Ollie's 3rd Birthday Video

I am way overdue for an update, and I am so sad and disappointed in myself for not keeping up on my family blog. I guess living closer to family and Quilt Story taking more and more of my time, I left the blog go by the wayside. But I do plan on doing a catch-up by the end of January.  But today is Oliver's 3rd Birthday video.  It takes me a couple hours to do these videos, but I really hope that I do them forever!  We watch them all the time and I think it's just a fun way to document our lives.

Music: We Belong Together by Paul Newman from Toy Story

Mr. Ollie

Happy Birthday to my sweet baby Oliver!

Video coming this weekend :)

My love

Eight years ago today I married my E.

He's the best.

I love him.

This is our first anniversary apart.

In fact it's the longest we've been apart since April of 2002.

It's been too many weeks and I miss E.

Fall 2004

Happy Anniversary Love!!

Stinkers

We've been in Utah all of July, spent the 4th at Lake Powell and the rest in Salt Lake...my boys are going to be so bored when we get back home!!  We are seeing friends and family everyday and doing a lot of fun things.  Here are a couple of funny stories I don't want to forget:

Sawyer:  Mom, I want to get 10 dogs.
Mom: Nobody really has 10 dogs, how about we get 1 to start with?
S: How about 4?
M: Let's name the people we know, and how many dogs they have.  How many dogs does FiFi have?
S: 2
M: How many dogs does Peb have?
S: 1...Mom, does Casey Anthony have any dogs?




Me: Ollie, what do you want to be when you grow up?
Ollie: I want me to be big and Sawyer to be little.

Sawyer Boy is 4!

Happy 4th Birthday Mr. Sawyer

Music

Free Little Bird by Elizabeth Mitchell and Lisa Loeb

Poker Face by Lady Gaga

Folding Chair by Regina Spektor

The 2nd Child

This guy.  Oliver, the 2nd child.  He's funny.  He says so many things that I think only a 2nd child would say, having an awesome sibling to show them the ways.

"Is that funny?"

"Is that super duper fast?"

"I want dad's iphone and play Peter Parker."

"I want this one, this one, this one...I want everything!"

"Is that cool?"

"I want you to beat me up dad."

""I'm 3." "I'm 5." "I'm 6."

"Is that a cool cool trick?"

"Holy crap."

"Oh my gosh."

"Is it charging?" referring to the iphone

being rascally and getting into powdered sugar

June 2011

I left my heart

I always forget how much I love the beach.
I was born in Mission Viejo, CA afterall.
I think I love it, and then we drive on the coast...step in the sand...hear the waves crash...
And I fall head over heels.

The perfect trip.

Three days.

6 hour drive.

Free GORGEOUS home to stay in, by ourselves. (Thanks Tracine and Juan!!)

20 minutes to the beach.

Day 1, Newport Beach and Ruby's Diner.

Beach.

Beach.

How to do the beach for boys:
Run for your life.

 how awesome is that photo!?  I only wish it was closer up.

Ollie was taken out a few times, but was a good sport about it.

Telling dad about how awful the water tastes.

Day 2, museum, relaxing.

They were both so serious and intense about laying on the bed of nails.  I've never seen either of them that still for so long when they're awake.

Day 3, Laguna Beach.

Looking at the tide pools where we saw hermit crabs and bigger scarier crabs.

Ice cream before hitting the road home.

Must go back.  Soon.