Wednesday, February 8, 2012

1.28.2012

Party day!!!

This year, Liv's B-Day party was held at Timber Lanes. Liv requested that she receive NO gifts. Instead, she asked that everyone bring a $5-10 donation for the Whitman Food Pantry. She raised $80!!! What an amazing kid!!!








1.27.2012

My, oh, my. Look who's 5!!!

Happy birthday Olivia Grace.

You are:
Smart.
Funny.
Beautiful.
Witty.
Ambitious.
Brave.
Honest.
Sweet.
Huggable.
Lovable.
Kissable.
The best big sister James could have.
The best daughter in the world.

Thank you for fighting to survive. Our world would be a very different place without you in it.

Happy birthday to my miracle baby.
28 weeks to 5 years and counting.
I love you.

28 weeks. Living in the NICU in Boston.

5 years old today!

measuring up!

Look how you've grown!!!

Lying in bed, listening to her last "happy birthday" phone call of the day. 
(Auntie Rah-Rah is on the line.)

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

1.26.2012

Birthday prep day!

Can you believe my little Livi will be 5?! Where does the time go? ....

Today Liv and I baked cookies for her to bring to school with her on her birthday. We also went to Charles David Salon so Auntie Mimma could beautify her for the big 5 tomorrow!



Monday, January 30, 2012

1.25.2012

Today, Liv went to school and gave one of the necklaces she made to her BFF Grace. Grace loves it! :)
Gramma picked Liv up from school today and took her back to her house to play and eat supper. And eat and play she did! (and played ... and played ... and played...)

Double the dollhouses = double the fun!

Where else can you roller skate around the entire first floor??

1.24.2012

Hooray for Tuesday! It totally made up for Monday. :)

We had a great day all around. After dinner Liv and I made some really sweet necklaces...


The top one is Liv's and the bottom one is mine. :)

1.23.2012

Today was a crummy day.

Mike discovered that all of his tools had been stolen out of his work van and was dealing with his company, police officers, etc. While all of that was going down, James had one of his really nasty seizures and spent the remainder of the day sleeping and recovering. Lisa and Melissa were kind enough to take Liv to dance school for me and Bill took Mike over to Home Depot to replace a few of his missing tools for the following work day.

After all was said and done, and the day was coming to a close, we had this brief period of happiness. It was the perfect ending to a rather awful Monday.  :)


And yes, Olivia Grace, you won.

Thursday, January 26, 2012

1.22.2012

Today is a sad excuse of a photo. Sorry!

We had a bunch of friends over to eat, drink, and watch some football. We always say we're going to get together and in 2012 it looks like we're going to give it a solid effort. It was a great time - but I was so busy I never took a picture!! I missed out on Janine & Matt making tasty potato skins. I missed out on Liv playing with Rowan and James playing with Rhea. I missed out on taking a picture of handsome Harrison on his first visit to our home. So many wonderful things that I'll keep in my heart but not on this blog.

The only photos I took were of Olivia getting ready for bed. She was so proud of her wavy hair (thanks to the braids from yesterday) that it was worth taking a  quick photo. What a kid. :)