Thanksgiving and an early Christmas

Most of these new pictures are from our trip to Ohio. We went to see Mark's family and celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas. Since I cannot travel too far over Christmas, we had to go ahead and celebrate early with Mark's family. Taylor did not seem to mind that she got some early Christmas presents :)

This is just a random picture of Tay in the leaves outside of our house. She was having a blast playing in them.


Grandma and Grandpa Elliott got Taylor TONS of stuffed animals. She was loving on all of them.


We went to a park in Ohio. Taylor would slide down with Mark and then try and climb back up.

Aunt Jennie and Uncle Chad already had their Christmas tree ready to go. This was the first one Taylor had seen this Christmas. She was quite impressed.

Grandma and Grandpa Elliott also got Taylor a new baby doll. She absolutely LOVES it. She would not stop feeding her doll after she got her.

This is a picture of Mark's side of the family. As you can see, Tay is still feeding her baby doll.

Taylor with her cousins, Brooke and Ryan......still feeding the doll.

Fall fun

Sorry it had taken so long to get new pictures up. Unfortunately, we have just not taken that many. But here is what we do have....

We went to a fall bonfire and pumpkin craving for our church the other weekend. We did not think Tay would enjoy it as much as she did. She just dug right in the pumpkin and started cleaning it out. She was loving it!

Tay's new thing is lining up all her stuffed animals on Sophie and then laying with them. It is pretty cute :)

Taylor's loves to color. She gets so excited when we break out the crayons and paper. She does occasionally try to eat one, so I have to make sure she is supervised at all times.

Here are our Halloween pictures of Tay. She loves bunnies, so we figured she might as well be one. She did not "love" her costume, but she actually kept it on for a while.

We went to a nursing home on the Friday before Halloween so she could trick or treat. It was alot of fun.

Our neighbors came over Halloween night and we dressed the kids up in their costumes.

Taylor is very particular about where her animals and baby dolls go. She likes to line them up and she is always patting them on the back. She is going to be such a good big sister!!

Ohio trip and Go VOLS!!!!

Here is Taylor and her BFF Brayden. He is our next door neighbor's little boy. They are one month apart and are so cute together.


Tay loves to crawl in her box of toys and play.



These pictures start our Ohio trip. We went up there to see our new niece Hayden and the rest of Mark's family. It was a wonderful trip, but too short as always.

This one is of Taylor and her cousin Cole.


All of the cousins on Mark's side.

Grandpa with the girls.

Tay has a few cute little Volunteer outfits. Unfortunately out little cheerleader has not been able to bring much luck to the Vols, but she looks pretty cute trying :)

Her and Sophie love looking out our front window together.

Go VOLS!!!

We got her this new car at a yard sale the other week. The people actually gave it to us for FREE!! I love a good yard sale!!!

We can't believe it finally happened....

As you know, we have been hoping that Tay would start walking for some time. Here are her first steps. She was sitting on the floor and Mark said "Taylor, walk". She looked at him, stood up and took one step. We asked her again and this is what she did. I guess we should have just asked a long time ago :)

San Antonio Trip

We just got back from 4 days of visiting my brother and his family. They just had a little boy 2 months ago, so we finally got to meet him.

This was Taylor's first time to fly. She did pretty good, but refused to sleep. Here we are getting ready to take off.


We went to the neighborhood pool the first day we were there. Addie (Tay's cousin) was helping to feed her. Such a big help :)


Something must have been funny.

The girls had matching outfits, so of course we put them in them for church. This was the best picture we could get, but I think it is pretty cute!

Addie liked to read to Taylor.

Here is all 7 of us. We had strict orders to get a picture with all of us. So here it is (Mom).

Addie had a little kitchen in her room and Tay had a good time playing with it. Maybe a Christmas present?

We did not manage to get many pictures with Taylor and her new cousin Ian. Here is one of the few. I guess she is going to have to get used to having a little one around :)

We went to the Alamo while we were there. Apparently this is the picture that we "had to get" of us in front of the Alamo.

On our way back to the car from the Alamo, the girls held hands the entire time. It was so cute.

They had quite the time on the recliner.

This is the closest Taylor has come to walking. I am hoping this toy will speed things up. Maybe by 1 1/2 she will have taken her first solo steps :)

New pictures...finally!!!

Unfortunately, we just have not taken many pictures lately. Hence why I have not updated the blog in forever. I got together what I could since I knew it would be nice for an update :)

We went to a little girl's 1st birthday party the other day and Taylor had a blast. There was a playground there so we got some shots of Tay.


She loved this thing.

There was a HUGE lamb that someone gave to the birthday girl. Taylor had her eye on it the entire time and when we finally let her hold it, she just cuddled with it.

For those of you who know Tay, her feet are tiny. I bought these size 2 shoes last year (yes, size 2's are 3-6 months and Taylor is 14 months). Anyways, they finally fit her!!! She looks so cute in them, but she is quite awkward trying to do anything in them. We have fun watching though.

Reading a new ABC book.

We went to Ohio a few weeks ago and Mark's parents took us out on their pontoon boat. Taylor loved it (despite her facial expression here).

We docked the boat on a "beach" that was mainly mud. Of course Taylor was covered by the time we left. She even tried to eat it.

Just a cute shot

We stick a pool in our backyard and call it a "Redneck Pool Party" Hey, it entertains Taylor and gives us something to pass by the afternoon.