A Princess Birthday Party for our little Princess!

Olivia in her new Snow White dress that Mommy made her. It was quite the project, but she sure loved it! She also got all the accessories to go with it.

The famous Princess Castle Cake! Grandma and Mom worked hard on it. Mom did the main part and Grandma did the wonderful decorations. It was lot of work, but it was fun. I love making her cakes! Notice the picture of her on top of the cake, dressed as Cinderella!

Olivia, I mean Snow White waiting for her guests....

The birthday girl with her birthday decorations.

Playing the "Kiss the Frog Prince" Game. It was so cute! The kids were blindfolded and whoever "pinned" the lips closest to the frog's mouth won.

Making sugar cube castles

Opening a ton of presents! This princess got lots of fun stuff!!!!

Blowing out candles. Here comes the cake!

The whole Kingdom! All the princes and princesses who attended Princess Olivia's Birthday Party. Everyone had a lot of fun, especially the birthday girl!

Decorating their own crowns.

What's New?

Well, not a whole lot of news to report. The baby is growing as it should, I am feeling farther along than I should, and we should find out in the next couple of weeks if it's a boy or a girl! We are having a slow, but fun summer. We don't do much, but Olivia has been playing with friends a lot. Sometimes we go to the park or to a movie, but mainly we just stay home! BORING!!!! I'm looking forward to next week when we celebrate the 4th of July, Gary's birthday, and Olivia's birthday all within 3 days!!!! I'll have more news and pictures then...

BABY TIME!!!

That's right, it's official...WE'RE PREGNANT!!!! It's been a long wait, but not as long as some! We are so excited to be expecting our second little bundle of joy on December 19, 2009. Olivia was born two days after her dad's birthday, and this one will arrive just days after mine! So far everything looks great and the baby is growing as it should and has a strong heartbeat. Hopefully in a month or so we will know if Olivia is having a little brother or a little sister. I've heard that my doctor is good at determining the gender pretty early on. Olivia is so excited! She goes around telling anyone who will listen that, "My mommy has a baby in her tummy!" It's so cute. She is hoping for a girl, of course, but I think she will be happy with a baby brother, too! Sometimes at night when I'm laying by her she says to me, "Mom, I love our baby SO MUCH!" I love it. She will be the best big sister. We will keep you all updated!

Our Little Dancer!

After they got their dance pictures taken at the studio, we took the girls (Olivia and her friend who is in the same dance class) to the park and my friend took these pictures and edited them. They were too cute not to post! Our little girl is growing up! She is having so much fun in dance class. She dances all over the house, in public, wherever she can get an audience! I love it.

Happy Easter!

Finding her Easter Basket

Hunting for her colored eggs!

Here she is in her beautiful PINK (of course) Easter outfit. She was so excited because the skirt "spins" and the shoes are sparkly. She is so cute!!!

These are some of the pictures we took on Easter. She had so much fun this year coloring eggs, and hunting for them in the morning. Not to mention all the questions she had this year about the Easter Bunny. "Where does he live?" "What color is he?" "How does he get in our house?" "I want to see him!" etc.... I spent about 30 minutes the night before just talking about the Easter Bunny and answering all her questions. I'm glad she wasn't disappointed!

Olivia is a crack up. I don't know where she comes up with the things she does, but her imagination amazes me. Here are some examples:

She got a hold of the tape at Grandma and Grandpa's house. I don't know how this started, but she even had Grandma's mouth taped shut. It was so funny to watch her try to see through the tape to walk! She is such a goofball!!!

She found this dress in Grandma's closet and about had a heart attack to see something she could actually use as a wedding dress! She asked Grandma to make her a wedding dress out of it so she could "get married" to the prince. Of course Grandma did it for her, and then some, with the bouquet and everything! Unfortunately, the only prince Olivia could find was Grandma! She even lays on the couch and pretends to be "dead" and her prince has to kiss her so she can wake up. What a little actress!!!

Recovery...

Well, Olivia had her check up from her little surgery last week and the doctor said everything looks great! She doesn't sleep with oxygen at night anymore and he said her throat is healing just fine! He said to follow up with her regular doctor in a couple of months and to watch her at night to see if she still has some apnea. Based on what I've seen, I think she is completely free of sleep apnea and won't need a sleep study! It's so weird to lay by her at night and not know when she actually falls asleep because she is so quiet! Sometimes I whisper her name just to see if she is still awake! It's amazing. I sleep in my bed most nights (before I would end up in her room almost every night) and we both usually sleep all night long! It's amazing and I'm so glad we got those tonsils out when we did! She is back to her happy, energetic self. Most days, that is....