Very busy week...

This last week, we have been very busy. My mom had a hysterectomy on Friday, February 13 (yeah, probably not the luckiest day to have surgery), but she is doing great! She even went out to dinner last Friday! We're so thankful that she's feeling so well.

On Sunday, we got together with my mom's side of the family (minus silly Uncle Chuck) to celebrate February birthdays. We went out to dinner and had fun watching the kids entertain back at my moms. Check out my sister's blog here to see pictures. Between the two of us - one of us always has our camera.

Valentine's Day

We spent Valentine's day with my sister and her husband and our Grammie. The kids always have so much fun playing together. They wanted to watch the Wizard of Oz (or as Liv says, the "Wizar da Boz". Below are the kids sitting, watching the movie!
This must have been when the Wicked Witch appeared.

Jimmy has the prettiest eye lashes!

Grammie enjoyed snuggling with her Great-Grandchildren during the movie.

Julia making funny faces!

Kate & Jimmy

Valentine's Fun

Olivia enjoyed putting her Valentines together this year. She had Tinkerbell valentines (big shock).

She takes after her daddy - she's definitely a lefty!

Below is Olivia getting ready for school on Friday. Grammie got her a new sweater to wear. She also had an outfit from Grandma Betty that she wore on Saturday. She was definitely outfitted for Valentine's Day!

blog backgrounds

Okay - so I changed my background again - usually my sister is the only one who notices. But I found another great site for blog backgrounds, and thought I'd share it - along with a few others I've found.

Aqua Poppy Designs

Cutest Baby on the Block

Background Fairy

Potty Training

Okay - we've been super busy lately...sorry for the lack of posting. We're also working on potty-training - so no need for photos of that. After a weekend with cousin Julia, Olivia decided she wanted to wear her big girl panties all the time! So, that worked for a little while, but she didn't mind "going" in them. So, now we're just working on shorter bursts of time in them and trying to encourage her to use the potty. We have the sticker chart, which in turn can earn her prizes.

Right now her prizes are pretty big - they are the "decoration" that we bought for her room. Instead of putting prints on her walls, we decided to get her the porcelain dolls. Actually, her Poppi found one and bought it for her, and she LOVED it - so then the hunt was on the find the rest! Poppi found one more and then Travis found the rest. So, we gave her one after she consecutively used the potty. And then we told her that she could get another one (Tinkerbell, herself) if she would just go #2 on the potty. Well, yesterday when she got home from school, the first thing she had to tell me was that she put her poopy in the potty at school! Big excitement in our house, and Olivia is the proud owner of a pretty tink doll. :)

We'll see how it goes. Sorry for the lack of pictures...but didn't figure you wanted pictures of any of this! :)