Happy 2nd Birthday Alyvia!

 This cute spunky Little girl turned two last Monday (a week ago).

Pics from the festivities.

Presents on Sunday

 

 And she will smile here!

 She loves Dora. Her pullups have Dora on them, but she has never watched her, go figure.

 Her "yummies"

 She really is so cute!

 More presents on Monday

 She finally figured out how to rip them open!

 

 

If you ask her what Olaf says she will say "Yeah why? Stop it Sven".

 

  She loved this Tinkerbell coloring set.

 Still interested in Tinkerbell, could care less about the tunnel at this point!

 She loved it after we set it up.

 There is Olaf...

 We spent the afternoon flying kites.

 

 Kami's 3D dolphin.

 Ash's fish

 I didn't get a pic of Kaite's shark. I was trying to manhandle the toddler while wearing the baby.

More "yummies"

 So happy!

  She is so cute and we just love her to pieces! She is so smart and knows her colors, most of her shapes, and her left and right. She has finally hit an even 20 pounds and can wear a size 4 shoe. The size 4 is what all the other girls wore when they turned 1. She is such a ham and won't smile for me! She loves to read, play, and destroy things. She is such a good big sister and "helps" me with Kenzey, she likes to cover Kenzey's face with stuff. Lyvi can be a huge stinker, but she is so dang cute! I love how she just sits in her crib and plays before bed each night, and how almost every morning now I find her naked in that same crib. She has the best laugh and loves her sisters so much. She is still very much a Daddy's girl but is warming up more to mom. Lyvi will not under any condition leave her hairstyle in! She pulls everything out and then just looks like an old man with a mullet! She loves to ride her bike and swing. We have to really watch this one, she gets into a ton of mischief! Lately, she has been climbing out of her crib (and onto everything) so now she is in a toddler bed. She will come out after about 10 minutes at nap time and say "all done". She is such a good eater and loves just about everything. She loves to talk to Kyle on the phone and gets so excited to see her sisters after school. Alyvia is just a cute spunky little girl and we love her!
Love this face!

Happy Birthday Alyvia!

More fun and another long post.

It seems I have been seriously slacking in the blogging and picture taking department. There are many times I wish I would have taken more pics of things because you can't ever get those moments back.

 So here is to some catch up, if I can remember it all!

Ash had her friends party, it was a slumber party. I only allowed 4 friends, but with my 4 that was 8 girls- that's enough for me!

We stayed down at the barn and they had fun playing the wii and other games. Sardines is always a favorite down there!

They hate when I take their pics dancing!

 more presents, don't know if she can get them all in her room!

Lots of pizza and cupcakes!

Lyvi went with the flow and tried to keep up with the older girls.

some of the decorations

The girls got in the hot tub and had a blast (I think it was to cold, Ky had it set at 96). 

This is actually the second attempt, they got in the night before right as a thunderstorm started. They had fun screaming and getting rained on, but I think they had more fun the next morning.

Lyvi really enjoyed the balloons!

Ash's birthday dress from where else Justice! I need to get a pic of her after church with her hair done and her sweater on.

We went to the orthodontist and Kaite now has neck gear and a bright pink glow-in-the-dark retainer.

Ash is almost done with her retainer, it is now holding her baby teeth in and the permanent ones are coming in on top of them. She had to go to the dentist and get 2 pulled, 2 more if she doesn't get them out soon! She was numb for hours!! We all got a kick out of it!

I started ordering baby stuff, including Lyvi's new car seat which she is still too small for. She just needs to fit in the next 6 months, I was hoping she would fit before the baby came but she is still hanging out at 17.6 pounds.

blessing dress that I just love.

Lyvi loves to rock her baby.

She knows where her eyes, ears, nose, hair, toes, belly button, tongue, and teeth are.

Chelsea's birthday party, the girls had so much fun.

Lyvi just wanted to haul the kites around.

Couldn't remember if I posted this pic already. We were at Mar and Cory's shower and played an awesome game, yep that is Ky with a bra on his head!!

 

Lyvi LOVES her daddy!

Ky being silly and imitating Ash. She read a ton for the read-a-thon over spud harvest. She kept taking over the living room though with all her stuff!

My girl is growing up! She loves to ride her bike and dance around the house.

Also.....

We had a good spud harvest. Although, I can't really remember what we did, the girls read lots for the read-a-thon. We had some fun watching movies at the barn with marshmallow popcorn. Kaite got a haircut and Kami split open her hand, it has healed very nicely. Kaite had fun chasing a bird around at ballet. Ash found out she has a lead part in the Nutcracker in her dance. The girls all got their flu shots. We got all the decorations and costumes out for Halloween, Lyvi is too small to fit into the one year old costume...We watched conference and Kaite was the only one to put a rock in the jar all 4 times! I have started some serious Christmas shopping. We bought a new truck (it's just a work truck for hauling wood and plowing and such) can't believe we went so long without one. Ky drives it every chance he gets. I think that about sums it up for now. Honestly, I have been really busy shuttling everyone around and stuff with the barn has been crazy. Also, I have been trying to take it easy when I can. Doc says baby is looking good, still big and I still have hopes they will move my date up. I am not anemic this time yay! But due to all my contractions and rash they are monitoring me more closely now. 

I have been working on this post for about a week now so I do want to get it up. I also want to do a separate post on Lyvi. She is really hitting some milestones with her talking and understanding of things, I think that deserves it's own post.

More Fun Times

A couple of days ago Lyvi just decided to latch on to this bear.

She calls it "baby" I have been trying to get her to call it "baby bear". She loves the thing and won't go anywhere without it. She even gives it kisses.

She really loves it! She has also managed to put a small hole in it already and I keep waiting for a chance to sew it up. I have even tried to snag it while she is sleeping but she has a tight grip on the thing!

She is getting so much fun and mischievious!

Got the new pics up on the wall, well the small ones since I couldn't use my coupon for the larger ones.

We went to the fair on Monday. I was worried it would be way crowded, I prefer to go in the middle of the week. Anyway, the weather was crappy and rainy so it kept the crowds down! We did fine since we were prepared and it stayed nice and cool. 

The girls got their faces painted. Kaite got an awesome bird.

The girls rode ponies, still not quite sure why we paid for this when there are so many people we know that said we could ride their real horses.

Lyvi had fun but would not leave her shoes on, I finally gave up and just left them off.

We rode some rides.

Kami and Chelsea had fun together.

These two wanted to ride the big swings which lifted up and ended up being about 60-80 ft in the air.

Before

After

Look how much fun Kaite is having. They screamed the entire time, I was really worried Ash was going to cry but she said she had fun.

These just were not the same!

I talked the girls into going on this one with Ky and Chris, they had it spinning real good. Kaite loved it and wanted to ride it again.

Check out Ash's face!

It was a fun day, but I was wiped out by the time we were done and could barely walk to the car. I love going to the fair and next year I am riding some rides! Kami said she is going to ride one of the big spinning ones all by herself next year, hmmm we will see! Kaite needs to grow 3 more inches to ride the zipper, she is so excited.

Kami had her first day of ballet and loved it! She was so excited, there were so many cute girls in pink! They are going to look darling in their costumes at both recitals.

Ash is combined with the pointe girls this year and she is looking forward to next year when she gets to start pointe! I told Ky that is when she gets expensive!

I am still trying to transition to the new schedule for school, dance and gym, throw in Ash's birthday and it is going to get crazy! Oh, and I have to bake like 12 batches of zucchini bread still.

I don't think it ever really lets up!