Taylor and Isabelle

A few weeks ago, I was trying to clean the kitchen up after dinner and Isabelle was right at my feet begging for anything that was left. Taylor came over and just started loving on Isabelle. Since my camera was within reach, I started snapping some shots of the two of them. I don't get the chance to take as many pictures as I would like of Zachary and Taylor with Isabelle or Sophie. I need to try to do this a little more often so they have plenty of pictures of them with their first dog and cat. Today, after I got the kids to preschool, I came home and worked on a layout with these photos. Here it is:

I've been trying to go through some of my older papers, so for this layout I used some of my old Basic Grey!! The journaling on the heart is just about how much we all love Isabelle and what a good dog she is to the kids!

Yesterday, Michael, the kids, me, my mom and Darrell all went down to Branson to do a little shopping. We went to the Landing first and had lunch and walked around there for a bit. I took a few photos of the kids there. One of the reasons we went to the Landing was because Zachary wanted to see the fountain with the fire. It is one of his favorite things to see. Taylor hates it...it is too loud for her. She will watch it from a safe distance, but Zachary wants to be right down in front as close as he can get!! So, here are a few pictures from that.

While Zachary was watching the fountain, Taylor was at the other smaller fountain. Over the summer when we would go to the Landing with mom and Darrell, Darrell taught the kids that if they put their hands in the water and then place their hands on the pavement, they can make their handprints. She loves doing this...just hope she never falls in!

This last picture is of them on one of the Christmas ornaments. We were all so surprised to not only see all the Christmas decorations up, but then to see Santa there already!