Tuesday, January 13, 2009

our little olivia
















we love olivia so much, however she has been anything but an easy baby. the first 4 weeks of her live were great! when she wasn't eating she was sleeping and when she was sleeping she would sleep for hours! total opposite of jaidyn when she was a baby. just after olivia turned a month old i started having a really hard time nursing her so i started supplementing with bottles. turns out she had reflex so she was put on medicine for that but it wasn't helping her eat any better. the doctor suggested that i put her on soy formula since she was basically refusing to nurse and she thought the soy would help the reflex but all it did was make her constipated. poor thing, it was one thing after another with her. so i took her back to the doctor because she still was hardly eating anything at all. the doctor then thought that she might have a milk protein allergy and suggested that i put her on a hypoallergenic formula. we did that and she started eating a bit better and has been getting better ever since then. i think she might be starting to grow out of all her issues. she has started taking actual naps rather than just sleeping here and there and eating regularly and about a week ago she rolled over! well i say she rolled over but sean disagrees because her arm was still stuck under her. but two days ago she really did roll over. she doesn't really like it though cause then she is stuck on her belly and she does not like that at all! but even after going through all of that with her we still adore her and her smile. here are a few great pictures of her.

Monday, January 12, 2009

sean's first trip snowboarding of the year




this year sean was able to buy a new snowboard. he was very anxious to go up and try out his new gear. he waited patiently for the snow to come...and boy did come! he and his brothers planned to go up the satruday after new years and almost didn't get to because of road closures. but they made it and had a great time!


Thursday, January 1, 2009

Christmas day











kyle and mike spent a few days with us and were with us on Christmas morining!


































this year was a year of firsts for our family. first of all this was the first Christmas we spent Christmas morning at our own house. it was really neat to wake up and just be with our family and watch jaidyn open her presents. second of all this was the first year that we have not had Christmas dinner with my mom. it was really sad to not have her and my brother brian here. but it was really nice to have my other three brothers here with us on Christmas day. thanks to my sister in-law we had a really good Christmas dinner. oh and it was of course olivia's first Christmas!

Christmas eve











we spent Christmas eve with sean's family. two of my brother, kyle and mike, joined us. we had a great dinner then opened the presents from our present exchange. jaidyn got a big chest of dress up clothes from grandma and grandpa. she loves it! she is always wanting to dress up like a princess now!

gingerbread house

we decided to make a gingerbread house this year. jaidyn really enjoyed helping putting the candy on in but mostly she liked eating the candy and the frosting

more snow


this is jaidyn and her friend caitlin kissing the window

olivia all bundled to play in the snow






we ended up with more that a foot of snow at our house...more than i have seen here.