Taryn, Tarbear, Tarbeargen is 7!!!!

So this totally crazy thing happened...Taryn turned 7. How did that happen? Sometimes Taryn gets a bad rap because she likes to be loud and because we didn't know if we would honestly survive her first year of life.

 BUT Taryn is seriously an awesome child. She is spunky and fun loving and thoughtful and sensitive and graceful and wild and crazy loud and stubborn and sassy and completely immovable once she has her mind made up. She is definitely a force to be reckoned with. And honestly who wants a pansy for a child? Just kidding. But really who doesn't want a powerful dynamic kid who isn't swayed by others (even us parents)?

Taryn is a hard worker and I really respect that about her. She has been working so hard on her reading and has moved up 6 levels so far this year. She has also passed off several (all she has been tested on) of her timed math tests and math seems to be a strength. She also has incredible handwriting and often embellishes each letter with swirls. 

Taryn still wears funkadilly outfits but she tries occasionally to match (as in she will usually change her shirt if I tell her that it REALLY doesn't match the rest of her outfit). She still prefers dresses to pants but she doesn't wear them EVERY day. She still loves beautiful finger nail polish (a different color on each nail) and she loves accessories. 

She has a great singing voice and isn't afraid to use it. She is super open and I love it. I know who all her "crushes" are and who's Cami's are. I also know what she thinks of everything and everyone.-honestly I just hope she continues to tell me all the details as she grows up. 

She is trying to learn how to control her screaming and temper and she is working on making her r sound and th sounds. We hope this will be her last year of speech therapy. 

When I look at how far Taryn has come in her short life I am so thankful for a girl like her. I know she will always have fun and be happy everyday-even when things are occasionally hard. I know is loves life and I love her!

She really wanted a hula girl cake so I made a coconut cake with a barbie stuck in....

Brent has the tradition of taking each girl out to breakfast on her birthday and this is on their way out the door. She was really relieved to have him home to take her after such a busy month before.

Brent ended up leaving again during the day though so I thought a fort in the living room and a movie sounded like a fun way to do birthday dinner...

Some friends came over and joined her...

She did have a great birthday party about 10 days later but somehow I did not take a single picture...Trust me, it was epic....Thanks to Aunt Rebekah for helping out!