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So, Brett did get a job offer with the new
company. He's excited about it, but it's just a 1 year contract. If anyone doesn't know ANYTHING about this, well, Brett's work got bought out by a bigger company so a lot of people in Brett's little company lost their jobs right before Christmas. It was stressfull not knowing if we were going to be employed or not, but thankfully Brett still has a job! So, that's the up-date. We feel very blessed.

Olivia has
her own little
booster seat now so she can sit with us at the BIG table! Livie makes some pretty funny faces... She is so funny. She likes to do "fishykisses" lately. I've tried to get a picture but she does so quickly it's hard. Plus she won't stop moving! She is such a BUSY girl.

So I got a new camera...

I LOVE it.
I took LOTS of pictures today, and thought I'd share SOME of my favorites. Yes, I do realize this is the 3rd blog in 2 days... I'm pathetic. When I put old pictures next to it from the other camera... WOW, this new camera puts them to shame. What a difference a nice camera can make!

Grandpa Peterson with Livie

Pictures of Taylors (mostly Jillian, Olivia's cousin)

Alisha- feel free to copy and paste any pictures onto your blog.. I'll be e-mailing you the rest!

Our Christmas Morning

Liv's new
PJ's wouldn't stay up!

Liv's new shoes- she wanted to put them on right away!

Merry Christmas!

Liv and I Christmas Eve. We just opened our Christmas pajamas and Olivia went wild and wanted to open ALL her gifts. Crazy girl!

Just Words

So, I thought I'd write an actual "blog" rather then post pictures. I do feel pictures are funner, but I don't have any to post and I have some exciting news to share. No, I'm not pregnant (that came to mind when I said "exciting news", so I didn't want to get any ones hopes up ;)) Olivia is moving on to toddler-hood! She is officially 'talking'. What I mean by that is in the past week she has been repeating words and saying new things EVERY day. She probably says 1-2 new words a day. It is SO exciting! She is definately still LEARNING, but it is so fun to hear her little voice saying real words. Last night she said "dinner" when Daddy told her it was dinner time. Usually what happens is she repeats a word perfectly and we say "WOW, Good Job Olivia!" She says "OW!"(A.K.A. "wow") then she tries to say it again but it is 100% not the same word. For example last night she says " dinner!" Daddy: "Good Job" Olivia: "dee-ooo" Daddy "DINNER" Olivia: "Dinner!" It is SO fun to have her actually repeat us! She doesn't ALWAYS do it, but a lot more then before! So, of course she was saying words before, but she had a pretty small vocabulary, and it would take Liv's a LONG time to learn new words. She has also progressed to the new level of putting herself to sleep. This week I decided it was time to let go of 'snuggling nighty night time' I know MOST parents put there babies to sleep by themselves in their cribs from the beginning. NOT ME! (am I stupid, or do I just REALLY like to rock Liv's to sleep? I'm not sure..) EVERY day for naps and bedtime I would wrap Liv's in her blanket, feed her her bottle, stick the binky in, and wait for about 15 minutes before I carefully took her up to her crib to sleep. It is about a 45 minute thing. I really did enjoy it, but I think Olivia is getting WAY too big for this routine and she needs to learn to put herself down to sleep. She has been doing GREAT! I put her in the crib and she no longer screams bloody murder when I shut the door and leave her. I was very surprised when she didn't start crying. She is really growing up! So, I just wanted to say how proud I am of her. She is such a sweet little angel (most of the time) and she brings us SOO much joy. We love her so much.

Liv's First Piggy Tails

Aren't those pig-tails the cuteset!?

A Day in the Life of Olivia

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Crabby Girl from Sarisker on Vimeo.


Screamer from Sarisker on Vimeo.

I was just having some fun editing and trying new things on the photo-editing software!

Toilet restaraunts

Taiwanese Toilet Bowl Rrestaurant. I found this randomly on the internet... Just thought it was CRAZY, so I thought I'd share!

Olivia's Cow

Olivia loves to ride on her cow on Daddy's knee. Brett won me the cow at Circus Circus in Las Vegas back when we were dating. I figured we could save it for our children ;)

This is Livie pouting because Daddy left to play basketball and Olivia was left with mommy to give cow- rides. It just ISN'T the same.. poor Olivia, poor poor Olivia!

The Diaper Dilema

Which diaper will she choose?

VS

Now, if you have ever talked diapers with me, you already know the answer. We are 100% Pampers. Olivia's body does NOT work with other diaper brands. I know it sounds pathetic, like I am a "name brand" Mama, but I really don't care about being name brand. At Costco they unfortunately only sell Costco brand or Huggies. So, we've given Huggies a try and 90% of the time that she pooped, it did not stay in the diaper. It was a sad day since they are so much cheaper buying bulk from Costco. Luckily at the time we still had a membership to Sam's Club, who sold Pampers in bulk. Our membership was expiring very soon though (and we've decided to go with Costco instead of Sam's...) SO, I bought like $200 worth of diapers while we still could. It's a sad sad day because our diapers have run out... So, when I was at Costco I thought I'd give the Costco brand a try thinking Olivia was done with the poop-out stage. She has pooped out 0 times in Pampers and has been just in them for over 4 months now. So, I thougt I'd give these new ones a chance. So, it's been 1 week in the Costco brand diapers. She has had 3 blow-outs now. In ONE week people! Last night it was so bad she had to go in the bath because it All up her back and when we pulled her shirt off, all over her neck and head too. SICK!!! So, it appears she will NEVER be over the blow-out stage, it's just the diapers that keep it in or out. BTW- Natalie, you don't have to buy the reat of our Costco diapers from us, we'll just use them for night-time (she doesn't poop in the night) Thanks for offering though!!

On a good note- in the parenting magazine they have a GREAT advertisement for Diapers.com. You can get $10 off your first order! Enter code:PTG3 Expires 3/31/08 (my Birthday!)

Our Thanksgiving

We went to Brett's parents house for Thanksgiving this year. It was good food, and lots of fun. We played Monopoly (Amy won, and was so excited about it, she's never won before) We watched "Hairspray" and played PIT after dinner. We had 7 different pies. WOW! It was GRRREAT! Thanks for dinner Sherri- we're lucky to have such a good cook in the family!

On Friday we put up our Christmas lights and hung our stockings!

Also, Olivia has taken an interest in hair lately. She loves to brush and style my hair. Maybe she's just like me!

Complete Randomness..

Liv's favorite hang-out spot... the fridge

What Liv looks like on our walks.. hehehe

So, lately Brett and I have been loving "Timbaline" a music artist... We just can't get enough. Click here to listen to one of our latest favorites. Also, have you sceen THIS video!? Oh my... it made Brett and I laugh. what a CRRRRAZY lady. Well, theres more I want to blog about, but I'll save it for later, Olivia wants to go to bed!

Olivia's Latest

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Sorry the clips are a little short- It's hard to make her do what I want on video.. You know how it goes! Along with her No no no's, she also is saying " yo yo yo" and "o-e-o-e-o" and "Ut- Ooooh" It's so funny to listen to.

Go BYU !

We got to go to the last BYU football game. Brett was so excited. We forgot the tickets at home, so we missed kick-off and Brett was pretty sad about it. BUT it was still fun, and Livie was pretty much an angel for the most part. For her good behavior she got a new BYU hat (I knew she had been wanting one..hehe!) Oh, and incase your wondering, that blue splotch on Olivia's face was SUPPOSED to be a blue Y, but it rubbed off and never looked that great from the beginning. oooh well.