little bit. And when I say "run around", I mean stand in one spot while Daddy pelted him with snowballs. But he had a great time and for days afterwards would go to the window and say "SNOW!" (which was actually 'snow' without the "s"). Here are couple pics.

I'm ready to go, Mommy!

Everyone was outside having a great time.

My mom and I took a quick trip to NC last weekend. The main reason was so that she could talk to some companies about the hill right behind the house. Unless we do something to stabilize it, it's going to wash away. She talked to 3 guys and we're waiting for estimates. Interestingly, all 3 had different suggestions on what to do.

We also did a little shopping and did a few more things in the house - hung some pictures, etc. It was really nice to sleep in every day. :)

Here's me on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

We were on our way to Blowing Rock for some shopping.

The Blue Ridge Mountains - beautiful! Downtown Crumpler. Really.

(The town our vacation home is in.)

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!"