Taylor Family: August Birthdays! 2009

"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully tailored clothes...and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp...I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really there, and that I really lived."

~Marjorie Hinckley

"Our lives are frittered away by detail; simplify, simplify." Henry David Thoreau

"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials." Lin Yutang

Sunday, September 6, 2009

August Birthdays! 2009

Elise and Kylie celebrated their birthdays in August. Kylie turned 14 this year!

And Elise turned Sweet 16!

We celebrated with friends and family in Grandma and Grandpa Taylor's back yard. Elise and Kylie made a huge twister board by sewing together several sheets...other games included water balloons and M&Ms. They enjoyed lots of music, food and fun with their friends.