Sunday, November 17, 2013

Keith, Jie and Jayden


We had a very relaxing evening yesterday with Keith and Jie who both work with Lynne at Purdue. The highlight of the evening however was Jayden, their three month baby boy. Our babies just did not seem that small anymore. How quickly one forgets how small and fragile newborns are. Lynne prepared a great dinner and a fun filled evening was had by all.









Saturday, November 16, 2013

Thank You Brooke, We'll Miss You....

One of the most significant changes in the OwensTaylor world since I stopped updating is that Brooke is no longer or nanny.  Yes indeed, a huge change after four years. Brooke joined us before Connor was even born and over four years literally became part of our family.  She always will, just like we still hold so much love and affection for Michelle, Lindsay and Kristina before her.

It’s virtually impossible to adequately thank her for all that she did for each of our children and us over those four years. She did stuff for us before we even realized we needed her help. She loved, protected and cared for our children like they were her own. And she did so many things with them. We all thank you from the very bottom of our hearts, we already miss you dearly.


Over the last few years she completed a Masters program part-time in Human Resource Management and has now moved to Tennessee to lead the HR group of a Nestle facility. It’s never easy to move jobs or a new location, Brooke, we wish you the very best in this new role, you will do a fantastic job. 



















I'm Back with a Blog Post.......

I know it has been a while since I reached out with an update and I also know that many of you noticed! Many thanks to all of you who urged me to continue updating. This will be a short note simply to say that I am back. I will follow up over the coming few days with a variety of posts. A lot has happened over the summer and I never really spent any time dwelling on the events of the summer on these pages.


As always I do leave you with some pictures and like most of my posts they feature our three children. As you will see below, they have grown!





Sunday, August 11, 2013

Happy 6th Birthday Isabel


Today was Isabel’s 6th birthday. Hard to believe that the little bundle that arrived six years ago is so grown up already. We had a “My Little Pony” themed birthday party for her yesterday, it was a great day, many of her best friends were able to come and they all played pretty hard. Lynne did a treasure hunt and drew lots of my little ponies all over the back yard, Brooke baked the cake as usual and my mum sent over her birthday dress. We seem to have a familiar formula at this stage. Many thanks to everybody for making it such a wonderful day for Isabel.











Sunday, July 21, 2013

Michigan Vacation 2013

 Since I last posted, I have been to London for a week, Ireland for a few days and to Michigan for our annual family vacation in Saugatuck. We returned yesterday afternoon and it has taken us a full day to sort most things out. We had a wonderful time as usual, with fishing, swimming, hiking, cycling and relaxing our primary activities. I also managed to complete a finance exam. We were joined as usual by our very good friends Randy and Lorraine and everybody had a terrific time. A few select photos are shown below.