Memorial Day Weekend

We spent Memorial Day Wknd in Sioux Falls with my family. Everyone was here to welcome Korban. Unfortunately we weren't able to do a whole lot-Cora came down with hand, foot, & mouth on Saturday. These pics are taken throughout the weekend.

Olivia & her cousins Ryan & Ethan

Olivia putting lip gloss on Ryan

Anna & Cora

Grandma and Olivia's artwork made of yarn.

Cora is 10 months!!

Cora is 10 months & oh so close to 1 years old! She still is and continues to be such a happy baby & is the most easy peasy child to take care of! At 10 months she is crawling-yea! She loves her new freedom & exploring the house (or trying to). Cora has just 2 teeth yet. She got the 2nd one a couple weeks after the 1st. She loves to imitate you with sounds and gestures & thinks it's so funny! One of the cutest things she has picked up on and knows when to use it is "uh-oh". She'll drop something & clear as a bell comes the uh-oh. We still are getting up with her 1x a night to feed her. Can't quite seem to shake that. But she's pretty easy about it at least & the whole process takes 15 minutes from the time one of us gets up, feeds & changes her, and is back to sleep again. Cora and Olivia continue to be best of friends. Although Olivia sometimes follows the 'What's mine is mine and what's yours is mine' adage (she doesn't always like to share)-they truly are best friends.
-On a side note-I was a couple days late getting her pic right on the 24th, and then she came down w/ hand, foot, and mouth so had to wait another few days. As you can see, she's still got a few spots on her face and hands :( (5-30-12)

Here Cora is having a blast dropping her paci in Olivia's rainboot and finding it!
Where'd it go?

Still searching...

Found it!!

Baby Korban James Driscoll

A big Congrats to my brother Justin, Jessica, and Caden on the birth of Korban James! He is one handsome little guy! He was 8lbs, 21 inches, and everyone is doing well. I'm so lucky to be living close to share in the excitement!

Big Brother Caden

Korban was a surprise whether or not he was going to be a boy or girl. Caden wanted a brother so bad and called the baby, Leonard. Well, this stuck and Olivia knew the baby in Jessica's tummy as Leonard so when we got to the hospital to see Korban, Olivia kept trying to correct us that he was Leonard, not Korban. And then it was, "who's Korban?" It took a bit for her to understand :)

The oldest and youngest of the Driscoll grandchildren-Bella & Korban

Justin is such a proud papa! He had made up little onesies with his logo-Driscoll Construction on the back.

Cora's crawling!!!

Cora's crawling and I'm not even sure where she picked it up! She wasn't even close-except that she could scoot herself backwards. This morning I put her on the floor in the living room in front of her toys & went to make coffee. I came back less than 2 minutes later to check on her and she was crawling all over the place! It was amazing! I'm thinking she started for one of three reasons: She knew Korban was going to be born today & was no longer the baby so better start crawling, she knew G & G Driscoll would be coming to see Korban & wanted to show off to them, or she's turning 10 months tomorrow & decided it's about time. Time to baby proof the house!

Enjoying a nice day outside

Mother's Day Weekend

Happy Mother's Day to my mom and Kathee-You both are amazing women and such great role models. Hope you enjoy your day :)
We spent Mother's Day Weekend in Algona and had a great time. Pat's cousin, Chase also graduated high school so we were able to see alot of Pat's relatives. Aunt Betchy (Olivia's pronunciation of it-love ya Betsey :) ) & Uncle Bill stayed at G & G Froehlich's also-hadn't seen them for so long-was great to see them and catch up!

At the hotel pool where John, Jenny, and Daniel were staying. In the pic are Chloe, Daniel, and Olivia

What are the chances that this net has never been used? Being at Grandpa Froehlich's, probably not good!Olivia helping Grandma drown, I mean, water the flowers. My happy baby :)The four of us on Mother's Day-I am lucky to have two wonderful girls and being their mother is truly a gift.

The girl's new swingset

Our last swing set we had for Olivia was in New Ulm. We got it off Craigslist for free-the catch was that we had to come get it, tear it down, and haul it away. It was probably 20 years old but definitely served its purpose for us and Olivia absolutely loved it. So, we decided here to buy one for her. We've now had it for probably 3-4 weeks and have already gotten our moneys worth. Olivia would sleep under the stars if we let her-she just loves the outdoors so much doing anything and playing on her swingset just makes it all the better! Pat, Uncle Dan, and our good friend Greg, set it up from 11am-7pm and Olivia was at their heels helping the whole time. Olivia and her Daddy sorting out all the pieces. Olivia & her Uncle Dan-she just adores him!Olivia measuring the pieces.

Dan teaching Olivia how to pump her legs

As you can see from the above pictures, the swingset is all put together. However from the bottom pic, there's still SACKS of pieces left! Cross your fingers.

Lots of updates

So I think I'm finally caught up on the blog from the last month or so. I can look at this later on and think that I really did keep up all the time, but in reality I just did it all tonight and changed the dates accordingly. It's been a little hectic for me with going back to school and working full time. All is going well, but don't have a lot of spare time to do some of the things I love to do-i.e. my blog & scrapbook. I am taking the summer quarter off though, so hopefully will get better with the postings. I have a list of projects I want to get done over those 3-4 months & then it's hitting the books again in the fall!