dear olive,

you are the sweetest thing

so adorable

so calm

and you bring our family together

we love you

tonight at dinner

while eating olives from her pasta

hazel said

"baby......olives"

"mmm i eat baby...olive"
i guess she's realizing a connection between her sister and one of her favorite foods

while eating ice cream cake for dessert

hazel sang

"happy birthday to you mommy"

such a sweet girl

then after dinner

hazel got stuck and yelled

"stuck"

i said, "oh, you're stuck"

and she said

"super stuck"

she said it exactly like noah does

hazel is the funniest

my golden birthday

it's my birthday

i'm 25

on the 25th

that's why it's golden

i've had a super fun (low key) day

but now i'm super tired

so i'll leave you with some photos of my family

taken today

with my birthday present

a canon dslr

i love it!

thanks, michael!

don't the pictures look awesome!?

ps.

thank you heather and brooks for having fun with us today!

so cute

happy first day of school, michael!

the lentil festival

free lentil chili

my happy boy

free bouncy house

one sleepy baby

free cotton candy

one sticky little girl

the lentil festival is super fun

and literally 

about as exciting as pullman gets

there is even a parade the next day

6 weeks

olive is six (and a half) weeks old

here's an update

i've started walking my 3 miles a day again

turns out pushing 2 and carrying 1 is hard

but a good work out, right?

olive sleeps 7 hours straight at night

she was doing 6 since about 2 weeks

but 7, i just love her for it

my incision doesn't hurt

yay!

hazel isn't very jealous anymore

thank goodness it didn't take her

as long as it did noah to adjust
when he was replaced as baby

michael starts school on monday

i'm a little scared to have him gone so much

but i'm sure we'll adjust quickly

and noah...well he still loves thomas

and we like it when he says things like

"my mom will be cross if i do that"

or 

"what nonsense"

which are of course lines from thomas

just us girls

boating

saturday we spent the day at gene coulon beach

taking turns boating

it was such a nice day with michael's family

noah and hazel playing in the water

hazel and her cousin katie who is exactly a year older

i think they look a lot alike

they were so cute together

michael and hazel on the boat

she LOVED it

me and olive (in the ergo..under the lifevest)

noah and his cousin david

michael and frightened noah

michael took each of the kids in the water to swim with him

one at a time

hazel loved it

noah got scared

that's usually how it goes with noah and hazel

what do you do?

we're back home now

getting michael ready to go back to school

enjoying one last week of summer

grandmas are great and great grandmas are even greater

olive and great grandma shirley

olive and great grandma jordan

thanks to this trip

olive has now met two of her 

great grandmas

next stop we're headed to a wedding

then home

woo hoo

i'm in heaven

we're having lots of fun in seattle

shopping, eating, visiting family,

playing on the beach, drinking slurpees

you know, the usual.

this week....

i sewed myself a couple of skirts

using this tutorial 

we took some naps

noah watched way more thomas than one should

hazel insisted on having a bow in her hair at all times

i made kissy faces at michael

we switched olive to cloth diapers

hoping she won't rash like hazel does since living in pullman

it's been a few days

so far so good

and we went to see dispicable me , 

thrifting, garage saling,

out to teriyaki, and worked on some projects

it was a pretty good week

concert in the park

my two favorite boys

me

our little one month old

hazie girl

blessed olive beatrice

olive in her pretty blessing dress

me and olive

not a great family picture..

olive with grandma and grandpa olson

bryce holding olive

he and holden just loved her

me, grandma kelly and olive

grandpa kelly and olive

justin, miriam, alicia, ryan, holden, and seth

ryan and olive

Yesterday Olive was blessed. It was so nice to have family here. Michael's parents spent the whole weekend with us. Then my parents, Bryce, and Ryan and his family were here for Sunday. Michael gave Olive a beautiful blessing and then we all enjoyed a nice lunch at our house afterward. The grandkids all had a blast together. Noah and Justin used to fight every time they were together but this time they were best friends...even a little mischievous together. They decided to throw pop cans on the rocks to watch them explode. Silly boys. Luckily it wasn't too hot so we could be inside or outside. The whole weekend was really nice. Saturday we went swimming at the hotel Michael's parents were staying at, had a fun trip to Costco, and then they watched Noah and Hazel while we went to see Inception and out to dinner at Sangria. It was really fun. We love our family.