On the way to daycare this morning...

Me: Olivia should we call Yaya (my Mom) and say goodmorning to her?
Olivia: NO! Papa!
Me: Hahaha! You are so silly Olivia!
Olivia: Papa R U? Where are you Papayaya?
Me: Ok we are at Barb's, are you excited to see your friends?
Olilvia: Yuv you! Baabieeeeeessssssss. Me Baabieeeeessssss.

Such fun little conversations. Especially when they are sweet and I am not getting sreamed at!

Just a clip of my little bee! Bzzzzz!

Conversation with my daughter...

Yesterday morning I had the following conversation with Olivia as I was getting her up for the day...I walked into her room and said...

Me: Goodmorning my love!
Olivia: HI!
Me: Did you sleep well?
Olivia: YUP!
Me: What did you dream about last night?
Olivia: Mmmhhhmmmm............PUPPIES!.........and MILK!

Fair enough! :)

Today is good

For everyone watching my meltdown this week. I just wanted to say...besides the flat tire on the way to work today...today is going OK. Now if the auto repair shop calls and tells me that it is going to be a $1,000 repair I might loose it. But for now, things are looking up!

What to do with a broken heart?

Listen to sad songs?


Ok, I LOVE KENNY CHESNEY. I LOVE DAVE MATTHEWS. I LOVE THEIR NEW SONG. BUT MAN DOES IT HIT MY HEART THIS WEEK. I honestly can't walk away from the song, I punish myself & blubber while listening to the ENTIRE SONG, EVERY DAMN WORD.


I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Growing up is risky business. Being a Mom is riskier.


Here are the lyrics: Eat your heart out...

So damn easy to say that life’s so hard
Everybody’s got their share of battle scars
As for me I’d like to thank my lucky stars that
I’m alive, and well



It’d be easy to add up all the pain
And all the dreams you sat and watched go up in flames
Dwell on the wreckage as it smolders in the rain
But not me, I’m alive



And today you know that’s good enough for me
Breathin' in and out's a blessin' can’t you see
Today's the first day of the rest of my life
And I’m alive, and wellI’m alive, and well



Stars are dancin’ on the water here tonight
It’s good for the soul, when there’s not a soul in sight
But this boat has caught its wind and brought me back to life
Now I’m alive, and well



And today you know that’s good enough for me
Breathin' in and out's a blessing can’t you see
Today is the first day of the rest of my life
Now I’m alive, and well



Yeah I’m alive, and well

How to say goodbye...

With all the excitement of my last post, and how I thought I was 'in the clear' at 9 weeks & pregnant, it is terribly sad for me to say out loud, I have lost the baby.


As my husband is in the next room with football blaring on the TV, so loud I can't even think, or type real feelings. So loud that when I just yelled "hey hun could you turn it down" he snortted his snotty nose at me. I take that as a 'I can't hear you' moment. I HATE FOOTBALL. But this could be an entire post for a different day.


Ah peace. He has put the TV on mute.

So today I am trying to concentrate on peace, quiet & taking a little me time to grieve my baby and look forward to what God has in store for me.

Hello October!

So we’ve been terribly busy! Or have we? I think about my blog often. REALLY OFTEN. And I miss it. It is such a great outlet for so many emotions.

Olivia is in such a fun fun stage right now I can’t stand to pry myself away from her at nights to play on the computer! She is talking. Walking, doing oh so many fun things!
Work has been nuts! I used to use this time to post a little snip of our lives for you all to check out, BUT I have had so little time!

So enough with the excuses…how are all of you?!

Summer was a crazy whirlwind. Can we even call it summer? Between the below average temperatures and chasing a crazy 1 yr old around we were lucky to make it out to the cabin once a month. NOW THIS IS AGAINST OUR RELIGION. In years past, a weekend NOT at the lake was considered wasted time, guilt trip ridden, or possibly being banned from the family. But luckily my family learned that having a little runner around is not as relaxing at the lake with mountainous hills, brick stairs & oh so many ‘ouchies’ waiting to happen!!!

And did I mention we are PREGNANT AGAIN!? J I don’t think I did! Ha I just came out of the closet on Olivia’s Blog!!! 8 weeks and 1 day! Due date tentatively set for May 26th (drum roll please!) dun dun dun…this means I will have THE ENTIRE SUMMER OFF WORK NEXT YEAR!!!! Can I get a “Yee-Haw”?!

As with many things in my life, I chose to take the summer off blogging. Please see this as a ‘norm’. I take Church off in the summer, after work activities off, and blogging! I promise next summer, I will take off too! So I’m back and I hope to have lots of great convos to post up for your wild entertainment!

XOXO, Trish

August Already?

I think I have maybe posted 1 post this entire summer! Craziness! I think I've decided to 'take the summers off'. Sorry for the inconvenience :)

We finally have summer weather, ahhh. It's been in the 80's and we have been loving it! Except for the part then our A/C stopped working for a day...but it's back & running, take that Mr. Sun! (Not that I am complaining, I am a sun baby, I love the heat!)

Things for us are good! Olivia is growing by the second. I have so much to post & am so far behind, where to begin.

This coming weekend Corey, myself, My Dad & Mom/Olivia will be walk/running...for a better term, each participating at various levels in a 5K in Vergas, MN. It is their annual Looney Daze festival and we have been practicing hard! Ok, Olivia has been doing the the mose work for this day...they have a 'Loon Calling Contest' at noon on Saturday. So if you are in the area, my little babe will be participating, oh and did I mention beer gardens open at 11? Convenient I know.

I have pictures & stories to post, maybe this weekend!

I have been watching out for all of you, and hope you continue to have a wonderful summer!

No Time to Say 'Hello'.....'Goodbye'

I'm Late, I'm Late, For a very important Date...no time to say 'Hello'....'Goodbye',
I'm Late, I'm Late, I'm Late, I'm Late, IIII'MMMMM
Overdue, I'm in a Rabbit Stew....

Do you often have theme songs running through your head at any moment of your day? I do...for instance EVERY SINGLE MORNING when running late I have the above song in my head...Thanks to one of my all time favorite movies Alice in Wonderland!

When I'm getting grief at work or from a close friend (or husband) I often have:
Give me a break, Give me a break, break me off a piece of that Kit-Kat-Bar
*No wonder I over indulge in Chocolate!

When I was younger & would get grounded or yelled at I would often get a great tune by Salt N' Peppa in my head I always wanted to sing to my parents: "What's the matter with your life, why you gotta mess with mine, don't keep frontin' what I do, cause I'm gonna be just fine...."
Yes as it seems, no matter what the circumstance I can find some terribly annoying song to hum along to in my head!

Today I have "I'm Sorry....So Sorry......" for not posting more this summer!!!

What's going on with us? IT'S LAKE SEASON! AND THE SUN IS SHINING! IT'S WARM OUT, MY GARDEN IS GROWNING!

Olivia is talking, walking & so much fun. Everytime she progresses I say 'This is my favorite age'...and it's true. Then I see a baby, like at Scheel's last night who was probably 3 months old and say 'aw...that was my favorite age'...

We purchased a camper about a month ago! A little popup, just big enough for my small little family! I can't wait to go 'real' camping but for now we are pretending to have our own little 'bunk house' at my families cabin!

For you on-lookers, here are a few pics! Hope all is well with everyone, as bad as I have been with updating you, I have been WORSE at checking in on you all! I miss you!


Chasing Belle on her leash...

Hanging out in the porch at the lake!

Climbing up the dock after a fun boatride

Bathtime fun! Cheese!

Prayers for Paityn

I know I have mentioned Baby Paityn in pervious posts. She is a little gal from Olivia's Daycare with a SERIOUS liver disease. Basically her liver will not filter out the bad stuff, so her skin is very yellow, her eyes even yellower & she has been living between the Ronald McDonald house and Children's Hospital in Minneapolis for MONTHS. Her parents have both lost or quit their jobs due to her illness & last week they closed on their home in Fargo. So when they get out, they will be homeless & jobless!

The transplant team told the family that Memorial Weekend is one of the top weekends for transplants because of all the accidents & deaths around the country. So keep your family safe this weekend. It's scary to think of this fact for the rest of us & pray for a new liver for Paityn at the same time. She should have had the transplant months ago but she continues to fight infections & is not big enough according to the docs. They say it will be way to hard to find a liver 'her size' because she is so tiny (due to stunted growth because her body doesn't take in the nourishment she needs).

I wanted to share their last couple of updates with you. Please PLEASE keep this baby in your prayers. She needs a fighting chance, and the poor thing has been fighting so hard. We are sending off another shipment of toys to her today. I can't imagine my baby being cooped up with the same toys in a small room, so daycare and some people we know try to rally together toys & fun things for them to play with, and donate to the Ronald McDonald House when they are done.

Anyway...here are the posts from the past few days....

Sunday, May 17, 2009 11:45 AM, CDT
Well our hospital stay is not going at all like we thought it would. Paityn was doing so good the first night there that we thought we would be out in 48 hours when her blood cultures came back. However, that is not at all what happened. Yesterday morning when mommy showed up (mommy and daddy switch off nights at the hospital since she is such a bad sleeper) she found daddy holding Paityn and she was just in her diaper. Then was shocked and terrified at what she saw. When I looked at her bed it was covered in blood. Paityn threw up blood everywhere. It was the scariest thing I have ever seen. With Paityns liver failing it can cause varices in her esophagus which can break open and bleed into her stomach which is what the doctors think is happening. We got transferred over to the PICU yesterday and she got a blood transfusion and put on a med that will hopefully stop the bleeding. The doctors are really hoping this med does the trick because otherwise they have to scope her and they don't like to do that on kids under 1 yrs of age and they think she is too small for the procedure. She hasn't thrown up again but she has had some bloody stools so that is not a good sign. Lets just keep our fingers crossed that the bleeding stops and we get to get out of the ICU tomorrow. Thank you all so much for your continued love and support.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 9:26 PM, CDT
We got out of the PICU yesterday and are back in 5B. Paityn is doing great! It looks like her bleeding has stopped. They started her NJ tube feedings back up today and she seems much more comfortable with her belly full. The doctors think that she is stable and as long as her night goes good that the will release us back over to the RMH tomorrow. We know that it is only a matter of time until she starts bleeding again we are just hoping and praying that we get the call before that happens. In fact Jason, Paityn, and I have all done a liver dance today in hopes that we will get the call!! You may all feel free to make up your own liver dance and do it for Paityn. Thank you all again so much for all of your kind words, thoughts, and prayers. You have no idea how much you all mean to us.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 5:10 PM, CDT

Looks like I spoke to soon last night. Paityn had another throwing up blood episode this morning an hour before we were going to be discharged. So it looks like she is still bleeding somewhere. There aren't too many options for us to prevent the bleeding and none of them are proven to work. Paityn is going to be scoped tomorrow afternoon to try and find out where she is bleeding from. She could be bleeding from her esophagus, her stomach, her intestines, or it could even have a bleeding ulcer. So we won't know what to do until tomorrow. Paityn has been surprisingly in a very good mood today despite what has happened. We are having a very hard time getting her to sit still in our little room. She also turned 10 months old today which is turning out to be very fun age. She truly is an amazing little girl and we are so proud to be her parents. Keep fighting my beautiful baby. We are so happy that you all have been supporting the liver dance. Keep on dancing your little hearts out. Its going to work!!! Also, thank you all so much for all of your continued love and support. You all are so amazing and we are blessed to have you in our lives. Looks like I spoke to soon last night. Paityn had another throwing up blood episode this morning an hour before we were going to be discharged. So it looks like she is still bleeding somewhere. There aren't too many options for us to prevent the bleeding and none of them are proven to work. Paityn is going to be scoped tomorrow afternoon to try and find out where she is bleeding from. She could be bleeding from her esophagus, her stomach, her intestines, or it could even have a bleeding ulcer. So we won't know what to do until tomorrow. Paityn has been surprisingly in a very good mood today despite what has happened. We are having a very hard time getting her to sit still in our little room. She also turned 10 months old today which is turning out to be very fun age. She truly is an amazing little girl and we are so proud to be her parents. Keep fighting my beautiful baby. We are so happy that you all have been supporting the liver dance. Keep on dancing your little hearts out. Its going to work!!! Also, thank you all so much for all of your continued love and support. You all are so amazing and we are blessed to have you in our lives.

Happy Anniversary Yaya & Papa!!

True love is a friendship set on fire....

Yesterday marked my parents 30th Wedding Anniversary! I’m sitting here thinking that Corey & I are pretty great because we are coming up on our 3rd Wedding Anniversary…but 30? Wow! Can you imagine being happily married for 30 years? What a milestone, what an accomplishment, what a commitment!

Being a biased daughter, I have always thought my parents the most beautiful, fun, perfect couple. I honestly believe my Daddy is the most handsome man on this earth and my Mom is the most beautiful woman. And together…they form this crazy beautiful connection. I feel the world is a happier, prettier place with them in it. I love you Mom & Dad!

With that said, I am so excited to tell you about all the wonderful food Corey & I made for their anniversary feast at La Casa Sorenson on Sunday evening! I made a 3 course meal…it was so much fun. All from scratch, all so delish. I even devoured the leftovers, and I don’t even like leftovers…it was that good (which makes for a whole other post on weight control & binge eating, LOL).

The Menu:
Wine: Cabernet, free refills
Appetizer: Goat Cheese & Shredded Goose Wontons (Baked)

*Goose that my hunting husband so graciously provided for our family last fall.

Soup: Garden Vegetable Puree
*I decided to make soup vs. salad this day. I chopped up carrots, asparagus, green beans, peppers, onions & garlic. Let them simmer for HOURS in vegetable broth & seasonings, pureed them with my magic wand and added a splash of ½ & ½….holy Moses this was so AMAZING. It was good without the ½ & ½…but creamier with it. I highly suggest this recipe. I think I even licked my bowl.
Main Course: Pork Chops with a Mango/Onion/Cilantro Chutney, Brown Rice with Olive Oil, Apricots, Onion, Parmesan & Garlic and grilled summer squash.

Yes we had too much food & too much wine. But man….it was tasty.

The best part about this was the leftover sandwich recipe we came up with!!! Last night we thin sliced the left over pork, toasted an Arnold Sandwich Thin Bun & topped it with: Lettuce, Mango Chutney & BBQ Sauce. My mouths waters as I type. A new family staple was born. Yum-O!

All this because two people fell in love!

More fun pics...

Smooching up her baby


Our new gragae sale swing! $2 Dolla make you holla! What a buy!


Reading, she loves to read, in her own language of course :)

Playing in a suitcase...this went on for hours, as you can see by her cool hair style :)

Where's Olivia?? She laid in here w/ the lid closed for 10 mins a time. Guess she not scared of small spaces or the dark like her Momma, LOL

Fun in Small Spaces

Olivia has been loving any sort of inclosed space! Laundry baskets, Belle's Kennel (her daily favorite) closets, trying to get into kitchen drawers, she sits in or trys to sit in any size container, boxes, etc....

Who needs toys?

Playing Peek-A-Boo w/ Daddy!

So sleepy, should I have a nap?

Closing the door...

I guess she also really loves to brush her teeth! Being in over 1/2 of these pics have her holding her toothbrush!

Have I shown you Olivia's 1 yr pics?

Since I can't remember if I posted these...here are Olivia's adorable pics we had taken over at Expressions by Ashton. Love, love, love their studio! I will never go elsewhere!

Fargo Marathon

This year I decided to keep myself busy & stay active I set my goals to run x1 5K per month, Starting with the Fargo Marathon 5K Fun Run, through October 2009...I have found my venues (running 2 in June due to the lack of July runs)...and started my training about 2 months ago

I have been LOVING IT. I have until this year despised running my entire life. But the calm it gives me now (maybe due to motherhood, or a screaming baby at home) has been invigorating. I crank my high volume IPod & hit the treadmill or pavement. I have only been running about 2.5 miles 3x week. But hey, that's better than nothing, right?

So I set my goals LOW, I wanted to run in the Fargo Marathon 5K Fun Run in at LEAST 45 minutes. About a 15 min mile, start off the season with a goal to 'run faster' at each event.

Well here's where the plot thickens. A few weeks prior to the run last Saturday I started doing some training outside. I ran my first 3.2 distance thanks to the map my run tool, and came home with a sore knee. So I threw some ice on it, stretched 'er out good, got some new shoes at the Dick Beardsley Store and kept up with my training.

I am so excited to say I ran the Fargo 5K in 34.04 minutes!

I am sad to say I haven't been able to walk right since. I didn't even have a hard time at the run is the frustrating part. I wasn't out of breath, I didn't have side cramps, my knees felt great....

It turns out I bruised the area between these two bones, possibly a 'stress fracture' on my left knee (to be re-checked next week). That's how 'hard core' I am. The doc said this sort of 'sports injury' (laughable that I have done anything qualifiable to a 'sports injury) is mostly seen in skiers. I would love to say I jumped off an awesome mountain ski jump, jarred my bones and had an awesome skiing injury...but no, I just ran 3 miles (3.2 actually) and look like an idiot walking!

But I am still proud of myself...and plan on keeping up with my running...just not for a few more weeks (hopefully only a few more weeks!)

My certificate of 'proof'! LOL

The Life of a Screamer....

Olivia woke up on Saturday happy as a clam. Talking to her dolls after a full nights rest. She was excited to see me! She was even more excited to see Daddy with her bottle in hand. She chugged her bottle while laying in bed with us watching Tyler Florence, our favorite Saturday morning tradition...and around 10am she started her almost week long battle with what I like to call 'naughty screaming'. Not the nice 'eeeee, I LOVE BARBIES' sort of scream the sort of "AHHHHH DON'T PUT ME DOWN, GIVE ME SOME FOOD, DON'T CHANGE MY DIAPER, PUT ELMO ON THE TV NOW" sort of scream....

Needless to say this past week has been one of the most challenging weeks of motherhood I have experienced. Yes she is teething....yes her daycare Momma called about an hour ago to say after nap today her ear was gunky again (we just finished meds for an ear infection)...but what do you do for a 'naughty screamer'. I am all for the 'excited screamer'....as I have been known to have this sort of personality...but the naughty screamer...IS NAUGHTY.

I have done everything. Time outs. Little slaps on the mouth (which worked a few months back...), I have threatened soap in the mouth...So I am crossing my fingers it is ear infection/teething related and after they are all cleared we will have our sweet talking, nice baby back.

Other than that, not much going on around here!

To all my Mom Friends!

Somebody said it takes about six weeks to get back
to normal after you've had a baby.... somebody
doesn't know that once you're a mother,
'normal' is history.

Somebody said you learn how to be a mother by
instinct .. somebody never took a three-year-old shopping.

Somebody said being a mother is boring .....
somebody never rode in a car driven by a teenager with a driver's permit.

Somebody said if you're a'good' mother,
your child will 'turn out good'....
somebody thinks a child comes with
directions and a guarantee.

Somebody said you don't need an education to be a
mother.... somebody never helped a fourth grader
with his math.

Somebody said you can't love the second child as
much as you love the first .... somebody doesn't
have two children.

Somebody said the hardest part of being a mother
is labor and delivery....
somebody never watched her 'baby' get on the bus
for the first day of kindergarten ..
or on a plane headed for military 'boot camp.'

Somebody said a mother can stop worrying after her
child gets married....somebody doesn't know that
marriage adds a new son or daughter-in-law to a
mother's heartstrings.

Somebody said a mother's job is done when
her last child leaves home.... somebody never had grandchildren.

Somebody said your mother knows you love her, so you don't need to tell her.... somebody isn't a mother.

"Hi's"

WE'VE HAD OUR 1,000 READER!

AND A FEW RANDOM FACTS : )

*Olivia is walking & almost running!

*She has started talking! Word of the week is "Hi's"...it's "Hi" with an s at the end for good measure, and SO ADORABLE.

We had our 1,000 blog visitor today! Wooo! And guess what? It just so happened to be my BFF Danielle...WOOT WOOT! I think I will have to send her a suprise 'prize' Danielle just so happens to have the same Birthday as our Dog Belle (and is Belle's Godmother). Belle just so happened to have been groomed this week. Who Olivia then spit up on her head and now needs another bath. Talk about degrees of separation folks!

Just a few "Friday Fun Facts" for ya!

Thanks for reading Danielle!!!

Fun with Olivia & Brody

So on Saturday I decided to be super motivated & have Brody over for a play date...just me and the two babies. It was so much fun, they played so well together! Only a few fights, but nothing to write home about. I took some pretty cute videos/photos of the two I have to share. I love getting them together...they just make my little heart melt they are so precious together.


Brody Smiling for the camera, he squints from the flash, so funny!


Playing on the couch...looks like Olivia is being naughty!


Eating Auntie Cassie's Lasagna, NUMMY!


Drinking Bottles like a baby, so so cute!


*Here is Brody Playing with our Dog Belle...so hilarious!


*The babes being big babies drinking bottles...ya ya we know you should ween them off at 1. But they are teething, LOL.


*Playing in Belle's Kennel just like Cass & I used to at the farm!

So we went to Vegas!

Corey & I took a well needed trip to call our own to Vegas with some good friends of ourS Keith & Danielle. It was so nice, to have my honey back to myself for a few days apart from playing Mommy & Daddy.

When I was preggers I would often cry myself to sleep telling Corey of all my worries that once baby is born we will lose eachother...that we won't have that quite time I so crave and that we will both find that taking care of our child is WAY more important than working on 'us'...well I will tell you what...we do find ourselves often finding our child more important and spending more time paying attention to her and all of the 'look what shes doing now' moments. But what we fail to remember is that without the 'us' there would be no 'her'. So we need to all take a step back, hug your spouse, say I love you & start planning some nights to yourself. Or at least I do. I am working on getting a babysitter lined up for every 2 or 3 weeks, a nice mid-week getaway. Sometimes weekend babysitters end up in us calling every friend we know and heading downtown...which I will say is so much fun...but doesn't cure the quality time I crave!

With that said, we had an awesome time. As days go by I can say I love my husband more today than I did yesterday...and I hope this goes on forever. MUSHY...MUSHY...MUSHY....XOXO

We met Elvis....he is alive!

Eating Sushi

At the Denver airport on our 6 hour pubcrawl I mean layover.

Wear Sunscreen.

Wear Sunscreen.

I have been reckless with my skin over the years. I tan easily. I love to have a suntan & I love to avoid sunscreen. Any chance I have, I love to lay in the sun & bake away my sins. I believe that sun therapy is worth a million dollars. Yet as I grow older I am becoming more & more concerned for my skin. That I need to start using sunscreen to be a good role model for my daughter & to live a long healthy life.

I have had my eyes opened to alternative tanning methods. I love spray tans. I really do. You get a sun kissed glow avoiding any risks of skin cancer. I have also been on a hunt for a ‘do it yourself’ self tanner. Any suggestions?

As summer is around the corner I wanted to post a few suggestions to keeping your family healthy while playing in the sun, especially if you are lake rats like we are, sunscreen is a must!

The American Cancer Society uses the "Slip! Slop! Slap! . . . and Wrap" catch phrase to remind you of the four key ways you can protect yourself from UV light: slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen, slap on a hat, and wrap on sunglasses to protect the eyes and the skin around them. Be sure to be especially vigilant with protecting children from the sun, since as few as five sunburns can increase their chances of developing skin cancer later in life.

Be safe this summer & enjoy your time outdoors!

Chuck E Cheese Please!

We went to Chuck E Cheese last weekend for Brody's #1 Birthday Party! To my utter surprise Brody, Olivia & all the little babes LOVED all of the characters. I went here anxiety filled of what this night would entail. And SURPRISE! The kids laughed & danced & had so much fun! In fact from that day forward (Last Friday 4/10) Olivia has been walking as her main mode of transportation.


Brod's dancing to the music!


Olivia Clapping to the Music!


Keeping an eye on Chuck E Cheese

Trying to run!

Birthday Thank You's!

I also had some fun making Olivia's Thank You Notes for her Birthday Gifts...ya ya, I know her Birthday was almost a month ago...but we're flooding up here folks...that's a good excuse right?

Fun With Photoshop...

Coming your way soon...

As you all know I love to play with Photoshop...here are "Olivia is 1 Announcement"...so cute!!

Brody's #1!

I want to give a quick shout out to my very favorite Godson Brody!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRODY BABY!

Brody is my cousin Cassie's little boy who is 3 weeks younger than Olivia. For those of you that don't know...Cassie has been my best friend & greatest companion since I was 5 months old and was blessed with her birth, LOL.

Brody & Olivia are best buds. They smile & chat to eachother whenever they see eachother and as soon as they are comforable Brody likes to tackle Olivia, try to tear her clothes off & make her cry. Ah...the sweet sounds of Cousinly Love, haha!

It has been so much fun growing up together, and now sharing motherhood and watching our babies grow up together. We rock!
Love you Brody! XOXO

It all started with two little bumps (well mine is quite a bit bigger! LOL) December 2007



Olivia & Brody February 2008

Olivia & Brody Play Tea Party (Just like Cass & I used to!)

Nice faces naughty kids!

Troubles with teeth...

These last couple weeks have been very trying in our household to say the least. We have been wrestling with a river, tossing sandbags, saving houses, rocking out to Brittany Spears, find time for husband & wife all while coping with... (dun, dun, dun) MOLARS! Poor...poor baby Olivia...these darn molars made their way into our lives during our trip to AZ in FEBRUARY! This poor babe has at least 6 teeth coming in...4 Canines & AT LEAST (I think there are more) 2 molars that have shown their pointed heads...when we are home Olivia has been such a bear. I am not joking, whining, needy and not fun happy Olivia. Last Sunday I even broke out the Baby Bjorn for the day to get a few things done. She loved it...boy is she getting heavy! BUT I am told when she is ANYWHERE ELSE...ANYWHERE ELSE (even at the grocery store with me) she is her happy old self! Daycare, she is perfect. Grandma & Grandpa's she is perfect. Shopping at Hornbacher's perfect. Home = War Zone.

All I can say is, at least my sweet girl comes to play every few minutes so it reminds us she is not a screaming monster...and THANK GOD she is still sleeping through the night & 2 naps a day. I have wondered over the past week if she maybe is growing & just needs more sleep? Or more drugs? I will figure out the combination eventually!

Trying on my new slippers from Ya-Ya


They are HUGE!


Helping Mommy make the grocery list.

I love to make lists...Just like my Dad, don't forget to put boxes in front so we can check everything off!