Getting Ready for Christmas

Heather at 5 months pregnant!

The Young Women came over for lunch and a fun service project

Taylor & Becca enjoying a little lunch!

A little Christmas mischief.....

Making Christmas cookies

Thanksgiving Adventures Out West

We flew to Salt Lake City for Thanksgiving where we were greeted with snow as soon as we landed. Taylor loved playing outside since she doesn't get to snow very often!We had a great visit in Grantsville with Shellie and Jodie's families. Taylor loved their dogs and thought the kennel was really cool too!

We enjoyed a huge thanksgiving dinner with over 50 members of the Turner family. It was so fun to visit and enjoy all the great food!

Fun visits with Aunt Jackie

John & Mom Turner

Jodie, Shellie, Jackie, Teri and John Cousin Levi was so good with Taylor and played with her during our visit

The next step of the trip driving to Scipio to visit Aunt Tonia and Uncle Loyal and then on to St. George to see Aunt Robin and Uncle Howard at their new house. Last stop - Las Vegas for the Bunker family reunion.We had a bit of exploring under the big lights with Alyson and Marilyn's families.

Here is John, Taylor, Emma & Abbi Lots of fun visits with cousin Chelle and Aunt Eileen - in fact all of mom's siblings were in town for the reunion and it was so fun to hear all their stories. Marilyn, Michelle & Chelle did an amazing presentation of my great great grandmother, Mary McQuarrie. In fact, Marilyn (and Amelia!) & Michelle went to Scotland a year ago to learn more about her. As part of the reunion, we put together school kits for humanitarian aid. Abbi was so good to help Taylor participate! John & Uncle Mike got to do all the heavy lifting Cousin Amelia is adorable Mom & Marilyn
Emma & Abbi were so good to Taylor. It was finally pay day to have their help since I use to watch them when I was the single aunt!
We went to see the fountains at the Bellagio.
We also had our cousin, Rogan's Flat Stanley, with us!

Taylor showing off her dance moves in downtown Vegas!

Happy 18th Birthday, Jordan!

I can't believe it has been 18 years! What a wonderful young man Jordan has become.This is one of my favorite pictures of Jordan. I love the mini Birkenstocks!

Brothers and best friends!

Jordan the master drummer, immortalized by Mason's artistic work.I love this guy!

Jordan's Christmas tree skirt

Taylor adores her big brother, Doe-Doe!

Reflections 2010

Happy Thanksgiving! Wishing you all the joy of family and friends, good food and great conversations. As we prepare our hearts for the celebration of our Savior's birth, we wanted to also reflect on our many blessings of this year. Our lives continue to be full with many things, but most of all, great family and friends. John continues to be the Director of Occupational Therapy at Memorial Hermann. Heather took on an additional role this summer as Marketing Director for the Plastics Sustainability team at Dow. Johnathan has hit his one year mark in the mission field and loves his time in the Dominican Republic. Jordan is a senior in high school playing as much music as he can as the head of the drum line, choir and adding piano lessons into the mix. And our Little Miss continues to be a great joy to us all, even at the age of 2! And we are happy to announce we will have another little Turner join us in the Spring. We love our service at church, especially with the youth group. So with family, church, work and a few house projects, our lives are full but fun - we love this journey and are so grateful for the Lord's hand in our lives. Much love to you and your families during this time of year. Thank you for your friendship, love and support. Love, Team Turner

Give Thanks!

Where to start?! I am overwhelmed with gratitude for all that we have. Sometimes John & I pinch ourselves and feel spoiled with our many blessings. And don't you love our family of turkeys?! Taylor loves having her hand traced and so we all did it and she decorated them with the feathers.

Check out this cute turkey KelleyAnne & Taylor made - Little Miss was so proud of it!

Senior Night & Cary Band Days

It was Senior Night for the band members the same weekend of Cary Band Days Parade & competition so we made the trek again to cheer him on. It is always a fun event and we always love our time with Jordan. Can't believe its Jordan's turn to be a senior!

Taylor was fascinated with their Cougar mascot. I think we are ready for Disney!

The Senior DrummersThe full drum line

Taylor loves Doe Doe's drum!

Fall Favorites

Our visit to the pumpkin patch was once again successful!

KelleyAnne made this darling plaque for our holiday decor! We love it!!

And she spoiled us with the cutest Halloween outfit for Taylor. Since we would be visiting Jordan Halloween weekend, we didn't even need a costume with such a great outfit!

And you can't forget the bloomers!!!

Elder Turner has been out 1 year!

Johnathan has been out for 1 year! He has been very successful and had the opportunity to baptize many in the Dominican Republic. He loves it there and we look forward to his return in September 2011!

Taylor Turns 2!

Happy Birthday to our precious blessing!

It was a fun tea party to celebrate Little Miss' big day - a few friends and loved ones came to join us in the festitivities. She didn't really get into it until we sang Happy Birthday and she blew out the candles - then she loved it!

We served tea sandwiches and raspberry ice cream in tea cups and strawberry cupcakes

Addy Cat came and brought our much loved Ariel doll. Taylor adores Addy!

Doris & Talmadge came as well - they are like grandparents to her! Taylor loved the little kitchen we got her and the matching food and dishes. Abby picked out the sweetest doll from her own collection and Taylor loves it! Milly and her sister Jane also picked out favorite toys to give to Taylor and she loves them! It was so sweet and generous!
Naisers came to visit too and it was great to see them.Sabrina enjoying some of Taylor's new cupcakes and tea set! Can you get a close look at the darling dress she is wearing? KelleyAnne made it for her -she is so talented! We will get better pictures of it soon.

My sister sent her this darling apron which was perfect for our new little chef!

And here is little miss in her leotard and tutu from Aunt Michelle - more pictures on this soon! There are many more friends to thank but I didn't catch pictures of them - so thank you so much for making Taylor's birthday so special!!!