My Pretty Young Thing

I had to teach at the Y the other day and Renny and I had a little spare time before class. We cranked up the ipod to Renny's song... PYT. Here she is just being cute!

My PYT from Taylor Lane on Vimeo.

Just a cute night with the fam...

Nothing out of the usual, just a cute night with the Rhea's!
We've all been working on teaching them how to say 'Peace' and now they've got it!

PEACE!! from Taylor Lane on Vimeo.

Toot's lovin' the Blue Baby... she missed the first go round!

Lovin' the Blue Baby from Taylor Lane on Vimeo.

Clearwater Community high horse!

What an amazing Sunday! We started our Sunday worship with a
good ole' southern style 'Victory in Jesus'... clappin, toe tappin,
the whole thing! IT. WAS. AWESOME! You can't help but be ready
to receive a message after starting a morning like that!
Our church is so unreal! I am so happy that we have all found our
home there! I venture to say that no place can bring you to
intimacy with our Lord like our old, perfect gym turned sanctuary!
Every time I walk in the door, I am propelled to place of time with
Him that literally feels like I am sitting at his feet, enthralled by
His words. We are so, so blessed to have found our home.

Then, last night, we had our second Wild Night! (Fun nights for
anyone really, but its geared towards the kids). Its always so
good to hang out with our friends, but the chance to dance
around and sing like crazy people doesn't hurt either! The
skit they did was absolutely hilarious! I wish i would have video
taped it (although you wouldn't have heard any of it because I
was dying laughing the whole time!) That is such a cool way to 
reinforce the kids of our church... to show them that they can be
undignified when worshiping... and that they are surrounded by
crazy folks who want to do the same thing!

I love the program that Tommy Ray has put in place! Serenity
came running up to me afterwords, jumped in my lap, and screamed
'I love our church!!' I hope that same excitement resonates in her
heart forever! I hope it does mine too! Our God is so good, and
forgiving, and powerful. I'm amazed at his perfect plan!

I wish I had a zillion pictures so you could share in this day with
me, but my battery died on my camera. :( Also, a little lagniappe
just in case you'd like to sing along... I sang this little ditty all day
yesterday! Perfect song to be stuck in your head, don't you
think?!


I heard an old, old story, how the Savior came from Glory
How He gave His life at Calvary, to save a wretch like me
I heard about His groaning, of His precious love’s atoning
Then I repented of my sins, and won the victory.


Oh, victory in Jesus, my Savior forever
He sought me, and bought me with His redeeming blood
He loved me ere, I knew Him, and all my love is due Him
He plunged me to victory, beneath the cleansing flood.

I heard about a mansion He has built for me in glory,
And I heard about the streets of gold beyond the crystal sea
About the angels singing and the old redemption story,
And some sweet day I’ll sing up there the song of victory.

(chill bumps! I can't wait for the Kingdom!)

feelin sassy

I'm totally digging the fact that I just figured out how to post from my phone! Awesome!

Not sure why I'm feeling so sassy- I'm kicking a day old pony tail, haved rubbed all my makeup off, and my pants are too tight! Ahhh! Who knew having a baby would make you tubbers? I've been telling myself all day that these are skinny pants, but I think that's a BIG OLE' white lie! Blue Baby is only like 1/2 inch big! How come my pants are too tight?!?

Anywho, regardless of the way I look, I'm feelin' faboo! Going to pick up ren and our favorite friends (who are presh and have AWESOME manners) are coming over for a spend the night party.

Best part of the weekend? Its my two favorite tiny people's 2nd bday today!!! Yay! AND the whole family is coming to town to celebrate! Whooo hoo! I love some good old fashion family time!

I'm sure ill have a zillion break your heart pics to post, so be waiting with baited breath!

Love all our friends and family and am so thankful for yall making our life so great!
Have a good weekend, y'all!

Look at my baby!

An email newsletter I receive said that this week our baby is the size of a blueberry.

World, I'd like you to meet our little BlueBaby!!! Yay for little BlueBaby! Just a growin' in there! Get it, kid!

Save the best for last...

Here are video's from the weekend.... the best part!

Caden getting soaked:

Water Hose Wet Day from Taylor Lane on Vimeo.

Still getting soaked:

water works 2 from Taylor Lane on Vimeo.

We lost Allie and everyone was calling for her and someone caught on to how its done! ;)

Where's Allie? from Taylor Lane on Vimeo.

This is Tootie wiggling her nose like a rabbit. This was not her best attempt, but it's all I caught on camera. Bham'ers please ask her to do it for you! It is the funniest thing when she does a good one! Every inch of her face..... except her nose.... wiggles all around!

Rabbit Face from Taylor Lane on Vimeo.

Most beautiful sound in the whole world...

Wrap my heart around these giggles from Taylor Lane on Vimeo.

Here's the end of the fireworks show in West Point... pretty good, huh?!?!
Whoops! That ones not ready yet! Ill follow up in a bit!

Now, the rest of the weekend.... in pics

Needing a little Mommy time! She's so good at comforting them both when they need her at exactly the same time!
Great-Grandkids and Din Din (one little nugget's smiling through my belly!)

Great-Grandkids and Papa

Tootie brushing Pa Pa's hair!! :)

Someone just had a birthday! Happy Bday best sis-in-law EVAR! She is so awesome! We are SO LUCKY to have her in our family!!!

'I live in my own little world... but it's okay, they know me here' tshirt courtesy of Booper. So fitting!

Cutie Cousin's!

Isn't she beautiful?!

Smooching! I had one shot at getting this picture b/c Lizzy did not like that Caden was wet and walked around telling everyone with a disgusted look on her face!

Anddaddy sprayed Caden with a water hose and he LOVED it! We ended up just stripping him down and letting him go for it!

Immediately post squirt!

My new favorite picture of my favorite little nephew...

Weee!!!!

Renny teaching Caden how to drive....

4th of July: 1st anniversary of marital bliss and 2nd anniversary of terrorizing the twins

Precursor. We took a lot of pictures. I'm going to divide this post into days so I don't overwhelm anyone with our massive amounts of pictures. I've got to get a handle on this! Between mom and I, we probably had 200 pictures from the weekend. I am so thankful for digital cameras! What would I have done with the old school film?!
4th of July was great for our family! The whole Rhea/Lane clan packed it up and road tripped it over to Chuckles and Booper's house. We played outside a lot, cooked out, relaxed, dodged the 30 dogs that seem to congregate at the house when everyone's home.... it was just one of the perfect weekend's at home that I love. Powers said it right, something about being at my parent's house just makes you hungry! We had awesome food all weekend and are so thankful for Booper's hard work in making every meal a big deal! You can hear her beatin' around the kitchen long before anyone wakes up in the morning! I love my mom! She's the greatest!

Anywho, here's a little ditty about the night of the 4th. We all went to West Point for BBQ and fireworks. If anyone was with us last year, you'll remember it was great fun, but the twins were horrified by the fireworks. One year later, nothings changed. Here are all the horrific things that were happening this year: A super scary hot air balloon, tiki torches, sparklers, and fireworks. They did love the jumpy rooms but it was a jungle in there and we were afraid they were going to come out mauled with 4 black eyes! Charley and Renny were on the lookout for all the cool give aways so they ran around doing their own thing most of the time.

Overall, it was a great night but until the kido's decide fireworks are cool, the Rhea's might not make this an annual event :(

Here's the horrible hot air balloon. Isn't that scary?!?!? The babies just adverted their eyes and wouldn't look at anyone if they had to look in the same direction as the balloon!

Here's Toot's during the fireworks show. She sat in Daddy's lap and squeezed her eyes together as tightly as she could the whole way through! It was so sad! Caden slept the entire time!

Cutie Pootie in her USA outfit!

Not buying it.

Caden passed out.

Little father/daughter timeMarital bliss... it doesn't seem like 3 months ago, much less a year! I am so grateful for a loving husband who loves the Lord. He has given me a very full, very exciting year and I am have loved doing life with this man!

Totally forgot to post... we bought a house!!!

Totally forgot to post that we bought a house! Im so obsessed with all the kids in our fam, that I forgot to share our exciting news! Powers found us a great first home and we are really excited about moving in! We closed a few weeks ago and are slowly but surely getting things in order to move! We've started packing, powers has done a lot of yard work, and we're working our way into the inside. Notice that big scary plant in the background.... we've still got a good way to go in the yard department! There is maybe one of every plant species growing around our house! It's funny, but in most instances, that's a great thing! We have a muscadine trellis, rose bushes, fig tree, blackberry bushes, gardenia's that smell divine, pecan trees, then about 1,000 more 1-plant specials!

It will be great for us! Our only problem is that right now its a 2 bedroom house and we just filled up the guest room with baby! Whoops! We're gonna start working on a basement guestroom soon! Sorry we look like a hot mess in the pics... it was BURNIN' hot outside!

Lots of old random things around the house. This is our railroad 'night' light!

Pow Pow's Barn. Hallelujah!

Muscadine (or some sort of 'dine) trellis. It's so cool underneath there! We're going to try to have a dinner party under there one day soon. Its kept perfectly to walk underneath!

We also just traded power's jeep in and gotten the most soccer mom car ever! We love it though and are totally ready for family! New house, check. Bun in the oven, check. Family car, check. Taylor has set an informal family rule that nothing new or exciting can happen to us for the next 3 years. Momma was a little overwhelmed last week and is super excited about life slowing down for the next few months! :) I love my passionate husband though and know excitement is just part of our lifestyle!

Poor Powers. His 'get it done' wife is now down for the count on moving anything heavy and painting. How did I time that so perfectly? I'm packing the boxes, picking out colors, then passing off a honey-do list to the hubbs! Way to go, Tay Tay!

Satistied in the Promises of my Savior

Isaiah 58: 6-11
⁶ "Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice
and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free
and break every yoke?

⁷ Is it not to share your food with the hungry
and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—
when you see the naked, to clothe him,
and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?

⁸ Then your light will break forth like the dawn,
and your healing will quickly appear;
then your righteousness ^a]">[a] will go before you,
and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.

⁹ Then you will call, and the LORD will answer;
you will cry for help, and he will say: Here I am.
"If you do away with the yoke of oppression,
with the pointing finger and malicious talk,

¹⁰ and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry
and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,
then your light will rise in the darkness,
and your night will become like the noonday.

¹¹ The LORD will guide you always;
he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land
and will strengthen your frame.
You will be like a well-watered garden,
like a spring whose waters never fail.

Amen. Promises from the beginning of time that still hold true today. God is so good. During the madness of this world, His promise NEVER changes. I revel in His goodness today. I am strengthened according to his Word!