For those of you concerned about me and my family, Thank you so much for your prayers they are very much needed right now.

For those of you who do not already know, we found out yesterday that my older brother, Brian Taylor, passed away yesterday morning. This was very sudden and unexpected so as you can imagine we are going though a lot right now. When praying please pray for my parents, they have lost a child and are doing the best they can right now. Please ask for rest, comfort and strength for them.

Arrangements as of tonight are:

Visitation 12:00pm-2:00pm Saturday November 8th
Funeral 2:00pm Saturday November 8th
I believe all will be at Cranford's funeral home in White Hall
--THIS IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE--it has already changed once today

Again thank you ALL so much for your prayers and thoughts and love,

Rebecca and Ben

WoW three months this time. I really have to do better at this.

I was sitting here tonight reading everyone's updates and decided, since tomorrow is my Birthday, I would too.

Well, tomorrow will officially mark me entering my  MID Thirties.  My Mom asked me yesterday if I felt old, I told her "no not really". Then I back tracked and said "I only feel old when I think about how old the girls are" LOL! You see because tomorrow is also Anna's Birthday. She will be 13, and in 2 weeks Alex will be 15. THEN in a month Alex  will be starting HIGH SCHOOL!!!!!  at the same HS her Daddy and I attended and graduated from!  Just plain weirdness to think about.  Alex and I will go pick up her schedule and wander the halls that hold SO MANY memories for us, the good, bad AND the ugly! Time is flying. THAT is what makes me feel old. Not the number 34.

As for what has gone on with us in the last 3 MONTHS since my last update, I think bullet style is the best approach...

*April didn't see much going on Peggy and I went to the SoTT gathering at Gena's and got tattoos (Yes you read that right, See bottom of post!)

*May was BUSY! Graduations, end of year concerts, awards and in general no time for ANYTHING else! Both of our girls did amazing this school year. They collected several awards for music and academics.

*June is defined as VBS month. Ben and I had the honor of writing our VBS curriculum this year. SO stress was the name of the game until it was over. We did and Indiana Jones type theme called "The Ultimate Adventure" instead of Indiana Jones, our main character was called Arkansas Jefferson (Jefferson is the county we live in) We had our largest number of kids to date with 198 elementary age kids!! WOOHOO! Preschool had around 40! The Preschool also wrote their curriculum and it was awesome. It is really awesome to be able to not have to buy a curriculum. God has really blessed our Children Ministry (preschool and elem) with creativity to be able to do this. Cause trust me it ain't easy! That in a nut shell was June.

*July is just really getting started. Like I said before, tomorrow we have 2 birthday girls. And in 2 weeks we will have another. The girls want Rock Band for our Wii for their birthday and I told them that we really can't afford it. I told them if they were smart they would pool their Birthday money and if it wasn't enough Daddy and I would make up the difference. The girls go to camp at the end of the month. Then when August starts both start summer band rehearsals. Anna made flagline so she will start a little earlier than the rest of the Junior High Band.

OH and we have Church League Youth Softball all the month of July. We had our first games the week. Alex has NEVER played Softball before and the first game she was back catcher for the last two innings. I was so nervous! But she kind of got the hang of it and did OK.

So that's about it for the last 3 months. I hope you're all still with me! HAHA I may not post but I do get around and read most of you guys stuff everyday.