Taylor Family Update

So as you may have noticed I haven’t had much time for posting lately.  If you haven’t made the jump over to reading our adoption blog you might want to.  We’ve had some very exciting news!  =)

But I wanted to update with some pictures from the last few months.  They’ve been full of life and fun and soon to be all the more wild!  Enjoy!

Our friends John and Sara joined us for Thanksgiving with their son Malachi.  Sara and I ran a 5k turkey trot. . . it was freezing outside!

We gave Malachi a Harmonic for his bday – lots of fun!

Joshua and I picked up a Christmas tree.  I was very happy to have one!

Joshua got a little tangled up in the lights! =)

We enjoyed some yummy hot cocoas while decorating for Christmas

Our adoption case was finalized in Ethiopia!!!!

Here’s our precious daughter Tigist

And our precious son Fekadu!

Counting down the days

Do you remember making those great paper chains that you tear off a link each day as you count down to Christmas?  I made one of those yesterday with some children I was babysitting.  Well today, I think I’m going to make one for myself.  Only I’m not counting down days until Christmas, but days until we travel to Ethiopia to pick up our kiddos! 

We have been given tentative travel dates of January 16-24th!  These will be confirmed by Dec 22nd when we’ll know for sure whether or not we’ve passed court in Ethiopia.  Only 43 days to go!!!!

Home Improvements

Well here are the much anticipated home improvement photos!  Thank you to Seth, Seita, Hannah, Rebekah, and Rachel who all came out to help us paint. . . we are VERY grateful for all you did! You can see all the photos on the flickr link but here are a few.

As promised. . .

Okay so here are the colors I’ve picked.  But pictures uploaded to a computer just don’t do justice!  Argh!

 

 So I’ve picked Green for the accent wall in our son’s room and we’re going to go with an Ethiopian Soccer theme. . . I think. =)  The Ethiopian flag is green, yellow, and red.  So a green accent wall, soccer balls, painting the furniture black and an Ethiopian flag on the wall.  We’ll see how it comes out!  

For our daughter I’m still debating between a yellow or purple accent wall.  I really could go either way at this point.  Naomi, a dear friend introduced me to the wonderful idea of wall decals. . . SO COOL!  I thought those great designs were always painted on walls, who knew they were stickers!  I’m still trying to decide on what kind of wall decals I like. 

Note to Mom and Melissa:  Either of you want to try to make some curtains for the kids room??? hint hint!  Or even a bed spread??? =)

Our living room and dining room is going to be basically a neutral tan through out with olive green accents.  These are the colors we’ve selected.  The green isn’t quite that bright in real life.

I also found the absolute perfect color for the master bedroom.  We have these really nice curtains and I found a great paint color that goes well with it.  Again in the picture it looks a little gray, but its actually a muted greenish gray tone.

So there you have it!!!  Now who wants to come help paint???  I’m thinking Columbus Day weekend!

Paint colors

I’m off to Home Depot to look at paint colors!!  Yipee Skippy.  I’ll be sure to post the sample colors when I come back with! =)