Taylor and Grady's Place: Flower Girl Pictures

Taylor had the honor of being a Flower Girl at Bekah (Tyson's cousin) and Scott's wedding in Boerne, TX. When they first asked if Taylor could do it, all Tyson and I said was that there was no telling what Taylor was going to do...we couldn't make any promises on whether she would make it down the aisle or not.

Taylor did so good at the rehearsal. We had been practicing with her at home, teaching her how to "walk and throw" her flowers. She really became quite good at it. Taylor had two practice walks down the aisle during the rehearsal. The first one she was pretty nervous, so she was really focused on what she was doing. She was more relaxed during the second practice...enough so that she started to notice her surroundings....i.e., deer poop. Taylor pretty much freezes at the sight of poop...any poop. So she literally walked around all of the poop piles as she was dropping the flowers (you can see a picture of her pattern below)! Thank goodness there were going to be chairs set up to keep her on a straight path during the wedding!!

Wedding day was pretty crazy. We spent most of the morning hanging out with Mimi and Poppa. As it got closer to wedding time, Taylor slowly started melting. We were trying our best to keep her blood sugar up! Poor thing just boo-hooed as she was getting her hair done......it was her first time to ever have anything done to it....and it was sooo pretty. Taylor had the prettiest ringlet curls in her hair....but the humidity quickly killed them!! Her hair fell flat in a matter of minutes! Sigh...

I apologize for not taking any pictures of her, but believe me when I say she was NOT in a picture-taking mood. It took nearly everything I had to keep her together. For a split second before she was supposed to walk down the aisle, I actually thought she wasn't going to do it. Mimi, Poppa and Tyson were scattered throughout the aisle seats, so they encouraged her as she walked up the aisle, reminding her to walk and throw! Once she got down to the front, it was a piece of cake. She was perfect. Did I mention, the only way that I could get her to walk was if she had her sunglasses on? Yes, my child wore her pink sunglasses during the entire wedding ceremony! Unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures of that.

After the ceremony Taylor was ready to party. She'd been looking forward to eating cake and dancing. And that's just what she did! All in all, it was a beautiful wedding at a beautiful location. We are so happy for Scott and Bekah and happy that we could be a part of their special day!

Flower Girl with some fresh-picked wild flowers.

Taylor has a phobia of poop....and of course, there was a pile of deer poop right next to her. I thought she would never stop looking at it!

Checking out her pretty basket that Darcy made especially for her.

Telling Katie something....probably that there's poop by their feet.

Finally getting the hang of what she's supposed to be doing up there!

Showing Bekah, the bride, how she's going to throw the flowers.

Practice walk # 1: Walking next to the ring bearer, staying focused on her job!

Practice walk #2: Ring bearer left her because she was going too slow and...

As you can tell from the scattered groups of flowers, Taylor didn't stay in a straight path. On the second practice walk, she noticed all of the deer poop scattered about, so she avoided the poop by walking around it.....WAY around it!!

Unfortunately I didn't get very many pictures of Taylor all dressed up....I was trying to keep her happy and trying to keep her from messing up her pretty dress and hair (of course, by this time all of her pretty curls had fallen out due to the humidity). This shot was taken right before the wedding ceremony....and right before Taylor had a mini meltdown!! Aggghhh!