What Olivia likes lately

She is literally obsessed with her blanket being on her head, or her "banquet" as she calls it.

A few pictures

Here are a few I took with my phone! I took some with the nice camera too but wanted to get some up. :)
I didn't know how Olivia would react to trick or treating, but she got into it right away! She immediately ran up to the doors, rang the doorbell if she could reach it, and most times said trick or treat! She ran from house to house and even tried to just walk into one house she was so excited! It was so cute and so fun to see! We just made a quick walk around the block, but she got plenty of candy. Then we went to a little Halloween carnival. They took her picture, she made a bookmark and they had little games and candy. She played a bowling game and a fishing game. There were a lot of kids there! I don't know if we will be back next year, most the games where a little advanced for her.
Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

Just a quick update from us... Olivia is very excited to go trick or treating this year, she knows it means candy! She tends to say "trick or treat please!" it's so cute! She is going to be a flower gnome as planned and I think will not have a problem wearing it. Especially if it means getting candy in return! We will probably go around the neighborhood just a little and then there is a carnival I think we will take her to. It's indoors and has games and crafts- and is free, so it should be fun!
Last week, Olivia painted a pumpkin and was crazy about it. She loves looking at it every day and saying "I paint that!" or "painting pumpkins!" we never carved one, but I may carve a little one with her today so she can feel the insides.
Happy Halloween everyone!

Updates

Well John just bought me (and surprised me at work!! So exciting!) with the new iPhone! I have been having a lot of fun taking pictures and playing with it.
John went to Yakima last weekend for pheasant hunting while Olivia, Jenny, and I went up to greenbluff. It was more crowded than I've ever seen it, but there were pony rides- Olivia's favorite!! Her pony name was caramel corn. She loves every second of pony rides and does so well on the pony! We also looked at some pumpkins while up there, but it was just so crowded it was hard to focus! We had fun though. Then the next afternoon Jenny and I took Olivia shopping and to the park! This park was in the valley and is so fun! It was closing for the winter the next day so I wanted her to play there one last time.

Well I am doing this from my phone and not really sure why the photos are coming up in a weird order. Hopefully I will figure it out!

Olivia's 2nd birthday!

Well Olivia's 2nd birthday has come and gone.. I am now the mommy to a busy 2 year old! How did that happen!? We had such a fun weekend. It went by fast but we had a great time, and I know Olivia did too! She loves seeing all her relatives and friends.

Her party was a rainbow theme which ended up being really easy to do with all the primary colors. Just a bit time consuming with everything I did do! I made tissue poms, did a colored polka dot wall for photos, a wreath for the front door, and a birthday banner using paint chips for the mantle. I also borrowed some cute fabric polka dots from BrieAnne for the tables! I think it came together really well with the multicolored plates and rainbow cake too! Olivia didn't nap at all on the day of her party, but did very well! She was running and happy most of the time until she finally crashed at 7 pm asking to go to bed. "night night please!" She loves sleeping with her dolls these days and she picked out her 2 new fabric dolls to sleep with that night. One I bought her, and one Amanda made her.

Here are some photos from the day!

After the party was over- our neighborhood was having a end of the summer party in the park. We walked down there for a few minutes to let Olivia jump in the bouncy castle. She absolutely loved it! She did hit heads with one person at the end, but that was bound to happen in there! She went down the slide once and did great!

Happy 2nd birthday to my sweet girl! We love you!

Chelan

This past weekend (labor day weekend) we went to Chelan to stay with John's grandparents at their condo in Chelan. The weather was absolutely perfect and the water in the lake was so clear! We had a wonderful time with grammy and grampy as Olivia calls them! Olivia was crazy about them. If either would walk out of the room- she would ask "where grammy go?" or vise versa. It was pretty cute!

The minute we got there, Audrey got some stickers out to put on the glass. Olivia loved "helping" put them on the glass!
The guys deep in conversation.
Pretty view from their condo.

Olivia playing with some ice a little while later.

After visiting for a few minutes, we decided to put on our swim suits and head down to the lake! Olivia liked the sand an the little waves! She also really liked the few ducks that were down there.

After a little while on the beach, we decided to go to the pool, where Olivia could really practice her swimming!

She just loves the pool!

While Olivia napped, the guys headed down to the lake for a little swimming and relaxing.

They stayed down there for quite a lot time talking! I'm glad they had some alone time to hang out.

Once Olivia woke up from her nap, there was only one place she wanted to be!


After dinner that night, we took Olivia to the condo area playground. It wasn't particularly made for her age kids, but she still liked it! Climbed everything in sight!
Olivia flying high, looking at the moon!

Family picture, sort of.

There we are!

Such a startled look!

Hanging out on the jungle gym with daddy.

Grampy doing "fly away peter, fly away Paul" Olivia was pretty entertained by this trick!

Helping grammy zip up her sweatshirt.

Excited to be wearing grammy's visor. Going for a walk Sunday morning.
I told Olivia we were going to the park the entire time we were on our walk, so I had to find a park to take her to so I wasn't a liar! We went to the elementary school and she was happy to play there for a little while! She is such a big girl climbing up the big wall!

Sunday afternoon we played a game while Olivia napped and then did some more swimming! John and I also took Olivia out for ice cream after swimming which was fun. Monday morning we had a nice breakfast together and Grampy showed Olivia how to suction cup a glass to her face. She didn't quite get it yet!

Then we headed to the park one last time before heading home. Olivia found a water bottle and was absolutely obsessed with filling it with rocks. She did use her shoe to fill it which we thought was quite inventive. No one showed her how, she just did it!
Grammy and Olivia swinging.
The guys went on a drive to look at a golf course while the girls stayed back. Olivia got a couple last popsicles eaten before we had to hit the road. She liked being "cozy" in her towel with grammy.

We had such a nice weekend I wish we could have stayed longer! Maybe next year... Olivia continues to say grammy and grampy are at the "lake". I know Olivia would like to go there more often and visit!