The Bumbo

Olivia loves her mommy! In fact every night from about 5 pm on... I am the only one that she will allow to hold her. She has had a cold and cough and so it has been even worse....but thinking about the blessing of having her here and it being just a cold makes it easier to put the rest of life on hold and love on her. A friend of mine gave me this Bumbo chair...saying that it might give me 5 more minutes when frosting a cake :) Olivia loves it for about 7 minutes! Doesn't she look cute...and so grown-up. Just in the last few days I think she has had a major growth spurt. I have been so eager for her to get a little bigger..and now I am already to slow her down and have her be my little baby. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE having a baby, life really just does not get any better than having a snugly little person to love on all the time!

Volleyball is over!

The girls finished up their seasons of Volleyball this past week. Emily and the Heartbreakers took an un-defeated season! They took home not one but two trophies...and they are huge (let the battle begin as to where they will be displayed)...Yeah Emily! Mackenzie and the Spike Girls went to the finals and did not win but played AWESOME ball and made huge strides in their game. Yeah Kenz! Mom and dad are just glad that we are now freed up on Monday and Tuesday nights...as well as Saturdays! Now Brian is starting Track with Ryan...no rest for the weary!

Burrito

Thanks to her extended stay at the NICU...Olivia cannot sleep unless she is wrapped...as tight as you can get her, like a burrito. I think it is cute ...now...when she is 11 years old... maybe not.

On this day she had just received her immunization for whooping cough and I had given her Tylenol..she slept ALL day. I think I will remember that for our 24 hour car ride to Utah this summer...just kidding.

Banana Grams!

This is such a great and addicting game! If you do not have it...buy it. We were introduced to it last summer at aunt Jessica's home. We love it and the kids talked Eric and Heather into playing it with them at least 172 times while they were here. Thanks guys! Really when I say Eric and Heather are the IT...it is so true. The kids...all of them LOVE and adore them. Eric and Heather are just about the two nicest people I have ever met...really. They played endless crazy games with the kids...tolerated many a WII game and even acted excited and happy the whole time...when I grow-up I know who I want to be like.

Blessings

I must tell you that Sunday mornings are mostly quite rough at our house...but in this case the reason for Ryan's true expression is that I was making him wear a PINK tie...Ohh the horror. He actually snuck a different tie in his pocket, and had Uncle Eric switch it out when we got to church...his dad is not helpful in this matter...

Our sweet Olivia was blessed. She was wonderful and even though the dress turned out to be way to big on her, she looked beautiful! We had such a wonderful time with Brian's family in town. Olivia should be happy to know that they were willing to travel from Utah and Arkansas to witness her special day. It meant a lot to us. My sister Jessica bought her dress for me in Utah and sent it to me. I was on a hunt for something simple, white and beautiful. I think she found the perfect dress. I ended up sewing the shoulders about an inch (my sewing friends would have been horrified) I left the slack and just ironed it really well. I also (the morning of) made her a white hair bow...because she couldn't go bow-less you know. All in all it was an wonderful weekend filled with grandma and grandpa Wing, Carlton and family and also Eric and Heather...(the new superstars in the family). Good Times.

Just shut their head in the freezer door..

Many years ago a girl told me of how she had a kitten that the family loved...unfortunately the kitten got its head slammed in the freezer door one day. Well the kitten never grew up! It stayed little and sweet always. The girl said it was now an inside joke...that when ever she was feeling like her kids were growing up to fast, or wanted to "freeze" the moments with them sweet and little...that she wished she could shut their head in the freezer.... I thought of this tonight when I saw this picture of my girls...they look so grown-up! When did that happen?

More and more I am realizing that time is the most precious gift we are given...and how we spend that time is so critical. I have wasted a massive amount of time in my life...worrying about insignificant things...

I want to savor my time with my little people around here...I want to hear all about Ryan's field trip to the gardens and how the bus ride was..."the longest ever mom...it took us at least 2 hours to get back to Wolford..." or how **** boy keeps asking MacKenzie to be his girlfriend...say what!....11 years old...and how she said, "sorry but my mom said no...we are way to young..." or watching Emily practice over and over her dance to "Umbrella" for the school talent show this coming weekend....this is time well spent.... If only I could live more in the moments every day as I wish too....If only my little people knew how much I truly love them...even in the moments of insanity...that have come a little too often lately :) That they are my every smile and breath....

So cute I just can't stand it!

Need I say more...how am I supposed to get anything at all done these days when I have this beautiful little face shining at me!