Sunday Best

I finally remembered to get pictures of Ollie before church on Sunday. He has such cute little outfits. I always forget because we have early church and we are always late as is. When we get home from church we rip off these fancy clothes and get into our comfy clothes before I remember to take pictures. So even though we were ten minutes late, I took an extra two minutes in front of the church building to take these and boy, oh boy, did it pay off!

 

 

These pictures kill me.

 I look at them often, lucky for Oliver who has decided not to take naps all week and keeps sneaking out of his room when I think he's napping. Speaking of...I better go check on that sneaky little devil and make sure he's not roaming the house.



My Twin's Birthday

People are always assuming I am my sister, Beth. On Saturday, I went to a wedding reception and she did not. On Sunday, {her birthday} she got a Happy Birthday and thank you for being at the reception message on Facebook. She was pleased that she no-showed, but still got credit. She was not pleased, however, with her birthday being on a Sunday. I tried to make her feel better about it by offering to make her dinner & dessert.

Then on Monday, we went to Tia Rosa's for her birthday lunch.

I like to think, I made it the best birthday ever.

♥ Grandpa & Jane ♥

 

The Peterson brood.

Oliver loves baby Jane.

Who wouldn't?!?

Party animal crashed after all the excitement.

 

Adam is embarrassing...

...and Bennett made off with my camera to take selfies...

More weirdos...

 

 

Happy Birthday, Betty!

Elyce - come visit & I will create a magical birthday evening for you too!

Fountain Hills

Last weekend, we took Oliver to Fountain Hills to see the fountain and play at the park. It was a fun little outing and I am glad Jordan made me go. {I wanted to be boring all day running errands and getting stuff done.}

It always amazes me with how high the fountain can go.

 

 

 

Ollie was more impressed by the park than the fountain. He always takes a while to warm up to playing with kids he doesn't know, but eventually gets over it and has a good time.

I am thankful for great afternoons with my boys.

Fort Building

Yesterday when I went to get Oliver from his nap, he immediately asked before I could walk out of the room, "You wanna play in my room, Mom?"

And seriously, how do you say "no" to that.

You don't. So we built a super awesome fort.

When he was done, it got destroyed. Thanks for always wanting to play with me Ollie. You keep me young...and make me feel old all at the same time.

This morning he asked, "Mom, you want a kiss?" YES!!

Cadbury hasn't gotten any airwaves lately...

He is a good dog. He stalks me at night, following me around. If he sees me going for my tennis shoes {which means going on a walk} he goes bonkers. He owns the backyard. If someone enters his terrain, he thinks that means you have solely come to play fetch with him. Cadbury rarely loses interest in a game of fetch and only tires after he has played with each and every one of us. He misses the squirrels. If he escapes the yard {usually a gate opened by one of the neighbor girls} he doesn't go very far. Just next door to see if one of the neighbor dogs would play with him. Our little social butterfly. He loves a good scratch of the ears & still will eat anything someone throws at him, or drops. We love you Cadbury - sorry Oliver has taken to calling you Badbury.

Easter Weekend 2015

We dyed eggs with Oliver. He colored the eggs with a wax crayon while I did the potentially messy job.

"Hat!"

We had egg hunts the next two days. Ollie did well at the Rogers' Family egg hunt.

{When you are two, you don't have to wear your pants to hunt for eggs.}

But at the Shill Family egg hunt, he just started opening the eggs and eating the candy out of them.

 This picture is called "Mom won't let me eat any more of my Easter candy."

Oliver's Easter basket included fun items such as: candy, green crocs, Curious George coloring book, Duck Tales DVD {which I have to exchange/return because I opened it myself and it had 2 of 3 discs}, and a CD of the Children's Primary Songbook.

We spent most of the weekend visiting with family and watching General Conference. Happy Easter!