Happy New Year!

Sleeping Livie and Grandpa

Roar!

the new years eve girls!

Well, it's almost a new year, and we are excited! We've had such a good year. We have much to be thankful for. Things we're especially thankful for in the past year:
1. Our little Olivia joining our family
2. Getting to visit and see most of our family
3. Having the worlds greatest neighbors (they've been MUCH help this past year)
4.Getting to read and see pictures on everyones blogs- we LOVE it!
5.Getting a new car and computer
6.Brett getting a promotion and raise at work
7.Having great health
And theres MANY more blessings we've recieved this past year- but I can't list them all!
We love you all and hope you all have a very happy and healthy new year!

Happy Girl

Mommy and Daddy Kisses on Vimeo

As I said before... we love to kiss Olivia and make her smile. It comsumes our lives! Waiting for that smile is all we do!

Merry Christmas Baby!

Livie in her Christmas outfit Grammy bought. Isn't so adorable!?

(the antlers were extra- not a part of the outfit!)

Grams had a high chair ready for Livie so she could watch us eat at dinner ;)

Our matching pants on Christmas morning

Well, we've had a great Christmas vacation so far. Our family opens most gifts Christmas Eve night.. which I personally love. Then Santa comes in the morning. So, last night we sang Christmas songs and opened gifts and ate a nice dinner. Then this morning we wore matching PJ bottoms that I made and had fun playing PIT and opeing some more little Santa gifts while we enjoyed a nice Christmas breakfast. That was one long sentence!

New Hat

I made Olivia a hat. I don't know how to crochet hats.. but I wanted to so this is what I came up with.. It's only my 2nd thing I've ever crocheted. I love doing it, I just need to learn the proper way to do it, so that my projects are better looking!

Busy Busy!

Olivia and I have been very busy! We've finished wrapping and shopping and shipping gifts and cards. Then we've been doing lots of hair- everyone wants to look nice for Christmas! The past couple days I've been trying to clean and organize the house and get all the laundry done for our trip to Oregon. I don't know why the house has to be all perfect before we leave- I think my mom always did that so now I have to! It's a lot of work! Anywho... Merry Christmas to all!
We love you!

Stats

So, Lives got her 4 month shots today. Poor poor girl. I just hate it. Anyway she is...
Height: 25" tall (75th percentile)
Weight: 13 lbs 9 oz. (5oth percentile)
Head: she never does say, but it's the 40th percentile (interesting fact- she was like the 10th percentile in head circumfrance when she was born. Little head!)

Well, Olivia has been such a PILL lately! She won't sleep! No naps, and shes waking up very 2 to three hours in the night again. I HATE it! Plus, the other day I was playing with her I put her over my head and ofcouse she spit-up all over me! My hair and face was drenched in puke smelling white sticky stuff. It was SICK! Brett thought it was pretty funny though. So, I've been pooped on, peed on, and now spit up on. So fun...

Photo Shoot

Olivia had a "photo shoot" with Momma last night. It was fun. We got out the lamp and camera and took like 50 pictures, or more! We got some pretty good pictures. I thought they were better then the Kiddie Kandids place (probably because I took TONS more) Plus she's older and more photogenic then she was back then. Anyways, I kinda liked doing it. Who needs professionals!?

Olivia's best friend

Come play with me Olivia!
(Hannah- the cute neighbor baby and Livie)

Today we went to my neighbors house for a lunch party of new moms. There was Olivia and two other babies Hannah and Carson. They got to hang out while the moms ate lunch. It was lots of fun. Hannah is a month and a half older then Olivia and loves to reach and grab things now. It was sooo cute how she was reaching for Olivia. She is a cutie! Carson was busy sleeping most of the time, so there are no pics of him.

Livie loves to kick

Early Christmas Gift on Vimeo


Olivia got the same toy Jillian had... She loved it so much we had to get it for her. I can't wat to have other people open gifts from me, so Livie's been playing with it early... Brett is mad that I didn't wait, but I'll wrap it up again for Christmas! (She'll never know!) It was so funny- when I was watching the video on the computer Olivia could hear her squeels and she would open her eyes all wide and smile. Does she know it was her own voice!? I don't know...
By the way- I put the age tracker on the bottom of the blog- so if you ever want to know how old Olivia is- check the very bottom of the blog and it will tell you!

Waiting for Christmas

Olivia is learning how to hold her own bottle. She's been doing much more bottle feeding then breast feeding. She just hates breast feeding... So, I'm kinda giving into the bottle- 4 months is a good amount of time, right!?

Olivia praying that she gets some good toys for Christmas this year ;)

Party in SLC

Brett had his Work Christmas party in the Joseph Smith Memorial building last night. It was very nice. We had a dinner and white elephant gift exchange. Then we went and looked at a few lights around the temple. It's so beautiful in Salt Lake at Christmas time!The party room

The big tree in the Josph Smith building- it's SO georgeous!

Brett and Olivia looking at the temple

family picture!

It's Olivia sitting next to her favorite angel (Angel Moroni that is)

We got carmel apples as treats from the party and they were AMAZING! Oh my goodness, it was the best tasting carmel apple I've ever tasted! And the prettiest too!

Oh Christmas Tree

Cutie watching us decorate

My perfect Christmas gift. ;)

Putting the star on the tree

TaDa! Look at how pretty it is!

We finally got a tree last Friday... It's a baby tree. It was SPENDY!!! $25 for our little 5 foot tree. I think that's crazy, but maybe it's just me! Any how, we had fun decorating it and it looks much more festive in our house.

Cough Cough

I'm sick Mommy! on Vimeo

Sometimes Olivia does the fake cough.. it's kinda funny. She's saying "Mommy, I'm sick...can I stay home today?" Listen for the little cat meow in the beginning... that's Livie!

Work-Out Fun!

McKenna and Olivia- Kenna and Livie are such cuties!

Eva playing the piano- she LOVES that piano!

Well, for the past month or so my neighbor and I have worked out a cool work-out schedule. She has a treadmill in her basement, so I go over every Mon, Wed, and Fri to work out! I watch her two little girls McKenna and Eva while she treadmills and she watches Olivia while I work out! It's so nice to be able to work out!! We love it! Although Eva is having some seperation anxiety and doesn't usually want to stay upstairs with me... I feel bad. Today she did great though! Hopefully she will get used to me and will not make a fuss every time! Soon, I'm sure she'll come around!

100th Post!

Olivia doesn't mind tummy time on the boppy anymore, but she still hates it just laying on her tummy with nothing to hold her up. I tried making her crawl, and she just laughed. She's such a cutie! This is the 100th post I've put on my blog since I've started! LOTS of blogs!

Quilting

some of the quilt.. so far

So, somehow I have been put in charge of making a Christmas quilt for the bishop. Have I ever made a quilt!? NO! Well, I did make a rag quilt once... but that is not the same. Anyways.. I am supposed to call the people on a list that signed up to help and give them sections to sew. So, I have called but OFCOURSE no one has answered and the one person I did get a hold of can't help. My oh my... how am I supposed to sew a whole king size quilt by myself in one week!? These people better call me back!! I just won't do it myself, unless I get full credit that I did it myself! I will presonally wrap it and give it to Bishop saying "To:Bishop Love: Sarah, quilt signed by ward members that didn't help sew" Just Kidding... It is kinda frustrating though. Luckily we are meeting together to tie the quilt, and I will make sure I am not the one finishing it. So far, I've sewn about a quarter of it...

Olivia with hair

Ever wonder what Olivia would look like with hair?
I was just play'n' around... I don't know how to get blonde hair- it just looks yellow!

fun times

Olivia always tries to push off my lap so she can watch T.V.

Relief!

Olivia is just fine. Her rash is just viral, and will just have to pass. She needs hdracortozone cream on her rash and benadryl 2x a day-Sleeping Olivia will be nice ;) She seems to be getting better, she's not as congested so hopefully it keeps improving!

Oprah Show

So, I never did get to watch the Oprah show talking about "baby language" which I was kinda upset about... but I realized online they had a clip of the video! It's very cool. They show what babies cries mean and so far Olivia makes the cries and they are exactly right! It's a little hard to distinguish cries, but it's better than not knowing at all, right!? Here's a link... Oprah Video

Update on Olivia... we are going to the Doctors tonight, she should be fine!

Little Sickling

Livie showing off her rash (it's not too obvious in the picture, it's worse then it looks!)

Olivia has been sick for a week and 3 days now... Today it seems a little better, but she has a new symptom! She has a rash all over her neck, chest, and tummy. Last night she was VERY cranky and wouldn't eat or sleep. I'm not sure what's up with her. I thought maybe she was teething early because shes eating her hands and drooling like crazy... but I don't know. She's congested, has a rash, and is irritable. So... I'm not sure what to do. Should I call the doctor, or just wait for it to pass? I put lotion on her rash last night but I think it made it worse! I have given her tylenol for babies and a side effect it said was dangerous was a rash- I just don't know what it is or what to do- if anyone has any advice I need it!

through it all she still manages to give me a few big grins!

SNOW!

Olivia saw real snow for the first time today! It snowed before but just fake snows- the kind that melts before you even get outside... Today we have around 6 inches and it's still snowing! My sister Emily claims she is "not excited" for the snow, but how could you not love it!? It's so beautiful and white and clean! I suppose it's only fun to look at and play in... not do every day things in. But, oh-well! Morgan needs to come down so she can go 'fork skiing' in it- maybe we'll try that today ;)

Back to the Cold

family picture- top- Brett, Amy, Jeff, Jillian, Alisha
bottom- Grandma Sherri, Olivia and Sarah, and Grandpa Gary

Olivia and Daddy in the morning

sleeping in the car

Well, we are back in Utah. It is supposed to snow this week, that's a change from the 80 degree weather we were just in! I'm excited though- I like the snow, for awhile. Olivia did much better on our car ride home. She slept almost the whole way- it was very nice. We are doing well and excited for our next vacation- Oregon! I go back to work next Saturday.. I'm not sure if I'm too excited about about it- we'll see!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I love this toy! on Vimeo

We've had a good Thanksgiving, all the food was REALLY good! Olivia played so much in the morning that she slept ALL day! I think she thought it was night time again. It's soo crazy being in Arizona for Thanksgiging. We ate dinner outside in the back yard. It was just perfect weather, wasn't too hot, not too cold and it was overcast when we ate so no sun in our eyes! It's pretty fun. Amy, Alisha, and I also got to go for a run this morning- it's nice to get out!

Love'n' my cousin

we've got matching hats!

This is Olivia and her black cousin Jillian! just kiddin... Some day Livie will get a tan like her cousin!

Grandpa with cousins on Vimeo

Out of the car... YEA!!!

We stopped at an indian stand, and I got a pretty little bracelet
Olivia watched Aladdin, it kept her entertained for awhile

We stopped at the "cliff hangers" stop- indians used to live inside the side of the mountains.. weird! Olivia and I are inside a "rock home" A lady lived inside this rock! It was cool.

Our trip was pretty good, but Olivia is just not a car girl. Even a new SUV doesn't make her happy! She really didn't cry much until the last half hour. By then it had been about 12 hours and she had just about had enough! She screamed as loud as she could and even when I got her out and held her she was still VERY upset. She didn't calm down until she got out of the car. It was pretty sad, but atleast she calmed down when she got out.