We blessed Miss Tallie Jo a couple of weeks ago. It was an amazing day. Tallie was a bit spent from all the attention, so I didn't get any fantastic pictures, but here a few cute ones. The dress she is wearing, was also my mom and grandmother's blessing dress.
If you look closely on the bracelet, you can see my grandmother's name "loa" engraved on it. That was her bracelet, it was fun for Tallie to wear it.
Not the best family picture, but you get the point. I think my kids look a lot a like in this picture.
I love how Tallie is looking at my dad, too cute!
Gorgeous girl!
I am glad we all decided to coordinate and wear black and white, lol!
Valentine's Day!Love Tallie's outfit - I got to admit, dressing a girl is fun!
Lance LOVED when the Elf came at Christmas time, in fact whenever there is a knock at the door he thinks it is the Elf coming to bring presents - so Cupid decided to bring him and Tallie a V-day gift!
Saturday night we took Lance bowling for the first time, he was in Heaven, he kept ooing and aaing the whole time, it was so fun!
Now some random shots of what we have been up to: Tallie is so stinking cute and HAPPY! Basically her outfit sums it up. 
Lance LOVE building things! 
My handsome goose. 
Oh Tallie, she is so yummy I could eat her up! Took her in for her four month appointment last week and here are the stats:
12.8 lbs - 22% for weight24 inches - 46% heightDoing GrEaT! 
Their favorite part of the day, cuddling in bed, I love how Lance is holding her hand, so tender! 
Lance loves to play in the ball pit at my parents house, this was such a good purchase! 
Now that Speen's sister has moved back from California, it is so fun to get the kids together, Lance loves playing with all the cousins especially Allie! 
To me this picture is perfection, so cute! 
I just feel like I have so many cute pictures of Tallie lately, so here are a few more: 
My sister in law and I started a business. The Etsy site is on the top right hand corner of our blog, go visit, shop, and share with friends and family... Look our accessories even look fantastic on your pets! ;) 
What can I say, I am an amazing bargain shopper. I know a lot of people don't love Children's Place, but it is seriously my favorite. Not so much for a girl, but definitely for a boy. I got Lance and Tallie all the following clothes for next year and it cost me a grand total of $100.50. That includes: 7 pairs of pants3 pajamas7 long sleeve shirts6 polo shirts (4 long sleeve, 2 short sleeve)2 sweat shirts2 coats 3 pairs of gloves1 hat
Love this picture of grandma with the kiddos. Grandma was told she had 7 weeks to live in October 2008, yep she is still alive and doing amazing, not mention looking incredible. We love Grandma Helen! 
Bridger Man gave Tallie her first fur coat, what a guy! (and what a beautiful coat!) 
We love swimming at the Lions Club. If anyone wants to go, let us know we are so in. 
One of Speen's favorite Christmas gifts was this pull up bar, not the most beautiful door accessory but oh well. 
I took some engagement pictures for spencer's sister Abi and her fiance Ammon. Unfortunately they didn't really like them much, but I thought they turned out cute, so I thought I would share them. 
As I was going through my pictures for this post, I found this picture. LOVE these girls. I am so grateful for good girlfriends in my life. 
And finally these pictures are back from December, but I wanted to share them. I think these are my favorite of Tallie's beanies. They are so cute! 
Speen's cute Nana made this one for Tallie, I love it. 
Ok and that's a wrap!
My sister in law and I have been going crazy making fabric bows, hair clips, pins and headbands, and now we want to share them with you!!! If you are interested in purchasing any of our items, email me at ktaggart1@hotmail.com for more information or for a time to come over and check out our stuff. We can put a clip or a pin on any flower, or both if you would prefer. We have a lot more than this, but here is a taste of what we have been up to, with an estimated price. Little Girl Pearl Rose Buds: $5
Little girl flower clips - $5 
Little girl larger flower clips $7; Circle clips $5 
Adult flower clips and pins: Range from $8-12
Beautiful, comfortable, and stylish headbands - $15 (a variety of colors and styles available) 
(FYI - in the black tool picture, there is a little piece of gray string on the headband, it is not actually on the headband, just was accidentally on it in the picture and I didn't notice, sorry!)
Hope you enjoy!!! They look darling in children and adults hair and they make good gifts too!!!
I realize I have not posted much about our little Tallie so~
Here are 12 fun things about our Toodles...
1. She is SUPER SMILEY! This is her 90% of the time. She is so happy and constantly smiles. Lance rarely smiled, so it is a lot of fun to have a baby that smiles a lot.
2. She is such a sweet child. I don't know how I lucked out and got 2 sweet and calm children, but I am grateful for that. I don't know how else to sum it up but by saying is sweet.
3. Tummy issues - no major issues, but I think she still has a bit of reflux. I thought she had grown out of it by 2 months, but then the last month she just kind of has issues, really bad gas and kicks her legs like crazy while I feed her. Some days she rarely spits up and sometimes she spits up a ton, just depends. Even when we know she is in pain, she will cry for a bit and then give us a big smile, then cry some more, too cute!
4. She is a great sleeper. I have been pretty strict, since I love my sleep, but she really is doing great. She probably sleeps at least 8 hours a night, wakes up and eats for about 15 minutes and back down for another 3 hours. She also takes a cat nap in the morning and an awesome 3 hour nap in the afternoon.
5. Going along with sleep - she is super, super social. She LOVES to have people around. I'll put her in her swing while I am working out and as long as she can see me, she will just smile, smile, smile. If I walk to the computer and I am out of her sight, she cries, cries, cries. It is funny.
6. She loves her bassinet... IN MY BEDROOM! This has been my biggest struggle. I have tried to move her out of our bedroom into her crib a few times. If it is night time, she will wake up every 2-3 hours and cry. If it is nap time, she will wake up after 15 minutes, she just doesn't like her crib. Then I put her in the bassinet next to my bed and she slept for 11 hours, it was nuts! Last night I tried to trick her (I attempted this last month, and it didn't work) and put her to bed in her bassinet in her bedroom and she slept great last night, I am hoping it starts a trend, cause I am definitely ready for her to be in her own room.
7. Tummy time - I didn't do it until after she was 2 months, cause the doctor said it would hurt her tummy since she was a little refluxy. She is doing great. She is very alert and rolled over several times last week. She doesn't do it consistently, but it was fun to see her do it.
8. She's a mover! Since Lance didn't scoot until 10 months, crawl until 13 months and walk until 15 months, I am not quite sure what is normal. It scared me when during tummy time last week she sticks her bum high in the air, and she is already trying to scoot! She can't do it yet, but she tries to every time she is on her tummy!!! I am guessing she will move a lot sooner than her brother did.
(I don't know if you can tell in this picture cause her shirt is so baggy, but this is what she does when she tries to scoot!)
9. She loves music, and loves it when myself, Lance, or Speen sing to her - especially her daddy, she will just smile at him the whole time, so cute!
10. For the past month she has started to use her hands a lot more. She will sit in her little play chair and grab at different toys. It is fun to see her figure things out.
11. She is a talker and a laugher! I really don't remember Lance making cooing sounds or much babbling noise until he was about 5 months, and she has been babbling for over a month now. She also loves to laugh. Tonight I would laugh and then she would mimic my laugh. She also loves it when we play peekaboo. She thinks it is the funniest thing!
12. And finally, she loves her brother! Lance always brings a smile to her face. He wants to be with her all the time. Every night he says "I want to cuddle with Tallie Jo for a minute!" Then he cries when we take her away. He gets mad when it is time for her to nap because he "NEEDS his Tallie jo!". Oh and that is the other thing, he only calls her Tallie JO! I didn't even know he knew what her middle name was, but it's not Tallie, it is always Tallie jo! It's so cute. Lance is so gentle and loving to her almost all the time.
Two kids was an adjustment for me, but I am seriously loving it so much. I am so happy that my kids have each other and can become good buddies. We are grateful Tallie is apart of our family and love her so much!
Christmas '09! We did a lot of fun things this Christmas season. One thing that was pretty awesome was our ward EQ party. They drove around in a truck with a big trailer on the back that was decorated with tons of Christmas lights and picked up families and we got to sit in the back of the trailer with Christmas music blasting and drive through the neighborhood - like the Polar Express. It was fun! 
Santa came to the family Christmas party, and Lance LOVED him! It was cute. The whole month of December every time the door rang and we got a neighbor gift, Lance would say "the ELF is coming!" After he met Santa at this party, he would sit and look out the window several times a day looking for Santa, it was so cute! 
We had our Taggart family party on the 22nd with just the adults, and as always it was a blast! 
Christmas Eve at my mom and dad's house was delightful! 
I love Tallie's little belly!!! 
Spence and Tallie got new hats for Christmas! 
Now for the two best Christmas gifts: Spence stuffed my stocking with these babies - 20 of them! I LOVE Blistex. I keep begging him to go after Blistex for a client, so I could get unlimited chapstick! I love the fact that he hand wrapped all of them, what a cutie! 
And I think this gift wins the prize as the all time best. I admit it - I've become a bit of a germaphobe! So, my mom got Tallie a stocking, and this baby basically took up the whole thing, it was so funny!!! A Tallie life size bottle of hand sanitizer, I love it! 
Me and my Goose! 
Me and my lovie! 
And finally to New Years. We went out to Spencer's sister's house and had a blast playing games. Lance and his cousins played all night and stayed up to midnight, no problem, no melt downs, nothing. Then at midnight, he banged pots and pans and watched the fireworks outside. 
Happy 2010!!! We are looking forward to an incredible year!
If you look closely on the bracelet, you can see my grandmother's name "loa" engraved on it. That was her bracelet, it was fun for Tallie to wear it.
Valentine's Day!
Lance loves to play in the ball pit at my parents house, this was such a good purchase! 
I just feel like I have so many cute pictures of Tallie lately, so here are a few more: 
Speen's cute Nana made this one for Tallie, I love it. 
Ok and that's a wrap!
