Fun weekend.

You know it has been a busy weekend celebrating Valentine's Day and Jill's birthday when Olive stays asleep from the car seat into the house. Sunday morning birthday brunch with Grandma and Bop was exhausting.

Mmmm bread.

Olive loves bread. I ripped her a few pieces off the loaf, but she insisted on taking bites from the big piece. Silly girl.

An Iowa visit.

We had a nice visit to Iowa last weekend despite being 2/3rds of us being sick (still crossing fingers we didn't get anyone else sick while we were there!). Jill and her mom made Olive a fancy cake to celebrate her birthday too.

Christmas Update

Better late than never, right? We had a very fun Christmas and Olive got so many new things. Had lots of treats (she knew to go right to my dad-aka "Bop"- once she found the cookie tray) and my sister even had the patience for a very long FaceTime session.

Finally! Snow!

We finally got some snow to use the sled Olive got from her Grandma Diane for St. Nicholas Day. Sledding and snow are fun! (I promise she was having fun, even though these photos may not show it!)

After we got cold outside, Olive had no problem entertaining herself with the books on our new bookshelf.

We have a 1 Year Old!

Olive has been 1 for a week. In the past few weeks the highligts are:
*we have a walker!
*tooth count is 6
*says a few words, "up" being the favorite
*knows a few signs-milk, more, all done and elephant
*waves hi & bye
*loves to dance to music

We had a fun birthday party and are still in shock that we have a 1 year old. It has been a great year though, couldn't ask for any better! Olive received so many great gifts-a singing & dancing elephant (thank you Kathy & Tom-she loves it!), books, clothes, toys, a sled, a really cute backpack with her name on it. Olive is very loved!

Thank you, Chris, for taking pictures. They turned out great!

Arizona trip.

Last week we took a trip to Arizona to visit my sister. It was a wonderful trip and we had so much fun. I totally understand why people spend winters there-I could get used to 70 and sunny every day!

Olive was a very good traveller on her first 2 plane rides.

We had toys and books and aunt Lori spoiled Olive with lots of new things. Turns out shoes, a duster and handheld vacuum can provide hours of entertainment.

Olive saw her first palm tree.

Celebrated my birthday.

It was so much fun. We hope to go back soon!

More pictures may come later off the camera, but this has already taken me a week to post!