SEDONA, ARIZONA!

 Aunt Ya-Ya invites Mommy, A. & P. to join her for a week in Sedona!  (Daddy couldn't come--he had to work.)  We had a terrific time.  Thanks soooo much Aunt Ya-Ya!

 Aunt Ya-ya and the girls cool off their feet at Montezuma's Well

 Aunt Ya-ya, A. & P. sliding down the very aptly named "Sliding Rock Canyon."  The river bottom is covered with a fine layer of moss an algae making it incredible slippery and creating numerous natural waterslides.  It was SOO much fun--we could have stayed there all day.

 A. proudly displays the trout that she caught at a nearby trout farm.

 P. cowers in front of the twitching trout that she likewise caught at the nearby trout farm.

Another breathtaking view from Sedona

It's time for school!!

A.'s first day of Pre-school!  Though P. is still too young to attend, she prepared herself nonetheless by donning her purple Tinkerbell backpack and clutching her favorite used-to-be-pink blankie.

Did we ever mention that Arizona gets HOT!!!  Here are a few pics of what we have to do to stay cool!

 Dad sprays A. & P. with the hose while they jump on the tramp.

Running amok through the sprinklers.

And when it does happen to rain, we take full advantage of it by rolling around in the mud as much as possible.  (1/3 of our backyard has yet to be landscaped making it the neighborhood's largest sandbox/mudpit much to the messmaking joy of our little girls.)

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,

Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

  

Homeowners again!  In April our house in Tucson sold, freeing us up to purchase a new home in the Phoenix area. 

And it appears that we're going to be needing the extra square footage--the same day we signed for the house we also found out our family is going to be getting one person larger.  Welcome Baby Taylor #3, due in March 2011!

A FEW FUN FOTOS

 A. decides that she'd rather sleep on a pillow, in a laundry basket, on her bed rather than just getting under the covers.

 P. couldn't be more ecstatic about the cute little rosette clips that Aunt Amy sent her.  And they actually stay in her hair (now that she has some)!

 It was superheroes day at the library and these little avengers got to decorate their very own hero masks, which, due to the rather wide sizing of the eye holes, they really couldn't see out of at all and ended up running into a lot of walls and tables as they raced around the apartment.

Just being silly.