We can't forget Thanksgiving with the Copelands!

The Oklahoma Copelands came down to spend Thanksgiving in Austin.  We love spending time with these guys!  The cousins are at such fun ages, and Olivia and Kai are only 6 weeks apart, to it's great to see them together.  

There is a playground right down the street!  We spend a lot of time there with the three kids.

Ready for some turkey!!!

With these busy and active kids we spent a lot of time planning and doing activities.  They are the perfect age for Pinterest ideas :)

The day after Thanksgiving we went to see Santa for the first time!  The only one who sat on his lap was Reese.

Two years old

It's hard to find the time or the energy to update my blog these days.  We are all doing amazingly well and life if good.  I'm so behind, but will try and catch up hopefully!  Last time I posted, Olivia had just turned 18 months old.

We celebrated her birthday a couple of times this year.  Once with her Duckling class, and once at our home with our close friends and family.  We went back and forth as to whether we should do a bigger party or not, but opted to hold out until Olivia has more "friends" and when she would better understand the birthday party concept.  I sure am glad we waited, because even with just a handful of people on her birthday she was pretty overwhelmed!  Additionally, we would later find out she was beginning to have an ear infection on the day we celebrated her 2nd birthday, so she was slightly cranky.


On the Friday before her birthday (December 7, 2012) we surprised Olivia at school after nap time.  She seemed pretty happy about that.

Olivia's sweet teachers, Ms. Ashley and Ms. Raegan, got her a gift.

 On Sunday family and friends, mostly grandparents, godparents, Aunt Sarah and a few other family members, came to our house to Celebrate Olivia.  Dave barbequed and I did some appetizers, rainbow fruit and veggies, and dips.

Olivia got an awesome pink "red Ryder" bike from the Copeland grandparents, and a small trampoline from the Jimenez grandparents.  What a lucky girl! We've had a lot of fun playing with these two toys.

Happy birthday to the sweetest, spunkiest, and smartest 2 year old I could ever imagine.  We love you!

Race for the Cure - November 4, 2012

A couple of girlfriends of mine and my mom and sister walked the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure downtown this year.  Fun times!  It was crazy and crowded though, but the weather was amazing.  It definitely made me miss racing, but I still haven't quite found the motivation to start running again.  One day.

Halloween 2012

How did I get so far behind!  I was looking through all of our pictures, and I realized I have not been keeping my blog up to date.   We have been busy and having so much fun.   This year for Halloween I had the motivation and inspiration to make Olivia's costume.  It has never really been important to me that Olivia or any child I have for that matter has a homemade costume, but I really enjoyed doing it, and I hope I can keep it up from year to year!

My friend, Karina, sent me the idea, and it was really something I was able to pull off.  I'm not much of a sewer, but I'm getting much better with crafts and I actually enjoy it for the most part.    

Cookie Monster was adorable!!!  Olivia really liked the costume, too, which was one of my biggest worries.  We didn't want the novelty of the costume to wear off before Halloween, so she only tried it on once.  She got to wear it in the school Halloween parade and then again for trick-or-treating in Gammie's neighborhood on Halloween night. 

The school Halloween parade was the cutest thing, EVER.  I'm already looking forward to it, again!  All of the classrooms dress up and then walk into the gym and sort of just parade around.  The parents are sitting on the sides of the gym, and in the bleachers.  I was on the floor, and Olivia saw me a few times and wanted to come stand with me, next time I will try to stay out of few.  

Silly cookie monster, and daze Buzz Lightyear, and a tired fire fighter.  

Olivia was happy as a clam and really didn't even eat or want to eat that much candy.