Family Pictures 2009

In my last post I mentioned we got our family pictures taken. Jami Broadbent in Santaquin took them and I think she did an amazing job. There were so many good ones of Olivia it was hard to choose, but here are some of my favorites:

Olivia @ Nine Months

I took Olivia to her nine month well baby check up on Friday. She is getting to be such a big girl. I figured she would weigh in at around 20 pounds, but she is 21.5 pounds (89th percentile) and 28.25 inches long (72nd percentile). At nine months she is still not crawling, but can army crawl and roll any where she wants. She likes to stand, but is not able to do so on her own. She claps her hands and plays peek-a-boo. She refuses to hold her bottle, but likes to drink from a cup that she holds on her own. She continues to be a mama's girl and is very nervous of strangers right now. Her hair on the sides is finally growing in and I think she get more beautiful every day!

We got our family pictures taken on Thursday and the photographer took a bunch of Livy, which I can't wait to see. Until we get them... here are some random pics from the past week.

A Little Lady(bug)'s First Halloween

We had a great Halloween with my family in Brigham City. We went Trick or Treating with cousin Emma and Grandpa, had some yummy soup for dinner, and had a no hands donut eating contest for the adults. Here are some pics from Olivia's first Halloween...

Two Reasons I love my life

I had a bad day at work yesterday. I came home with a headache, was grouchy, and basically spent the night being negative. I fell asleep early, but was restless most of the night because I thought about work and what projects I had to complete, the laundry that needed to be folded, house to be cleaned and how there wasn't enough time in the day to do everything. Olivia woke up around 3:00 a.m. and didn't want to go back to sleep so I brought her in to bed with Scott and I. She snuggled right up and fell asleep. This morning after I got out of the shower I noticed that Scott and Olivia were cuddled up together on the bed and I couldn't help but thinking how blessed I am to have these two. I can deal with bad days at work as long as I can come home to these two every night...

Unfortunately the flash woke Miss Olivia up-what a bad mom I am.

Pre-Halloween Festivities

Halloween has never been my favorite holiday. I like the stuff associated with Halloween... pumpkins, witches, Fall, candy... but don't typically look forward to the day itself. I think this year will be different.

This week to prepare for the big day we picked out some pumpkins...

Had a party at Grandpa and Grandma Magleby's. We got to try out the costume, which Olivia looked adorable in.

and went to the BYU-TCU, which really sad because we lost so badly...we left at half time. I think Scott (and I) is looking forward to basketball starting in two weeks.

Silly Girl

Sometimes as I am getting ready in the morning I put Olivia on the bathroom counter in her booster chair so that she can keep me company. She has found that she has a "friend" in the mirror and very often strikes up a conversation with her. This morning she was laughing, pulling faces, screaming and then started licking the mirror. Oh I wish I could have caught that on camera-it was hilarious. Such a silly girl.

Hogle Zoo

One of my oldest and dearest friends Abbey (and her family) came to visit this weekend. Abbey and I met while working at McDonald's many moons ago. We used to open on Sunday mornings together and became quick friends. She moved to Boise several years ago and with life as crazy as it is, we don't get to see each other very often. She now has three beautiful little kids, two of which are my godchildren. They gave me a good excuse to visit Hogle Zoo. The zoo has a new baby elephant and giraffe and I really wanted to go see them so this gave me a reason to go.

The Miller Family

The Magleby's at the Zoo.

I have been to Hogle Zoo a number of times, but have never been in the giraffe house. It was fun to be able to see the giraffes eye to eye. I didn't get a good picture of baby giraffe, but he was stinkin' cute.

Isn't baby Zuri cute? It was worth the price of admission to just see her.