January Pictures

Some pics from January

The girls at the zoo

Olivia's first trip to the park

I love this picture. I wanted them to all jump at the same time but obviously Ava had a little timing issue. I think it makes the picture more interesting.

On the dragon at our local park/waterpark a view from above, this park is great because it is a waterspray park as well when it is warm outside and it is new and FREE! and just down the street from our house.

Ava uses her eyes to speak to us even though she has lots of words. She hides in the garage and poops these days and I caught her in action.

playing by the stream at Santee Lakes where Grams and Granddad have their motorhome

Ava is definitely our snuggler. But she can also be our "stage 5 clinger"

Ava loves her "dad dad"

The family

Bella speaks in a high pitched voice when she is talking about her baby sister. She just adores her.

The girls playing in the motorhome.

Ava under daddy's legs

some more pics from Olivias photoshoot.

I love this photo my mom (Grandma Mary) took of my neices Nikki and Maddie. They are really sweet little girls. Even though they are not too far away we don't see them very often, so at christmas time Bella couldn't remember their names. So she started calling them the "red girl" and the "green girl" which referred to the color dress each of them was wearing.

Olivia's photoshoot

Here are just a few pictures we took for Olivia's announcement back in January. I really wanted a pose of Olivia like this. Little did I know how difficult it actually is to do this. Luckily Brad and I took the photos together so he came up with a unique solution to keeping her in this pose!

We had to get some finally of all the girls!

Meet Olivia

Ok I am trying to catch up sequentially. So here they are Olivia was born December 28, 2008 at 2:24pm, weighing 8 lbs 10.5 oz and 21 inches long.

Our sweet little girl

Grandma Mary meeting Olivia for the first time

Bella and Grandma checking out her baby sister or her baby as she refers to Olivia

Granddad and his new little granddaughter

Daddy and his girls

Grams meeting Olivia with Bella making sure her baby is ok!

Ava and mommy at the hospital

at home in the swing

3 days old

About 2 weeks old

Finally a new post!

These pictures were all taken prior to Christmas at Balboa Park (with the exception of the strangling pic). Yes it has been quite a while since I posted anything here. I have been posting other pics on facebook because it is much quicker but I cannot tell a story or elaborate on the pictures there. So I am posting a few at at time and hope to get caught up to the more recent pics in the next few days. Keep checking back!

Christmas Pics

The girls loved their new kitchen and cooked us some yummy food

Bella used the play blender to make us some mushroom smoothies!

Brad and Butch in their new hats

the girls playing "ring around the rosie" in their new princess pajamas that they both asked santa for!

what the girls woke up to christmas morning

The cousins all together the day before christmas

The Countdown begins: 2.5 weeks to go!

so I have had some requests to post a picture of my belly. This was not taken to capture my belly, but it was one I had that includes a belly profile! This was taken at balboa park when I was 36 weeks pregnant.

Brad took this picture of Bella at Balboa park. I loved it but modified it a bit to look vintage. Ava was not very happy to be taking our family pictures.

Uncle Paul came over for thanksgiving and immediately became a favorite.

Isabella asked him to put her to bed and lay down with her.

Ava is our cuddler! here she is taking advantage that grandad is now in town for 3 months