Olivia's Cake Smash!

 Olivia is ONE!

 And a First Birthday simply has to be

celebrated with a Cake Smash!

 So she smashed a cake!

And... she looked adorable while doing it!



Olivia Joy

 Heather took Grace to the movies and Olivia stayed with me, so I decided to take a few pictures!

 She loved the little pony!

 She sat nicely for pictures, too! But - we didn't get any really big smiles!

I think she saves her BIG smiles for Momma!

Oh, well.... she'll be one soon and her Momma will be bringing her for pictures, so we'll get big smiles then!



Olivia's Christmas Pictures

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas around here and I have been staying busy with Christmas Pictures! Here is Olivia! Isn't she cute?

She was so good for pictures, too!

And I'm sure Christmas is going to be an exciting time for her! I wonder what Santa will bring?

Olivia at the Pumpkin Patch

I just love this picture of Olivia! I think maybe it's because that's an expression I see on her face quite often. Isn't she a pretty little thing?

And here is her big smile! This girl likes to smile! She's a very happy baby!

She makes this little face, too! And she's recently learned to blow kisses!

Such a sweet little girl! She's a Momma's girl most of the time, but she does let family members hold her and play with her. She just liked Momma best!

July Birthdays - Part 1

We celebrate birthday's with a monthy party. For July, we celebrated Heather & Deuce's birthdays. Heather's birthday is the 20th and Deuce's is the 26th and they are a year and six days apart.... which made life interesting when they were small.

Grace helped each of them open their presents!Here she is helping Heather, who got an old fashioned ice cream freezer. Only - this ice cream freezer can be modern, also. It has an electric motor AND a hand crank. You just attach whichever one you prefer to use. I liked that because you can mix the ice cream with the motor for the majority of the time - yet, let the kids have the experience of the hand crank, too!I think Olivia liked it! She didn't get any ice cream... but maybe next time?The ice cream freezer - which we were quick to try out!And while we were scooping the ice cream, Grace licked the paddle clean!We also got to swim!Grace is getting pretty good at swimming!