More happenings

So I came across this pic of Camilla at about the same time as Olivia. What do you think? Do you think they look like sisters? I can't really see it. I think each one of my girls is very unique and has a different look. Some couples have a 'mold' and all their kids look the same. So far, ours all look different!Here is Olivia at 1 month!Here is a map that Emma drew. She was playing Dora and the ending is the castle in the middle. Emma also loves to write all of our names. You will see Emma, Camilla and Dad on the map. Mom is upside down in the top left corner.

Here is a fun pic of Livvy in her bumbo. Don't mind the recent trip to Costco in the background. :) Kevin made these tables for my cousin. Aren't they awesome?!? He did such a good job. He made two side tables and a counter-high computer desk for them. Now just to get him to do it for me. :)

And here are the girls modeling off the tables. Don't you love it when their foot goes through the jammies? I love it!

And last of all, don't you love it when your kids dress themselves? They really love wearing dresses and skirts. That is about all they wear these days. And on this day they did the matching. :)

What a week!

This week was a crazy week! And today is our anniversary! Happy 6 years to my best friend. Don't you just love looking back through your pictures? Oh to be a princess for a day! And today is fun because we got married on Friday, and here we are on a Friday again. We were married on President's weekend right in the middle of the semester. Biggest bragging rights...we both got a 4.0 that semester! So let's look back to what has happened the past 6 years and admire my pretty dress :)
In the past 6 years: I graduated from college, Kevin graduated with his Macc, we had Emma, Camilla and Olivia, we've moved 9 times and started our first 'real' job! Whew! We've been busy.
Here's to all the adventures with the greatest guy in the world and here's to hoping there will be many more years to come. I love ya babe!

This week we also said goodbye to this good lookin guy. :(

My brother Brandon has been living with us for the past 9 months. My girls have loved having their uncle with them. He came out just as I was put on bedrest. He really saved us and has been such a big help! We will miss him dearly....on to his new adventures.

And Monday was Valentines! I made these fun shirts with my cousin and we had a photo shoot. BTW, I entered the shirts into a competition. I didn't win but I got an honorable mention. http://http//silhouettemachine.blogspot.com/2011/02/free-download-of-week-contest-winners.html

You can check it out at the above website. (I might feel kind of cool and a little famous being mentioned on someone else's blog :)

Silly faces! (Emma is really into this new face of sticking her fingers up her nose....nice!)

And Little Olivia. Her shirt stands for Sealed With A Kiss, if you didn't know. Sentimental moment...Kevin and I used to write this on the back of our envelopes as we wrote back and forth on the mish. But ours became very carried away and would cover the whole envelope and it was a test to see if you could figure it out. So it would look something like this: SWAHAAKFTDRTTLJ. Yeah, see if you can figure it out :)

Here they are with my cousin's children. (Don't you just love his little heart breaker shirt?)

What a crazy week! Full of fun celebrations!

What we have been up to...pic overload!

We have just been hanging out and enjoying our new bundle of joy! Can I just say how much I love newborns?
Here is Olivia at about one month just home from church. And being mauled by sisters.

Here's another pic. (For the grandparents:)

For Christmas, my mom made the girls matching p.j.s. Don't you love them? She made footie ones for my sisters too, out of the same fabric.

And this pic, we are all closing our eyes. They didn't plan it, I don't know why they did it. Crazy girls. And Olivia is screaming.

Smiles! I seriously can't get over these jamies!

Playing with Olivia. (if she makes it to age 2 it will be a miracle)

Chillin (or trying to eat) Daddy!

Breakfast dates with Mom! Camilla is so crazy! I love this face.

Emma was so excited for her breakfast date with Mom. She even invited Cami to come along with us, which made me very impressed. We can share!

Olivia chillin in her swing! She always has to be moving.

Emma and Cami thought she needed toys to play with while she was swinging.

Bathtime! Actually, Olivia hates baths. So we give her showers. And she loves it! But it is a two man job. Newborns are so slippery.

Having FHE. The girls BOTH lead the music. :)

Just chillin being cute! I just can't get enough of this cute baby!

Introducing......

Olivia Noel!
Born Dec. 27. She weighed in at 8 lbs. 8 oz. And is 21 inches long.

You can continue reading if you would like the rest of the story. :)
So I spent all month NOT being dilated (which is rare for me-since I was at least a one with my other girls). I had an appointment on the 23rd and I was finally dilated and to a 4! So I thought for sure I would be having a babe that night!

Little history lesson- my labors with my other girls were extremely fast and Emma was 10 days early and Camilla was 19 days early (so early that Kevin missed it:) So based on my past history, I thought for sure I would be getting a baby before Christmas. I kept feeling really bad for this babe's birthday if she didn't get here before Christmas.

So my OB says, "if you were 39 weeks we would take you over to the hospital and break your water right now. We can lie if you want." Oh I was so tempted! I was sooooooooo sick of being pregnant. (I know I wasn't even to my due date yet, but in my mind I was overdue since my other girls were so early). So the OB says that we should probably be honest just in case her lungs aren't developed. And if I don't go into labor over the weekend, come in on Monday and we'll be induced.
We sat around all weekend with really inconsistent contractions. And hoping I wouldn't go into labor Christmas Eve (seriously who wants to babysit then?) We made it to Monday. We calmly dropped our kiddos off at a friends house and drove to the hospital. I got checked in, I got my IV's in (stabbed 5 times-thanks nurses), and waited for pitocin (sp?) to start labor. BTW, this is also the longest we have sat in a delivery room-it has always been crazy!
Things started to pick up a bit. I got my blessed epidural (it didn't have time to work with Cami). And then the OB came in and broke my water.
I didn't feel any pain and an hour later, I had dilated from a 4 to a 10 and delivered my biggest baby yet! (And I barely tore!)
She is the cutest baby ever! I can't get enough of her. And she has a lot of cute dark hair. (Also different from my other girls-who were totally bald). So this babe makes her entrance very different from her sisters, but we can't get enough of her cuteness.

And her name you ask? Any family name, church history significance or a prophets' wife? (our other girls have all three) Nope, we just really liked Olivia. Nothing else seemed to fit for her. We have friends with the cutest niece named Olivia (that we hung out with in high school-she was 2 at the time and we all loved her!)-so we have always been partial to the name. And Noel? After much debate on the spelling, we settled on the traditional spelling. Yes, she has a December birthday and a mom who LOVES Christmas so she gets to celebrate all the time! I also had a really awesome mission companion whose last name was Noel.
And there you have it...if you are still reading!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas! So I opted to not do Christmas cards this year. My main reason....I am having a baby! But still no baby yet for those of you who are on baby watch. I had Camilla by this point in my pregnancy so I thought for sure I would have this little bundle of joy by now. (Especially with complications early on, I thought she would by dying to get out). So anyway, we continue to wait and I continue to grow larger than I ever was with the other two. Sorry, enough complaining about being pregnant. But stay tuned for our new babe soon (we hope!)
Things have gone well for us this year. We are still in the Bay Area. Kevin is liking his job with Pricewaterhouse Coopers. And I am loving staying home with the girls.
Emma is now 4 1/2 and Camilla is 2 1/2. They have lots of fun playing together and say the funniest things.
Merry Christmas to all our family and friends! We love you all and wish you the best new year!
By the way, down below are pics of the girls visiting Santa at our church party. Camilla asked for a horse. Santa asked if she meant a pony. She corrected him, "nope, a horse." Don't know what to do about that one. :)

Hair cut and Playing in the Rain

So I found some missing pics on my camera. So some of these are out of date. And I will post some others later. But for now, here is a little of what is going on around here and little Halloween? Am I that lame....yep!
Camilla had her first haircut. And now she looks so much bigger. Here is the before. And the after. I did it myself and was TOTALLY nervous. But I think it turned out okay.
Daddys always do the fun stuff! Kevin let the girls play in the rain and mud! Here are the soaked kids.

Running in the rain is so fun!

And then up to the tub to clean up afterwards. This is my favorite pic! And just because.....

Every once in awhile, I get a fun surprise to brighten my day. Thanks hon!

Pumpkin Patch and Halloween

So since Halloween was on Sunday this year, we tried to do activities to keep celebrating. So we painting pumpkins that day and had dinner in a pumpkin for dinner. It was fun! Check out this mischievous face.

Saturday night we went to our Stake trunk-or-treat. They have a HUGE carnival with games and contests. Here is Camilla with her face painted. She was very particular about what colors to use.

Here is Emma with her butterfly.

And the Halloween costumes. Emma was Sleeping Beauty and Camilla was a pumpkin. I made the pumpkin costume when Emma was younger.

We got to go to a couple of pumpkin patches too. Here is the fam posing on the farm. :) Who knows what the pig is doing.

This pumpkin patch has a playground area with corn on the ground. The girls love it.

We went to a different pumpkin patch for preschool. We do a co-0p with other moms in the ward. It was fun. I think the kids were tired of pics.

At the pumpkin patch. Yes, I am hiding behind Camilla so you don't see my growing belly. :)

They had tons of places to pose and take your pics. Our fav...the Cinderella coach.

And they have a bunch of fake animals to 'ride' on.

And our other cow-girl!