tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79568435117059381532012-01-17T15:17:49.487-06:00We are the Taggards, a fun loving, accident prone, sometimes out of luck but always happy family and these are our tales.Desireehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445858630556920462noreply@blogger.comBlogger1671100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7956843511705938153.post-88157372243752873562012-01-17T10:02:00.003-06:002012-01-17T10:09:52.347-06:00

As we all know life moves on even while we are in sad times and that is especially true in our house. With our crazy kids we don't get much time for personal reflection and just have to start running to catch up to the slowest kid. We have been pretty busy lately with chess, school, webelows, gymnastics, church and a variety of other things and I have to tell you I need a break!!!!!! Time is

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So....... my grandma died the week before Christmas and her birthday. I was there for her last breath and got to say goodbye to her one last time. This hasn't made it any easier and I know that I will see her again one day and that she is with those who have passed before but again.... that does very little for the hole that was left in my heart. I was very close to my grandma and went to her for

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I grew up watching both of my grandmothers working on family history and even remember spending time in front of a microfiche or film machine looking at old records. I have always been fascinated with family history but never knew where to start since so much of my work was done and I didn't think starting where they left off (centuries ago) would be a good starting point. I got married and

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Sigh, that was a long weekend. I now know more about how light bends and travels than I ever wanted to know. Why can't they have Music fair projects. I could rock that so hard. I do enjoy getting to see just how smart Beau is and learn with him as we put everything together. THis year was on why the sky turns colors during the sunrise and sunset and it was really cool getting to recreate that

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The look my husband gives me when I stand up and he just looks me up and down and exhales while winking. I only say this because it happens a lot and in fact happened just an hour ago when he stopped by my office. A girl can never see that look in her mans eye enough. You know the one I am talking about. The twinkle that only he has for you and it makes you see yourself for just that moment the

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Cheesy I know but I really am. Today alone I have used the internet to organize my budget, look at my bank stuff, check pricing on pull ups for better price, Coupons, pinterest, connecting with friends, preparing for our youth activity tonight and to waste time. I also use the internet to relax, research, have fun, become enlightened and to build my mind. Lots of possibilities for this great

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It came in handy when I came home and found my entire food storage supply of seasonings and powdered creamer all over the kids playroom. I won't lie, a child was harmed in the making of this picture and he was them made to help clean it and then sent to bed. However, he did not get nearly the crap that I was feeling. I am still not at the laughing at it part but I am able to see the humor. Sigh,

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I am a busy woman but in the past month things have gotten crazy. I am amazed at how insane my life has felt lately and things had to start being put off for another time. Well, I am the type of person that when I see things start to build up on my to do list and don't see them getting marked off I go into meltdown mode. This weekend helped a lot. I decided that no matter what I was going to get

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Mike and I were both blessed by wonderful parents. They are always there to help when we need it and have always let us be on our own. Mike and I married while still very young and had Beau 11 months later so we knew that we would need to take advantage of all the help and knowledge that we could get. I chose today to write about parents because at this moment my mom is wrestling with Princess

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More specifically I am thankful for modern medicine. I am fighting off a really bad sore throat and cold and I take modern medicine for granted every time I am sick or in pain. I am all for trying home remedy's but there is a reason that God allowed medicine to progress from slapping a leach on you and praying you make it through the night. Mothers don't have to worry about whether or not the

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Sad, I know but I truly love my nook. I never go anywhere without it and it is rarely more than a few feet from me. I am an avid reader and fought the ereader for a long time until my husband got one for me for christmas last year and I fell in love. I have books at my fingertips and I don't have to lug around a bunch of books when I go on trips. Plus the apps are pretty helpful too. My favorite

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I know I did this last year but I saw the challenge on a friends blog and since I have been in an emotional slump lately I decided to do it again. Each day (let's face it about one a week) this month I will post something that I am thankful for in my life. Here is today.I am thankful for my friends. They know who they are and they also know that they are few in numbers. I am a very private person

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http://pinterest.com/I really love this new website. I am a crafter and also love to bake so when my cousin Mary started talking about this website I knew I needed to try it out. (we usually like the same things) I can't believe I have been functioning without this site. I know that seems a bit over dramatic but if you looked at my yahoo mail folder you would see that I email myself links all the

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I have a vocal music degree and yet I never use it. Aside from the music history trivia that I love I am losing some of my other bits of education but mostly my skills. Now, I am not the most talented singer and have a never cured mental issue with stage fright (it is a big issue) but that doesn't mean I have the right to get rusty. I started to notice this a few months ago when I was singing in

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I noticed a month ago that I did not have all of our usual recipes in our family cookbook and in fact didn't have them written anywhere. When Mike and I cook we usually just throw it together from memory and serve (with lots of love of course). This bothered me because I got to thinking about when my kids grow up and move out and how they would probably want to know how to cook their favorite

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So, Beau is a lover of all things Nintendo and last year I painted these 6x6 inch canvases for him and he loved them. When I asked what he wanted this year he said more of the paintings. This is fine and dandy because they are small and fun to do the only problem is that I already chose the 4 easiest characters in the Nintendo world. He now wants to add in Mario and Luigi into the mix. This is

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I was driving home from a church activity on satuday and realized that the trees along the freeway were starting to turn colors. This is always one of my favorite things to look for and my favorite fall leaves are the deep red ones. I don't know why but they have always stood out the most to me. We have been eating a ton of the fall foods that I have already posted about and it has not gotten old

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Since both of the older kids get to ride the big yellow bus each morning and are on it at 6:15am that gives me and tiny Link almost an hour to just relax and snuggle. This has become a very good part of my busy day. It allows me a few moments to just snuggle up to my baby and watch Martha on PBS. I am sure you guys have figured out by now that usually Link is not a sit still and snuggle type of

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Literally, We have busted out the soup! Mike and I have been craving soup and fall type dishes since about the end of july but we waited until Sept first to start them. There is just something about a fall dish that makes you all happy inside, even if the AC is blowing. Last night we had Mike's Meatball soup and it was perfect. So much so that I am having it in about an hour for lunch too! Next

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We are two weeks into the new school year and I already had 2 sick kids! Link was the first one with a cold. When I took him into his class last Monday I could see how he got the cold, every child in the room was sneezing and coughing! Next was Beau with a stomach bug. He was fine when he got on the bus but the school nurse called just as I was getting on the elevator to go up to my office. It

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I know that sounds weird since we are a family always on the go but because of our schedules I feel like nothing productive ever gets done. We are always running behind on cleaning, laundry, canning, crafts.... you name it but this weekend we stayed home most of the time and got a lot of productive things done. Friday night over dinner we told the kids that if they picked up the front room then

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It is a new year in our house. Since 4 out of the 5 of us are still students our years are based on a august-july schedule. We did the annual school supply and uniform shopping and even made it to all the open houses and the kids are perfectly excited about the new year and what it has to offer. Mike and I also realized that since Link is now in Headstart (preK for 3 year olds) we

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Just thought I would update everyone on how I am doing with the whole couponing thing I started looking into in february. It is great. With the help of websites and someone from church that has been doing it for years I have been able to figure things out. It is amazing what I can get for free or pennies on the dollar. I think back to all those years in school when we could barely afford ramen

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As I warned at the beginning of summer we have been crazy busy. I mean there is busy and then there is just flat out, scare your mama crazy and that is where we are at the moment. Since I have missed so much I am going to sum it up in bullet form. Here I go.We bought a hybrid camper and took it out for a really long weekend. It was great. We were tent campers before but once I entered my 3 decade

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So glad that is over. Beau had his last game on saturday and though mike is still in class and Princess is in gymnastics it makes a huge difference not being at the ball field in 100+ heat every night. Even the team was starting to get tired of things by the last week. Last night was my first "home" night in over a month and it was great. We sat outside (mike was in class) and played and then we

Desireehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445858630556920462noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7956843511705938153.post-27043566510428170762011-05-24T10:45:00.003-05:002011-05-24T10:55:37.472-05:00

Summer session for Mike has started and since it is a summer session that means he has class not one, not two but three nights a week for the next 5 weeks. That means that I will see him on Sunday, friday and saturday each week (but only if he is not working weekends which he has scheduled). What about Wednesday night? I have my church calling on that night but I will say that it will be nice to

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We have had a busy two weeks. It seems that we are having a record breaking spring for storms and tornadoes. In the past week we have had a severe storm almost every night and several tornadoes including one that ripped through the Air Base in our town. Beau lost a school mate that was in the first grade and there have been many more deaths in the state. Northern Arkansas is flooded and my family

Desireehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445858630556920462noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7956843511705938153.post-58200264252328184182011-04-14T13:50:00.002-05:002011-04-14T13:58:23.557-05:00

So about 2 months ago I started to really look onto coupons and discount savings. I was very confused and didn't know what to do and the research I was doing was just making it harder on me. Well, I found some sites that list what coupons to use on what sale to get the lowest prices of the week and they even break it down a little and I am starting to figure things out. I am also starting to get

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A year ago today my husband, Beau and I took Princess and Link to the courthouse to finalize our adoption. It was such a great day. We woke up early so that I could fix Princess's hair up and she wore the cutest dress. The boys even dressed up in white shirts and ties too. We had a little breakfast and I got every bit of documentation and proof that I thought I might need to prove to the judge

Desireehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445858630556920462noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7956843511705938153.post-72740105228864977222011-04-04T15:16:00.008-05:002011-04-04T15:46:20.747-05:00

I know I am a week late but I am usually late with posting. Overall, we had a perfect spring break. As I said in the last post for the first part of the week everyone was spread out but we eventually came back together and had some great times. Every year Mike and I take off a few days of spring break to do fun stuff with the kids and it just gets more fun every year as the kids get old enough

Desireehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445858630556920462noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7956843511705938153.post-37434733820778556242011-03-22T08:42:00.003-05:002011-03-22T08:47:42.715-05:00

Since it is spring break and schools are out for the first part of this week my children are scattered. My oldest son is in Fayetteville with Neal, Amber, Justen and cousins, Princess is at my moms house, across town, and Link is with his dad and mom, his school is still open. Each time I talk with one of the two older kids I expect to hear words of love and even a little misery at being away

Desireehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445858630556920462noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7956843511705938153.post-35720342476905571692011-03-16T11:02:00.003-05:002011-03-16T11:10:52.210-05:00

So I took this from my friend Brent's blog and thought it was fun so here you go. This is me a-zA - Z(A) Age: 30 but I tell others that I am 26(B) Bed Size: 3/4 of a Queen (mike gets 1/4)(C) Chore You Hate: sweeping and mopping(D) Dogs? One not so smart big dog(E) Essential Start Your Day Item: snooze button(F) Favorite Color: hot pink(G) Gold or Silver? Silver(H) Height: 5'6"(I) Instruments You

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So I have recently lost some weight and noticed that my bras no longer fit. This is funny because my bras never fit well. Anyways, I saw an article the other day about how most women do not wear the correct bra size or type. So, I packed it over to the bra store and got fitted for my new bras and was suprised. First of all my band size was smaller so I am now a 44 DDD instead of a 46? ( I

Desireehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445858630556920462noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7956843511705938153.post-63007777023242861992011-03-07T15:16:00.002-06:002011-03-07T15:28:41.426-06:00

We had our annual family temple day in Memphis this weekend. It was so great to actually get to take the kids to see the temple and then have someone to watch them while mike and I went in. For any one that doesn't remember I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and we have Churches that we visit weekly and we have very sacred and holy temples that we visit. (For more

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That's us. We are a family of busy bees. Here is our schedule this springSunday: Church and other church meetingsMonday: Baseball, FHETuesday: Chess, Night Classes, BaseballWednesday: Church, Night ClassesThursday: Gymnastics, baseballFriday: BaseballSaturday: Baseball, Golf, and death from exhaustionThese are only our permanent activities and do not include random responsibilities. Sigh.

Desireehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445858630556920462noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7956843511705938153.post-23963373113965729672011-02-18T09:30:00.005-06:002011-02-18T09:38:08.115-06:00

Well, that's what princess calls gymnastics. She started gymnastics after turning 5 last month and she loves it. She is such a shy little girl that we worried that she would not participate or have fun. She does kind of stand off a bit at the beginning of the hour but she does pretty well by the end of class. One surprise we had is that her teacher is my best friend from Jr High. I am sad

Desireehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445858630556920462noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7956843511705938153.post-70853596322307775992011-02-14T12:23:00.002-06:002011-02-14T12:33:51.747-06:00

I was blessed with a 5 day weekend! That's right, Heavenly Father saw that the south was full of overworked people and he opened the clouds and let the ground get covered in a thick layer of snow. In the south that means a few inches and that it puts everything on hold until it melts. We had a lot of fun and most of all I was able to spend time with my kids. Notice I did not say husband and

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We had such a beautiful spring like weekend this past week and the Taggard Clan had to get out and enjoy the sun. We decided that after doing a bit of cleaning and shopping on saturday that we would head over to the zoo. The kids were really excited about seeing all the animals and Link wanted to bite a tiger so we headed out. The first exhibit was the Lorakeets. The birds are very social

Desireehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445858630556920462noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7956843511705938153.post-1540650250376825612011-01-19T09:09:00.002-06:002011-01-19T09:17:02.793-06:00

So you guys all know that I am a busy woman. I will not even pretend and say that I have everything perfectly in order or that my kids always get the most nutritious meal but I will say that my husband and I work hard to keep things sane and that includes canning meat, freezing meals and using a crock pot. Anyways, I tried a new crock pot recipe yesterday and everyone loved it! That is odd

Desireehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445858630556920462noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7956843511705938153.post-47745544029059775462011-01-14T12:11:00.006-06:002011-01-14T12:38:20.423-06:00

Wow, we had a really great weekend. Saturday we switched Link over to big boy unders, Beau's chess tournament plus shopping and prepping for canning some meat and on Sunday we had snow, canning the meat and Mike had to go into the station and sleep because the snow was starting to get really thick. We then had 2 snow days and a lot of fun. I will break it down.Big boy underwear!This is a tale of

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LOL, I really had a rollercoaster of a week. It started with a perfect christmas and then turned into a stomach flu and the hospital. I am much better now but I was sick for most of last week and I still have a bit of issues that are working out of my body. Christmas eve and day were perfect. We had family over and just enjoyed the whole weekend with the kids. Everyone loved the gifts,

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So the Taggards are now spread all over the place and no one seems to know what is going on with the other families. Amber and I were talking about setting up a webpage or something where everyone can post whats going on, share calendars, pictures and stuff like that. I know some of you have sites like that for your families and would like to know how do you start it and all that jazz. Any

Desireehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12445858630556920462noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7956843511705938153.post-77009661075783859892010-12-16T11:55:00.001-06:002010-12-16T11:59:08.073-06:00

I am already so far behind schedule. I have yet to bake cookies or make candy and heaven knows the cards will not be sent this year. It kills me because normally at Christmas everything is on time and just right but since mike is back in school and now working more shifts I seem to be barely able to keep any kind of Christmas spirit in the house. We are going to try and make cookies tonight (

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So in a fit of PMS anger at my hair being boring I grabbed a pair of siccors from the wrapping paper box (not even hair ones) and grabbed my hair and started chopping. As I looked in the sink and say lots of hair I freaked out. It has been a day now and I actually like it. However, I will never again give myself a PMS haircut! mind you that the picture was taken at the end of a very long 8 hour

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So we had a lot of fun this past weekend. We got the lights up on our house, finished a science fair project and even had enough time to go to the capitol lighting ceremony. The kids were so excited! We promised fireworks, lights and most of all Santa! It helped that it was actually cold outside too. It was just what we needed to really kick off the magic of the season. Here are some pics

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I learned a great life lesson the other night. I have some serious sinus issues going on so I decided to get some clariton D to help dry it up so I can move on with my life. Well, after signing over my first born and promising that I was not going to make meth with the 10 pills I was allotted ( btw, really, who only needs 10 pills!) I went home and started thinking of how much relief I would

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For a girl that is allergic to pork smoked turkey is a blessing! I loved pork, any kind of pork, until when I was a teenager I started to develope adult onset allergy to the great white meat. for the first few years it would just give me a runny nose and a little bit of an upset stomach but each year the symptoms got worse until I now can not eat it at all. Oh how I miss it! Ham is the one I

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I think it is only appropriate the day before this family filled holiday weekend to express my gratitude for my extended family. I have a lot of it between the Taggards and Rowes. Both mike and I have the best parents. We have never felt like we were not able to count on them to help, support and love us. All four of them have also accepted and loved all of our children, adopted, natural and

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I love this website because it was created for scatterbrained people like myself that unless it shows up in my email or outlook I forget about things. I have been using this site for the past 4 years for my journal and scripture study needs. It sends me my daily scripture study in an email every day and I am reminded to get it done. It will also send "reminder" emails when you have not

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lol, yeah, you read right. I am thankful for the trials of motherhood. I don't love them and at the time I am not even sort of thankful for them but after I have cooled down and we have moved on I can look back at them and be thankful that I been given the chance to even have them. Here are a few of the most recent ones that I am going to use as blackmail when they get older.1. Waiting until 2

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In honor of the way early morning addition to the Taggard family I want to express my gratitude for all of my nieces and nephews. I have seventeen nieces and nephews currently some by blood and others by friendships that transcend even family. I love them all very much and enjoy being able to visit with them. Some of them I only get to see a few times a year and others I get to see weekly but

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I am thankful for imagination. I have a lot of this and find it interesting that my husband has none and passed that down to my oldest child. Lucky for me I have two other kids that seem to have as much as I do. I know I am an old lady but I still think it is fun to look at the woods and imagine the creatures that might be lurking or walk on a foggy path and hear the zombies stalking me. I

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Today I am thankful for weekends and days off from work. I love what I do but as a working mom that also serves in a very time consuming calling at church I really like those days that I am off work and can stuff done around the house. Being able to tackle the mountain of laundry, force the kids to clean their rooms, deep clean the things that I can only quick pass on during the week. I use

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I am a crappy friend when it comes to correspondence. I am just not very good at keeping up with friends and family in the old time traditional way. However, since the creation of social networking, blogs and email I am slightly better at this wonderful skill. I am reminded daily of birthdays and can send off quick emails to people without finding time to locate paper, envelopes and stamps. I

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I am so thankful for this option! I love not having to buy movies or tv shows for our family because we can watch them anytime with our netflix instant watch feature on the Blue ray player or our iphones. I have been able to expose my kids to old school favs from back in the 80's (fraggle rock, anyone?) and have been able to widen my knowledge of geeky shows too (thanks, mike!). As a mother of

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http://www.amazon.com/Back-Basics-CM300BR-Cocoa-Latte-Hot-Drink/dp/B0002TUVQM/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_1So this is the machine I was talking about yesterday. On the suggestion of our dear friend Aria we bought and fell in love with this machine. We use it several times a week and it is handy to have for parties, church activities and just to have running on a cold evening of family fun. Our kids get really

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Really I just can not say it enough.... I love fall. Today I am most grateful for the magic that fall brings into our home. When the weather cools and the leaves turn you can almost feel the excitement in our home building. Preparing for Halloween, thanksgiving and Christmas, going to the state fair and all kinds of fun things are what make it so fun. We love to put on the hot chocolate

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yes, even when I am yelling at them to clean up the toys I am still thankful for them. I love my kids and heaven knows I have fought hard to get them. I guess I can say that all three of my forever children are miracles. I wasn't supposed to be able to have children but ended up pregnant a few months after our wedding and the 10 years later adopted our other two children. I am not the best

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I love that song! Funny Girl for those of you who are not familiar with your Barbara! Today I am going to talk about my husband, Michael Taggard. You might know him as the greatest man in the world or as the sexiest thing that God created or as the most perfect eternal partner for me. Any and all of the above describe him perfectly. I know it seems cheesy but we really are a great match. We

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So I have noticed this on a lot of Facebook and blogs and have decided that as usual I will be a little late on the fad and listing everyday something that I am thankful for in my life.I am most thankful for my church. I belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and it has made me the woman I am today. Most of all I am thankful for the prophet of our church. Pres. Monson gave a

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I had Beau's PTC last night and it as usual went great. That is usually what happens at these things. The teacher tells me that I have a special son and that he is great but this teacher did something different. He told me that Beau tested advanced of the advanced and as a fourth grader has the reading skills of a seventh grader and math not too far behind that. He also brought up his logic

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My dad comes from a large family. Well, unless you are a Taggard then it is a normal size family. I have tons of cousins and dozens of aunts and uncles on that side. The last time I was able to visit with this Kentucky family was when Beau was about 4 years old. Facebook makes the timespan not quiet as long since I am able to keep up with everyone and know what is going on with them. However

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I have finally realized that I am just going to be sunburned until football season is over. Summer has decided to be rude and ignore the hints that I have been giving that it is time to move along so that Fall can come over and party. I am quite upset about this. I am very fair skinned and even freckled so I happen to get sunburned at the very thought of the sun. I say this because I am tired

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So now that I have proven myself to be blog posting loser I will now catch everyone up on the news of our Taggard clan. Chicken Pox- Link and I did in fact survive the chicken pox and no one else fell to this itchy virus. There was a moment when we thought Beau had it but it turned out to be a spider bite that got way infected and had to take meds to heal. I healed up faster than link (cause

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Wow, what a week I had! It started with a great sunday and then a wonderful Monday morning but then (and I should have known something was up when I heard the jaws theme) the phone rang. Link's school nurse wanted to let me know that the chicken pox was running rampant through the school and that my child had several questionable spots on his body. I (being dumb) assumed that they were bug

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So every summer our family watches two of the summers blockbusters. Mike and I watch one for us and then we let the kids pick one for the family. Even though we love movies the reason we only see two in the "Big" theater are in threefold. 1. Movie tickets are like a bazillion dollars2. We have 5 people in our family3. We are way too broke to pay the man our paycheck just to see a two hour

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When I was really young, like 10 or so, I heard one of those friend of a friend has a cousin type of stories and it has traumatized me from the moment it reached my ears. In fact I am pretty sure that I blacked out from fear during the story. Here it is just for your reading. I have this friend that has a friend that has a cousin that had a very scary ride home from work one night. She worked

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So this is the week of well child appointments. Well, 2 well childs and 1 meet the new dr. Lucky for us my most wonderful husband is off work in the afternoons and is able to take the kids. Lucky for him is super planning wife made him a very detailed list of things to cover with the Dr for each of the appointments. LOL, poor man. I am glad that we do these things at least once a year

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So honestly I am very confused. I have started noticing a little trend from my oldest son. He is in the third grade and still begs for Mike and I to come to things at school with and for him. We do not mind this in the least in fact I love seeing my kids in their school side. That is until Beau started his latest way to express himself. I don't know what it is but he is so excited that we

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Not only is it a great song but it is also a great time of year. The kids are getting really excited about school ending and getting to be at their grandmothers house all day. ( a summer of being spoiled I guess makes anyone happy) I am getting excited that Baseball season is almost over and my little garden is starting to produce veggies. We are hoping to make and can our own pasta sauce and

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So, I was sitting in the park watching princess and link playing and started to think about the past year of our lives and how things have turn out for us. Our adoption had a lot of drama involved that stretched it out but it is over and done with and we cannot be hurt by it anymore. As I was watching them climb the ladder to the slide I remembered the first meeting we had as a family. We

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First of all I want to wish everyone a happy mother’s day. I hope that all of you had a great Sunday. Several of my friends and family had their very first mother’s day this year and I am so excited for them! Me, this is my 9th Mother’s day and I still find it fun and here is why.5:30am: Beau sneaks into my room and wakes me up to give me two dry pieces of toast with a smile, wink and a kiss

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Just a quick update since I realized that I have not posted anything since the adoption. We have been doing great in our little family. We got the garden in and it looks great. We have also been spending a lot of time at the ball field cheering for Beau. He is a pretty strong player and it is funny to see that he is one of the biggest kids on the team. He is just growing way to fast for his

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What a time I have had this week. Link was really sick (104 fever) and we finalized on our adoption. Thats right we are done. Well, with this round. Our family is legal and there is only one last name attached to our childrens names. It is slowly sinking in, like when I did not have to call our case worker to report that Link was sick. Overall I am still a bit shocked. I know it makese no since

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As a mom I have learned over the years that some of your funniest, saddiest, most stress reducing and even stress producing conversations are those that you have with your children. They can make me laugh, cry, think, be angry, feel loved and even wonder if I am sane but they are always experiences that I would never give up. Well, in the past 24 hours I have had 3 such conversations that have

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so we have a new roof. it took a lot of money, a lot of time and a lot of very nice people but we got it done. For those who were not here let me fill you in on our little adventure.Mike and I needed a new roof. We were told when we baught the house that we would need one within a few years but that is what you get with foreclosures. We were also told by our inspector and another contractor

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I got the call from DHHS that there had not been any appeals from the old foster family and that the courts had approved our petition to adopt and set a date for us. I also happened to realize that it has been a year now since we first put our name in the running for our two little ones. I am so excited and cannot wait for the big day. Now I need to start planning that party...Amber, you got

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or at least I hope it is. We spent this perfect weekend out in the yard. I know, it doesn't sound like a lot of fun to do yard work but after months of the coldest and wettest winter that Arkansas has ever seen (at least in my time) it was worth the work to be outside. It was so funny to look around while we were outside and see people emerging from their houses with looks of awe and wonder,

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So in all my excitement over our good news I forgot to post about a funny thing Beau said on Valentines Day.Mike and I had decided that we wanted to just do a simple candy exchange this year since we were getting each other the stuff to make the raised garden and we also got each of the kids a little candy treat too. We let Beau give out the kids valentines but then he kept smiling at us like he

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And today they sang!!!!!!!!! I found it odd when my adoption specialist (who does not do mornings) was calling my office at 9 am but I was on a call to Link's Dr resceduling an appointment so I had to let it go to voicemail. Then I found it more odd when she immediatly sent an email needing me to answer the phone. Hmmmmm....... Well, I called her back and made some jokes about not knowing who

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…….. where it seems so real, so emotional that it had to be true, until you wake up and the realization kicks in? I have one ever so often and last night was just such a case. Grab some hot Chocolate, a warm blanket and a bowl of popcorn so that you can enjoy the story.Fade from black I find myself at church chaperoning a youth activity and Mike and I are talking to our friend

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Of all the days to need to call in to work today would have been number one on my list. Sometimes, no matter what you do, you just have one of those mornings that nothing in the world is playing out right. It just gets worse and worse until you find yourself looking at the sky and pondering what in the world is happening to your life. Today I had one of those mornings. Let me explain.I have

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So we celebrated Princess's birthday party this weekend by having her cousins over and just letting them run around and have fun until it was cake and present time. We tried to keep it really simple since Princess still has a few problems with getting overwhelmed and shy. It was a lot of fun. The girls enjoyed the wands and hair bows that I had made them and the cake turned out really well. I

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Did I mention that I am going to do a few posts on products and or services that help the busy parent? No? Well, ok here I go. So, since a bunch of my friends have either had or will have a kid very soon I thought that as an old, wise and aging mother I would share 9 years of parenting stuff that I have had to figure out along the way to keep me sane in my effort to be a rocking mom while

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So I have been curious about the bumpit from the first time I saw a commercial declaring that it could make my limp boring hair amazing in a matter of minutes. You see, I have always had fine straight hair. Well, wavy to straight but finer than even baby hair. I have never been able to make my hair big and puffy like a true southern girl. Instead, I have always stayed on the safe, tired, brush

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So while we were in Fayettville staying with Justen and Amber we were blessed with some snow. This is very important because, well, according to my 8 year old we have only had one day of snow in his whole life. (Lies, we have at least one snow day a year. BTW, his life is not that big of a timeline.) Anyways, we had lots of fun watching it snow and even playing in the stuff. Link and I did not

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So I have finally remembered to bring my SD card and the to also create this post. I know, I am a little late but at least it is still January! We went way overboard on christmas this year but in our defense we got some major sales and deals on most of it and santa brought the rest so we are all good. The kids had a blast opening presents at Amma and Papa's, Mommaw and Boppa's and our

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I know I have not posted anything about christmas yet but that is because I keep leaving my camera in the van that mike takes to work. I promise I will give the scoop of our first 5 member Taggard Christmas when I get back from my time off. Until then I am going to do what most people do this time of year and ponder over 2009 and count my blessings one by one.Overall the year has been wonderful

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or so it would seem since I did not realize that my last post was on 12/2/09. It has been almost two whole weeks since I have updated the few people that read my blog on what is going on in the tame but interesting life of the Taggard Clan. So what have we been up to? See, even I have not one clue. It really has been a busy couple of weeks. All of the court papers have been turned in

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yes, my oldest son know all the words to the chipmonk christmas song. He sings it wonderfully too. Well, we got the tree up and the presents wrapped with care (except the ones Beau wrapped) and decorations set up around the house. I love this time of year and enjoy watching my kids get excited about the whole thing. We make a point of making sure that equal time is spent on both the secular

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Why is it that my 8 year old son's pants are never zipped.....and he doesn't care?Why is a mother not built with a back up battery supply to get her through a day of work after being up all night with a crying child.As I listen to my kids I stop and wonder how many more years I will have to listen to the age old argument of who is touching who and who was playing with what first.What magical

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The Saga still continues to the point that our adoption hearing and sealing have been canceled. The second round of the hearing (Old Foster parents fighting to adopt) went long and none of the lawyers were able to do closing statements and so now they must be submitted in writing and we should get a ruling around january or february of 2010. This was heartbreaking to me since our courtdate for

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In celebration of National Adoption Month and finally being placed with two beautiful children after 7 years of trying to add to our family (both naturally and through adoption) I am going to repost an old post about how and why we got into adoption.Monday, October 29, 2007The story of why we are adoptiv and foster parentsBy request I am going to tell you all a little story as to why we are

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So when we were matched with Link we did not realize that his birthday was the same as Michaels it is really funny. So now we have two birthdays to celebrate on October 26th. Link turns 2 today (he has already got the "NO" down pat) and Mike turns 30. That last one is a bit hard for me to be OK with. I am still not ok with being 29. I guess you can not stop the clock. We had fun last night

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I had one of those weekends that you are never get a moment to rest until it is time to go to work on monday. We had the state fair, Presents to make, Costumes to make, church and a birthday party. It was a lot of stuff but to be honest it was a blast. Here is the break down.Friday: I decided to make my Nieces birthday presents because I had learned som really cute crafts. I made here a crayon

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well, just one so far. When I got home yesterday Link threw up and so I took his temp and he had one. Mike and I talked and because the school had sent home a notice that some of the students had confirmed H1N1 viruses we decided to take him in to the doctor the next day. Mike just called and we now have an almost 2 year old pig. He is on meds and we are to keep him away from the other two

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So, I find myself calling my husband it seems everyday to share the news that another one of our good friends is having a baby and we talk for awhile about how we think that each of these people will be such wonderful parents and that we are excited for them. This has happened four times in the past year, three of which have been in the past two weeks. All of these families have a special place

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So I have a daughter now, a three year old daughter and she loves to have her hair fixed up. I kept looking around for pretty bows to top off her ponytails and such but alas, I could not find any I liked or wanted to pay and arm for. Honestly, when you do come across bows they are way pricey and those that know me know that I am too cheap for that. I then noticed at the booths for the bows (

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You have got to love them. My Monday yesterday was a little bipolar. It just could not decide what it was going to be but at least it ended on a good note.I had one of those mornings that nothing went as planned and my checkbook took large hits. I woke up and while I was getting ready for work I was thinking about the fun time I had at the super saturday activity and then going to my nieces

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So I have a playlist on my Ipod that I named "about to die"This name was given for two reasons. The first one is that they are all songs that I want to hear one last time before the Ipod dies. The second one is for those times when I feel like emotionally, physically or mentally I am about to die. These songs will usually fit my mood somehow, allow me to sing along and forget the problem or

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