Latest Sewing Projects

This post is mainly for interested family members... sorry if it bores most of you!

Here are some of the latest things I have made for Taylor...

Blue corduroy Children's Corner "Kitty"

My first attempt at applique

For Christmas:
Indygo Junction "Sister Smocks"

Red corduroy Children's Corner "Carol"


I have loved making baby gifts for some sweet friends...

Shopping cart/restaurant high chair covers

Halloween

Paging Dr. Davenport...

Obviously, they both take their jobs seriously.

In the morning, we went to Jake's birthday party and had a lot of fun.


First donut...


That night, our neighbors organized a party for our street... it was a huge success! Tons of neighbors and friends came and enjoyed a fun night.

Pumpkin Patch!

We took Taylor to the pumpkin patch with our friends, the Adairs. Taylor had a lot of fun, even though Brett thinks she would have had just as much fun walking around Kroger. Regardless, it was a beautiful, almost too-warm day and we are glad we made the trek down to Mississippi for it.


Taylor and Lilley Grace basically picked up everything except a pumpkin... rocks, hay, weird veggies, trash, etc.

Every time we'd ask Taylor where a pumpkin was, she would point to the pumpkins on her shirt!



The Adairs...

The big hit was the petting zoo and the singing chicken show... don't ask. :)

Summer Wrap-up

We've had a fun, busy end of summer... here are a few things we've been up to.

Here we are at Charlie's birthday party... he had a petting zoo and Taylor loved it!



That same day, we had a Sunday school cook-out pool party and had a great time...


And this is after the birthday party and pool party...

Here's Tay and friends at the sprinkler park in Collierville... Taylor was the only girl but she was playing harder than most of the boys!


Our latest big development is that Taylor is walking! We've been pleading with her to walk (she could take 1-2 steps toward a person), but she decided to do it on her own in pursuit of a plate of tacos. I think we will share a love of Mexican food. So I left a plate of tacos on the coffee table to grab a drink in the kitchen. Next thing I know, Taylor is walking clear across the room to try to get my abandoned taco plate. Brett was home to see it, which was such a miracle! Once she realized she could do it, she started walking all around the house.

Taylor's latest thing is climbing and sitting in chairs. She thinks she is such a big girl when she can get up in a chair by herself.


Tay's favorite word right now is... "This?". She asks "this?" to nearly everything we see about 1000 times a day. I am constantly identifying objects all day long... that's a rock, that's a light switch, that's a drawer knob don't open that, that's a glass vase don't touch, and so on and so on. Taylor also likes playing with her baby doll, except she gets a little confused sometimes...



Fun outside...

Playing ball with Bailey...


Brett is going to be mad at me, but here are the pictures from his Briarcrest Sports Hall of Fame induction this past weekend. It was a nice ceremony and we're all proud of our hall of famer!



The best part was right here... they presented Brett with the award and then went on to read a very lengthy bio. Brett was so uncomfortable that he just kind of looked down at his award during it.

So here's hoping to Taylor inheriting her athletic side from her father!

2009 Davenport Destin Trip

Here are some more pics from our recent Destin vacation with the Davenport clan. Taylor enjoyed the beach and the ocean (for 2 hour increments... that was about her limit).



Taylor loves to go up and down stairs, hills, etc. So her favorite spots were the top stair at the pool and the small hill where the waves come up.




We decided this would definitely be the LAST year we could all stay in a 3-bedroom condo. Tucker and Taylor slept in closets and here is Eady in her lush "cave" in a bedroom corner. She really did have a sleeping bag but somehow rolled off of it and ended up sleeping on the tile floor.

After a yummy seafood dinner...

We took some pictures on our last night...

Tim, Jen, Eady, and Tucker...

Bill and Jennifer with their favorite people...


After very brief pictures, we let the kiddos play one last time...






We had a great time!

Fun at the Beach...

I was going through our recent beach trip pictures, and I had to post this one right away. Taylor and her cousin, Tucker, had a great time at the beach... no really, they did. We all have our moments, right?

My new hobby...

Brett rarely shops, but when he does, he has some great luck. A couple months ago, he went to the Sears Outlet in search of a part for a weed-eater (that he found on the side of the road that he was trying to fix up...naturally). Anyways, he found an incredible deal ($47) on a really expensive sewing machine and brought this home to me as a surprise!

I didn't know I wanted a sewing machine, but I have loved having it! My mom was off for the summer and came down to Memphis a couple times and taught me a bunch. She is a great teacher... we would put Tay down for a nap and work, work, work! Here is the first thing we made (monogram courtesy of my neighbor, Lauren)...

My sister-in-law, Jen, has been sewing for a while, and she's taught me a lot as well. We went to the beach last week and sewed a ton during naps and at night. This is everything we accomplished in 5 days!

Here are some close-ups of some of the outfits I've made so far...

You can't tell, but this one is all tiny corduroy... and the covered buttons are so easy!


And this is what I was dealing with while I was trying to take pics of these outfits... Taylor has been without Bailey for 2 weeks and I think she missed him.


To get them out of my way, I opened the front door. Works every time...