Growing up way too fast

No matter how hard I try to keep Olivia from growing up she still thinks she needs to. She turned 3 in September and decided she wanted to have a princess party. All of her girl friends dressed up for the occasion. The boys did not. Big surprise. She wanted a princess cake so I started looking around for one because I am not skilled in making cakes. The cheapest one I could find was at least $20. I decided I would rather make the cake myself and spend the $20 on her. Plus it was for a bunch of 3 year olds. They don't care what it looks like as long as it has lots of frosting, and boy did it!! We played games, had a little lunch, opened presents, but the best part was making Rosie and Brittany dress up and do make-up and face painting! Congrats to Rosie for still fitting into her old prom dress!! All in all it was a great day, even if Olivia did get a little older.

Family pictures

In september Rosie was nice enough to do our family pictures. What a workout!! Who would have thought getting 2 little girls to smile could be so hard. I was pretty sure none of them turned out, but was thrilled when I saw we got some pretty cute ones. Thanks Rosie you're the best sister a girl could ask for!

Turned 30 and ran a half marathon.

On august 17th Jason turned 30!! In May he realized he was going to be 30 and started to freak out. He decided that running a half marathon would be a good way to celebrate. You would think that would mean he started to train everyday right. Nope, he ran a few times a week about 4 miles each time. I think his longest training run was 7ish miles. So the day of the big run I was secretly a bit scared for him. He went super early with his brother Shane and sister in-law Brenda. I packed the girls up a few hours later to wait by the finish line. Here they are patiently waiting for daddy to run by.


Olivia kept asking,"when is daddy coming?". I kept saying,"well it might be awhile.". Brenda had run a half a few months before and finished in just over 2 hours, so I figured with little training Jason would come in after that. To my surprise I looked up just in time to see him round the corner towards the finish line. He finished in 1 hour and 48 minutes!!!! Not only had he finished, but he did amazing! He came in before Shane and Brenda which I know he loved. I am so proud of him and still a little annoyed that he did so awesome with hardly training.

Busy summer

Like everyone we have been enjoying our very busy very fun summer. Here are a few updated pictures of the girls. Mostly of Mya, but heres cute olivia hanging out with her baby Tina.

Check out those baby blues.

Our little Mya is growing up way too fast. She will be 7 months old tomorrow. She is so sweet and we love her so much. Her and Olivia have so much fun together and she thinks Olivia can do no wrong. She has figured out that food is yummy and loves to eat. She can't crawl yet but its coming soon. She has figured out how to scoot backwards.




Olivia got her face and fingernails painted by some cheerleaders at Cedar Hills days. Notice the cute hair clip we got from Rachel Gunnell who just happened to have her booth there too.

We love to get the kiddie pools out. Olivia has a bigger one, but this one is perfect Mya size. The water must have been cold cause she wouldn't put her legs down.

playing catch up as usual

Mya is 5 1/2 months and growing up way too fast!! Olivia loves to hold her. She is rolling over and sitting up. Like her big sister who started crawling at 6 months she is already trying. This does not make me happy. I am not ready for that yet.


After 2 days of Olivia picking her own clothes and looking like this we now have a rule that she gets to choose either the top or the bottom first then i get to choose the other. Now if we could just get rid of the head band!

We went to the zoo with Anna, Addie, and Izzie. We didn't see too many animals but we had a great time any way. Izzie dropped her binkie in the giraffe cage and Olivia is still talking about a month later.




We have a ton of pix from disneyland but here are my faves. This will be an annual trip.




The humming bird that joined us for lunch.

Olivia met her favorite fairies, Tinkerbell and Fawn. This one moment was by far my favorite part of the trip. I have never seen her light up like she did when she saw them. It was the cutest thing I have ever seen.


Could she be any cuter!

Mya hanging out with Eli and Mason.

Visiting our sweet little Deven. I tried to get Carol to give him to us so she could try for a girl but she was mean and said no.

Mya's first taste of rice cereal. She has since decided she really does like it.