Saturday..

Today we went to our daycare, Lisa's house, to help them put up their new jungle gym for the kids. All the day care kids' parents were there to help out. Well-the women chased the kids while the men did the work. The weather wasn't the best-cold and windy-but had a good time.

Olivia and her friend, Ziva. They have such a love-hate relationship: they are the best of buds and have a blast together, but also fight like crazy. Olivia's been in more time outs for scratching, hitting, and pulling her hair.

Happy Easter!!

Happy Easter! Hope everyone had a Blessed Holiday. We spent Saturday & Sunday in Algona at Pat's parents. Olivia had a great time with her cousins, and of course getting a visit from the Easter Bunny!

We missed getting to see Grandpa and Grandma Driscoll for Easter this year so they sent Olivia a nice Easter basket filled with goodies...she loves her new bunny & froggie pj's! Thank you!
In Algona we went to the Y swimming. It took a bit for Olivia to get too far into the water, but once she braved the slide, she was up and down it the rest of the time.

Pat, Olivia, Kaden, and Chloe

Decorating Easter eggs...It looked so good that Olivia of course tried drinking the orange water!

Easter Sunday family pic

Grandma and Grandpa with Jack, Kaden, Lilly, Olivia, Jason, and Chloe. G & G had given all the kids recorded books of them reading a story to them. Olivia's book is Curious George. She loves hearing their voices reading!

The kids getting in line from youngest to oldest to start the Easter egg hunt!

Olivia on the go getting as many eggs as she can! The yard was still a little wet, so we put on her rain boots-she just loves wearing them!

Olivia and Mommy with all of "our" goodies!

Last week...

I'm doing a little catch up from last week...
**Tuesday morning we woke up with a flooded basement. The plumber's 60 second ridiculous diagnosis of a cracked toilet turned out wrong b/c we got more water in the basement Friday afternoon and it was no where near our bathroom... good times.
**Wednesday Olivia woke up with pink eye (pics below). We got to go see our friend and family doc, Dr. Steve at the clinic. She even hollered to the nurse in the parking lot, "I get to go see Dr. Steve". It was cute. So after she played with all the toys in the waiting room and probably infected 15 more kids (I couldn't get her pulled away from them to just sit and watch the fish in the aquarium), we got to see Dr Steve, get some eye drops, and spent the day together hanging out. And of course switching around the fans in the basement.
**I get to wear compression stockings already on a daily basis b/c my legs are swelling, vericose veins popping, and spider veins creeping all over my legs. It's amazing how well they work though, b/c without them, it hurts just to stand. Other than that, I've been really feeling good. I am 26 weeks now and can't wait to meet this baby girl that is so full of life inside me!

Olivia LOVES her dolls. She feeds them, changes their diaper, rocks them, burps them, hugs them, loves them, etc etc. I tell her she is such a good little mommy to her babies & her response is "I not a mommy, I Owivia." I think she's going to be a great Big Sister!

Weekend in Mitchell

Last weekend we road tripped to Mitchell to spend the weekend with my family. We watched Anna's dance, and then celebrated Ethan's 5th Birthday.

Olivia, Anna, Bella, and Ryan

Olivia LOVED finally being able to be outdoors-and especially spending it with Grandpa

Ethan had a cowboy themed birthday party at the bowling alley.

My little cowgirl

Olivia loved bowling-we've gone a couple times to watch Pat bowl on his bowling league, but now she could finally do it!

Olivia and Ryan

The birthday boy and his new DS from Heath & Kristi

Grandma cuddling with Ryan and Olivia