Apologies....

...for the lack of posting :( I promise in the next few days I will finish uploading Missouri pic, update the blog and of course comment (with pics) from our little Olivia's 1st Birthday Bash!!!

Hope everyone is well.

~smo

Our Trip to Missouri!!!

We just returned home yesterday from a two week family vacation in Missouri at my parents house!!! We drove (yes drove) there and back. It is 22 hours of driving time. We drove (at night) straight through on the way there and made one over night stop coming back home. Olivia was such an excellent little traveller, we could not have asked for better!!!

We had a very relaxing time at mom and dads house. Enjoyed quality time, spent time with my two nieces that were there as well (Liz and Mikaela, 13 and 8)...that was alot of fun and Olivia especially enjoyed them. We BBQ'd ALOT, enjoyed nightly displays of fireworks put on by dad and Brad (a scary thought) and even escaped out for a day on the boat!!!

It was hard to return to reality, but here we are...now back at home...I will post pics over the next week from our trip in Missouri ...

HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY GIBSON!!!

One of Olivia's boyfriends recently celebrated his 1st birthday. She attended Gibson's first birthday party (rubber ducky theme) just before we left for Missouri. Gibson is just over a month older than Olivia and they grew very close this year during their weekly play dates!!! Now that Olivia and Gibson's moms are back to work our play dates will unfortunately be less frequent but we sure did enjoy the last year!!!

Olivia getting ready and in her PARTY DRESS:
Olivia chillin out with the boys (Eric and Gibson):
The BIRTHDAY BOY HIMSELF...Gibson...ONE YEAR OLD!!!!
...not too sure what he was supposed to do with the cake...and very unsure when the singing began!!!
...ahhhh and the best part...THE PRESENTS!!!!!
Thanks for sharing your day with us Gibson and we hope you had a wonderful birthday!!!!

Happy 1st FATHERS day Brad!!!

I know this post comes more than LATE...but it's been a while (obviously) since I have had a chance to update the blog.

Brad celebrated his very first fathers day in June and he and Olivia had a very special day.

Better late than never so to my wonderful husband I just wanted to say I couldn't have wished for a better dad for Olivia!!! Brad and Olivia share a very special bond and it is such a rush for me to watch them together. Olivia loves her dada very much!!!

Olivia getting ready to give dada is gift for fathers day!!!
"Here's the card dada!!! See I picked it out and signed it myself":
Olivia helping dada to open up the present!!!
A TURKEY FRIER for daddy!!!! YAY!!!
We spent the later part of the day at Brad's mom and dads and had a lovely supper with them!!! Papa Light was working up north but did receive presents when we were in Missouri last week!!!
Brad and I are very lucky to have such great dads and of course thank them both for all they do (still) for us!!!