A princess party

On Sunday Taylor was invited to her friends Princess party for her birthday. It turned out to be the cutest little party! She had such a good time.



The cake

Playing Limbo with Snow White and Barbie.

Greeting Snow White and Barbie.

Making a necklace

Digging for jewels in the sandbox!

My birthday BBQ!

So im pretty sure this has been the BEST birthday month thus far. The celebrations keep going and going and going.
Last Saturday we had a wonderful End of Summer/House warming/Happy Birthday BBQ! It was FANTASTIC!
Most of our Friends and Family came to celebrate and it made for a wonderful Evening.
I would like to send a SHOUT OUT to UNCLE RON for being such a fabulous Chef and making my special day perfect! Uncle Ron is the Chef at St. Supery in Napa and you can also visit him on his Blog Here. He grilled up YUMMY steaks and brats!

The kids being silly! Yes Kristian is wearing Taylors life jacket.....and yes Cole is wearing a wet suit to go swimming in the pool.

Uncle Hal Aunt B and my dear Father in law.

Our beautiful cousin Jen helping herself to some lemonade

Madisyn and Skyler greeting eachother! So precious

My sis with baby Camdyn and Madisyn

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this little girl! She is the most adorable thing EVER!

She still thinks she is a baby.......

At the end of the night after everyone left a few of our good friends stayed to visit. Its hard to enjoy everyones company when you have that many people over. Our friend Dougs birthday is a couple days before mine so we had a little cake for him, and we sang him Happy Birthday. And we Sang me Happy Birthday and our Friend Daves (see below) birthday is on the 10th and Theresa's is on the 14th. So we sang and sang and sang. And acted like teenagers as you can see Dougs face in the above picture and Mo's face in the picture above that, they get REALLY into it! haha (excuse the messy table it was a long day!)

The Grahams! Dave was being silly!

The kids are crashing out one by one.

Until next year!

Taylor's FIRST soccer game

Saturday was a crazy day in the Brenner house, its started EARLY and went non stop alllll day until late. Needless to say I was exhausted. Anyway back to Taylor.

Saturday morning was her first game. I was a little nervous about this game. A couple things you should know about her. She is allot like me when it comes to large groups of people. She LOVES to be the center of attention but when its allot of people she gets really shy. I know its confusing. So we are working on this soccer thing. I didnt play sports growing up, i dabbled here and there but I missed out on ALLOT because of this. It was a total fear of mine and I really wished I was pushed a little harder to break through it. So I am giving Taylor a little extra push. Even though she is only 4 we can tell she is going to be an awesome athlete.
Her first practice she was SO excited about it but made sure Daddy or I was right there holding her hand the WHOLE time. :) They played a game called "Monkey in the middle" where a child is in the middle of the circle and everyone is kicking the ball back and forth trying to keep it away from the "Monkey in the middle" uuuuggh NO BUENO! She took one look at me and had this MOMMY save me look equipped with tears. Heart wrenching. I thought maybe she is too young, maybe we should try again next year.
Nope.
We are sticking it out.
So its getting better. We no longer have to hold her hand at practice.
The week prior to the game I kept telling her how the game was going to be and what she had to do, so she wouldnt be surprised when all the strange kids try to take the ball from her.
She was going to be the Goalie for the first half of the game.


Saturday was the day we woke up to rain and wind and slightly colder temperatures.

She is READY to go! Well there wasnt allot of action on her side of the field. Our team pretty much kept the ball near the other side.

She did so well.

Then she got really BORED!

At one point she said, "I want the Blue people off of the field" (The other team)

Then she got the look, like, I am DONE, and Im not going to stand here any longer. So I went for a little pep talk and found out she had to pee. pheww. She did tell me she didnt want to be Goalie anymore she wanted to run after the ball.

She did SOOOO good! We are SO PROUD of her!

Look no training wheels!

The grass makes for harder pedaling but a softer fall.

Yes this would be her first day with the training wheels off and Daddy has her riding down HILLS!! Nuts I tell you! She LOVED it!

Sorry about the blur, I was trying to walk/run and take pictures.

Whooops!

BBQ!

This past weekend we went to a BBQ at my Mother in laws Cousin Karens house. That was a mouth full. This is the Italian side of the family. Its crazy to see how big this family really is, it just keeps going and going!
The kids swam.
We ate yummy food.
and just enjoyed everyones company :)

The end.