Makeup Tips

Tip #1: Make sure the make up you put on your skin matches your skin color and tone.

Livi's First Movie

Saturday night Dallas and I decided to be brave and attempt a movie with Olivia. We decided to take her to see "The Princess and the Frog." I am still in shock at how good she was. I think Dallas and I both thought we'd be in and out and that it would be hard to get Livi to sit through a two hour movie. But she surprised us both and behaved wonderfully. She sat in her chair with her popcorn and actually watched the movie. About ten minutes before it was over she said "all done please," but she waited patiently until the end. It was a really cute movie and had some great music, I highly recommend it. Here are a couple pics from our night out:

The Greatest Sound in the Whole Entire World

Livi has never really been a fan on me trying to work on the computer, but lately she likes to climb in my lap when I'm on the computer and I'll pull up youtube and show her animal videos. She likes the videos of the kittens and puppies the best. The video she is watching in this clip is of two cats jumping around trying to catch a fly. The cat video is not even really that funny, but her belly laugh is so funny. I'm so glad Dallas grabbed the camera and caught this.

BOO!

Caution: These are pretty spooky Halloween pictures so proceed at your own risk! : )

Our scary ladybug had a great Halloween. We really only took her trick or treating to a few houses, but she really loved answering the door and putting a piece of candy in the kid's buckets at our house. She also loved carving pumpkins and watching as we lit them up at night. I've sort of created a monster because lately when she sees a bug she lets up a high pitched "Ewwww." So when Halloween came and I talked to her about putting on her ladybug costume she was a little bit hesitant and we had to coax her into it. Can't wait until next year...

Gardner Village

Last October Olivia was only seven months old and not really old enough to start discovering all the Halloween fun. I love that she is so into this year. My Halloween decorations move on an hourly basis and she loves to have her costume on. We are also working on saying trick or treat. Last year I took her to day farms and did get quite a few cute pumpkin pics. Well I had really high hopes of doing another cutesy fall photo shoot so my friend and I headed to Gardner Village. Well, turns out the nice thing about having a seven month old is that they are pretty much immobile. This years photos didn't turn out so good because now my 19 month old was running away or distracted by something else while I tried to take the pics. Oh well, better luck next year.

One of last year's photos. Much easier to take photos then, but not nearly as fun!

I definitely need to go back without kiddos to shop, but we did manage to hit the petting zoo & the pony rides while we were there. The petting zoo was a huge hit even though we smelled like a farm afterwards. Olivia loves animals and usually the animals need to be protected from Olivia and not the other way around. She loved being able to walk around and check out all the animals.

I'm sad I kinda chopped the top of her head off in this photo, I thought it was pretty cute.


The chicken in the car was cracking me up

Circus Parade

Last Thursday Livi and I took frontrunner down to the Gateway for the Circus Parade. It was really short, but a lot of fun. They had a few floats with the performers, some clowns, and of course the elephants! Olivia cried when it was over because she wanted to see more. Next year we will have to get tickets and take her to the actual circus.

The train ride home was a little crazy with tired cranky kids.

Here are some cute pics we've taken recently:

Livi "texting"

She love to wear my sunglasses. I think she looks better in them than I do.

Cooking with mom. She loves to help.

Carousel at Peach Days in Brigham City

Aquarium

About a week ago Livi and I along with a couple of friends decided to head to Sandy to check out the aquarium. I didn't really know whether or not she would be into it, but I thought we'd give it a try and she loved it. They have really neat tanks filled with all kinds of amazing fish. They also have an open pond thing where you can pet the stingrays - I did it, but was kind of a chicken about it, they were a little slimey. They had other exhibits with turtles, spiders, frogs, and all sorts of creatures. It was kinda hard to get good pictures in the aquarium with the dim light and the kids wanting to run around like crazies.

Olivia, Eli & Carter. I can't remember what was in this tank, but its the only time the three of them stood in the same spot long enough for me to get a picture.

Very cool tank with sharks in it. Olivia loved this one.

Eli & Livi checking out the cool yellow fish that looked like a piece of coral.

Dance Party

Lately Dallas & Olivia have been having dance parties. Dallas will plug his ipod into the stereo and blast the music and the two of them will have a dance party. She loves it! Now she will grab his hand and walk him over to the stereo, put his and on it and say dance. She is too cute! It is so much fun to watch her dance. Here's a short clip of video from the dance party before bed the other night. Please ignore my shrill voice narrating. Does anyone else hate the sound of their own voice on recordings?

Westwood California

In the middle of July we traveled to Northern California to visit my Grandpa Cowan's hometown of Westwood and visit with all of the California Relatives. The Westwood/Lake Almanor area of California is such a small town, but incredibly beautiful with a lot of fun adventures to be had.

This is my favorite picture. Grandma and Livi enjoying an afternoon snack of popcorn.


Grandma and Uncle Charles enjoying the amazing view from the deck of the cabin.

We rented a house right on the shore of Lake Almanor and Olivia had a blast playing in the dirt and throwing rocks in the water. Olivia is so busy and letting her play on the beach required my full attention so I didn't get around to taking very many pictures. We can't wait to go back!!

I thought her expression here was so funny.

Dallas and Ryan trying to figure out how to windsurf.

Mom & Karson taking the kayak out for a spin.

Dallas & my dad attempting to windsurf. I think you might need wind in order to windsurf, but what do I know.