Flower Girl

 

My cousin got married a few weeks ago and asked Olivia to be her flower girl.  She was in heaven...she was in love with her dress and kept on telling everyone that she was a princess. 

 

I have been trying to edit my photos and trying to decide which ones I want to have printed.  All I can say is that it has been a huge undertaking, since I took over 400 pictures. :)  Here are a few of my favorites.

 

 

 

And this young lady is my niece Megan.  Can you believe she is only 11?

 

 

My sweet and adorable nephew.  He is the kindest child you will ever meet.

 

 

 

How about his little cutie?  I think he is going to break many many hearts~

 

 

And of course I cant leave out the gorgeous, happy couple. 

 

 

 

I still have hundreds of pictures to edit and crop, mostly from the park and reception.  Once I am finished I will post a few of Ms. Olivia & Ms. Abby tearing up the dance floor.  They were dancing machines.

What we are up to ...

1. Getting ready for Halloween!

 

Olivia is super excited this year and keeps on asking me if we can go TOTing. She picked out her costume this year and will be Sleeping Beauty! {Of course it had to involve the color "PINK"} .

We are making Halloween Crackers for her to hand out to her friends and teachers. I really wanted to involve her and so I took her to Michael's & AC Moore to help me pick out the papers & embellishments. I cut out all of the papers, but she helped me pick out the die cuts for each one the crackers. She was too cute, she would pick one and actually tell me who she wanted me to give it to.  {Only 10 more to go, I ran out of crepe paper.}

{Hanging Head in Shame} Today we will start decorating the house! I am really ashamed to admit that we have not one single "Halloween" decoration up. This is a first for us, we are usually done by Oct. 1st.

 

 

2. Christmas

Yep, I am really trying to stay ahead of the game this year and get as much done for Christmas as I can. There is a project that I am working on right now, but I can't say...don't want to give the surprise away.

I am compiling a list of gifts that I want to get everyone and what stores I can find them in. I am hoping to get most of my shopping done by mid November and than hit the Thanksgiving Night Extravaganza at our outlets. They open at midnight on Thanksgiving and the sales are incredible. Its a mad house, so you really need a game plan and a partner, otherwise you cannot get anything. The lines usually wrap around the store. The first year I went alone and it took me almost 2 hrs to pay for my purchases at the Polo store. Needless to say I was done after 2 stores.

 

3. Family

We are trying to spend as much time as possible together. I love it when Ryan is around on Sunday/Monday. Olivia loves to be with him, and usually spends most of her time outside helping him in the yard. They planted mums last weekend and she actually told him exactly where each one of the was to go. I wish I had taken my camera out and snapped a few pictures. :(

 

And just because ... here is a random picture of Olivia and Tyler.

{Not the best quality because Ryan took it with his phone, but I love it.}

 

5 Months

 

Wow, time certainly is flying.  I cannot believe that my little guy turned 5 months today.

He is so much fun!  He talks so much now and is always smiling.  Loves to stand up and really hates laying down. LOL  He is always trying to sit up, and we had to change the setting on his swing to a sitting position already.  I spend most of my time just kissing his sweet little cheeks.  He is such a lovable baby!

 

 

 

Olivia absolutely adores him and loves to play with him all day long.  I am so happy that she is such a little mommy to him.  She loves to sing to him, and put him to sleep.  Her favorite song is "You are my sunshine".  When he cries she goes running to him and tells him, "Its ok little buddy, Olivia is here." LOL