Taylor turned 4!

Here are some pictures from Taylor's fourth birthday! I will catch up on blogging one day...

Birthday morning, can you tell she is excited about her barbie?!?!

She had a pizza and princess party...I tried to make it a gender neutral pizza party, but she insisted on having the princess part thrown in. some of the girls had on costumes and everyone was happy with it! here they are making their pizzas...

Daivd had the task of occupying the kids while the pizza's were in the oven. musical chairs was a hit!

Some of the ladies! Pretty much all of them got put to work to pull this party off without a disaster...thanks!

Pre candle blowing out...

...and the girl in action!

Us with the birthday girl!

the best group shot i could get. most of the kids are in it, but not necessarily happy or looking!!

sooo, it's been a while

i am pretty sure there is no way to catch up from all that has happened since my last post, so i'll give a reallllly broad overview...

We had a fun halloween, although i can't seem to find the pictures right now.

After thanksgiving, we buried a precious friend. I will forever be changed for the better because of Misty. She was an amazing woman and even better momma, and I am so grateful to call her my friend. We struggled through Christmas, but the girls had a great time....

christmas eve cookie baking

Scooter girl

Christmas day Taylor helping Callie open her gifts

Santa brought Callie a slide!

Sweet cousins

This girl LOVED her piano!

after christmas we did a little of this...

and even some of this!

And then sweet Tay-Tay turned 4. Stay tuned for her birthday pictures and some snow ones thrown in there.

It's Fall!!!

I ignored fall as long as i could this year so i could soak up the last rays of summer. I have now embraced it, so it is time to catch up on pictures. here are some recent events....

Annual Sciortino Pumpkin Carving

campbell and taylor giving fake smiles for the camera...

taylor got brave this year and assisted with the pumpkin cleaning...way to go girl!!

family picture with the finished product!

This may be the best picture i have ever gotten with these 4 crazy kids!! i love it!!!

Halloween

my adorable chick!

taylor the tinkerbell and callie the chick...they both really loved their costumes this year!

Trunk or Treat

This is taylor with ty the fuzzy caterpillar (his sister was a butterfly...way to go tara, love it)

taylor with sweet emma kate

Gentry's Farm

We went this year just the 4 of us and had a great time following the girls around...and acutally got a decent family picture!

My sleepy girls on the hayride. taylor did not really sleep, but she did close her eyes for a minute. that was a feat in itself!

best one of the 2 of them i got that day.

And some leaf pictures...

Taylor has been looking in our yard every day for the leaves to fall off so she can rake them and jump. our bradford pears are still holding onto their leaves, so she made a pile at Imah's to jump in. They had a great time playing in their pile! 

beach bums

we went to the beach several weeks ago with my side of the family. it was a great week and we loved almost every second! beware...i dont think i have ever posted this many pictures, so feel free to stop looking whenever you get bored!

sweet daddy and taylor time playing in the ocean.

Callie smiling while she was playing games with uncle brad and aunt jessi

me and my sweet baby!

Taylor getting so brave! Last year she would not let her toes touch the ocean, but this year she would walk right in and get shoulder deep in it all by herself! 

Can you tell she was having the time of her life?? she was happy every second she was on the beach and would have stayed out 12 hours a day!

sweet blair...she was perfect all week long! my girls were slightly obsessed with her and she (and her parents) didnt seem to mind too much!

family picture!

I love this one of Callie!

my baby girl...i am kind of liking that she still has very little hair. i think it makes her look like a baby a little longer. i am not ready for her to get so big!

sweet family...brad, jessi and blair

photo sessions with the cousins! David's mom was so sweet to monogram "cousins" on their shirts so they would look extra cute with their new (and only) cousin! Taylor was so proud to be able to hold blair all by herself, and she actually did a pretty good job!

mom and dad with their girls!

I love this one of the girls...very rarely to i get 2 smiles at the same time. It was pretty funny wearing "cousins" on their shirts when they were without blair. i photoshopped the "cousins" out of it for this one!

school days

taylor started school a couple of weeks ago and she thnks school is the greatest thing ever invented. i keep telling her i missed her while she was gone and she always replies, "mommy, I forgot to miss you!" here are some pictures from the first day...

This was actually on Sneak a Peak day. This is her teacher Miss Stephanie...taytay loves her!

Callie not wanting to be left out of the pictures.

She looks so grown up!

Dancing about going to school....

This is taylor on her first day last year...it makes me so sad to see how much she has grown up!

Callie on the way home from taking taylor!

Chattanooga

Several weeks ago, David and I took Taylor down to Chattanooga for a little getaway. We had wanted to take her there for a while, but Callie is not exactly "traveler friendly." We left on Saturday and spent the day there, spent the night, and came back Sunday evening. We went to the aquarium and discovery kids center. she loved every second, but i think her favorite part is that they were having a Curious George exibit at the discovery center. george is her favorite show! 

David and Taylor in she shark cage!

maybe she has a future in this medical field seeing how well this patient is being cared for!

Taytay and her george

Taytay and hunley

ice cream after dinner!

I was not prepared for her to jump in the water, i just thought she was going to splash around! 

David had to sprint back to the car and get a change of clothes before the movie started.

In the movie...taylor did not like the movie at all because she was sure the fish were going to come out of the screen and get her. she spent her time in the movie with her hand reaching out to stop the fish from getting her.

one tired little girl at the end of this 2 day adventure!