May

Chuck and I started out this month going to Chicago, Chuck had a class. We had 5 days with out the kids. This was my first time leaving Carly for longer then a day. When we first got there it was raining. We jumped on the "L" and headed down town for some PIZZA. The best, with a corn meal crust and fresh chunky tomato sauce. The deep dish took 45 minutes to cook. It was only 9 inch pizza and we couldn't finish it. I will never look at pizza the same after having that. We then headed for Navy Pier. It was cold and rainy. What do you expect for the windy City. We headed back to the hotel.

The next day we headed back out, but it was SUNNY and Warm! This was the last day that we could do a lot of looking around.

We first went to.....

Chuck in front of the Chicago River.

We went back out to Navy Pier. We wanted some pictures. We also had some great hot dogs . They were yummy.
This is the BEAN in Millennium Park. It was way cool . It's a reflective ball. We took several pictures of ourselves in it. We continued to walk around. All of Chicago. Before dinner we went to Sears tower. We went up 103 floors.
This is the view out the window. It was really neat up there. There were windows all the way around. The next day I laid out by the pool and read "Sarah Quilt", good book. It was so nice, in the mid 80's. That night we went to Hard Rock Cafe for dinner. I loved looking at all of the music memorabilia. Food was good to. The next day I continued to read and then we went to a movie. This theater was brand new and HUGE. It was only $10 for the BOTH of us. We saw Ironman, GOOD. Had a good dinner. I finished my book and started "Twilight". This was a GREAT book. I'm hooked. I'll be reading the rest of the series.

We came home and we were so happy to see the kids. It was a great break. Now we are preparing to leave this weekend for a wedding at Cooper's Spur. Then off to Disney world in June. Can't wait for that.

April

We started swimming lessons twice a week.

Chuck was gone late every night because of tax season.

(I'm a single mother 4 months out the year)

We heard of an indoor water park that opened just North of Centralia.

It's called the Great Wolf Lodge.

Only people that stay there can use the park.

The outside of the hotel

Alexus and Blake

This is what they call the Howlin' Tornado. You are in a Square tube, one person sits in each corner, legs toward the middle and hold on for dear life. You go at least half way up on both sides I swear I thought that we were going to flip over.

This Is the start of The Howlin' Tornado. You can see the at least 20 foot top. Crazy, but fun!

March

This month Chuck turned 33 and I 29. Miss Carly turned 18 months. Carl was huge, Still! We was 30 lbs and 34 inches tall. We had a great time during Spring Break. The kids and I went with my parents to the beach. This way Carly's first time going to the beach. She love it. She knew just what to do. She picked up she shovel and bucket and started digging in the sand. Filling her bucket with sand. When it's all filled up dumping it out. Then stomping all over her creation. She wanted to be like Alexus and Blake and put her feet in the water, not a good idea, to COLD.

A BABY!!

A couple weeks later we had a new baby join the extended Taylor family. My kids finally got a cousin that was some what close to their age, at least Carly did. Sabrina, Chuck's sister, had a baby boy David. He was super cute!




This is a picture of Carly at Calamity Jane, after along day sledding.

It's been forever!

( This was on our Christmas card)

Lets start with Christmas. it was fun we had a great day. We opened presents at the house, then off to my parent to open more. Then Chuck's family came over to our house for Dinner. We ate and talked and ate and played Wii and talked and played the Wii some more. It's so nice to be in a house that we can have people over and enjoy each others company. I really loved watching Carly open presents. She didn't quite understand. She was very happy to to her snacks as presents, I think that they were half way gone before we finished open the rest of the gifts. Oh one more thing...... It snowed! a trace, but I'll take anything on Christmas.