The Christmas Craze

Wow this Christmas season went by way too fast. I think we were too busy partying to enjoy it. We finally got the keys to our house on Nov. 30. We are so happy to be in our own space with our own things, wearing the same clothes for 4 months is no fun.



We hurried to get things ready for our friends, the Heiners, to come and stay with us. We partied with them for the weekend, trying to sell them on the idea to move to AZ, it hasn't worked yet but we don't give up that easily. We took them to the AZ science center, barros pizza (for the best pizza and wings), played games all night long and the temple lights. It was sad to see them go but we are super happy that they came even if it was for only a few days.


After that we had to get things ready for Christmas. Olivia is a popular girl these days and lots of our family came to AZ to help her celebrate the birth of Christ. Both sets of my grandparents came, my mom's brother and his family, and my Aunt Lily. We spent the week of Christmas cleaning and shopping. On the 23rd we all went out for Christmas dinner at Firebirds, since Jenny and Bryan would be at The Bluth's house for Christmas Eve. Then the next day was spent at brunch and opening presents with Jenny before they had to leave.



We have a tradition in my family to do our gift exchange on Christmas Eve Night, it is usually followed by a fashion show where we get to show off our new clothes that mom and dad got us. This year was super sad because there was no show, no Jenny either. It just didn't feel the same without her or being at my parents home in california either. But we made the best of it, Olivia and I made sugar cookies for Santa to eat. We opened our presents. And then headed home to get ready for Santa Claus to come.



Christmas Morning started much later than usual. Olivia slept in until 9 (which is actually pretty early for her). Grandpa Sellers came to see Liv open her presents from mommy and daddy. Her favorite was Prince Phillip, whom she called her Prince Charming, once she unwrapped him. Then everyone from my Parent's house came over to watch her open her Santa presents and eat breakfast. Later that day we headed over to the Sellers' house for a traditional Christmas Dinner, with Grandma, Grandpa, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Kristin's family and Tiffany's Family.




We spent the rest of our time that week sewing with the girls and the boys played cards. We even got a chance to take my mom's parents to see the temple lights and see my brother in law's dad sing at the temple. We had so much fun with everyone that weekend. It really make me glad that families can be together forever.

Jenny and Bryan's Wedding

Here are a few pics of my little sister's wedding. Fun times...

Snow White

Olivia had a great time trick or treating this year.

Olivia's first visit to Disneyland

So the day before we went to Hawaii, we took Olivia to the Happiest Place on Earth, Disneyland. She had so fun much,at first she was a little over whelmed, but after two rides and a snack she was having a blast. Her favorite rides were it's a small world, Nemo and of course the Tea Cups. Olivia did so well that she stayed until 5 and then my mom took her home so that brad, jenny, bryan and I took go on some big kid rides. It was my favorite trip to Disneyland, I loved watching Olivia's reactions to the rides and character's.

P.s. She not a fan of Mickey Mouse....

Hawaii 2009

Just got the wireless to work at the In Laws, so I have a lot of blogging to catch up on....



For our family vacation this year we were able to spend a week in Hawaii with my parents,grandparents, sister and cousin. It was an awesome week, we took O to the beach for the first time. Had some yummy dole whip, my fave, Spend my mom's 50th birthday at the PCC, saw Pearl Harbor, the international market, Waima Beach, The north shore. It was so fun that we didn't want to leave. The most exciting part of the trip, was the job offer that Brad received from a firm in Arizona, which meant that as soon as we got back to Omaha, we had to start packing to move. It was hard to go from such and relaxing vacation to the stress of moving but we were up for the changelle.

4th of July

We have been partying since Thursday night, too bad the weather in the big O didn't want to cooperate. We had planned to spend the whole weekend in the pool, but it ended up raining the whole time instead. So on Friday we took Olivia to see Elmo at the Children's Museum. One of O's favorite things to do is play on the slide. She had so much fun playing in Grover's play gym as well as going to all the different stations that were teaching her how the human body works. Later that night, we also sat in the rain to watch the fireworks from the stadium across the street.
On Saturday, we woke up to more rain, so we decided to go to chuckie cheese's. We tried to teach her how to play skee ball, but Olivia had her own rules in mind. The one thing she definitely did not enjoy at Chuckie Cheese's was the singing and dancing animals. Other than that, she did enjoy running around playing all the games with mom and dad. To cap off the afternoon fun we went next door to toysrus and bought Olivia her first pink bike, thanks Grandma Sellers, she loves it already!
After a short nap we headed to our friend's parents house for a BBQ and some fireworks. We had lots of fun and the food was super yummy too. O had fun playing with the other kids and chasing their little dog around.
We then went to the Ameristar casino to watch the awesome fireworks show. O was pretty tired so we came home and did a few of our own fireworks. Brad got these awesome fireworks that shot up into the sky so we had our own personal show in our own front yard! O liked the show but didn't really care for the sparklers.
Hopefully next year there will be blue skys and we'll get a tan too!

Olivia's 1st Hair Cut

So we finally did it, Olivia got her hair cut. It was such a bittersweet experience. It was so sad to see all her baby hair in a baggie, but it needed to be done. O did really well, she just sat and watched a movie the whole time. I think Brad and I had a harder time with it than she did. Now she looks like a little girl not a baby any more.