Good Bye House

Praise the Lord!!! Our house in Palisade has been on the market for 16 months, and it is sold. This is kind of a bittersweet day, we liked our house, we liked Palisade, and we have considered moving back more than once. BUT......we feel like we are where God wants us. The twins are doing so good here. We have good jobs and are making more friends all of the time.

A Tooth!!!

Ryan has a tooth! Well, sort of.....it has broken the skin. This one is on the bottom, I can see two more on the top but they are not through yet. Pictures will follow when it is big enough to see.

Giggle Baby

Clifton was laying in the recliner with Ryan the other night and was tickling him. He was laughing pretty hard, but pretty soon the tables were turned. Ryan found a ticklish spot on Cliff and had him laughing too. I sent Nate to take a picture but..........Cliff had just gotten out of the shower and was in his underwear. If you want to make him mad, take a picture of him in his underwear.

Jumping brothers

The twins were on the trampoline the other night and I put Ryan up there with them for a few minutes. He loved it! He was laughing so hard. It was really cold though, so I didn't let him stay for long. His brothers spend a lot of time out there and really enjoy taking Ryan too.

Ryan's first combine ride

Grandpa and Ryan after Ryan's first combine ride. He wanted to pull all of the bright orange levers, but Grandpa wouldn't let him this time. Ryan and Daddy in the tractor pulling the grain cart. He tried to drive, but Dad said not this year. Maybe next year?

Corn Harvest

My parents purchased a bagger this year so that they can store their corn on the edge of the field and have it shipped at a later date. This makes it possible to capture some better prices and cuts down on harvest freight expenses. Here is Mom standing next to the bagger. Each bag holds about 8,000 bushels, or 8 semi loads of corn. Here they come!
Ryan's first combine ride. He was so excited to see the corn go into the head that he would not even look to the side to see Daddy in the tractor next to us. (He always looks for Daddy when we talk about him.)
Corn from the grain cart into the bagger.

Ryan 8 1/2 months old

Ryan is getting ready to crawl. He was up on his toes and hands right before I snapped the picture. Ryan "helping" with laundry. This is his favorite activity right now.
Teething on a rubber ducky that looks like a tiger. He loves the little ducky's from Dairy Queen.
Ready to chomp on that duck.

Pumpkin Patch

Uncle Jake put each of the boys in the tree to get their picture taken. Here is Cody.Collin with his prize hat from the run.
Nate looking thrilled as ever.
Cliff? Apparently the photographer didn't get the picture snapped of Cliff, but she tried!
Nate and Cliff playing tic tac toe and eating some lunch. We had a great day!

Pumpkin Run

The Taylor Boys ran in the Pumpkin Run on Saturday. Cody and Collin came down from Brownlee to take part and Nate and Cliff. Here they are before the race: Cody, Nate, Cliff, and Collin

Collin coming up to the finish line with Uncle Jake and Grandpa running along side.
Nate is the one in red back a little bit.
Some how, I missed Cody and Cliff coming up to the finish line. They usually run together. All of the boys did a great job and we are so proud of them!!!

Daniel Study

I am joining many of the ladies from our church in a Daniel Bible Study via correspondence course. I wanted so badly to drive to Imperial on Wednesday evenings to join them, but it just was not working out. Terri got me the Cd's so that I can listen to them and do the homework even though I am not there. I had an hour of uninterrupted drive time this morning, so I listened to Session 2. It is so AWESOME!!!! I am so excited about what God is teaching me and that a group of us 38 (last I knew) strong can study this together! It is so powerful! Thanks Terri for making sure that I could participate when I was going to give up.

It's Harvest Time!!

Hi all! Time for a Taylor family update......Joshua had an unfortunate situation occur at work last week. He now has a 30 day vacation from the rail road. My dad was really needing some help to get started with harvest, so Josh will be spending his weeks in Dundy County and coming home on Saturday nights. While this is not the most ideal of circumstances, God always has a plan. We had signed up for a Dave Ramsey Financial Peace University class on Sunday nights. Josh had been working a day shift Sunday - Thursday, so a Sunday evening class was doable. They rebid last week and he is now on a night shift Sunday - Thursday. I went to the first class by myself. Anyway, because of the layoff, Josh got to go with me last night and will get to go every week until he goes back to work! We need this class desperately, so I am very excited. I think Josh enjoyed it more than he thought he would.

The boys are tickled because they get to have a cute little babysitter every Sunday evening.