July craft

I hosted craft group this month and we painted President Hinckley's Six "Be"s on a piece of plywood. Such a great addition in our home!

We had a great time as usual! Thanks girls!

A tale of her first cookie...

A couple of days ago, we were visiting with Linda, Adam, Mark, and Rachel (aunt and cousins!) who were here visiting from Philly. Grandma Gay had baked some chocolate chip cookies which were sitting on the counter. Olive decided it was time for her first cookie and grabbed one! Just days before her first birthdayI figured....why not?

JUst grabbeD! Is mom going to let me have it?
Guess I'll take a bite and find out!

Delicious!

In between bites, Olive made lots of "mmmm" sounds!

And she even tried to share with everyone who was watching!

I love this little girl! She is such a joy and can always put a smile on my face! Its so fun to see her be so excited over something as simple as a cookie! P.S. This is also her first ponytail!

We have an announcement....

We would like all to know that we are now the proud owners of a One year old! We no longer have a baby....we have a one year old! I cannot believe it- this year has flown by. We attribute the survival of parents and baby to all the love and support we have received from friends and family, and the fact that Olive is an extremely affable baby! Happy Birthday our little love!
-Cute pics to come from her upcoming celebration on Sunday!

An Olive in the Onion patch!

Sunday, we went to Grandma Gay's and decided to help her in the garden. Olive was still in her sunday dress and we just couldnt keep her away from the dirt! So we stripped her down and let her explore.

" What is this?"

Lots of onions just pulled up!

"I'm helping too!"

Olive loved to dig her feet in the dirt and pick it up in her hands!

Not sure why we kept the white onesie on.... oh well!

Olive found a green bean, pulled it and tried to eat it!

Then she picked up a clump of dirt and seconds after this pic was taken, ate that too!

Ok, all done for now!

Post bath checking out the harvest!

We had a great time getting dirty! And we picked at least 200 beans, 40 onions, a bell pepper, jalapenos, and some chives! I love getting to do all these "firsts" with Olive. Every kid loves to play in the dirt, right? I love to see Olive being a kid!

Peanut butter fiasco!

Olive and I were waiting for Jason to get out of a meeting at church. She was super hungry and all I had was a peanut butter granola bar. At 11.5 months, I thought we were close enough to the one year mark to try some peanut butter so we did.... this is what Olive looked like about 5 mins later. Nothing anaphylactic but still...I think we'll wait a little longer! Poor baby!

First Independence Day!

Our friends Jordan and Hilary hosted the best backyard bash to celebrate the 4Th of July! It was amazing, they had everything you could possibly hope for such as this giraffe tent Olive loved playing in!

Olive's pal Dallin was also there. He is making her laugh with his crazy head banging!

Here is our beautiful party girl!

Jordan and Hilary have a tradition of doing a neighborhood parade with their friends and family. We put all the babies in strollers decorated with streamers and flags and with patriotic music playing, marched the streets of their neighborhood. We ended by saying the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag in their front yard. What an awesome display of pride for our Old Glory!

Olive discovered she actually does like watermelon...when she can dig into an entire slice herself! She was loving it!

What an adorable (and sticky) little face!

Olive had her first adventure in a blow-up jumping cage! She of course loved that too!

Playing in the giraffe tent again!What great fun we had!

Uncle James & Aunt Kyleigh!

We had some visitors last week! Uncle James and Aunt Kyleigh came to visit from Phx, Arizona. Olivie wasent sure she remembered them at first.

Hmmm.... You do look familiar...
We had a great time with them. Yummy food, a trip to Easton, and being together as a family!