Just some cuteness...

I finally uploaded my pictures from my camera.  Here are some of my favorites...

Tagen enjoying her bouncy chair

my girls fell asleep together - CUTE!

Olivia wanted me to take a picture of her and Tagen together

Say Cheese!

Oh Boy!

Olivia absolutely LOVES the Little Einsteins.  I don't mind her watching them because she learns lots of interesting information and other stuff.  I'm beginning to realize just how much she has learned.  We have a book titled, "Little Einsteins Halloween Surprise."  The story goes that the four little Einsteins have to visit different historical landmarks to get stuff for their Halloween costumes so they can attend a costume ball.  They visit the Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, Germany.  While there, Quincy gets to play an alpenhorn that sounds like "BAAH-ROOM!"

Well, while driving around the Bountiful Temple this evening, Olivia said, "Mom, look! Jesus is on top of the temple!"  I told her it was really Angel Moroni on top.  To which she replied, "Yup, and he says, 'BAAH-ROOM! BAAH-ROOM!'"  All I could do was laugh.  I can see the similarities, can't you?

My family...

Well, after five years of marital bliss and two kids later, Brad and I finally had pictures done. Our engagement and wedding photos were the last time we had a professional take pictures of us.  (Pretty pathetic coming from someone who worked in the photography industry for 3 years...)  We thought it was HIGH TIME we had some photographic evidence that we have two children and that we are still madly, deeply in love.  Here's a sampling of the results.  We love them.  We had an awesome photographer named Megan from Lindsay Jane Photography.  She was fantastic.

The happy couple... 

This kid is seriously so photogenic...

 She almost NEVER takes a bad picture.

My little Tagen was so tired... of course she wouldn't take her normal nap 

before we went down.  She fell asleep shortly after this picture.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this picture.

She really captured the essence of Olivia with this shot.

Our little family... 

Giveaway!

Check out this amazing photographer and giveaway.  She lives in Texas, but is coming home to Utah to visit.  

SO... if you win, she can do your pictures while she's here.  Her work is fantastic.

More Olivia-isms

I love this cutie pie!

Since we live in a condo, sometimes we're able to hear our neighbors through the adjoining wall.  One day they were being particularly LOUD.  Olivia looked at me and said, "Mama, that noise our neighbors?"  I told her yes.  She then said, "Wow.  They are loud.  They are FORTISSIMO!"  Thank you Little Einsteins for teaching Olivia what fortissimo means.

Olivia has recently learned her full name is Olivia Kate Morris.  Once she figured this out, she decided that my name is Mama Kate Morris, and Brad is Dada Kate Morris, and Tagen... of course, is Tagen Kate Morris.  Trying to convince her otherwise is going to take a while.

Olivia can 'fake sleep' better than any kid I know.  We were eating dinner one night and looked over at her in her high chair only to see that she was 'asleep.'  I found this hard to believe because she had just talked to me 30 seconds prior.  We talked and talked to her with no response.. not a flicker of the eyelid, no creeping smile, nothing.  Only upon Brad threatening to eat her apple did we get a smile out of her and a big "surprise!"  She's really that good...

Olivia is an expert "backseat driver."  She will be the first to tell me when the light is red or green, tell me what way to turn (even if it's the wrong way), and compliment me for driving good.  Seriously.  I can't wait until she's driving and I can return the favor... 

(OK, I really can wait... that'll come fast enough as it is.)

We've been teaching Olivia the importance of obeying lately.  I was told this morning after she asked me for a treat, 

"Mom, I asked for a treat, you need obey!"

Olivia recently asked me, "Mom, I get my haircut again, please?"  I told her we had to wait for it to get longer before we cut it again.  Twenty minutes later she returned to my side and said, "Mama, my hair longer now, we go get it cut now."  I couldn't argue with her logic.

As I'm typing this post up, I hear Olivia in her room saying, "I love Jesus. He's so special. He loves me. He's coming to visit me today. I've got to get ready."  Isn't that a great reminder for us all? We've got to get ready because we never know just when He will come to visit...