Twin boys

Meet Simeon (left) and Blaise (right).

These little guys are now almost five months old!? It's been a while since this picture was taken, but I still wanted to give them some blog love! Their mama has four boys three and under!!

Henlee and Bradly, and big sister Ella

More twins! But this time it was a boy and a girl! Big sister couldn't have been more proud!

And their sweet announcement!

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BACK

Two Two's

or should we say tutu's! :) My nieces turned two the end of last month! They are getting soo big!





Willa

Dovie

As you can see, they are full of sassiness!!

Spring Card

Isi and Oli wished their family and friends a 'happy spring' via mail with this cute card!

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Back:

Their big sister, Miranda will be a senior next year and she's going to be one of my senior reps. If you know anyone who will be a senior next year (2010-2011) and they haven't taken senior pictures and would like to earn print credits by being a senior rep, tell them to contact me!! Basically anyone they refer for senior pictures, they both will receive print credits!!

Peek-a-boo Fun...

...at the arboretum. These two were funny! I enjoyed my time with them last week! Working on a spring card, so I don't want to show too much, but peek-a-boo at their age always makes the cutest pictures!! Thanks, Jen!

Leopard Fun

I had been itching to use these fun leopard print papers and when I saw these precious outfits, I had totally designed their one year announcement in my head! Isi and Oli's mama loves sending cards out more than I do! She sent a birth announcement, a 9 month photo card, and this 1 year card! I know she made lots of friends and family smile!

P.S. I think I saw arboretum staff repainting the awesome grungy blue rod iron black. I wanted to scream "NOOOOO!" But I refrained. I'm sure black will be nice for pictures too...

Brendan and Collin

Brendan and Collin are two of the sweetest boys I know and they are now THREE years old. Their mama and I met during our internship and oh how I treasure our friendship, along with a few other 'internship friends' as I refer to them as.

We started at the railroad track.

Baby B - Collin!


Baby A - Brendan!


I love this picture at the downtown Rockwall square!! They are going to be spiderman and batman for Halloween. So they showed off some of their heroic moves! Nice!!

Funny story. As I was looking back through pictures on which I could possibly choose to post, I realized that I had not uploaded all the pictures. So in a sense, this is a sneak peek!

We went to park and the boys ran, and ran, and RAN!!

They occasionally stopped though and humored us!!

And because I don't understand the way blogger uploads pictures so out of order, here's one back at the train track.

Thank you so much Amy!

Sisters!

This session was so fun with lots of cute girlie stuff and adorable, happy twin baby girls and the doting big sister!

....and with big sister!

Willa and Dovie's Nursery - guest post

I would like to introduce my sister, Alison (a.k.a. Willa and Dovie's Mama), who is the guest author of this post. There's always more to the story than just what you see in pictures, and this was a fun way to get to share both! Not to mention, my family has been known to leave out nary a detail. So without further ado...

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I’m soo very excited to get to write a guest post on Taylor’s blog! We’ve been looking so forward to the nursery pictures, and when I saw them I knew I had to add my two cents and share the story of this awesome room.

Welcome to Willa and Dovie’s room! This room is so special because it truly embodies the spirit of family and community. Like most people, we procrastinated finishing (some might say starting) their room until it became apparent that the babies weren’t going to wait much longer to come into this world. Let me back up and say that shortly after me becoming pregnant, Jay ripped all the paneling and trim off the walls leaving the bare planks. He also spent months pouring over magazines and scouring the internet for nursery ideas. I remember once even pulling over at a drapery shop so he could take a picture of a canopy that caught his eye. We had all the ideas in the world, but the room literally looked like a construction zone about a month before the babies were born.

I guess it’s been about a year ago now that we got started. The work began and everyone pitched in. My brothers-in-law framed and sheet rocked one wall and hand-cut all the pickets. (My sister, Kenzie, painted them all pink – there had to be over 100 pickets.) They helped Jay nail down the floor and wire cable line and electrical line in the attic. Jay’s brother came to help him cut and hang trim. Jay painted for days and days, ruining almost every article of clothing he owned. All this time I was stuck on the couch – a very hard spot for someone as controlling knowledgeable as myself. Then, about six weeks early, my water broke in the middle of the night. While Jay and I were at the hospital, our family came over to work all day and finish up construction. They even sent me a phone picture to show me all the progress.

Another person so instrumental in the creation of the girls’ room is my sweet friend who made all of their bedding. We gave her the material and a picture of something we found on the internet and she created this stunning, timeless, unbelievably beautiful bedding. It’s made of pink Dupioni silk and covered in embroidered organza. It makes me so happy to think that they spend every night and take every nap nestled into the cocoons of love that she made for them.

One of Jay’s favorite items is the digital photo frame between their cribs. He matted and framed a flat-screen television, hung it on the wall, and wired it to a DVD player in the closet. The girls like to look at pictures of their family and friends when they’re laying down for a nap. Technically, it could even play movies if we watched TV in our bedrooms, but we don’t.

One of my favorite parts of the nursery is the tree on the wall. Hung on its branches are some words that we think are important for the girls to learn as they grow and mature. The words we have on the tree right now are grace, non-resistance, loving kindness, individuality, and compassion. The word tree is a work-in-progress and we will add many more words as they become appropriate.

Every day when I walk into Willa and Dovie’s room and see the culmination of everyone’s hard work, I am constantly reminded of the love and anticipation and excitement and JOY that we all felt while preparing a space for these precious girls.

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Click here to view a slideshow of more nursery pictures.

Oh happy day!

Well, actually it was last Thursday! But Willa got her hat off and I'm sure she wanted to bust out in song "It's a whole new world..." To commemorate the occasion (and secure a spot on next year's calendar for the place Willa got her Doc Band), we took some pictures of the girls and Willa in her hat which at that point was a wee bit too small, but there's nothing like waiting until the very last moment! (Literally they were on their way to the final appointment!) Enough gabbin', here are the cuties!

Twins and their flower bows!

Here's another fun one. This mom and dad didn't come without an assortment of fun things to use during our shoot!

Twins and their hats!

Here is a quick peak at a couple sweet twin baby girls and their cuter than cute hats!

Little Beauties!

Today we played photo shoot with my twin nieces! We pushed them to the brink, like always, but they did marvelously! We had loads of fun!! These were some of my favorites!

And MORE twin fun!

Lots of twins recently! I was dragging my feet on posting a sneak peak at the pictures because I couldn't decide my favorites, a problem I never mind having! I'm not quite done with all of them, but preliminary evidence points to the following favorites:

Mom with Sydney



Dad with Jane

Claire with Mom and Dad

Family shot (almost everyone smiling and almost everyone looking at the camera!!)

Lil Musicians

We all know that my twin nieces, Willa and Dovie, are 99.9% likely to become musicians of some sort. Jay is so talented when it comes to music (among many things). So what better place to put two precious, sleeping little angels!

Jay and Alison live in an old historic house and they recently redid the piano room, so it made for a great place for a mini photo shoot!