The ugly sweater party

Exactly 2 years ago there was a party.
An ugly sweater party.
My boy came except I didn't know then that he would be my boy,
but I knew I wanted him to be.
He shared with me his favorite Westlife cds and we had lots of fun playing in the snow together.
I knew I was falling for him, in fact I was pretty sure I loved him.
I know this might sound crazy especially since it was our first time hanging out, but I think that my love was there all along, it was just waiting for him.
I didn't want him to leave that night.
But he did of course.
So, I fell asleep listening to his favorite music
thinking and dreaming of him.
I couldn't wait to see him next.
Little did I know that 2 years later we would be happily married with a beautiful baby girl.
I just love him and so much more than I did 2 years ago.

Thanksgiving Point lights and a few extra cuties

Yesterday, we decided to take a wagon around all the lights at Thanksgiving Point with my family. We knew Olivia would LOVE all the lights. And she did. She was wide awake the whole time just looking around. She seemed to like the green ones the best. The horses smelled pretty bad, I'll have to admit that I was a bit envious of Michael's lack of smell!

Okay here are the few extra cuties.

Tummy time!

All bundled up in her carseat.

So we were getting ready to run a few errands and I had just bundled her up in her carseat. I had walked away to pick up a few things when Michael told me to come look. So I did and this is what I saw.

This is about as close as we get to a little smile from this serious girl. Of course it's still adorable!

Uggs and Chub

This precious girl is definitely putting on the chub.
It's so cute I just want to squish it.

Her uggs are adorable. I want a pair.

Oh and guess what? She rolled over.
Yep, from tummy to back. Twice!
Yay Olivia!!

My cousin

Yesterday, we were able to go up to my Uncle Gardner and Aunt Lisa's house for a "last" dinner before my cousin Joshua leaves on his mission.
He is going to Mexico.
I couldn't help but get a little emotional as I looked around the table at my brothers and sisters and cousins. I realized that things are about ready to change. We are all pretty close in age so there will be several missions that overlap making it around 6 years before we are sitting around the table like that again. By then I am sure their will be other new additions to the family. I know I am a married woman with my own baby but sometimes I still feel like I am a kid. I can not believe how fast time has gone. It seems like just yesterday we were all flinging around on the tubes trying to push each other off, laughing and talking about things only cousins can talk about, doing crazy things that get us in trouble, and just being best friends like we were.
I don't like change.
Joshua is like a brother to me. I am going to miss this crazy boy, but I am so excited for him and so proud of his decision to serve a mission. He is going to be an amazing missionary and I know he will be very influential.

2 months and a few other things

So we took our sweet girl to her 2 month doctors appointment. I can't believe she is 2 months already, she is growing up! But we have loved every minute of our time with her. She is a precious little girl with a darling personality! Anyway these are her stats:
Weight: 9 lb 4 ounces-12th percentile
Height: 19.8 in-27th percentile
Head: 38 cm-30th percentile
She got 3 shots in her little legs. It was seriously one of the saddest things I have ever witnessed. She was brave though and calmed down once I picked her up.
A few things about our little girl:
*She has blue eyes. I really like this.
*Loves lights and is always staring outside.
* Still loves her showers more than anything else
* Makes little snoring sounds when she sleeps
*Loves her uncle Winston so much so that her first smile was at him
*Loves her mommy. Yep she is a mommy's girl. She will let other people hold her for a minute but always ends up fussing until I take her. I am not going to lie, I love it!
*Loves to play the stand up, sit up game. She has strong little legs.
*Is getting cute little rolls on her legs. Adorable!
*Squirted poop all over her dad's shirt haha. I am sure she did it on purpose because she has never done this to me and I change most of her diapers.
*Is such a cuddly little girl.
*Loves to hold my hand in the car
*Has started cooing and making little sounds.
*Oh she's just perfect. We love her!

So here are a few things we have done lately:

We had my cousins Jason and Adriana and their darling little baby Samantha down for dinner and games. We had a blast playing with our little girls.

I can't handle how cute this picture is. They are going to be little buddies:)

Sitting in her little swing. She kind of likes it which is better than not liking it all or liking it too much. I of course would rather hold her as much as possible.

Our little Buckette all geared up for the last Ohio State game! She loved looking at the t.v, In fact that is what she is looking at.

Go Buckeyes!!

With her daddy!

So Olivia and I have loved having netflix on xbox because we can watch these as much as we want! I noticed that the ages for these shows are 8-10 but that's okay, I love them anyway.

Here are a couple videos:

Grandpa John playing caterpillar!

You will have to turn the volume up for this one but this is her sleeping. You will hear her little snoring sounds. It's adorable!

Final newborn pictures:

Okay so after much editing and colorizing these are Olivia's final newborn pictures:

Olivia

Olivia and I read this book today.
The title is her name.
Which i think is cute.
She loved it.

His birthday

Yesterday, Michael turned 24! I think he had a pretty good day besides having to wake up at 5:00 am for work. Later on we went over to my parents house for dinner. My mom made a special Mexican dinner of course. It was burritos and Mexican soda. The burritos were really good! We then had dessert which of course was his cake and then peppermint icecream. He doesn't like peppermint icecream but since I can't eat chocolate I decided it was only fair that I got to pick the flavor of icecream. So we sang happy birthday of course and while we were singing I got all ready with my camera so that I could get a good shot of him blowing out his candles, well the second the song was over he leaned in unbelievably fast and with one puff the fire was out haha. I don't think I have ever seen anything like it. So sadly, I didn't catch the picture. He then opened his presents which were: beeswax chapstick, gum, socks, candy, sweatpants, a macey's giftcard, an itunes card, mountain dew chapstick, and the Westlife cd which hasn't come out yet:) I gave him a twilight card that played a song when you opened it. I was rather proud of my find and he of course loved it! Anyway, it was a really fun day and I am so glad I got to spend it with him. He is such an amazing person. I really don't know where I'd be without him, so we'll just say I am extremely glad he was born.
Here are a few pictures:

I can't really handle my dad's beard haha

Alright, the following pictures are Michael with all of his gifts. I had to take at least 6 shots before he finally smiled normally. Although, I have to admit I find these pretty cute too:)

Finally.....he decided to cooperate!

Happy Birthday love! I look forward to spending many more birthdays with you!

More Pictures!

Here a are a bunch more pictures! I just love taking pictures of this little doll and I can't decide which ones to post because they are all so cute:)

I love her little hands in this picture.

She is so alert now. It is so cute!

So I was holding her and all the sudden she decided that she wanted to change positions and sleep with her face straight down in my arms haha. I don't know why she likes it but she does!

I love her in this picture.

She isn't a huge binky taker....only once in a while. But I think it is funny how the binky is way to big for her little face!

My boy and I out on our first date since she was born. We went to Tucanos, which of course was amazing! It was an early celebration lunch for his birthday tomorrow! It was kind of hard to leave our little doll but it was so fun to get that one on one time with this sweet boy because it has definitely been a while.

Olivia and I taking a little nap. She is very cuddly:)

Since she loves baths and showers so much we decided to buy her a little bathtub so we didn't have to put her in the sink. I love how it is shaped like a little whale because I just love whales and am sure she will too! She loves her new bathtub and I also love it because it is so much easier to wash her off because the bathtub helps old her up.

This precious little girl makes us smile and laugh all time. I don't know what we would do with out her.