Christmas tree

Olivia loves our christmas tree. She does so good at just looking at it and admiring the lights and fun little ornaments. Every night when we turn the lights on she grabs pillows a blanket and books, she has Jon lay down next to her and read her books and then we all have to sit around the tree and sing jingle bells over and over again. It gets old but how do you say no to such a sweet little tradition that she started on her own?

And I had to throw in these random pictures, today she just kept wanting me to take her picture, it was right after dinner and so we hadn't put her shirt back on after she made a mess of it, and her face is a mess. But she kept posing and saying "cheese" so here she is posing with her beloved (very ragged) bear.

I love that little face!!!

Does it rain much in Oregon???

Well take a look at these pictures and you tell me... this used to be a giant field with horses and cows and geese roaming around... now... it's a lake! And it is beginning to creep up all our neighbors yards and towards our house. We are hoping when we get back from christmas break that our house hasn't floated away :)

Well most of you, especially family members have probably heard thru the grapevine but...

ANNOUNCEMENT!!!

Yep Olivia is going to be a big sister!!!! She is too busy to pose for a picture so we had to snap this one really quick :) We are very excited and blessed to be having another baby! I am about 13 weeks along and we are due June 8th! YAY!!! We find out... boy or girl on January 18th so put your votes in now!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Roloff Farms

A few weekends ago... ok kind of a long time ago, before Halloween, we went to Roloff Farms ( you know Little People Big World) yeah we are cool like that. We actually had no idea that that was where we were going. We had a list of different pumpkin patches in the area and we chose that one mostly because it was closest, then when we looked up how to get there we realized that we were going somewhere famous!  It was a lot of fun, they had a big pumpkin patch and petting zoo and lots of other fun activities. I think that Olivia had a blast too. She enjoyed walking up the big hay pile and walking around cleaning off the dirty punkins :) It was a fun outing with great friends, Andrea Todd and cute little Gracie.

They had this weird cut out of all the heads of the family, you can't see mama Roloff cause Jon's big head is blocking her. We did see the real mama Roloff though and Zac (the only 'little' child) So that was VERY exciting. :) 

alright everyone... Here is an update!

Well my entire family had let me know that I have been a big slacker in the blogging world, and well I guess I have... sorry! I know you mostly want to see pictures but you are going to have to read my ramblings first! Or you can skip it I guess if you must :)We have just been enjoying Oregon and getting to know all of our new friends. The weather has been so beautiful here, rainy off and on but it hasn't been too bad... yet... :) I can't believe the trees here. They are so gorgeous the colors are so rich and the leaves are changing so dramatically! Bright bright oranges, reds and yellows I have never seen such a dramatic color change I can't describe it I need to get some pics of them! But anyway... things are going great here, Jon is crazy busy studying so we pretty much only see him on weekends so Liv and I have been doing our best to stay busy, we have play dates with friends from the ward and we try to go swimming once a week. Olivia looks forward to that part of the week the most I think. It has been an adjustment but we are so grateful to be here and to have met the wonderful people that we have.
A couple weeks ago Jon had to head to utah for the end of the summer banquet for his summer sales, he brought home some prizes though for being such a stud! :) My favorite... a Wii yay we have a wii!!! So we were so excited about it that we had a bunch of friends over for a party. We had yummy pumpkin cake and other treats and played wii of course, but then the guys got side-tracked. They started playing with a little basketball hoop I got Jon a couple years ago at BYU. They were playing horse in the house. Not the safest place especially considering they aren't little boys anymore :) They were very entertaining though, they were trying tricky dunks and random bank shots it got pretty crazy with lots of loud bangs and thuds. It was pretty funny. Here are a couple of the action shots. It was hard to capture these moments because they were all over the place.

Now for halloween I was so terrible and really procrastinated getting Olivia a costume. I wanted to find a cute pumpkin costume cause she has really started to love "punkins" as she calls them, but couldn't find the right one, while we were looking one night she spotted the Elmo costume and that was that... she was going to be elmo whether I liked it or not... and she was quite the cute Elmo if I do say so myself :)

On our way to Trunk-or-treat at the church

She loved being Elmo, she kept jumping around and she was even doing the Elmo giggle it was so cute

I am mad that we didn't get more pictures but... just my luck the camera dies argh!!!

Today we baby sat Gracie while her parents went to the temple, Olivia is slowly learning how to share and she and Gracie were pretty cute playing together. Here they are rock-a-bye-ing :)

Olivia even read her a book :) too cute! 

Changing the subject... I have a very funny Livi moment to share with you all. 

Olivia was in the bath and Jon and I were just outside the bathroom when we heard a very terrified scream and cry coming from the bathroom. We ran in there to see what was wrong and we found Olivia, cornered in the very edge of the tub screaming, very very scared of the log of poo that was moving towards her as the water in the tub moved. She thought it was alive and chasing her. It was gross, sad and hilarious all at the same time. I felt bad about laughing and part of me was wishing I had a camera strapped to me at all times to catch these moments. It was quite the tramatic event for Liv though, she still is a little bit afraid of the tub at first until we show her that she is the only one in the water. Poor little thing... she will probably hate that I shared this with the whole world someday, but it's one of the moments that you really don't want to forget :) am I a mean mommy? 

Ecola Beach

A couple weeks ago we took a trip to the beach! We went with Andrea and Gracie and Jodie, it was a beautiful day of sunshine so it was the perfect beach day. Olivia loved playing in the sand, throwing rocks, and I pretty much had to drag her out of the water, she especially loved it when the tide started to come in and the waves would rush around her legs and almost up to her waist. Gracie was so fun to watch crawl thru the sand. And both girls had a blast playing with Jodie as she chased them around and helped them make sand castles. Needless to say there was sand EVERYWHERE! Ecola Beach is such a beautiful place and it wasn't too busy it was all around a great trip.

 Her Pants were so soaked she they were low riding!

 Say no to crack!

 Andrea, Gracie, and Liv taking a second to pose

 Here comes Jodie to get Gracie

 Now Gracie is chasing Jodie

This area was Olivia's favorite spot, she stayed in this spot pretty much the whole time, the water would ruch up thru the little inlet and surround her and she loved every second of it. I don't know how she stayed in the water so long it was cold. She's a fish!