...Everything as loss...FOR GREAT GAIN

So I am behind again!!! After I wrote I had the beginnings of some major tooth work...which I now have four more appointments, a tender dying tooth and two fake crowns on top of the dying tooth...so I can't eat on that side! We also left on my fun 30 th birthday for a week vacation in Billings, Montana with our best friends...well they are our brother and sister, Tony and Ky and our niece Annelise..and of course their dog Buddies. It was absolutely wonderful. We felt so relaxed and welcomed. It was just great to fellowship with them and see some of our old friends from when we lived their four years ago. (If we ever move again we're praying for Billings...just a side note...not any time soon) So we just got back on Monday and I'm doing my best to catch up and book our next vacation because...well originally Tony and Ky and us were supposed to spend our week in our condo in Big Sky, Montana...but two days before we left I called the condo to get pack'n'plays in ou...

So I'll begin by saying please scroll all the way down and read the next post after this to understand why when the Christmas photos come up there aren't as many...due to my fun week of healing from the kidney stone! So I'll explain each photo as you go...a lot happened in November and December. So here's Dad Taylor...David...or as the kids call him Grampy ...we were blessed to come down to see him baptise our niece and nephew and we didn't know he was preaching too!! It was great. Here's sweet Charles getting baptised. He's 8! and here's Cora and she's 6! Here's the entire Taylor family...to think they only have two sons...and six grandkids ...we may not be done either! Here's our week in Vail, CO for Thanksgiving...me and the kiddos went up early to spend time with Grandpa Bob and Grandma And a great great surprise was my bro Nate and my beautiful sister'n'law Mary came up for a night. And of course...Mary and I and our coffee...