olivia's prayer

olivia has been begging for a new baby for about a year now. we told her she would have to ask heavenly father because hes the one that decides who gets the babies. so for the last four months thats what she has done everytime she says a prayer she says "please bless we can have a baby. please bless we can have a boy baby." in any case it worked. what usually takes us 6 months to a year to achieve did not take long at all!!! baby #3 is due march 6th. we don't know if its a boy like she asked which is ok cause now she wants a girl. we are very happy and i will be VERY VERY happy when this 24/7 sickness goes away. i've started to have olivia pray for me since she gets answers faster than i do!

firsts

just a few of the "firsts" we have experienced during the past several months.

first time in time out. its not okay to pull our sisters hair out! there have been many many many more!!

first day as a sunbeam. i wasn't ready for this.

opening her first birthday present. this was the longest and shortest year of my life. for those of you that know mya you understand what that means. looking back it went fast but living it was hard and long!

enjoying her first birthday birthday cake. i like them to have their own cake to enjoy. in fact i think everyone should have their own cake on their birthday not just a piece.



first time playing in the snow

first day of joy school. she has a september birthday so we did joy school this past year, will do dance this coming year, and real pre school the next.

some of the firsts not pictured, mya started walking the end of november at 11 months. she got her first tooth at 9 months and stopped growing them at 15 months. she is 18 months with only 7 teeth. you would never know it by the way the girl eats!!!

short version

this is the VERY short version of christmas morning. why the short version? well because it was 7 months ago and i need to catch up on the blog before christmas comes again!!
cake balls, carrots, and milk for santa. he must have been full from all the treats everyone had left him during the night cause he left a cake ball with a bite out of it

mya finishing off the cake ball santa didn't




why bother with the all the new stuff santa brought when you can play with the trash

we had a great holiday season spent with family and friends.

Holiday fun with the Jensen Family

Every year we go to Cabela's to visit Santa. Its close to the house and the picture is free. This year we invited the Jensen family to join us. Getting four little girls to sit for a picture is not as easy as it might sound. It was a fun afternoon and well worth the wait in line to see the big guy.

Mya found the perfect resting spot.

Always worth the wait!

A few weeks later we got together again to make gingerbread houses. The girls were no help. They had a great time eating all the candy though.

Jason made his look like the temple.

I seem to be the one always taking pictures so this time I made sure I was in one!

New carpet

In november we finally got the carpet put in the basement! Its thick and soft and amazing!
Before




After

Happy Halloween

This year for Halloween we borrowed costumes from our neighbors. During the day Mya was a ladybug which of course I have no pictures of. For the trunk or treat she was a cow. Olivia was princess Belle. She was in heaven! It freaked me out a bit cause she looked like she was going to prom and I'm pretty sure I will never be ready for that!!!


This is Olivia's weird fake smile. It makes me crazy.

Fall fun

Like everyone we had a busy fall and it would take forever to catch up so here are a few of the things we did in September and October. In October my parents took us up to Logan for a weekend. We got a hotel and just relaxed. It was great. We took the girls swimming which they loved. On saturday we met the Lewis family at the North Logan pumpkin walk. It was so fun and not as cold as we were expecting which was a plus. I think we decided we need to do the pumpkin walk every year.






I got stuck with Yoda.


Typical saturday morning.

Like most kids Olivia and Mya love the park. My parents have a great one up the road from their house. It will be more fun this summer now that Mya can walk.




When I get a quiet moment, which are far and few between, this is how I like to spend some of my time.



This not so little guy has lived by one of the upstairs windows for the past 2 years or so. If you've seen our house its a long way up to the window he made his home so we never made the effort to get him down. Jason decided on day it was time for the spider to go so he made the climb up and got him down. As you can see its huge! I felt really bad about killing it since hes never caused any problems so I went inside while the deed was done.


Jason's parents bought some land up Spanish Fork Canyon last winter so we spent a lot of time up there during the summer. Theres water and power so they parked the trailer up there so when we went up we had all the comforts of home. The best way to camp with little ones! I usually forgot the camera but here are a few pictures from the last time we went up. On one of our drives we found this tree and of course Jason had to hang on it.


On our way up we stopped to get some donuts and boy did we enjoy them!