New home!!

As I have slacked now for over a year, I have decided that since I have all the free time in the world, so it seems, I need to get back to reality to keep folks updated on our lives...not only through words, but through video, photos, and anything else I can come up with...soon I'll start and we can get back on track with all things life with our little family...

<3

This is Olivia on her rocking horse! (3/30/2009)

Sorry that the quality is HORRIBLE...but I made the video on my cell phone!!!

Now here's some pics, too!!!

She LOOOOVES the TuTu that Aunt Jan got her for Xmas!

And...she LOOOVES her mommy, too!!

CHEEESE!!!

XOXOXOXOXOX

Updates and delays...

That works for me!!!

And, I have a new hobby...collecting fortunes I/we get out of fortune cookies each time we make our way to the/any Chinese Buffet.

We spent an evening with Jack's family, recently, to celebrate his Grandpa's 80th birthday out at Uncle Rick's house in the middle of the middle of nowhere (I'm not lying...I'm not really sure how anyone could put a house for sale out in that area!!!!) We had a great time catchin up with family we hadn't seen since Christmas if not even since before that! Olivia had a blast running around and climbing on the tractor and walking up the gravel driveway (which goes on forever) towards the pond. She thought she was gonna pull a quick one on me and take her shoes off and go in the wather, but after a few words she realized she'd freeze her patooty off!!!

Today Olivia created this lovely MONET-esque drawing thanks to Crayola and their Color Wonder products! We have a real artist on our hands...maybe someday she'll create the next Mona Lisa....or something!?!?!?! I'll tell you what...if it wasn't for Crayola I'd be doing laundry like a psycho mom! Now I just need to get a few more things for her to work on...finger paints and such...all Crayola of course!!!

And as always...here's the sign off and goodnight for now...I'm going to do my darndest to get on it and post more frequently so that I'm not leaving all the family in the dirt about what's happening in Little Miss Olivia's lives and our own...

Happy Easter to you all and enjoy the snow you northerners....

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX

HALLOWEEN!!!

Now that the weather is getting colder, the time for tomato soup and grilled cheese has arrived...Olivia had her first experience! She LOVED to dip her sandwich in the soup!

...and as you can see, it was DELICIOUS!!!

For Halloween Olivia was the most beautiful Unicorn!

We went down to the Nursing home in the morning to visit Aunt Sissy and to see the Halloween Parade that the day care does every year bringing the kids up through the halls with costumes. Olivia LOVED seeing all those kids!



Olivia went trick-or-treating tonight for the first time being able to actually say, "TRICK OR TREAT" and she scored pretty well in the candy department...and everyone LOVED her costume (Thanks to Corby - Jack's Mom, we've had it since before Olivia was born.)

Jack got home at an unruly hour this morning from work so I decided that since he was still awake and she was dressed that they needed to have a picture together. With the hectic schedule he has been working lately, I'm glad that he had the opportunity to see our little Unicorn!

We carved a pumpkin last weekend, too, but that'll have to be another post...

You can't ever go wrong with a
BEAUTIFUL 85 degree Saturday in October.

We decided that since there was a Pumpkin Patch about 1/2 mile down the road, that we should go check it out! Olivia had a BLAST!!


Those pumpkins
were bigger than her!!!

Olivia is almost 2...only a few more months to go now...I can't believe how much time has flown by!!!

September is HERE!!!

As the weather is finally starting to change to the PERFECTION of temperatures I wait for every year, I have started to work my way around Olivia's room to seperate clothes that don't fit from clothes that do...clothes that she MIGHT be able to wear next spring/summer vs clothes that are finally going to be retired to a large container at the bottom of her never ending closet.

However, during this journey into the never land of her closet, I came across some articles of clothing that, unfortunately, she never had the opportunity to wear, so I decided to make one of them special above the rest! It's amazing how beautiful a simple white dress with a light pink ribbon at the waist can make my baby girl look so incredibly beautiful...

ENJOY!

I'm working on getting some prints made...so some of you may be recieving pictures soon!!

XOXOXOXOX

19 months and goin strong...

Olivia with GRANDMA BEAR
from the Hwy-X Darby cabin.
Grandma Darby gave me this original Care Bear,
from 1983, when they moved back to Illinois!
Thanks Grandma!!!
It's still getting lots of LoVe!!!

From start to finish...the month has really only began. We've been busy with work and life but doing our best to keep up with every moment. I've decided to start taking more pictures of Olivia, again, and to do my best to update this blog at least once a week so nobody misses out on anything. Hopefully I keep this promise to myself. LOL

Liv and her Aunt Ashley gigglin' on the couch

Olivia is 19 months old now and running around like crazy. Saying so many words that it's getting ridiculous enough that we seem to hear a new one every day. It's unbelieveable to see how much she changes overnight.

She loves to ride around in the backyard in her "RADIO FLYER" that Papa G got her in the Spring. She really enjoys trying to get it movin' on her own, too...her favorite thing to do these days is "HELP" and she thinks that she can make things go on her own, even though they take a second person's assistance.

Her biggest word is "NO", as it is probably for most at this age, but she really lets us know when she's thirsty by saying "MILK" and when she's really gettin' sleepy by saying "NIGHT NIGHT" as a cue. So we're all learning together. On top of everything else, we're starting to introduce potty training into the mix. We have bought a potty, but she's much more interested in taking it apart and standing in it, than actually sitting on it...guess we'll see how is unfolds.

Will post more soon....

XOXOXOXOX