Parish Centennial

The Church where I grew up is celebrating 100 years with a festival. It was cold, but we went anyway.

Olivia painted a pumpkin.

She got to ride in a horse-drawn wagon.

She ate a pear from a basket that Grandma bought. Yum!

Yay, Fall!

Santa this week

Look for one of these to show up on our Christmas card this year...

Cheese!

Santa: "What do you want for Christmas this year?"
Olivia (without missing a beat): "Cookies!"

Santa and Olivia sharing a joke

Look at the camera

Bonus pic: Trying on Grandpa's hat and shoes

Family Weekend

Enjoying a burger last week

Family day at the park!

More family pics on Facebook.

Cows and Cheese

Vacation in America's Dairyland

On the way, we stopped at a zoo.

The bird running around at her feet kind of freaked her out.

He won't bite you!

Whoa! He will bite you!

Look over there!

On Great Grampa's tractor

Having a heart-to-heart with Great Grampa.

Balloon races at Molly's birthday party.

The kids line up. Olivia is third in line with the orange balloon.

Almost Fall

This weekend was cooler than most in August, and we started it off on Friday night by enjoying a fave Fall activity...high school football. Olivia liked running under the bleachers.

In the car, playing with Mommy's toy radio from when Mommy was her age.

Proof! Olivia now reaches the 36 inch bar at HW and can ride the next level of rides. Here she is riding the kiddie roller coaster with Daddy. Bad pic, but it's the only one I have. She didn't like it at all.

Watering her foot

Discovered a new playset at our old parish school yard.

Olivia likes it.

And a jungle gym for our little monkey.

Sprayer

One of Olivia's favorite things to do is to play with the garden hose. It wastes less water than the sprinkler because it's only on in spurts, and she has more fun with it.

Trying to drink from the sprayer

Water in the face!

This was taken earlier today. I appeared in her room with the camera, and she turned around and said, "Cheese!" Except that she doesn't smile, she just says the word.

Weekend family fun

This is the best "cheese" she could give while bouncing around on a haywagon.

Whoa...I am so tired!

Walking with Aunt Lori and Cousin Molly

Chasing the cat into the field.