Monday, December 22, 2014

Finals, Finished, Festivities

Taylor finished his finals!

We celebrated by playing nerf wars! Even Tannin joined in:
"What the...?"

*Scared*

"I can't believe you guys."
I"m done with this game.  I just want to eat and sleep.
I made a statue of Jesus with little children, with my mom

Now that Taylor is done with this semester, we started watching this TV show "The Normal Life of Gortimor Gibbons."
This little kid's last name is Justice, but he looks like a tiny Taylor!
The story follows these 3 friends.

Taylor likes to do things big.  You know, go big or go home.  So he made these babies for the Drake Family Christmas party in West Point.


 Ogden Christmas Village






Our cute stockings are hung!


Mom Drake put our names on them for us.

 We had a Christmas dinner at Grandma and Bill Shepherd.  Grandma made us this nice Christmas towel.

Sunday, December 14, 2014

Tantrums, New Skills, and Music

We had to renovate Tannin's cage last week to completely stick her cork crawling wall against the glass cage.  Used some cement-like glue.

To do so, we had to let the wall set for 24 hours, so we put Tannin in a smaller cage....
 And that's when Tannin learned how to throw a tantrum...
"It's...So...SMALL!!!!"
Seriously, look how she pouts.  I guess Santa's not bringing her a present.
She was so happy when it was done setting.  She loves climbing her sturdy wall!
 And asking to play.

Thanks, Mom and Dad!

 We enjoyed dinner at Gpa Luzitano's and Terry's.  We decorated their tree and made ornaments with some of Terry's grandkids.  Then during dinner, the tree fell on one of the little kids b/c we decorated the front too much...
No one was hurt in the making of these ornaments.
Ornament on the left is a sick Santa after Rudolph flew through  turbulence... 
Tannin hit a big milestone at 10 months:  learning to walk!  ...On the roof!
The roof is mesh metal and she learned she could grasp it with her claws.
She did fall a few times....Taylor got an action shot when he was trying to take a picture of her on the ceiling....
Geronimo!
Also, take note, falling a few times did NOT deter Tannin from doing it again and again...
 Here she is while we were eating dinner....
Whatctha doin'?  Oh, you know, just hanging out....
We decided to go shopping together for each other's Christmas gifts, and Taylor became distracted, and found 2 nerf guns!  So this happened....Spy Wars!!

He was lucky.  Just a few more inches...
We went to Peter and the Star Catcher play at Pioneer Theatre.
We were supposed to show up an hour early for Tay's free tickets. So we ate a Toblerone while waiting.
Sunday morning we went to Music & the Spoken Word featuring the MoTab and Sesame Street Muppets.
And in other news, this tree looks weird.
They were coveted tickets!  Luckily my parents got some for us!

Saturday, December 6, 2014

highLIGHTS!

Making Christmas cookies with my Mom.
 They are the yummiest!

I had to drop off an IV pump from work in Sandy, so Taylor and I stayed afterwards to go to Festival of Trees.

Temple Gingerbread houses.

Frosty  made of frosting!

And oh so many trees...

 Taylor found the coolest playhouse ever there....Steamboat Willie!

Friday night we walked SLC downtown.
Rudolph under the mistletoe at the Grand America.

Red and green and a little white....

Saying hi to the Deer family staying at the Grand America.

Life size gingerbread home!  Smells so good!

Lights at Temple Square!

Tay took a career test for fun, and here are his results:

Notice #1 and #3.  Pretty much a perfect match.

 I wanted to take it too, and here are my results.  We thought it was pretty cool because the questions it asked didn't seem to make any sense, but I guess it works well. Haha!
Looks like I made a good choice!  #7

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

After Thanksgiving we started decorating for Christmas!
(By after Thanksgiving, we mean Thanksgiving Dinner...)

Our Christmas wreathes up on the doors!

Santa Clause Advent Calendar / Putting up the tree

All merry and bright!
With an elf stuck in the tree....

Window gel deco!  Taylor-Snowman and Kelsey-Snowwoman will always hold hands....

Setting up our Dollar Store Christmas Village!


A blustery day...

Taylor and Kelsey cuddling on a bench.
And our annual gingerbread house!