One more thing....

Is anybody else sick of this music??? I am. I promise I am going to change it in the near future.

Alone......

So the kids are both asleep and Jason has gone to play basketball. Alone time...what shall I do? I think I will write on my blog and post some pics of the kiddies. My last post was about how tired I have been lately. I think I may have solved my overly tired all the time problem. I think it has to do with refined sugar. How sad this makes me, because I live on chocolate chips and M & M's! The last couple of days I have really been avoiding sugar. As in, I have not been snacking on the candy that I usually snack on all day. Am I admitting this out loud? It's true. I would rather eat candy type food all day and no real food. But I think I might be ready to actually change my habits. I have always known that I should, but have never had motivation. But if I can have energy and not feel like I constantly need a nap-I guess it will be worth it. So the last couple of days I have been so much less tired that I am going to do an experiment. I am going to avoid candy for another week and see if this has been a fluke or something. Don't worry, I am still going to eat ice cream, so it is not like I will be a totally different person, just no actual candy- maybe it isn't too late to avoid type 2 diabetes......

I can't believe tomorrow is already Friday! I say this every Thursday night. Olivia and Liam keep me busy all week and it is great. I love to be busy. But I wish I could keep them little longer, the time seems to be flying by. That darn clock never stops!

Olivia started dancing lessons, which she totally LOVES. She has been dancing at home since she could walk. She started a couple of weeks ago and has lots of fun.

Olivia and her friend Tennille at dance lessons. Aren't they sweet?

Olivia practicing for dance at home.

William is a busy little guy. He is all over the place. He was stationery for so long that it is wild how much and fast the kid can move. His two favorite places to play are the clothes washer and the dish washer.

Olivia used to do this exact thing. She would climb up onto the dishwasher door. Liam seems to have the same fascination with the dishwasher. If I am doing the dishes he is right there to get in on the action.

I guess I will do the dishes, before I go to bed. It depresses me to wake up to a dirty kitchen.

Lately

If I look a little tired in this picture, it is because I am! Having two kids is really starting to wear me out! I hardly ever sit down it seems like. I don't feel like I have time to do anything. I used to wake up like clock work every morning at 5:45 to work out. Now I am lucky if I can pull myself out of bed at 7:00 when Olivia usually wakes up. I think it is mostly because my sweet baby doesn't sleep through the night yet..... He wakes up at 11:30 and 3:30. By the afternoon, I am so tired I can barely walk.

Anyway, enough whining about being tired, (Amy Jeppson-you are a saint! Anybody that can have 4 kids under the age of 4 years definitely deserves that title.) It was time to post some pics of my sweet kids, that are growing up so fast! William is a little giant as you can see. He is crawling all over the place. He has a cute crawl. He pushes himself along with one foot while the other knee is on the ground. He can move VERY fast.

The bad thing about his mobility now is all the tile in this house. He smacks his head on the floor regularly. No concussion yet. Thankfully.

He pulls himself up on the furniture and thinks he is pretty big stuff!

My little Olivia LOVES taking pictures. She got a pretty good one of me and Will, except for my face is cut off.


My little PRINCESS. She loves anything that has to do with Princesses. She watched Ever After with me after I told her that it was a Cinderella movie. I even squeezed in a 20 minute nap.

Olivia has started dance lessons and I got her a little violin to get used to the idea of playing. I didn't have my camera last week at dance lessons, but tomorrow I will get some pictures to post.

Make a Smilebox postcard

Halloween fun

Olivia has an aversion to looking at the camera and smiling at the same time. Here she is with a cheesy smile and eyes closed.
Eyes closed again-at least she is facing the camera.

What is she looking at?????

At least I got a good picture of the glass slippers I found at the Disney store and paid way too much money for-especially in our economy!!

My little turtle.

So we are lame and didn't carve a pumpkin this year-definitely next year. We were glad that we made a Jack-o-lantern at Tenille's birthday party. Olivia was so sad when we had to throw it away.

William and Olivia-She finally looks at the camera and he looks at her.

Will and Jolisa

I can't believe Halloween has come and gone. I kept thinking I was going to change my background to a fall theme, but never got around to doing it. Maybe I will do it right know! We still have Thanksgiving right!?

Halloween was fun. Olivia was Cinderella and Will was a turtle. We hit the neighborhood trick or treating and then went to Heidi and Ross's ward party/trunk or treat. Olivia had a fun time. She loved her costume and looked so cute. As you can see she REFUSES to LOOK at the camera. Will roasted in his turtle costume, but looked cute. It is weird that it is still so warm here. I miss the fall colors of Nebraska, Utah and Idaho. Perpetual vacation weather is fun, but strange at the same time. It was nice not to be freezing and bundled up on Halloween. There are always pros and cons I have decided.

I don't blog a much because I am too busy reading everybody else's blogs! It is hard to find the time to do my own. It is so fun to see what everyone is up to!

We are coming to Idaho for Thanksgiving. I can't wait! We are excited to see everyone.

Tagged again!

This is a fun tag. Here are the instructions.

Go to your 4th picture file.
Post the 4th picture in that file.
Tag 4 people.

Here it is...............



I guess everybody gets a digital camera when they have a baby! Jason and I didn't get one until I was pregnant with Olivia. We took sooooo many pictures of her as a teeny baby. I swear I have about a billion pictures of her in the carseat asleep and on a blanket on the floor. I just couldn't get over how small and perfect she was. This is very cliche, but they grow sooo fast. I remember when our friends kids were this big-I thought they were such old kids. But my sweet little Olivia is already that old. Soon she will be in high school.....I can't think about that-it is just too scary!

I tag Ann-Marie, Sara-Lynn, Michelle, & Breezy

Lately...

I really don't have anything exciting to say, but I know it is time for some kind of update. I read blogs and people have such interesting, witty, and funny things to say and post about. What can I say, my life is kind of routine-good-but not too many exciting things have happened lately. I did kill a big old black widow on our sidewalk the other night. It tried to cross at exactly the wrong time. It was big and ugly!
Oh yeah, I got a calling at church. That is something new to report. I am the Miamaid advisor, which seems to be really fun. The girls are all so sweet and the ladies I work with are great too!

Like I said, the kids and I are into a good routine, hitting the library and playgroup every week along with the two days of preschool for Olivia. She is quite the character. She has her hairdo destroyed moments after I fix it, and I documented this in pictures the other day. She loves to color and sing and dance around. She mostly pretends to be one of the Disney princesses. She like to help me clean and sing "whistle while you work." William is eating rice cereal and veggies and sitting up. He is also very interested in toys and eating his toes. Olivia is very into the letters of the alphabet lately and the other day at lunch she was biting her sandwich parts into different letters. She started by saying, "look mom, a J for Jolisa" then proceeded to make an L and a roller skate along with a few letters in between. I took a few pictures, which led to her wanting pictures of her letters taken every time she eats ANYTHING she can make a letter out of. Will has starting eating solid foods and is much more into it than Olivia was at this age. He also likes to eat his toes.

Here is Olivia moments after I fixed her hair. It is very secure I might add, hair spray and all. In about five minutes she will have rolled all over the floor, raked pillows and blankets over her head and then wonder why her hair is in her face and try to rip the ponytails out.

Don't ya just love sleeping babies? I could just eat him up he's so darn sweet!

He sits and plays with toys all the time now. He hasn't quite rolled over yet though.

Olivia bit this piece of cheese into a roller skate. And then started working on letters.

Here is Livvy with her "J for Jolisa"

So there is the latest! You are now officially up to date with us.