Monday, September 14, 2009

Bear Lake Retreat...

We took a trip with Brad's family to Bear Lake this past weekend. His brother and sister-in-law had access to a FANTASTIC cabin in Harbor Village and invited us all to stay the weekend with them. We had such an incredible time with family. We're so grateful for the invite!
Thanks Richard and Marianne!
Olivia on the drive to Bear Lake. She asked every 5 minutes if we were at the lake yet.
Then she asked me to start taking pictures of her. She's so funny.
Olivia decided to 'put her feet up' during the drive.
Finally! The long awaited Bear Lake.
Tagen loving being out of her carseat!
More of my happy baby.
Brad relaxing and letting me take tons of pictures of him with my new camera.
Tagen still playing...
One of our views from the deck. Truly an incredible place to stay!
My love.
She couldn't even wait to get into her swimming suit before she was in the water.
We literally had to pull her away from the water to go eat dinner.
She's in HEAVEN.

More beach time.
I took some family portraits for Brad's brother and when we were done, Olivia begged for her picture to be taken.
She started posing like this all on her own. What a ham!

After the beach, we let her play in the pool at Harbor Village.
This is her shaking the water off her feet.
I think this kid was supposed to be a fish.

My Birthday

My birthday was last week and I GOT SPOILED! My loving husband surprised me with a brand new camera. We've had hopes of buying a new camera eventually, but he surprised me by getting it for my birthday. My birthday was on Labor day this year, and the camera store (Pictureline) was closed. So he actually went down on Tuesday morning to get it when they opened. I've had a great time playing with it this week.

So, here's pictures from my birthday BEFORE we got the new camera. Brad took Olivia birthday shopping in the morning. She demanded I have a chocolate cake, so we made that in the afternoon. Brad took me to see Transformers then we went to dinner at the Olive Garden. One of my favorites. The day was fabulous. I got to spend it with my little family and also got a date with my husband. Who could ask for more? Thanks Brad! I love you.
Olivia after the shopping trip waiting to surprise me.
Gorgeous flowers, mints and a singing card.
Me and Tagen coming out of the room to see the surprise.
Reading my birthday card.
Getting a final picture before cutting the birthday cake!

I had some good friends and family who remembered my birthday and their thoughtfulness added to the greatness of the day. So, a BIG thank you goes out to them also. I really appreciated them remembering.

Friday, September 11, 2009

Stop growing Tagen!

Tagen has recently started pulling herself up on things and walking along them...
We are in trouble. She hasn't even started crawling yet.
These were taken on August 26, 2009.
I LOVE this face!
Oh yummy... Crib rails.
almost there....
I captured this right after she fell from standing...
trying again....

I had to pull her out of the crib right after this due to a massive blowout on the diaper.
Too much exercise will do that you know...

9.11.01


I remember....

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Opportunist?

While our friend, Sarah, was moving out of our place this week,
Olivia took advantage of her things being on the front lawn and made herself at home...

She was pretty upset when she realized the pillows were going WITH Sarah in the move.
She was pretty happy with her 'new home' she had made out of them.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Olivia-isms


While eating some Zuchinni bread, Olivia started singing, "Perry the Plattipus" over and over. I asked if she was really saying, Perry the platipus and she said, "Yup. From Phineas and Ferb. You just didn't understand me because my mouth was full of food."

This morning Olivia came into wake up Brad and I. She opened the door and said, "Daddy, Tagen's awake." He sat up and she repeated... "Tagen's awake. It's morning. The Sun is awake and in the sky. The clouds are awake too. They're moving. It's time to wake up." Brad asked her if the clouds stop moving at night to which she replied... "Yes. They sleep at night."

While playing a game with Olivia using a little bouncy ball, she said this to me... "Mom, we're going to play a ball game. It's called Sports. We play with this ball. It's a ball game, Otay?" Glad we got that figured out.

I told Olivia she was making a mess while eating her zuchinni bread to which she replied... "I know mom, but it's otay."

I told Olivia that some tomatoes we were eating were from Meg and Paige Nelson's garden. She said, "No, they are from our garden." I told her we didn't have a garden. She then informed me that..."We have a garden. It's dirt and grass. It's from the Ice Age. Just like Meg and Paige's garden!" I really don't know where she gets this stuff!


Olivia's newest version of I Am A Child of God... "I am a child of God, and so my parents are great. Help me to find a husband soon, before it grows too late..." Seriously. I really do not know where she gets this stuff from. Really.

Whenever I am cooking and have water waiting to boil Olivia asks me, "Mom, are we waiting to make poison?" It took me a while to figure out that she thinks when water is boiling it is poison. Thank you very much Queen Grimhilde from the Snow White movie. (No, it is not a reference to how bad my cooking is... at least I hope it's not.)

I asked Olivia if she wanted to move her bed to the downstairs bedroom when it was empty. I told her it would be her own room and she could sleep down there. I said, "What do you think? Do you want to do that?" She looked at me and I could see the wheels turning... after about 30 seconds she said, "Mom, I don't think that is a dood (good) idea." I'm glad she took time to think it over first.

Brad and I will often watch a movie on our Mac after the kids are in bed. To do so, we turn the loveseat to face the computer. One night after watching a movie, we didn't return the loveseat to it's regular position. When Olivia woke up early the next morning, she came out, saw the new arrangement and said in an exasperated way... "Mom! What did you do!?"

Olivia was so proud of herself... She completely "hogtied" her Woody doll all by herself. She brought it to me after she was done and told me, "Woody won't get away now!" I was pretty impressed with her knot tying abilities too. It took me a few minutes to get him "un-hogtied."

She definitely keeps us on our toes around here.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Sisters...

This was the view looking from my front porch yesterday... PRICELESS.



My two girls...
SISTERS.
Olivia and Tagen
I LOVE THEM!