Audrey's 1st Birthday!

Olivia's friend Audrey turned ONE and had a super fun ROCK STAR birthday party!

cake, cookies, and candy bar

Olivia and the birthday girl

Olivia kissing the birthday girl :)

Olivia and Kylie

Audrey tearing in to her yummy cake!

Lakehouse with Hayden

We spent Labor Day weekend with the Cassidys at the lakehouse and as always Hayden and Olivia had a blast playing together. Here they are enjoying their popsicles, playing in the water and hanging out after bathtime.

Hayden EATS popsicles and Olivia just sits and licks them.

Our big girls can get in and out of the pool by themselves now!

BFF

Crazy girls!

Flood

I took these pics on Sept 7th, (day after Johnnie and I's 7th Anniversary! Wow, how time flies when you're having fun :) Anyway it started raining and didn't stop for several days and unfortunately many houses in our neighborhood got flooded. They even had to do some high water rescuing of people and their animals at a nearby apartment complex. We didn't have any damage but if you've ever stood on our back deck and looked down at the tiny little stream we call "the creek" then you know how crazy it is to see it like this. It looks like the Mississippi River compared to its normal little trickle.

Lauren's 30th Birthday!

Lauren's 30th birthday was September 4th. Me, Lauren, Alisha, Natalie and Amanda went to the Hilton Anatole for a wine tasting and then to dinner at a restaurant in the hotel. It was a fun night - Happy 30th Lauren!

Alisha and Lauren

Natalie and I

Lisha, me and Nat

Lisha and Amanda

singing Happy Birthday! - by the way that is a Melon Drop martini I was drinking and it was so good. I wish I had one RIGHT now.

making a wish!

Amanda thought it would be special to make Lauren a birthday cake and I guess no one really thought it through and they brought the cake to the hotel. I met them there and Alisha is toting this big tupperware cake keeper. So we just asked for an extra seat at the wine tasting and then at the restaurant and the cake hung out with us all night.

Playing in the Rain

It was pouring down rain one day after Kylie's volleyball game and Olivia thought it was so funny that we were running to the car getting all wet. When we got home she wanted to step out in it and get wet again. Since it was warm outside I let her and she ended up running up and down the driveway splashing in all the puddles and had the most fun!

Olivia's new table

Our playgroup meets in public and at each other's houses and I always wanted to host at my house but didn't know about the eating situation for the kids since Olivia is in her highchair still and we just have one. And one Bumbo chair w/tray. So I decided she was big enough to sit at a little table and that we should get one so we could have her friends over. I looked around online and found this great Little Tikes picnic table that seats 8 kids! Its square and seats 2 kids on each side and folds down flat for storage. We went to Toys R Us and got it and as Johnnie was in the living room putting it together he said, "I can see Olivia climbing and standing up on top of this thing already." So the next morning I was making her breakfast and she was in the living room with King. I walk around the corner to find this:

She is predictable and surprising all at the same time. I quickly grabbed the camera and sent the pics to Johnnie.

The next day she wanted to have lunch at her table with Brobee :)

She always likes to share with King :)

Lately...

We have been busy the past couple of months so I have a lot of blogging to catch up on. This blog is the only "baby book" I have so I really would like to keep up with it more but its hard to make time for it and everything else thats going on. I really do have a baby book for Olivia, I just haven't done much with it but I'm hoping one day to use this blog to help me fill in the blanks of the baby book. Olivia is still fun as ever. She will be 20 months on Nov 12! She uses more words every day and continues to amaze us with her vocabulary. She has now picked up on what we call each other so if we don't answer to mama or daddy right away she will see if Ang or Johnnie or Babe will get our attention. LOL. She asked me this morning when I was getting her out of her crib, "Where'd Johnnie go?" Olivia and Johnnie have a nightly ritual these days that Olivia calls "watch Goofy." Johnnie found some really old school Mickey Mouse clips online and Olivia LOVES them, especially the ones with Goofy. So every night after bath they "watch Goofy." We are still involved in our playgroup but haven't participated in many activities with them in the past couple months. We are still going to swimming lessons every week which I'm getting tired of since the weather has gotten cooler. It is an indoor pool, of course, but it is no fun coming in out of the cold and stripping down to your swimsuit and then once its over getting out of the pool soaking wet with a one year old having to dry her, dry myself and get us both dressed while we are freezing. This session of swimming goes thru mid January. I hate to not sign her up again in spring because that is when she turns 2 and will move up a level so we'll probably stay in thru spring and then take the summer off and just practice all summer in the pool so she doesn't forget anything. We've also been going to watch Kylie play volleyball on Wednesday evenings and catching some of her softball games on the weekends. Curtis and Casey started playing flag football this year so we've enjoyed going to watch them play on Monday evenings and then going to dinner with the family. Volleyball and football are over now but basketball should start soon. I know Kylie will play and I think Curtis will also play so that will be fun to watch. Olivia LOVES her cousins! When we were leaving after dinner last night Olivia was yelling to Casey from the car, "Bye Casey! I love you Casey! I go with you Casey!" So sweet. We have also gone on a couple of weekend camping trips with my parents which was really fun since Olivia had never been camping before. She knows all about it now and can't wait to do it again.