Christmas Trees and Pie!

Our Christmas tree this year.

The family at Annette's Christmas party.

Grandma and Grandpa Taggart with Colby and Brie

We've been having a lot of fog out here and it makes everything frosty.



The candy man can.

Johnny Mathis parody "Marshmallow World". Airie and Abram performing the time awaited sock puppet theater.
Colby's reaction to the disturbing performance by David, Autumn, and Leslie's Hannah Montana Christmas.
David's disturbing performance, yikes!

Enjoying the talent show.

Grandma Barker performing "Six Pink Peppermints for Christmas".

Brie as one of the Wise Men and Colby as a sheep. Cutie patooties!

The Nativity gang.

Daddy and son sheep.

Colby the sheep observing the baby Jesus.

Colby hugging Santa.

Brie and Colby helping Santa hand out presents.

The family at the end of the Barker Christmas party. You can see that Brie is ready to go home.

Occupational Therapy for the Colbyman

Colby has been going to Occupational therapy every other week for the past few months. I thought I would give a little update on how he is doing. As you can see in the pictures there are a lot of fun things to do. His therapist, Aimee has him crawl over those big pillow looking things to strengthen his core and arms. The activity in the picture is one of Colby's favorite things to do. He builds up the big blocks and then slides into them to knock them down. Other activities include swimming in the ball pit to find a lost toy or scooting in the body scooter to strengthen his arms. To work on fine motor skills Aimee takes a big gob of 'theripuddy' (it's like silly puddy) and hides coins and buttons in it then she has Colby find them in the puddy. It strengthens his fingers. Colby loves the hour of play and gets a really good workout too. At home we try and work on the same things. Brie has been a big help in getting Colby to run and jump to be as active as she is. Colby loves to write his letters and is getting better at holding a crayon or marker. We have found that if the writing instrument is short and fat that he has more success in holding it. He is improving in so many ways and is more tolerant of his surroundings. He is enjoying preschool and is learning to play with others and follow directions in the classroom. We are proud of Colby and glad that he is progressing so well.

Twitard sees New Moon!

I went to go see the much anticipated 'New Moon' movie on Saturday with a couple of my friends. I have had my tickets for weeks and have been looking forward to seeing this movie. By posting this blog I am admitting to my nerdy addiction to vampire love. I have kept my secret obsession under wraps but I just don't care anymore. At least I fit in the demographic this appeals to, 17 year old's and moms in their 30's. I guess there is just nothing more romantic than being in love with an undead. Okay to what I thought of the movie. I was going into this one with really low expectations because even though I love the books the first movie, Twilight, was pretty darn lame. New Moon exceeded my expectations. I loved it! Mind you it wasn't one of those films that all the Twihards call 'epic' but it got the job done for me. The action scenes were much better. The colors in the film were brighter and more vibrant than the first and the acting seemed to have improved. There wasn't anything about it that really bugged me except that at times Edwards lips were too red like he had lipstick on. All in all it gave life for two hours to a wonderful escape into my nerdy fantasies that is the Twilight saga.

Halloween Party!

We had our Halloween party at home this year with the Farmington Barker's and Airie and Abram. We had food, games and trick or treating. It was a great time had by all! Baron and I were dressed as an established 1950's couple. Brie was a beautiful hula girl and Colby was dressed as his idol, Thomas the Train.

Baron and I trying to capture the 50's culture of a 'good housewife'!

Okay, for those of you who know her, don't I look like Grandma Groberg?

Ah, the happy couple. Baron looks upset, I might have overcooked his pot roast! Shame!!!!

Cute little sweeties!!!

Airie and Abram as their pet rats, Moochie and Butters.

Paula and Laur dressed up as a gumball machine and Mr. Penny. Grandma's costume was a big hit with the kids. They would ask Grandpa for pennies to put in the gumball slot and out would pop a balloon(gumball). Very clever!!!

We had the kids paint a design on their pumpkin and then Baron would carve it out for them. This is Brie's cute kitty!

This is Colby's. He did such a good job at drawing this face for daddy to carve.

This is my attempt at carving into the flesh of the pumpkin without going all the way through. It turned out okay.

Baron's Guillotine pumpkin.

Our porch with all the pumpkins lit!

Baron's School Projects

Dino Museum and The Circus!!!!

We went to the Dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving point for Autumn's birthday and the kids had a blast! This is a picture of Brie building her own prehistoric village.

T. Rex

Colby didn't want to play in the water and sand so he explored the dino games they had on the computer.

This big dinosaur had detachable limbs and heads to change and make your own. We ended up using almost all of the pieces, sooo much fun!

Colby and Brie by a baby Triceratops

JAWS!!!

Digging for dino bones!

Kids and Daddy hanging out on the rhino outside of the restaurant.

Mommy and Brie at the Ringling Brothers circus. Brie's white tiger snow cone cost TEN DOLLARS!!!! They really get you with the circus trinkets, GULP!

Daddy and Colby loving the circus!

Elephants on parade.

Tigers and the trainer, the whole families favorite part!!!