Eleanor's room

aka the master bedroom walk-in closet

our new home only has 3 bedrooms

so noah has his own room, hazel and olive share

and eleanor lives in our walk-in closet! 

she isn't our first baby to do so, either

she doesn't seem to mind and i love having her close by

recently

i know what you're thinking,

now that i'm 27 i think i'm way too cool to blog

but you're wrong

the reason i haven't been blogging is because

we got smart phones so i've been

using instagram (myolsonfamily) instead 

but i am not too cool to blog

so i will still be here 

 cousins

 waiting for noah's bus

at the park

ready for church

olive's prettiest mess

darling feet

driving home from ikea

waiting in the car for michael to get us ice cream

noah put michael's gloves on his feet to be a chicken

we all love trips to ikea on tuesdays

free kids meals

1.5 hours of smaland time for noah and hazel

i'm 27!

 i had a super fun birthday

we went out to breakfast, i got a massage,

we went shopping in salt lake

 and my sister (and clark) came!!!!

 it has been so much fun!

here's to another great year!!!

potty training olive

i decided on a whim to potty train olive this week

she is 25 months old which is a lot younger than her siblings when they potty trained

 but she has shown signs of readiness for a couple months

and now we've moved and school started, it seems to be the right time

plus she has two really good examples of what to do

i read this how-to and it gave me confidence to try

she is amazing us!

we are on day four

and it seems to have clicked day two

she is mad that we make her sleep at night in a diaper

and she's been dry the last two mornings!

she has had minimal accidents

she is loving the optional clothing

and we are so excited for how well she's doing

she also really enjoys this book

just like hazel did while potty training

it's fun having a lot of kids because they really support each other

noah and hazel have given olive lots of praise 

and are so excited for her potty training

laundry room

 a laundry room may seem insignificant but when you haven't had one

it can be maybe-sort of-semi-life changing

i love having a room to hold my fabric, hair supplies,

sewing supplies and clean laundry i don't want to fold

it's amazing

last day of summer

monday was the last day of summer for noah

so we figured we should do something fun

we found a splash pad and let the kids get soaked

 noah and olive could not get enough

but hazel didn't last as long

 she was happier once she got dry clothes on

 super wet

 next we got ice cream and rode a carousel

 it was a fun outing to commemorate the last day of summer

we also went to the open house at noah's school

and met his teacher

who is super nice

so we're excited for the school year

first grade

i can't believe noah is a first grader

he is so big!

he prays that he will know what his teacher wants him to do

and he is so sweet

i am so proud of the boy he is becoming

will drive for chipotle

today we had two goals

to find noah some new tennis shoes for school

and to get chipotle 

 first stop---chipotle

because it's delicious

 such a content baby, we love her!

 michael and i were each showing olive the best way to drink out of a straw

my way is normal

michael's is using the side of his mouth

olive would copy each of us, it was funny

 we all love chipotle, and we can't say that about many places

because hazel is picky 

but she loves black beans

so she eats those and chips and she's happy

 when we were deciding if it was worth us driving the 30ish miles to chipotle

we decided in pullman we'd drive more than that to lewiston

on any given weekend so we figured, why not?

here are our little matching mannequins 

we went shopping after lunch

and found noah some good tennies 

so all in all a success!

utah county fair

 we went to the fair yesterday

and enjoyed things like painting, crafts for kids,

the small animals (our kids are afraid of big ones),

rides and a little fair food

 i am disappointed to realize that the older i get, 

the less i like heights

i used to love to be up high when i was little, like hazel

we were on the fastest ferris wheel and she loved it

i was a little freaked out, myself

olive handled the one ride she went on

better than her siblings at her same age

but she doesn't love rides yet

eleanor tolerated the heat of the day

it was fun to go

noah starts school in a few days

crazy!

campaign chest makeover

a few months ago i saw this cute little campaign chest 

on craigslist for $15 so we got it and i used it 

in my craft closet to hold all my craft supplies

but i knew it had so much potential 

so i decided to give it a little face lift and put it somewhere more prominent 

so after a little spray paint

we put it in our new living room

and it holds....diapers! yay!!

so much better, right?

i am hoping to soon add some curtains behind 

and show you the rest of the room

one step at a time, i suppose