BEATLES ROCK BAND

Jen and Jon invited the Taylor clan over for an evening of

Beatles Rockband and Pizza!

We had a really good time trying out all the instruments...yes, Laura and I even did the drums and guitar, though she was much better at it than I was...oh, and we got a kick out of trying the vocals...on EASY level you could not go wrong so it was pretty fun.
We learned that we did not really know a lot of what the Beatles were really singing and it was a little interesting singing about knickers and barking like a dog etc.

No, that is not smoke in these pictures, these are cell phone pictures from Jon.

THANKS for a great evening of wonderful company and wonderful food!!

Happy birthday, Bunkerhead Woman

Breanna and a prince-in-waiting

Our favorite youngest daughter ... and only youngest daughter ... turns 20 today.

Since March, she has paid tribute to family members on their birthday with lengthy lists of talents, traits, quirks and favorite memories about that person. See some of her "greatest hits" selections from Jenna, Josh, Scott, Cheryl, Tyrel and Austin listed at the bottom of this post (we can't wait for February to see what she writes about Braden!).

Share two of three of your similar thoughts about Breanna - either as a comment to this post or in an email to Cheryl (taylor_home@comcast.net) or Scott (taylor@desnews.com) and we'll compile them for her.

From “Ode to Jenna”:

• Jenna has tickled a bee — and lived to tell the tale.
• Jenna can make the fish face. Tyrel doesn’t like it. But it’s truly a gift. Jenna can make lots of weird faces actually. It’s a good thing she’s cute.

From: “Some fun facts and favorite things about Josh”:

• He loves to vacuum. ‘Nuff said.
• Josh has spidey-senses. I’ve been on a quest to catch him off-guard and scare him for a while now, but he always seems to know where I’m hiding, or takes alternate routes that foil my plans.

From “some fun facts about my dad:”

• My dad is the master pumpkin carver. Every fall our porch is decorated with his entertaining, random, funny and amazing creations. We’re talking “getting out the jigsaw, thin knives and toothpicks” kind of skills.
• Some of you may know my dad is actually a very creative cook. Brought to you by Chef Scott: Breakfast Nachos, Black Bean and Pineapple Burritos, and Ranch and Pepper Jack Quesadillas, to name a few.

From “My most amazing Mum”:

• My mom still lets me snuggle with her when we meet in the family room for prayers and scriptures. We’re going on 20 years here of her allowing me to wrap myself around her arm like an octopus, put my legs across her lap, or snuggle in and ask for “scratch-a-backs.” I can always tell she’s had enough though when she threatens to lick me. Then I have to snuggle Braden instead.”
• She’s always on the go. I don’t know how she fits it all in, but she does. She’s like the Energizer Bunny.

From “My favorite brother-in-law … and only brother-in-law” [Tyrel]:

• He dresses very nice. He even wears the tie I gave him for Christmas, which I think is very cool, since it has polka dots, and I’m still not sure if he even likes polka dots. But, the point I’m trying to say is that Ty looks classic and professional … except for when he’s wearing his huge, puffy NJ Nets slippers that he got for Christmas this year. Then he looks silly. But it was hilarious to watch him open them and put them on. It was an extra bonus that the cats were terrified of them. Ty chased Mieka around with his slippers for the rest of the day.
• Tyrel says what he thinks. (But not in a socially unacceptable way.) It’s refreshing, and more often than not, hilarious.

From “My favorite older brother … and only older brother” [Austin]:

• When I was about four or five, Austin and Jenna convinced me that “oomaguama” monsters lived in our basement. For the next few weeks, they took turns hiding behind shelves in the storage room or under my bed so they could jump out at me and scare me. One time they even did a “summoning chant” to try and get the monsters to come. I screamed.
• On a similar note, Austin once tried to convince me that he was a vampire, showing me his pointy side teeth. He told me he was waiting until Jenna and I were old enough to turn us into vampires, too.

Our Autumn Ladies Night!

Autumn was the theme for our semi-annual "Ladies Night" get together during General Priesthood Meeting. We started this tradition a couple years ago and have really enjoyed this excuse for getting together with family and friends. Breanna decked out the table with some great berries she found on her way here.
We started the night painting pump-eh-kins...yes, you have to say it that way. The creative juices were really flowing in the kitchen! Laura and I painted some cute "afraid of spiders" pumpkins and Breanna striped hers in all fall colors. Anteres Barton joined us tonight and she painted a very cool Provo High pumpkin for her boys...wow! She thought of them on "Ladies Night!!

Larlee and Nikki came from the dorms and were glad to get away from studying and writing papers! Larlee did a New York Yankees pumpkin and Nikki began the amazing task of putting the entire Wizard Of Oz onto a small pumpkin.
Here we are with our finished products. They all turned out so cute!
I had to take a close-up of Nikki's...and this was before even more finishing touches were added including a yellow brink road that led to New Jersey of course!
We also watched " A Little Princess" while we created some very cute cards. Here are a handful of the creations!!! I guess I better mention that we fondued cheese and chocolate with all sorts of things to dip into them...I totally forgot to put out the veggies and dip...I think it was a subconscious desire to really pig out!

It was a great Ladies Night at the Taylor household...want to join us next time? Just call and then come on over!!