My cute girls... {valentines pictures}

These two sisters have my heart... I love that my friends did a darling little photoshoot

for them to have valentines to pass out to their friends.  They turned out so cute.

Olivia-9 yrs old

Ivy- 5 years old

Taylor 2013 family Christmas Card...

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Christmas at the Grand!

The kids had a blast, considering the circumstances spending Christmas at the Grand America!

 I could not have pulled this off without my amazing friends!!! 

So many wonderful people helped our family out this Christmas, it was a different 

Christmas, without ivy, but still magical. 

the kids woke up and Hayes literally cried when he opened his 3DS! Not kidding! 

we were laughing so hard.  It was all he really wanted.  Such a sweet boy!!

 Everyone scored and got everything they wanted this Christmas 

{quilty parenting} ha!   

Then we went and had the Christmas Brunch at the Grand. Which was of course Amazing! 

 We all went up to the Burn Unit to visit with ivy while she was 

sleeping and kiss her cheeks.  The kids wanted to go back and swim and play 

with their toys, so later Boston watched the kids at the Hotel while 

we took the whole Burn unit staff Dinner from "Cafe Rio!"  

we love and admire these people so much, it has been our home away from home.  

Olivia's "9th" birthday {cake boss style}

It's always a bit crazy around the holidays for me, with the twins birthday's and Cory's too.  

But it was well worth the stress this holiday season, especially after the hospital trauma 

of our sweet little ivy!  This beautiful daughter of mine needed to celebrate and enjoy a fun party with her besties.  

I had made the Aprons  & chef hats around thanksgiving time with the help of my sweet girl when we knew she wanted to do the "Cake Boss" theme and they turned out super super cute!

This party was so much fun, and i had the greatest helpers ever to help me.  The girls arrived and got their chef hats and aprons on and then started decorating with cupcake liners a cute flower to put on their hats. Then we started decorating away, with fondant, beads, all sorts of colors of frosting, and toppings.  I had the greatest helper, Chelsea, who was olivia's primary teacher and an amazing baker help with fondant and showing the girls how to make flowers with icing, etc.  She was AMAZING!

the girls had the cutest cakes, and they really used a lot of creativity.  

they loved taking home their cakes! 

buddy's shenanigans...

We love getting a real tree every year, it smells soooooo good! We like to wait until closer to December first to put the tree up, but kids were dying to get one.. {So was i} 

We had a good time picking out that perfect tree, we decorated, ate some 

cookies and hot cocoa, and then set up the train.... always the highlight of the night.

the next morning buddy surprised us hanging upside down on  a candy cane.

here are just a few of  buddy's adventures this christmas season...

we watched "frozen" in the movie theater that day before, so the kids thought

it was pretty funny to see that Olaf was here with buddy.  Cutest movie EVER!!!

 Buddy put himself in a "Jib Jab"video on the computer. Ha!!

Cookies with Santa...

Dear Lizzie was taking reservations for a morning with cookies and coloring with Santa!  It was Absolutely adorable.  I guess they do this every year.  This Santa was darling!  He talked with the 

kids each and spent a little time with them on his lap.  Ivy was precious... all smiles!  

Love this time of year... and to top it off it snowed all day, it was beautiful!