Halloween 2011

Halloween was SO much fun this year! Savannah was a butterfly and Miss Olivia was a ladybug. Since we don't live in a neighborhood anymore we headed to Jacob's sisters and went trick or treating with all the girls cousins. Savannah was so funny, every time she'd go to a door she'd yell trick or treat in her slurred way and then yell thank you as she's running from the door. Then she would proceed to give me the cutest face while gasping and saying, "Look it! Look what I got!" Olivia also got in the Halloween fun and would take her candy from the bowl and put it into her basket. They were both so good and Savannah was so excited to run to all the houses. When we decided we were done Savannah followed right behind us and didn't even complain that we were done. I was so proud of her, now we'll have to see how the coming days go with not eating too much of her candy.

Fall Fun Part 2

Savannah couldn't wait to play in the leaves again so out she and Jacob went. He buried her in the leaves and she had fun getting herself out. She also sported her new Boise State shirt thanks to Old Navy and there buy one get on free deal. She and Olivia will now match when we cheer on our beloved Bronco's.

Fall Fun

Yesterday was a super fun day because we got to hang out with two of our favorite people Lynsie and Avery. The kids had a blast playing in the leaves and running around. I do love fall but not having to rake up all the leaves that are in our yard.

Family Pictures

So last night my sister in law Sarah took some fantastic pictures of our little family and I love what I've seen so far. She was so patient with the girls and kept trying to get some good pictures, it was inevitable that one of the girls would cooperate while the other would not. Here are the ones Sarah  finished working on so far and I hope you like them as much as we do. If you live in the Boise area and need pictures taken and someone to take them for you here's a link to her site, I know she'll do a great job for you because everything I've seen of hers is always fantastic.

 

Good Deal of the Day

Ok so I get daily emails from this site called Freebies to Deals. One of their deals today is for a Belle Disney Princess Doll for $5.99 with free shipping. Savannah won't be getting hers till Christmas but its never a bad idea to start your shopping early. Here is the link and when you go to the Mattel page I had to search for Disney Princess Dolls and the Belle you want is on the very last page and is the very last one pictured. Happy shopping to you all, it really is a great present if you have little girls or know of someone who does. Savannah already has a Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty that she got as gifts from Birthday parties and she loves them.

Olivia Favorites

These are pictures my mom took during her visit back in July for Olivia's birthday. I already posted my favorite pictures of Savannah here and now its Olivia's turn. Oh how I do adore this little girl, she is so curious and she loves to play. She is almost always smiling and she loves to dance and sing, you can usually catch her multiple times during the day swaying back and forth singing to herself.

Here I caught her while playing in the family room.

She was quite curious about the camera and wanted a closer inspection.

Here is our happy girl talking to her sister.

Something Olivia and Savannah have in common is screaming. Savannah is now over that stage but this was a favorite activity when she was this age as well.

My beautiful blue eyed girl loves sitting in this pink rocking chair and its just right for her.

Olivia continues to amaze me with everything she's picking up and learning. She's trying to talk more and has mastered "no", "uh-oh", "nana" for Savannah, "mommy", "dadde", and "g it" for get it. She is a fantastic eater and an amazing napper she still takes two and they average 2 hours each. Plus she sleeps threw the night 7:30pm-7:30am or later its fantastic the only draw back is she only likes to sleep in her bed so it can be a problem if we're somewhere else during nap or bedtime. She's almost walking which is so exciting, she has 7 teeth and is working on 3 more molars that are almost in (they're taking forever!) Olivia is skinny and tall she only weighs 20 lbs and she's 29 in. Olivia is so laid back and just an easy going girl, she also adores her big sister and wants to do whatever she is doing and be wherever she is. I don't know what I did to deserve such a fantastic kid but I'm glad she's mine.

Waste Not Want Not

So do your kids go through phases when they really love a certain food and then that love seems to fade? Both my girls do this hence I had to get the creative juices flowing so I wouldn't waste a bunch of yogurt.  I typically have a smoothie for one of my meals during the day or as an evening snack and I use yogurt in them. Both the girls would beg for one of my yogurts when I'd pull it out of the fridge so finally I bought them some of their own because I was tired of sharing. Once I finally got them their own they then decided that yogurt wasn't so great after all and suddenly I had an expiration date looming ahead and a desire to not waste what we had. Enter my brilliant to me idea to turn our yogurt into popsicles. I won't lie they are a pain to get out of the container, I wish I had a popsicle mold and then I would have used that with  hopefully a better outcome. Anyway they're a hit and I was proud of my little accomplishment to not waste what we had.

True to its Name

So I normally wouldn't post about this but I'm so impressed that I just had to. I got a bountiful basket today, I've always been satisfied with my baskets but today I was totally impressed with how much was in it. In our basket we got the following:  8 lemons, 8 apples, 2 apple pears, 3 plums, 1 pomegranate, 2 peppers, 36 small potatoes, 2 bags of carrots, 4 heads of broccoli, 9 bananas, 1 bag of grapes, 7 ears of corn, and 1 head of lettuce and all I paid was $16. It was a perfect start to what has been a perfect day. If you haven't heard of bountiful baskets or want to know if they have any where you live click on the link above. We usually only get 1 basket a month or every month and a half but every time we do get one I'm not disappointed and we can get new to us food so it makes us broaden our taste buds which is always nice.