We're Having Another Baby

Yep, it's true! Number 2 is on the way. I am due November 13 and we are excited, excited, excited! No pictures this time, I'm just too tired. One of these days I'll get around to posting some of our recent adventures. Until then, that's our news!!!

Our little girl

Our little girl is not a baby anymore! She talks nonstop and will repeat everything you say. Most of the time we can understand her but sometimes not.

She loves being outside,

loves feeding the ducks but is afraid of the geese (understandably),

likes to play "mommy",

dress-ups,

loves her cousins,

HATS!!! (can't emphasize this one enough) This one is actually a little doggy bed, but to her anything could be a hat.

Organizing and putting things in order (notice that Olivia and all of the stuffed animals are in a line looking at some kind of food item)- this is in Aunt Lizzie's pantry,

purses and bags- she has 3 purses here that her Aunt Annie made-PURE GIRL!

Tea parties (notice the fairy wings and Mom's high heels on the table)- again, PURE GIRL!

Olivia is the prayer police. If someone is not folding their arms during the prayer she will point and loudly say "fold arms!" Her nursery teacher said that during the prayer Olivia said to her little friend, "Ally fold arms!"

She also likes to "tean woom" (clean room). She likes to pick up her toys and put them away. She also likes to put things in order. She will line up her books on the floor and sit and read them out loud. The words are totally made up and it's hilarious and so cute.

Sometimes I am amazed at her memory. I will ask her to remember what we did today or even the day before and I am surprised at the details she recalls.

We love our little girl so much!!!

Happy New Year!

We're already in the middle of January but Happy New Year! And Merry Christmas, Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Halloween.

We can't find our camera. We think it might be in a hotel in Cedar City or something. Or under a bed, or in a backpack. The point is we can't find it. So I am going to try to upload some pictures from my phone.

Thanksgiving and Christmas were wonderful. Olivia got a wiggle car for Christmas and LOVES it. We did the sand dunes and went to St. George for the Stevenson family reunion. All fun, of course.

We finally took down all the wallpaper in our house and painted our kitchen and 2 bedrooms. We lost a big beautiful walnut tree in our backyard during the "wind-pocalypse" we had here in Ogden. We are so sad it's gone. We also lost many shingles off our roof and were out of power for 4 days. We stayed at our parents' houses and when we came home it was 40 degrees inside!!! It made us realize how much we depend on electricity and remember how grateful we are for family.

Olivia had her 2nd birthday! She is getting so big and talking up a storm. She can sing her ABC's, count to 10, jump, run, climb, recognizes letters A-K, loves her stuffed dog and wearing shoes and hats, knows Jesus and President Monson when shown a picture, loves books and the movie Up, can pray by herself and loves to be thrown into the love-sac. She is so cute and we love her so much.




This was a hike in St. George called The Crack. Olivia and David started going through and it was so narrow that David got stuck. Olivia was quite a ways ahead and was crying because she couldn't get up the next set of rocks and she was scared. David had to inch his way up so that I could go under him and help Olivia. This is after I caught up with her.

Latest Happenings

We have been soooo busy lately harvesting and canning, etc. but we have had time to do some fun things too. These pictures are not in order!

While canning tomatoes at my mom's house, we got a visit from my grandma Workman!
A few weeks ago we watched David's sister Liz's kids while they were at Lake Powell for a week. The Roberts are good kids and we had a great time. Sidney stayed home from school one day due to a soccer injury and that day was the Walk-a-thon so the 3 of us hung out, went to Pineview and threw rocks, etc.
One of the days we watched the Roberts David had the morning free so we hooked up our new/used bike trailer and took it for a spin. We ended up at the beach and we stripped Olivia down to a diaper and then she took that off and ended up naked. Then to our dismay, she went #2 on the beach. David, thinking she was done and not wanting her to step in it, moved her and she went again right on his foot! He was pretty grossed out.

At the playground


Grandma came over the day of her anniversary so we made her this sign.


Canning peaches with Grandma. Olivia was a big helper

Olivia went bowling for the first time at her cousin Barrett's birthday party.

Tonight we had a "girl's night" at the Junction while the boys were at the Priesthood session of conference. We had pizza, watched the Flowrider and I-fly. She was fascinated and loved it.

Helping dad stretch


Olivia and her friend McKenzie

Loving the cardboard castle her Aunt Annie made for her. This thing was awesome, it was totally decked out with all the accessories.

Licking the rope... weird

We've had a few trips to the cabin. This is at Stewart's falls.

Olivia wanted to walk down the trail so we let her. She was having so much fun that she started running and screaming with delight and then...

But she got right back up!


Enjoying a bath at the Roberts.

Pineview

One Crazy Week

So I'll get to the crazy week we had but first we'll start with the activities leading up to that week.

Olivia has totally been into kissing. She'll kiss anyone we ask her to on the lips (her parents' fault of course), she'll blow kisses to complete strangers in the grocery store, in their cars, anywhere. It's so cute and I love that she's so friendly but it could get her in trouble someday. In this picture, ironically, she is avoiding a kiss from her cousin Sadie.
The rodeo, of course, was wonderful. We were lucky to have Michelle and Uncle Marl join us, the regulars (us and my family).
The Pioneer Day parade was awesome also. We walked along the river for a minute. I love Ogden!


This is a rare photo. Olivia and Uncle Chad. She loves Uncle Chad because he gives her candy...or whatever she wants for that matter. But that's what uncles are for, right?

Kissing cousins! Gross! This is cute little Burke Chandler and they are only a month apart.

The Chandlers and Michelle came over for a BBQ

Also, Olivia has been into dressing up lately... and posing! Look at that face!

A nakey princess! What is this?!

Now here's the story of our crazy week. It started with us arriving at Bear Lake in the evening. The water was too cold to jump in so here's Elle, Annie and Olivia cooling off their feet.
The next day... still too cold!

Is there no limit to who she'll kiss?


Olivia's first boat ride. Needless to say she loved it.

Bear Lake pizza. Eric, David, Me, Olivia, Nakita (my cousin) and Ivan.


I love this picture!

Unhappy about something...

Canoeing with Katie...

Totally pooped! Three days at Bear Lake is tiring for a little kid... and her parents. But wait, the fun wasn't over yet!

So we got home from Bear Lake on Wednesday then woke up Thursday, picked up a trailer and a vehicle to pull it, and headed to Michael and Annie's house to load all their belongings and move them to Arizona. We left Thursday evening around 5, drove through the night, and arrived in Tempe at around 8 in the morning. We had a scary experience. I, being the expert trailer driver that I am (NOT!), offered to drive at about 3:30 in the morning to give David and his dad a break. That was my first time experiencing what they call "speed wobble", I overcorrected and the result was me swerving around on a 2-lane highway going 60 mph. Scary! Thanks to my husband's quick action and advice and definitely some divine protection, we avoided an accident. And if there was any question, I was not allowed to drive the trailer anymore.

So we got to AZ safely, ate breakfast, unloaded the trailer at Michael and Annie's new apartment, took short naps, picked up more stuff to haul home from a storage unit, and began our journey back. By that time it was Friday evening. So we drove through the night again and arrived home Saturday morning. We unloaded the trailer, put it away, and drove 3 hours to a McKay reunion in Idaho, arriving just in time to have the dinner leftovers.

The reunion was near Swan Valley, Idaho. I can't describe how badly David and I want to live in that beautiful place. We had never been there before but we are convinced we are going to have at least a summer home or something there. It is so pretty! Right along the Snake River, and just the right amount of people for our liking.

The reunion of course was a lot of fun. Then on Monday, we finally headed home but on our way we stopped at Rigby Lake (awesome place)!

Who wouldn't want a kiss from this cute guy?

David's cousins showing off their stuff. Who's the best looking? My vote is Burke by far. He's working that ice-cream cone.

This picture is worth a thousand words. I'll just leave it at that.

So... after one crazy week we finally came home and things settled down. Now we're just enjoying what summer we have left.

Happy summer!