Holidays past

 For holidays lately I have been decorating the kids doors.  It has turned out to be a lot of fun for Olivia.  She knows its a holiday when she wakes up and sees that her door has been decorated.

This was for Valentines day. 

St. Patrick's Day

 And Easter.  The Kids (well Olivia) had a great Easter and was so happy to finally be able to wear her Easter dress. She later threw up all over it.  It was a lovely day.  :(

 

Just a TIP....

(In case I am not the last person on earth to hear of this...)
So a few weeks ago Olivia had a cold. It was not fun for any of us in the house. I always feel so bad because their just isn't much, if anything at all that I can give to her. Well a lady friend at church gave me a great tip that I thought I would pass on.
She said, instead of putting Vicks on her chest... put it on the bottom of her feet (for those of you that don't know, your feet have the largest pores on them.) and then cover them with socks when she goes to bed. Well we tried it and it worked GREAT for Olivia. She slept better, I slept better, and the count down to spring is only 20 more days (more like 60 where I live).

Pictures

These two are keeping me busy, but they are so much fun. The camera is usually laying around the house or close by so that if the right moment comes I can snap of pic of the them doing what they do. However by the time I am ready to snap the picture, the moment is over and getting them to both smile for me has long gone. So here is what our photo shoots look like:


Me:"Olivia, open your eyes!"




Me:"Olivia, keep your eyes open, and try not to touch Weston."



Both the kiddos have there eyes open and are sorta smiling. We'll take it.



A few days later I was able to get a couple of good pics of them. Weston is almost 4 months now. Crazy. These are a couple of my favorite things/people.

And since the camera has been hanging around on the coffee table, kitchen counter, side tables, and desk...Olivia has managed to take a few (actually a lot) pics of Wesman. And out of the many, many pictures she took, a few actually turned out where you could see Weston's face. Here are the pics from the future photographer:

The Boys

At Christmas my SIL Liz took pics of the 3 newest members of our family. All Boys. The oldest of the three is Tate, Jenny and Larry's little guy. He was born 2 months before Weston. Then up next is our Wes-man, and just one week after Weston came Grayson, David and Liz's boy. And although he is the youngest of the bunch, he is the biggest!


From L to R: Tate, Weston, Grayson


It was fun to get pics of these guys together on their first Christmas. (Liz bought them all these outfits and then embellished them with their Initials. So cute!)



I was also impressed with the three of them for doing so well while Liz was snapping pics.
No one cried!

Catch Up

The past few months have just flown by! I am not sure where to start or if I want to start at all. It seems as though my blogging buzz has ran out. (actually I'm not sure that the buzz was ever there!) So I will just play catch up and give you all the skinny on what we have been up to.
First up: Weston, or as we call him WES-MAN!

Here he is at 1 month. He was a crabby little thing for a while but has turned a new leaf in the past couple of weeks.
(lower) 2 months old and starting to smile and cue. I love this stage.


But before he started putting on the pounds, my friend Kate took some newborn pics for us. Here a a couple of our favs.


Then Chris gave this little guy a blessing.


Olivia is loving having a little baby around. She loves that WES-MAN fits in her doll stroller. She is putting him to good use!

She also is my buddy for working out! She keeps me motivated to shed these extra baby pounds!
And although Christmas has come and gone here are a couple of our pics this year.

It was great to go home and spend time with family and friends. I was especially proud of Olivia (and Adam) for patiently waiting to open presents on Christmas day. We didn't open our gifts until my mom got home from her shift at the hospital. It was about 2:00 in the afternoon. Here is some of the clan anxiously waiting! I love you guys!

Bieber Fever

She definitely has her own dance style.
(it is better with your sound on so you can hear her singing too.)

Meet Weston

Weston joined our family on Oct. 25 at 12:01 am. He has been such a joy to have. He weighed in at 7lbs 3oz. and is one heck of a cutie! We just love him. He is healthy and doing well.






Olivia loves her new brother. She has been so good to him and is excited to have a constant playmate.








I think we will keep him and try to get a little more of this!