Playing on the iPad....

Nate was entertaining Olivia with the iPad's camera one day so I could get a few things done.  I just thought the pictures that came from it were too funny not to share!  Enjoy!

We've Been Busy!

Sometimes it's so easy to get caught up in all of the day to day activities that it's hard to remember that you've actually had lots of fun doing things until you look back through your pictures.  At least that's how I seem to be right now.  Maybe it's pregnancy brain....  That is a very real and very frustrating condition associated with being pregnant!  Anyways, let's talk about what the Breneman's were up to in June!

We went to Costco, of course Olivia wanted everyone there to know how cute she looks in sunglasses.  She wore them the entire time, even while sampling ice cream.

After the ice cream, she was feeling tired from all that cuteness she has to maintain so she laid down in the cart.

 We went to a wedding for a good friend of Nate's.  I really didn't take very many pictures at the wedding which is a bummer because it was beautiful!  Oh well, here's Olivia playing outside the Salt Lake temple while we waited for the bride and groom.

And here we are later at the reception.  Olivia loved these dangling orbs

 And here is Olivia just right in her element.  Sitting on my bed, eating the shredded cheese.  There is no time for etiquette when there's cheese to be had!

Nate took me shopping because we figured it was time I admit that I'm pregnant and that I don't fit into my regular clothes like I often pretend I do....  Olivia made a bee line for this pink purse she found in the store and had a whole sleeve of bracelets on her arm until I made her put them back.  I let her wear the purse for a while though.  She LOVES purses and has been a little obsessed with wearing them whenever she can find one!  Her outfit was just complete when the stepped into these cute wedges.  My little stinker is definitely embracing her feminine side :)

This was after my 20 week ultrasound.  Nate had a meeting and ended up not being able to go with me so it was just Olivia there to see her baby sister on the screen.  Since I was such a good girl and held very still while they did my ultrasound, Olivia took me out to lunch on the way home.  She's such a thoughtful girl.  

Olivia's big girl bed!  With a baby sister on the way, it's time for Olivia to adjust to some new sleeping arrangements.  There have been some definite struggles with this but overall she has been doing pretty great.  The biggest hardship is that because she can, she likes to get out of bed and do other things.  Of course, she eventually does get tired and fall asleep, but not always in her bed.  Silly girl.

 I have more pictures from the last month but decided that those warrant blog posts of their own.  More posts coming soon!

Olivia Loves the Camera

One of Olivia's favorite pastimes is turning the iPad camera to face her and watching her goofy little face on the screen. You'd think she would enjoy the mirror just the same but she prefers the iPad. Sometimes I take pictures of her checking herself out cause I think it's so funny. Here are a few from the other morning when she was putting on her lips. 

Sorry the pictures are all skiwampus... I can't figure out how to fix it. Also pretend like you don't notice my day old slept in make up face :P 

Olivia at 18 Months

I took Olivia to her 18 month Dr. Appointment today. She passed with flying colors! I really love her pediatrician, I think it has a lot to do with him always telling me that I'm doing a great job with her.  Who doesn't love a good pat on the back?  It's especially reassuring to hear right now since Olivia is at a point where she fights me on everything! I'm not kidding, this 18 month old has got some teenagers beat with her attitude! 

Here are her stats:

Weight-21.61 lbs (33%)

Height-30.25 in (7%) still a shortie!

Head circumference-18.25 in (51%)

Olivia is saying all kinds of words and learning more every day! One of her newest is "mine."  She says this most frequently when she is trying to run away with my phone.  She also apparently picked up on me calling her daddy, Nate, which is another one she's been saying a lot. We're trying to encourage her to go back to "da" for that one....  She has also become a very frustratingly picky eater! She eats great when other people are feeding her, but when she's home with me, she seems to think she can do whatever she wants. Little miss Olivia is also quite the social butterfly! She makes friends with every child she meets and doesn't seem nervous about it at all! She does take her time deciding whether she likes adults though. It's funny to me that she will run right up to a small person without hesitation but grown ups need to win her over first.  Since it is finally getting warm here we've been going to the park more often too, which is one of her favorite things! She has mastered the playground and knows exactly how to get up to the biggest slide and loves to go down it over and over and over! 

Anyways, I could go on about Olivia for days because she is my pride and joy :) but I'll just leave it at that. She is a very happy and healthy girl and from what I've seen of her playing with my neighbor's baby, she's going to make a fantastic big sister! 

P.s. I am almost 14 weeks along in case you like you keep track of these things 

Back Online! Mostly Easter Though....

We have been waiting and waiting and we finally have google fiber installed at our house, so we have internet again!!  So to celebrate, I am getting started on my blogging right away. Obviously, everyone is dying to know how our Easter Sunday went.  I will show you! 

Olivia's Easter basket. 95% of this basket was curtesy of Olivia's grandma Breneman.  We got her the pudding pouches so she would have a yummy snack too. 

She spent about a minute on the basket until she decided her milk was more important just then.

Nate made the most wonderful Easter dinner, he really outdid himself this year!  The rolls are a favorite holiday recipe and are always SO yummy; they are vanilla bean 3 leaf clover sweet rolls in case you're wondering.  Everything was as "from scratch" as you can get (including the apple strawberry lemon jam there next to the rolls). Ok the sprite and dr pepper weren't from scratch, but Nate's friend john brought those so they don't count...

Right before going out to hunt for eggs. She had no idea what was going on but since we were all so excited, she was excited too. 

She had been playing with some plastic eggs earlier and she bought the "pop" when she opened them was funny. So when she came to her first egg in the grass she opened it. She was not at all prepared to find marshmallows in it though, the look on her face was priceless! 

Egg hunting got pretty slow after that cause we had to wait for her to eat all the marshmallows out of each one before we could move on!

She sure loved it though!

Then she just started running around like the silly little girl she is.

I think she did pretty well for her first Easter egg hunt ever :)

August/September

In August, Nate's sister Halley came for a quick visit before flying home to Pennsylvania.  Olivia really loved having her around to play with.  She especially loved trying to eat Halley's coloring book.

Until she noticed the camera, then she wanted to eat that instead.  Silly girl.

Nate gets so excited when Allred Orchard is selling peaches.  We get at least one box every summer.  Olivia was especially happy to partake in peach season this year and she had 2 peaches every single day.  She gladly would have eaten more but I stopped her at 2 a day.

Look at that smile.  I just want to squish her all day long!  Nate probably would if he were home with her all day...

These are from Labor Day - Nate just thought she looked so cute so he kept taking pictures of her. 

Later that day we got j dawgs and went for a walk around the temple.  It was a gorgeous day!

I have no idea what day this is from....  But Nate and Olivia are just too cute together!

Nate's youngest sibling and only brother, Kyle came out for a couple days before heading up to his first semester at BYU-I.  Olivia could not get enough of Kyle.  She though he was SO FUNNY.  And it really came in handy when I needed to get things done and Kyle could keep her entertained.  These pictures almost capture how excited she was to have him around.