Taylormade

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Kilyos Beach

June 8 2013

Saturday morning we headed to the beach. No it's not Destin but it's 20 minutes from our house. And well the boys had a blast.

Checking out the water.

This was Luke's first reaction to the sand on is knees.

This is the texture. I found a lot of pretty shells.

Throwing shells back in the waves.

Our one family pic before the boys were filthy, but they had just dove in the cold water, and had to loose their shirts.

Then he decided to just go all in.

Luke took the sand.

Luke and Hudson playing with the buckets.

Noah got a little too zealous.

This was the result.

We stopped for lunch, and sat in the sun, it was marvelous.

I was so afraid this was the lifeguard post. Here in the shallow water.

A quick PB&J and then back to playing.

Not sure what happened here.

This was the turkish way not to drown.

The brave ones headed out to deeper water.

Over all it was a great day.

SO..............we are having a baby

May 10 2013-now

Rewind to May 10 the day we found out that we were indeed pregnant with our 3rd baby. It was a little of a surprise but we wanted a 3rd Taylor sibling and God's timing is perfect.

May 12 2013- Mother's day we decided to go ahead and tell our parents.

Here are some of our pics of Facetiming them to tell them the news.

FT with Mimi.

Noah broke the news with "Momma has a baby in her tummy."---later followed by a stinky baby. He has warmed to the idea now and certainly doesn't call the baby that anymore.

Fast forward to now. Here is the scene at our house. Daddy does ALOT around the house and Momma isn't on vacation but is trying to get past this 1st trimester.

I will brag on Drew, he has cooked, taken out the trash, washed dishes, changed diapers, and bathed youngins.........more that his fair share lately. I love that man.

Noah helped him cook today.

And here is my scene, staying away from the kitchen, and all smells related to food, trash, poo, or just general stank. I am happy to sit and watch this one play.

We are almost 9 1/2 weeks so far. It seems like such a long road. We are due Jan 12th.

Friday, June 7, 2013

Happy 4th Birthday Noah

June 2 2013

We had a great day celebrating Noah's 4th birthday a day early here in Turkey. I kinda threw a party together, and our sweet friends were kind to come and help us party.

It was Fire truck themed.

And this was the 2nd attempt at the top of the cake, but in the even red icing doesn't work, scrap it off and use Twizzlers. I knew they were my fav candy for some reason.

A pinterest idea (the only one of many I looked up)

Match sticks for the "fire"

And here he is, he didn't know quite what to think with everyone over for him.

Luke was excited.

Here is the whole spread with my Birthday Boy.

We had 7 girls, and 4 boys including Noah. Noah was in heaven.

A little Turkish influence. Flash dance and freeze to music. It took the boys a little while to get into it.

But then this one stole the show.

Getting ready to light the candle.

We actually blowed it out twice, and sang Happy Birthday in english and turkish.

Noah approved of the american cake batter and icing brought from the states from friends.

So did Luke, especially the icing.

And he was a gracious little gentleman while opening gifts.

A shirt from our Turkish neighbor, for both boys.

Luke gave out the hugs for thank you's.

And the big noisy gift. That is constantly being driven around the house. The plasma car. I had been eyeing this for a while because it reminded me of the triangle scoots, with the handlebars on the front that you made go by working your arms back and forth, that I had when I was little. The concept is the same but better seating.

And it fits 2.

Birthday box and bed head

May 29 2013

The boys got Noah's birthday box from Grana and Babu. They knew the moment it was inside the door what it was. And that they had to open it right away.