The Birthday!!

Meili turned 3 last week.  She is so dang precious!

Last year I was too sick and pregnant to enjoy her birthday, so this year meant a lot to me.

Breakfast candles!

French Toast is one of her favorite foods.

Daddy and Ollie getting ready to go swimmin'

I'm so dang sick of this winter, so we had an indoor swimming party!

We have an awesome aquatic center that has a giant slide, lots of kiddie slides, a hot tub, a lazy river, and a few different pools.  It was way packed, but so nice for a change!

Ollie was mesmerized by all the splashing.

Sofie was so happy to be back in the water!

Ollie hated it.

Lots of cousins for Mei to splash with.

Back at home we had lunch and cake.

The birthday princess.

(not sure what this look is...)

The 4 sillies.

She loved ALL of the gifts she got.

Especially her Jake and the Neverland Pirates toys.

Whenever I asked her what she wanted for her birthday, she would sing, "Yo Ho here we go, together as a team!"

Bubbles in the ccccccold.

Cute fat toes in Meili's new toy.

They were playing "damsel in distress" in Meili's Princess castle.

And also, what's a blog post without a darling picture of this cute fat baby?

He loved having all the cousins to play with at the party.

Valentine's Day

I love having little girls on Valentine's Day.  

They appreciate all the hearts and pink and ooey-gooey lovey stuff.

Our traditional valentine breakfast. Heart shaped little toasts, pink eggs, and strawberries (this year all I had were chocolate ones, so they got an extra treat!)

Our homemade Valentine boxes.  The girls loved the monster teeth and googly eyes.

Sofie's princess monster.   She was very sad her 'F' fell off. :(

The spread.  My girls are all about placemats.

The girls got heart grilled cheese sandwiches while Derek and I enjoyed grown-up food, homemade french dip sandwiches.

Our yummy cupid floats. 

(which to be honest, were kind of gross, but cute!)

This, however, was not gross.  At all.

I made a white chocolate raspberry cheesecake.

Those are supposed to be hearts...

Love was in the air.

And my little love muffin. 

Ollie Updates!

Ahhh!  He's growing too fast!

Here are some highlights from Oliver's last couple months.

First solid food.

He looks happy, but he hated it.  Gagged on it.

Eventually I just gave him the spoon to play with.

Until he jammed it down his throat and started crying...

Grabby toes!  I LOVE this stage with babies.

They entertain themselves with their chubby piggies.

The bumbo!

He loved being able to interact with everyone at face level instead of laying on the floor.

And lots of drool.

This was Ollie's favorite spot.  His swing.  He took AWESOME naps in this. 

Unfortunately we had to break him of the habit and teach him how to sleep in his crib.

It was a tough week, but we did it.

See, he slept like a rock in this thing.

Tummy time became more fun for him.

Less fussy.

He's the happiest baby of mine so far!

Getting a little more mobile.

About 2 minutes after I took this picture, he rolled over for the first time!

Building up those muscles for crawling!

This face is my sunshine.

Christmas Down South

This year was a St. George year. 

 Everyone came and it was a memory packed Christmas for the kiddos!

We had 9 kids age 8 and under (plus one teenager).  It was chaos.

A few of a the littlest ones crowding around sick Sofie to watch Netflix on the phone.

But mostly they stayed outside the whole week.  Look at that weather!!

All but Ollie, on Christmas Eve waiting for the "Reindeer Games" to start.

Aunt Kristy and Uncle Seth were fabulous and put together a scavenger hunt for the kids.

Here they are looking for clues in the fridge.

Winners!

Derek not feeling so well. We were all sick. Seriously.  

Ollie got to go to the Instacare for croup and an ear infection.  :(

Ollie opening his cousin gift.

Sofie was so excited for her trendy socks!

All of the third generation in their snugglies on Christmas Eve.

So excited for Santa!

Santa came!

Sofie's loot.

Meili's loot.

Ollie's loot.

Sofie and Meili sleeping their little heads off.

This was at 8:30 when we finally came in and woke them up!

Twilight Sparkle!

Sweet bed hair!

Little beauties Sofie and Tayah

Ollie's Christmas jammers