We hope everyone had a great Memorial Day. Our thoughts were definitely turned to our loved ones and everyone who we have temporarily lost and for the beauty of the hope and oppurtunities we were given! We had a wonderful outdoor bbq in the few hours of sunshine mother nature gave us yesterday! Papa's girl!

Meryn made these delicious and adorable "Pie cakes", cupcakes decorated to look like pie!

Olive and the bumble bee @ grandma and grandpa R's!

Gettin Papa pushes!

Olive wants to walk! She's trying out a new walking toy and doing pretty well...I just didnt manage to get any pics of her standing up!

She walked pretty far with this little contraption. I have a cute video but blogger wont let me post it... ( I have to figure out why!)

Memorial Day also brought with it.....

A new tooth and another on its way!

A stair climbing adventure!

Good food, friends, and family!

AND THIS...
Olive's first painted toes...........LIFE IS SWEET!

Memorial Day Weekend!

You might want to grab a snack...this will be a long multiple-post post! So many exciting things happened on our long Memorial Day weekend! I'll start with my weekend project. Meryn had the awesome idea to attempt to make a bookshelf out of a wood pallet. Her sweet husband Danny took a mallett to a few and brought us home some wood. The pictures tell everything else....

Pretty cool. huh? Great Idea Meryn! Thanks for the wood and tools Danny!

Ba-ba-ba-bubbles!

Jason took Olive out today to blow bubbles! She was fascinated!

This is great Papa but when can I do it?

(somebody sure loves their Olive!)

Olive's bestest friend Dylann turned 3 last week and we were invited to her Princess Party!

The Princess and the King :)

All the beautiful girls!

Olive and the Queen!

Rainy day and fever play

Olive awoke on this rainy morning with a fever :( It was a bit of a rough morning...no successful nap until 1:30pm! Yikes! But...after a good long nap....well, you'll see. Our day went nap, play, bath....enjoy the fun pics! I love this baby! Even with a fever, she's the life of the party!

P.S. I love being Olive's mommy!

ZOO TWO

ZOO TWO

Since we have a season pass, we'll be spending lots of time at the Zoo! I'll try not to bore you with too many Zoo blogs but we had lots of fun and excitement this time!

Dylann and Olive meet Polar Pete and Polar Polly!

Chokehold of Love on the Zoo train!

Mommy and Olive

Our Favorite part of the Zoo this time was the Polar frontier. The Polar bears were swimming in the water and very active. We even got to see the Brown bears up close.....up VERY close!

This bear kept walking by and pausing at Olive. She loved it, and screamed with joy!

A visit from friends!

William and Nerissa paid us a visit about two weeks ago...sorry about the late blog! We decided to make our homemade Pecan Rolls to celebrate the occasion. We hadnt seen them since Little Owen was still in his momma's tummy so this was the first time we were going to meet little Owen and for Olive and Owen to get to hang out!

Jason did a great job rolling and cutting the rolls! We dont own a mixer or rolling pin so he did it all by hand! Very impressive!
The ladies and the babies! Owen opening their Buckeye Crunch without permission....
Sorry Owen, after lunch!
Good times and we miss them very much!