Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Fall harvest festival and my family's visit.

Sorry it's been a while.
Things have been a little interesting around here with me being sick and all so blogging has kind of been put on the back burner.
I have lots of things I want to post about so I'll try to update more!

Anyway, my mom, the twins, and Harrison came to visit on Wednesday Oct. 10th and left on Monday the 15th.
We had such a fun time together and I'm so glad they were willing to make the long 12 hour drive up here to see us.

We went shopping at the outlets in Woodburn, ate all the yummy food I talked about in this post, my mom and I were even able to escape for a few minutes and go to breakfast at my most favorite crepe place. My mom helped me ( well she mostly did it) paint 2 pieces of furniture that I would never have gotten to had it not been for her, we all watched Snow White and the Huntsman for the first time, Michael and I were able to go out on a romantic date to Applebees, and last but not least we were able to go to a fall harvest festival they have here in Salem. 

I am so grateful for my mom. She seriously is such a lifesaver.
The few days she was here were the days that my morning sickness really started to set in.
She completely babied me, let me sleep in, made sure everything stayed clean, helped stock us up with food for the week, and of course spoiled Olivia like nobody's business.
The three littles of course are a huge help too in that they literally played with Olivia every second of the day.
She was in heaven and was so sad to see them leave.
She cried as she gave each of them their goodbye hugs.
She now walks around saying "mama, tits, shas, twooo monts"
(We told her we would be going to visit them in two months)

I'm just really grateful to have such loving and supportive families.

The only pictures I managed to take were of us at the Harvest festival so enjoy!

Hello cutie!

Olivia talks about horses "shorse" until she's blue in the face, but when it came time to ride one she refused. She hardly even wanted to pet one.

She loved the little petting zoo.
Mostly the "ba bas" (In a high voice) (Chickens) and the "dots" (goats).

Not the best picture of us haha.

Olivia did agree to ride the wooden horse with Emmaline.

The duck racing.


Michael was helping Olivia pump that thing so fast her little bow came out!

Us!

Climbing up the giant haystack.

They made it!
She was a little reluctant to go down the slide but after getting a little push from one of the twins she decided that she loved it and wanted to do it again!


For lunch we had hotdogs, fries, and fresh apple cider!

Eating her very own hotdog!

She loved riding the tractors.
This is seriously one of my favorite pictures because she seriously looks EXACTLY like Michael.

Showing off to daddy.

Sometimes she finds herself in crazy places when dad's playing with her!

She picked her pumpkin all by herself and is definitely proud!

Michael would sit on the pumpkins so of course Olivia wanted to do the same. So as we walked around the patch she would just plop her little self right on a pumpkin.
I love her face in this picture!


Riding in the wagon with Elizabeth.

Having a blast!

Us again!

So happy to be with grandma on the hay ride!

Thank you so much mom and littles for your visit, your help, and everything else you do for us.
We love you and can't wait to see everyone in December!

2 comments:

  1. Oh my goodness. I love that picture of Olivia trying to eat a hotdog. Haha. Hilarious. It sounds like you guys had a great time! We LOVE having visitors and it's always sad when they leave. :( I hope you're maybe feeling a little better! :)

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  2. Isabel- oh my gosh the pictures are so cute. You're the cutest little mom! Sorry you've been sick, hopefully it passes quickly. Are you guys coming to Utah any time soon? If so we should do lunch again :)

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