My Little Gymnast!

Have I mentioned that I ADORE summer time??!! We are just having so much fun!  Olivia started gymnastics this summer and absolutely LOVES it!! She is taking at Mercury and doing great.  We go once a week on Tuesday mornings.  Olivia adores her teacher Miss Christine.  She is great with the kiddos and Olivia loves that she gets a little homework and a popsicle at the end of each class.  She enjoys playing on the rings, balance beam and trampoline!  I love that she has to listen, follow directions, and wait her turn. Olivia has had a cheering crowd at several of the classes!!  Thank you Mema, Rylie, Emery, Grammie, Daddy and Johnny for coming to watch our little gymnast in action!!

Olivia Turns 3!!

Our sweet girl turned three (over a month ago)!  We had her birthday party at the park in our neighborhood on Memorial Day.  Friends and family joined us as we celebrated Miss O!  The weather was sunny and beautiful and the kiddos enjoyed playing on the swings, slides and monkey bars.  Olivia is really into Hello Kitty these days so this momma threw together a little themed party.  Olivia partied with her besties and had a blast!! Michael grilled hot dogs and hamburgers and we finished with cupcakes and ice cream.  It was definitely  a day filled with fun!!  Here are a few of my favorite pictures from the day.  Sorry dad and Rod...I didn't have a single picture of you two!

A Little Rewind

Summer is here and I am loving my time off!!  It has been so nice to sleep in a little, play at the park, go to the pool and just relax!!  I finally have some down time so I am going to focus on updating this blog!!

I was looking through photos on my computer and realized I never made a post back in the spring when Olivia gave up her binky!  This is a HUGE deal!! Michael and I had talked to Olivia several times about the binky fairy and decided to bite the bullet and help our sweetie give up her habit! We knew it might be a painful 24 hours so we wanted to make sure we were the ones to suffer and not Mema or Miss Robin!  While Olivia was napping on a Friday afternoon at the beginning of March the binky fairy stopped by to grab Olivia's binkies.  She woke up to find baby Alive!  She was immediately excited.  The binky fairy left her a note telling her she would be taking Olivia's binkies to the babies at the hospital.  Olivia was quickly into playing and feeding baby Alive.  

After an hour or two she started asking about her binky but Michael and I quickly changes the subject.  We ate pizza, read books and it was time for bed.  This was the time I was dreading! Olivia ALWAYS had her binky anytime she slept.  I went in to lay with her and after an entire hour of crying she fell asleep.  It was heart breaking, but Michael was there to encourage me not to give the binky back!

The next day Olivia woke up happy and wanted to play with her new baby that she decided to name Katie!  She played with her all day and only asked a few times for her binky.  Honestly, each day got a little easier and we are so proud of our little girl!! She sees binkies of Johnny's ever single day and never sticks them in her mouth!!

Family Photo Fun!

I am so excited to be posting these photos! We had family pictures taken a month ago and I have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of this CD of pictures!  It was the perfect spring day! Johnny was all smiles and Olivia did great too!  Michael was a great sport, chasing kids and smiling on command! We had a ton of fun getting our pictures taken!