2011-01-03 Our baby's first New Year

Our little boy is getting so big. Not yet a year old but so much personality. We just love the faces he makes and the joy he brings into our lives.

Chewing on a piece of meat.



Here he is with Uncle Hayden who is so good to him.



Not yet walking but getting around pretty good and fast. No problems standing up.

Christmas Wreaths

Sora & Olivia had their friends RaeLynn & Tina over. So what better to do than a craft, right? So I saw this idea on-line (not exactly sure where) on making Christmas wreaths out of paper. It looked rather simple and fun. Plus I liked how the end result looked (at least on the website I saw). Now actually doing the project took a little more time than I thought and well not so easy for the in-experienced girls. But all in all their wreaths turned out nice. Although there were burnt fingers from the hot glue gun. Oops!

So you cut these little circles out. Of course I wouldn't do it if I didn't have my handy dandy cricut.

Then you fold the circles like so.

Then you stack the folded pieces in fours one inside the other.

Then glue it on a large round circle. And well this is kind of what they are supposed to look like.

After the friends had to leave. Sora and I decided to work on another project, tissue paper trees. Saw this on my sister Dacia's blog. Olivia was too tired and went to sleep so Sora & I stayed up until wee hours in the morn making our trees. Really time consuming. But her tree turned out cute!

*Pictures taken Saturday, December 18, 2010*

Happy Birthday Daddy!

We love our daddy, grandpa, husband, our Rocky!

Happy 52nd Birthday my love!

*Picture taken Sunday, December 5, 2010*

Shopping, food, friends

Selena's last day before having to fly back to Washington. So I had to take her shopping and stop for a bite to eat at Old Chicago. Love us some calazones and chocolate chip cookie with ice cream. That's what put a this smile on my face.

Baby Olo and Selena

Then we headed over for a visit with Summer and the kids.

My beautiful ornaments she gave me.

Olo listening to the bear read with Auntie Summer. Looks so studious in them glasses.

I can't really tell how he felt about the moving, talking bear but he sure loves his auntie.

*Pictures taken Sunday, November 28, 2010*

Annual Pumpkin Carving

My baby's first Halloween. He's getting so big.

Auntie Summer bought him his little Halloween outfit.

Helping carve pumpkins.

Summer & I. Pumpkin killer.

The kids busy carving away.

Their final creations. I love our annual carving pumpkins with Summer, Hayden & Shasta.

It's the headless horsemen...Bahahaha!

*Pictures taken Saturday, October 9, 2010*

Halloween Fun 2010

Selena will make a good mother one day. She is such a huge help when it comes to the babies.

Selena can also bake. Here she is making cupcakes for the kids to decorate for Halloween.

The kids decorating. Olo's first Halloween. He's not having so much fun decorating.

Sora, Olivia, Tristan, Selena & Trina.

A premonition of what the haunted world will be like.

It was all good and fun until we went through the haunted house and corn maze. Um yes, I was stuck up in the front to take the lead. Why? Because nothing scares me. While I had Sora permanently attached to my arm. Summer had Olivia. And Scott had both Tristan & Trina. The other three (Selena, Hayden & Shasta) clung to each other.

Fun times!

So we took the kids through the haunted house first. Well, that was quite interesting. As soon as I can figure out how to download my video to this new computer I'll have to add the video. Hilarious to me but not so much fun for others. I'll just have to say that Summer used some colorful language and Olivia was screaming her head off and crying hysterically. We had to do some serious convincing to get her to go through the corn maze. Otherwise, I would have had to sit in the truck with her while everyone else went through. Didn't really want to waste $21.00 for each of us sitting outside. So she sucked it up and went through. At least it wasn't as bad as the haunted asylum. All I got to say is FUN TIMES!

*Pictures taken Friday, October 8, 2010*

Tap Out

This girl is always hurting herself. They were playing tap out in my living room. And well this is what happens when she refuses to tap out. Such a tuffy. Auntie Summer being her nurse.

Me feeding my grand-daughter, Brielle and my son, Oloiso.

Had to post this picture of his happy little face.

And this picture of her happy little face.

*Pictures taken Thursday, October 7, 2010*