Tray and Taye and the Rest of the Morgans

Happy Father's Day Pappy

2010-06-20T21:38:00.002-05:00

Happy Father's Day GDaddy

2010-06-20T20:23:00.002-05:00

"Tastes like Chocolate"

2009-04-28T22:53:00.002-05:00

So that has become the phrase. For Moses anything-ANYTHING-that he enjoys eating gets the response..."ummm, tastes like chocolate." It could be a cinnamon roll, grilled cheese, a chip, juice (not watered down) chocolate milk, even toothpaste...."ummm, tastes like chocolate." That is his level of judging and determining if he loves something. He loves his chocolate and we love him.

Meet our Milan at 1

2009-04-25T22:19:00.004-05:00

So I'm a little behind keeping this blog thing up to date!

This is our DAUGHTER...Milan Francine. We had her April 2nd, 2008. It has been a joy to be her parents and we want to share this beautiful face with all of you. Here is a few things you must know about Milan and what we have learned this past year:

-loves to smile, first time when she was 3 weeks old...no lie

-LOVES to eat and has HUGE diapers

-loves her brother

-can hit

-throws food

-SNUGGLES

-loves to crawl with something in her hand...it could be anything.

-doesn't cry a lot but when she does, it's LOUD.

-snored for the first 4 months of her life

-loves wear things as necklaces...you name it...beads, dog leashes, measuring tapes. She is our Mardi Gras girl...not really but...really.

-sings, kisses, head butts, high fives, hugs, dances

I could go on for ever and ever but that should give you a taste of our amazing daughter. She is a light in our lives.

Our artist, the Drummer

2008-03-28T20:00:00.007-05:00

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist after he grows up."

- Pablo Picasso

Creating is messy...especially with kids and in our house...creating is LOUD. Moses is our little drummer. We "created" this little musician and we have given him the freedom to use his "strength/skill" on the drum set we got him for Christmas. So we are due with our second Morgan in just days and I was thinking tonight as I hear Moses' feet run to his drums and the excited noise start up...we are about to have a newborn in this house of loudness. What are we going to do? Hide the drums? Hide the sticks? Let him go for it no matter what? Teach him to play soft? Teach him to not play at all for a season? Bigger than that for that case...when do you rein in your child's creativity, his expression, his passion? I keep thinking more and more on this as we see our 20 month old keep on surprising us with his personality. Of course there are limitations but to this but I don't want to---CRUSH. So tonight I have decided, I will not CRUSH. We don't have the answers on the drums. We don't have a newborn in the house yet that I've spent the night up with. Our hope though is that we allow our children to be the artist God has created them to be. Let us not hold them back from experiencing a passionate life-being that artist. So enjoy our little drummer.

SUPER-MORGAN-MEN!!

2007-11-06T09:37:00.000-06:00

I thought this might be the most appropriate picture to describe our past month! We have had a blast. Moses was Superman for Halloween and I feel like I need Superhuman mommy powers to keep up with the boy! He is doing great and Tray and I are loving this age. The second reason I choose this picture was what is in store for our family this next month. Tray is Superman these next weeks as he prepares for a church Christmas performance the first full weekend of December. He does a phenomenal job from programming, to directing, to ministering to the worship team, to creating a unique Christmas experience every year for our church.

So if you think of it...pray for our family's earthly Superman. Tray is simply amazing but is still human and has human stress, human anxieties and human energies. We want to tap into the right source for our needs as a family as we begin an absolutely crazy and wonderful Christmas season.

Bless you all this week!

You're not wasting kisses!

2007-10-07T22:30:00.001-05:00

"I hope to not be on my death bed and wished I had kissed more." -Unknown

I read that quote somewhere recently and it stuck with me. (There my be an author but I couldn't remember.) I asked myself...do I kiss as much as I want to? My answer-no. Do I show my husband, my little Moses how much I love them with my affection? no. I show them with little things I do for them. I tell them I love them but do I physically love on them as much as I think about it. no

This is my little sister, Liz, kissing Moses. BRAVE AUNTIE! We have taught Moses the kiss but it is a full on open mouth event on Moses' end. But he is willing and he knows it is loving. The other day I told him I loved him and he ran to me and leaned foward for a kiss. That's when I knew he had made the connection! What a beautiful moment when a kiss is a sign of love for a child!

So my call to us all is simply to kiss more.

Kiss your spouse (however you want!) for no particular reason. Not with hellos, goodbyes or good nights. Just kiss for the mere reason of love.

Kiss your parents, kiss your kids, kiss your loved ones. God has only given us a brief moment on this earth so don't worry about wasting kisses...no such thing! Who goes around and is upset because someone kisses too much??!!** Break down those walls and show that love with more kisses!

**teenagers should seek the Lord concerning this post and what He tells you about the amount you should be kissing! The Morgan are not liable.

April Fool's Baby!

2007-09-23T22:31:00.001-05:00

That's right...we are expecting our 2nd! I am almost done with my 1st Trimester and ready for the 2nd to come quickly. We really haven't tried to keep it a secret but we almost forget who knows and who doesn't. It's been crazy how sluggish and sick feeling I have been. It's slowing me down and that's always hard to handle. So here are the basics...the baby is due on April 1ST, we are not finding out what we are having again, Moses will be 20 months older, we do not have names yet and no we don't care what it will be. We will keep ya'll "posted" on the progress.

Another boy to the family

2007-09-20T09:58:00.000-05:00

welcome to the family evan reay roseberry!!!

We were so excited to go to Dallas last weekend and meet the latest roseberry. He is such a laid back sweet sweet little boy (not even 7lbs yet)! He is blond..surprise surprise and will sleep with chaos around him! Jed and Stacy and doing great being parents of 2 kids!

This was the first trip that Moses could walk with his little cousin,

Haley. They had a blast running all over Gigi and GDaddy's house. They are 17 months apart and they both copied each other. I think we have two very big hams in front of us.

Moses got to see Auntie Liz and spend some time with her. We always love a little Liz time!

Just laugh

2007-09-06T15:58:00.000-05:00

You know when your child is quiet and the alarm goes off in the brain.."It's tooo quiet" That's happened many a time, especially now that Moses is walking but this might be the funniest. I was actually changing his diaper and it was screaming. I found the closest thing I could and it just happened to be a stamp. Now you moms out there are thinking...Say WHAT...Taye, what were you thinking. I was thinking, Moses doesn't know how to take the lid off. So I hand it off and I have a pleasant 1 year old. While I was dealing with the stickiest, soupy, nastiest surprise on his lower end-the alarm went off. I glance to the top half of our child and the blue monster appeared. Now I know why people get the camera when there is choc. syrup all over a room and they are laughing. Humor is such a great option in moments of shock!

Moses turns 1!!!

2007-08-23T20:07:00.001-05:00

Recipe for throwing a

1 YEAR birthday party:

1. Have a theme...

fun,

current,

all ages love...

2. Recruit family-even if they are

from out of town

(offer money but know that they won't take it)....

3. Have
LIVE
music...

4. Have plenty of cake

5. Mix it all together and just allow God to give all the special flavors to the time!!

We had an absolutely great time with the crowd that came to help us celebrate. Almost all the family came in from Dallas and our extended family gathered here to help us enjoy our little one year old. He was a trooper and loved being the center of attention.

July 18, 2007:And so it begins...

2007-07-18T20:51:00.001-05:00

We are finally with it. I have brought our family into the world of blogs and I really don't know what I've done. It's two days until Moses turns 1 and I thought...this is as good a time as ever.
The summer has been bursting with activity and we are only in the middle of it. So many things happen everyday with the three of us...
I'm so excited to share how God is moving among our family day to day. So here it goes...