Taryn's Photo Shoots

With all the holidays and birthdays at the end of the year, I decided I'd better keep up on my posts. So here are a bunch of pictures of Taryn in her blessing dress. I tried three different times to take pictures in hopes that I could get a really good one to add to our wall of each of the girls in their blessing dresses. Here are some of my favorites:

Happy girl.

 A view of the entire dress.

 Wondering how much longer.

 My favorite - I just love her expression.

 This is the one I'll use for our wall. She's in the same position as all the other girls, and just as adorable.

 I've also added just a few other pictures of Taryn over the past couple months. I can't help but just take pictures of her whenever the mood strikes, so here are a few:

On her first Sunday, ready for church.

 After she started sitting up (kind of) with the help of the boppy.

 With her big sister Aubrey who still asks to hold her all the time. So cute!

 And finally, getting ready for Christmas in her "I Love Santa" outfit. She's 2 months old in this picture and over 11 pounds now. Man, time flies.

We love our Taryn!

Taryn's Blessing and a Thanksgiving Wolf

Taryn was blessed on November 20. Tyler's parents and sister and family came from Utah to be here with us for the blessing and the Thanksgiving holiday. We are very thankful to have a wonderful extended family who love and support us.

Here's our new family of six:

The proud parents; and Taryn did so well all day sleeping through most of it.

The cousins - all those girls and one boy. They had a great time together all week.

We spent our Thanksgiving week with Tyler's family and we were able to spend two days at the Great Wolf Lodge. It was awesome. I loved the picture spots.

The Great Wolf Lodge is a huge hotel with an indoor water park. Going to a water park in November is so awesome! Our hotel room was down "Pixie's Hall" which was so fitting for all the little girls in our families.

The entire floor was decorated with the floor theme. This picture was taken right outside our door.

We all really enjoyed the water park. We spent two days on slides, lazy rivers, wave pools, and avoiding the huge dumping bucket.

Once Aubrey tried the kiddie slides, we couldn't get her to stop.

On Thanksgiving day, the kids went on a scavenger hunt walk with Grandma and Grandpa so we pulled them all together for a quick picture.

It was a great Thanksgiving spent with family.

And here's a preview of the next blog entry:

Taryn's blessing dress photo shoot.