The time is just flying by! We made it through another week while Trent was away in Florida with the girls team. He has been gone the majority of the past two mnths :( They got back last night and we have him for two more days until he is back to OKC. This time though, the same day he leaves my parents will be joining us! It will be nice to have them around while he is gone.

I signed up for roasted pumpkin seeds for Ty's class party on Monday, so I went to United this past week and bought the biggest pumpkin they had!!!! I could barely load it into my cart!!!! I have never had one so big. Ty LOVES it and Olivia pulls up on it all the time! Anyhooo.... we are going to carve it with Pop and Cita Sunday evening. Ty is just now old enough to enjoy that. I also wanted some 'extra' seeds for us.......hmmmmmmm one of my favorite things about this time of year! It will also be nice to have them play with the kids while I make cookies for their teachers and our little class for treat sacks. Another one of my favorite things to do if I get the time.

Tonight I am having a jewelry show for my friend Kerri, her website is Olive Juice on the left. I am so excited and hope we have a good turn out. If you are reading, and live in town, consider yourself invited. She is so amazingly talented and makes such beautiful things. I wish I could afford to buy them all. I am doing a little Christmas shopping tonight!

The day has started out well. With Trent being here, I got to take a worry-free shower that lasted more than two minutes........even got to dry and style my hair and put make-up on within the same hour!!! We get to meet him for lunch and then while the kids are down I will be doing some cleaning for tonight. I need to run to the store for some goodies to serve and dinner for Kerri and me and that is about it! We have absolutely NO plans for Friday and Saturday and you just can't know how happy that makes me. I am looking forward to the time with my little family.

Facts about Olivia at ELEVEN months!

The past month has just flown by and now we are nearing Olivia's first birthday which is making me a little sad! Its so neat to see her growing and developing but at the same time letting go of the "baby" in her is hard.

She is now standing on her own for short periods of time and has taken a first step! Not walking consistently though. She is making attempts at more words like baby, and dat, and dis! Her favorite thing to do is crawl over to the book box and completely empty it! She had two feet in it yesterday and the books were just flying behind her! She also enjoys doing this with dog's toy basket. She is a little bit harder to discipline than her brother and just keeps going back!!! She absolutely loves the remote and my cell phone and is sneaky about getting them both!

Olivia has become quite clingy to me in the past month or so and won't go to many people unless I sneak away and she is distracted. Even so, she will not cry long and adapts easilly to whatever, just not real willing to leave me. She is now eating all kinds of table food for example, lunch meat and cheese, cut up grilled cheese sandwiches, cooked carrots, peas, rice, loves rice chex cereal for snack time, green beans, cut up zucchini, squash, baked sweet potato, munches on cinnemon rasin bagels at breakfast and will generally have apple sauce or bannanas and strawberries shortly afterward. Its SO nice not to have to always bring food along everywhere we go. I can usually mush up what I have for her if we are at a restraunt. She is slowly weaning from nursing and drinking milk and juice from a disposable sippy cup several times a day. We are down to just about three times a day, if that, I try for just twice and not very long at that.

She is finally in 6-12 and 12 month clothing, although pants still hang on her. If they are elastic I roll them on so they will stay up! She is wearing a size two in diapers and shoes. Her hair finally stays in alligator clip bows but still not long enough for actual pigtails. She loves her bed. Sometimes she cries when I lay her down but by the time I walk out of the room and shut the door she lays down. She has developed a liking for baby dolls and carries a small one around that our friend Priscilla, from Bright Horizons got her last week.

She likes to put her face in the water at bath time, I don't know if she is attempting bubbles or what! She got a little top heavy out of her suction cup seat last night and took a dive. Ty was way more freaked out than she was. He was balling and kept asking, is my baby okay??? She was under for maybe two seconds, I was right there to fish her out. He is so protective of her, which is surprising to me at his young age. He was sick, and missed school today but she went to give me more time with Ty at the doctor's. Our friend Sandy met me at my car to get her and take her in and Ty went nuts after she shut the door and left, saying, "she take my baby!!!" She still LOVES her brother and squeals in laughter at him all the time. Its neat to see your children love on each other. Ty softly kisses her on her head when she is asleep.

I can't believe that before long I will be posting her one year old facts along with pics of her first cake, etc...... I can still vividly remember reading a pregnancy test and being pregnant with her and it just doesn't seem like it was a year ago that I was anticipating her arrival. She is SO beautiful to me and has such a sweet disposition. I never could have imagined what it was like to love a little girl so much. I already worry about her growing up and the people she will encounter and things that she will experience. I pray over her every night that God constantly watch over her and protect her and for her to wake up healthy every morning.

She is so curious and smiley and I wish all of you could experience her in the way that we have over the past ELEVEN :( months.............

Happy Fall

Fall is here, for today anyway! Its cool and rainy and not quite the day for the pumpkin patch that I had planned. We are going to try again for tomorrow. These are some pictures taken on Saturday. I just love this time of year, the smells, the colors, the food, and the weather! We had Trent all weekend long and were able to spend time with two of his uncles from the metroplex area who were here for volleyball games and suberbans! Olivia went to her first birthday party for a friend, Jade who turned one last week! Dad and Ty got some time together and went to see, "In The Wild." He can't stop talking about it.

I also was treated to a movie last Tuesday by Meme, "Facing The Giants." If you don't see another movie this year, see this one. Its obviously low budget, and there is nobody you have heard of in it, but its a wonderful story about a football team that decides to get their priorities straight and focus on God. This of course is why there is not much publicity on it and you probably have not heard much about it. You know how the world works, don't want to offend anybody, unless they are Christian! Anyone seen veggie tales on regular t.v. lately? That is all I have to say about that.

This coming week is pretty uneventful for us. I will be missing my 10 year reunion at ACU b/c my husband will not be around and I will have my two small children, not up for doing it alone! I am a little sad about that, mostly because I was looking forward to going to The Shed and The Beehive with Holly. I guess we could do that any time though.

Hope everyone has a wonderful week and is enjoying this day off if you have it!