BIG ANNOUNCEMENT

I kind of jinxed myself with my last post, but once i posted life just caught up with us and i've been too busy (or should i say, too sick) to even think about my blog.  but there is a really good reason for not posting lately!

The reason why my blog has been on the back burner is because........

Olive is going to be a BIG SISTER!!!!

We are expecting BABY #2, February 19, 2015!! 

we are beyond excited to meet this little peanut!! as we all know, pregnancy isn't the easiest thing for me. once i start feeling better i'm sure i will be updating our little blog more often!

LIFE LATELY

i've been on a roll with this whole blogging thing! it's because it's S U M M E R and we actually do things with our lives. ha!

olive gets super restless if she's been inside for too long. we take lots of walks together. 

we love summer!! i'm telling you dave, we need to live some place where it's constantly warm. life would be that much more amazing! ;)

olive got her very first tooth brush this past week. she wasn't too sure about it.

we love the sun & swimming!! i took olive to the rec center this week and she loved it. so much so she didn't want to hold my hand while she walked through the water and took a little dive. luckily i caught her before she went completely under water.

guys i need this swimming suit ^^^^ if anyone knows where i can purchase it, P L E A S E  contact me!! (brickyardbuffalo doesn't sell it anymore)

VOTE FOR OLIVE

So i recently entered olive into a contest, because really she is the cutest child alive.  I found one called The Cute Kid. You have all month to vote, and you can vote once a day! And it's super SUPER simple. really though.  so we would love you FOREVER if you guys could vote for her as the "Cutest" as much as you possibly can! Click HERE to vote!! Thanks a million!!

SPLASH PAD

ever since getting married, i feel as if my social skills have gone out the window. add a baby and you really become awkward.  i love having a friend my same age, with a baby about the same age as olive! it makes life a lot more fun.  i love that we have a splash pad 7 minutes from our home! and when we move, it will literally be less than 2 minutes away! my friend ashlyn and i took our babies to the splash pad for the first time last week.  i was interested in how olive would react. she was a little hesitant the whole time and every once in a while would get brave and run through.  but other than that she would run up to them and stand right in front of the fountains.  beckham on the other hand, had no fear what so ever! he would crawl right into the fountains and sit there! so cute!!

OLIVE'S MICKEY MOUSE PARTY

i was such a procrastinator in high school, and obviously i still am to this day. i had all my ideas planned out for Olive's first Mickey Mouse birthday party, but didn't actually start getting ready until the day before & the day of! i was really bummed that i didn't get any pictures of the decorations or of her guests! i barely had everything set up before (most) people started showing up! :( here are a few of the ones that i did happen to get!

obviously it was a mickey mouse theme... there were mickey mouse ears at each table to make taking pictures fun!

i made a mickey mouse "smash cake" for olive & mickey mouse and strawberry shortcake cupcakes for the guests! we had HOT DOGS as our main meal (hot dog, hot dog, hot diggity dog). along with strawberry lemonade, chips and salads!

olive wasn't too into opening her gifts herself.  all she wanted to do was play with the toys once momma opened them for her!

little girl was so tired and exhausted by the end of the night! but we are SO happy with how the party turned out over all and can't thank everyone enough for showing up and for providing her with SO many new toys and clothes! we love you all!!

OLIVE'S FIRST BIRTHDAY

HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY to our little Olive bug!! Her actual birthday was on thursday, may 29th! it's been a year since she was born, really?! yesterday was a happy & emotional day for me! i was in denial the whole day, that my little baby was ONE YEARS OLD!! When i tucked her in bed at the end of the day i felt an emotion of sadness. if i could, i would freeze time forever! these little ones grow up so quickly. in a blink of an eye she'll be graduated and moving out. please stay little forever!!

when olive first woke up on 5-29-2014, dave went in and got her. singing "Happy Birthday" while doing it! we did our little morning routine and then went to open presents in the living room! when we went birthday shopping for Olive we let her pick out what she wanted (besides the big slide) and then we wrapped them up for her to open.

once we finished presents, i made french toast for breakfast and added some sprinkles for the birthday girl. daddy had to head off to work and grandma moultrie came to pick up olive to go birthday shopping and to lunch! a little bit later, olive and i picked up dave and we headed to The Hogle Zoo for the afternoon.  Olive was so funny. she loved pointing at all the animals and wanted nothing to do with the stroller. and mommy.  she either walked holding dave's hand or had to be held by dave!

it was so much fun to see all of the animals.  we went last summer, and felt like there wasn't much to see because of all the construction going on. a lot of the animals came right up to the glass, which was so cool!!

after the zoo we headed to have a celebratory dinner at 5:10pm (the time little miss olive was born) afterwards we headed home and started our bed time routine.

i still can't believe olive is one!!! we love this little munchkin more than life and are SO glad she chose us to be her parents! life would not be the same without her!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY OLIVE!!

Twelve Month Update:

olive weighs 18 pound 17 ounces, in the 30th percentile. 28.5 inches long, in the 80th percentile.  her head is 18.2 inches, in the 80th percentile.

olive has been walking for a little over a month now!! WAHOO! we love the walking stage SO much more!! it's the absolute best!

olive is still not a great sleeper, but by now we are just used to it.  it's whatevs!

she loves strawberry shortcake and anything to do with mickey mouse.  she loves playing her her soccer ball... just any ball really.  she loves to just wonder and check out new things.  olive loves dogs and other people, especially little kids! she is definitely not shy one bit!!! she loves being outside.  olive loves bath time and playing with her bath toys.

olive has 4 teeth and is currently cutting 4 more! :(

she loves italian food.... pizza, ravioli, spaghetti.  she loves the veggie straws from costco.  her favorite sippy cups are the ones with straws.  she wants nothing to do with baby food anymore, and we have switched to the whole milk (which is not her favorite, but she will drink it if she's hungry enough)

i love watching olive learn and grow every single day!! she is our little princess!

ONE YEAR PHOTOS

I found out about Fotofly through a friend just after Olive was born.  We have taken her there for ALL of her pictures and are always 100% satisfied.  They do a G R E A T job and every single photographer works so well with olive. I love Fotofly for many reasons...

they are reasonably priced

they are quick

and!

 you get your photos that SAME day!

so of course i took olive to Fotofly for her One Year/Cake Smash pictures.  I love Fotofly anyways, but this was by far the best session there! the photographers were SO amazingly good with olive, and she absolutely LOVED them!! We got so many pictures back and i'm in love with every single one! i wasn't disappointed with any of them! 

here's a few of my favorites, i don't know how i'm going to pick which ones i want to hang on our wall!