Broccoli

If I dont keep an eye on her she'll do the same thing at the grocery store!!!

Pictures, pictures and...more pictures

Well, I figure if i don't post pictures of the house now I never will. I keep wanting to wait until i get the last picture hung up or until it's completely clean or until all the Christmas decorations are up... but I'll post them how it looks now...

The front of the house

Living room

Master bedroom...

Alaura's room, it looks sooo much cuter in person.

The main feature in our extra bedroom right now...Our Total Gym!!!

The "formal dining room"

Alaura's toy "room"

My kitchen is taken over by pumpkin bread, pot pies and cookies right now so I'll post those pics later


Thanksgiving at our House

Isn't the table pretty? And the best part...it's ALL disposable!!Everyone at Thanksgiving dinner

Alaura enjoyed the jello most...can you tell?

ALL of the food...3 turkeys, 2 stuffing's, 2 mashed potatoes, whipped sweet potatoes, candied yams, Green bean casserole, 3 jello dishes...

Everyone watching Shreck 3 and going into turkey comas Camie and Juan announced that they're pregnant...


Alaura and Caiden got to lick the whipped cream off the beaters

Wait, Camie and Juan are pregnant?!? Yep, and they're due June 4th!!! Congrats you guys. I'll post pictures of Camie's growing belly...

Speaking of growing bellies...it's pie time!!!

We had a great Thanksgiving thanks to all of the wonderful food and company. Thank you everyone who made this such a great Thanksgiving!!!

What I'm Thankful for...

I thought that it'd be nice for me to post what I'm thankful for, because sometimes I think I forget how blessed I truly am...
1 Eric Scott Olsen, my loving, hard working, wonderful eternal companion. ( I love you Honey)
2 Alaura, my healthy, beautiful ,extremely smart baby girl.
3 Trials...(that's a hard one for me to recognise...)I've learned alot about myself lately and what I'm capable of handling. (a lot more than I ever thought) I've also been able to feel how loved I am by family friends and my heavenly father. Trials make us who we are meant to be. I only hope that I learn everything I need to.
4 Family. It was great having so much family around for Thanksgiving. I love all of you!!!(including those not close)
5 Friends. I've been very blessed to have wonderful friends around me. I'm also excited to make some new ones in our new area.
6 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, Temples and eternal families. I couldn't imagine not having these things in my life.
7 I'm very grateful to live in a land where I can make my own choices and in a time of such great technological advances, i love electricity :)

That's a quick list of what I'm thankful for. I hope you all had a great thanksgiving and wonderful Christmas. Remember to serve others (that's what Christmas is for)

Happy Thanksgiving

Well, My computer isn't working right now(I'm using my parents). It's actually the phone line that's not working, they'll be out to fix it on Monday then I'll update everything. We had a great Thanksgiving, I'll post pictures ASAP. We're putting up Christmas decorations I'll post pictures of that too.

Well, i forgot to update about my hcg levels... two weeks ago they dropped from 25 to 18 and last week they dropped to 14!!! I have to go in on Wednesday this week since Thursday is thanksgiving. I'm excited to be done with all of the testing. Alaura's been such a good girl about it though. We wait in the waiting room for 30 min to 2 hours at least once a week, then she sits next to me while i get my blood drawn. We call it getting a bracelet when they put the rubber band around my arm, and she calls the needle Mommy's jewelry. As soon as we walk into the lab she asks one of the techs for a sticker. They all know her and call her their sticker baby. She walks around like she owns the place. After I get the blood work done we play on the elevator for a little while She love pushing the buttons and looking out the window while proclaiming "Up" or "down" depending on which one we're doing. In fact she's run into elevator without me, so I have to be really quick when it's time to leave,then we go to a park that's near by. She's been a really good girl the last few months. Hopefully by Christmas I'll be done...

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With life being as busy as it's been lately I completely forgot to write about some really cool things that happened. Last week Eric came home early because he was sick, he was trying to get Alaura to count to three by placing packing peanuts (Alaura calls them popcorn) into a box. If you say 1 she'll say 2,3. So Eric was going through this with her and she continued placing the peanuts in the box...4...5...6...7...8...9...11!!! Eric and I looked at each other "did you hear that?" He pulled out some more and she did it again!!! She doesn't do it very often now, but sometimes she'll play a game with me where I say 1 she'll say 2 and then we go back and forth up to 12.

Alaura had a blast playing in the boxes while I packed

I packed everything in a week (by myself)

Peek a boo

She also enjoyed playing in various baskets.

This move happened really fast, but we're very glad to be here and settled in. I'm really looking forward to meeting new people and making new friends as well as having old friends over to hang out.

Well, we're officially moved into our new house and we love it!!!! (We're currently renting and waiting for the house prices to continue dropping then we're hoping to buy one.) It's so much bigger than our apartment, and yesterday I layed down during alaura's nap and watched a movie...all the way through with out tenants knocking on my door!!! It was great. While I wont be doing that very often, it was nice. We're almost 100% moved in I need to hang a few picture frames and some shelves then I'll post some pics.
Also, we're having Thanksgiving at our place this year!!! We'll have 14 people plus 2 kiddos!!!! It's gonna be so much fun. My fam and Eric's (except Amberly and John :( ) are all coming over...it's gonna be a full house. I'm excited to post pictures of it. I'm busy trying to figure out how we're going to fit everyone in, and how we're doing the food, decorations etc...Well,I gotta go. I'll do a better update soon.

Isn't she a cutie?

Alaura wanted to make her hair pretty

Daddy's home!!!

Ooops...

I wanted to wish my brother in law John a Happy 25th Birthday. It was on the 30th of October and I forgot...Sorry. Well, here are some pics of their cute family.

Birthday King

Amberly and John as Dwight and Kat

My Niece Daphne the cute pink kitty

Look at those cute piggy tails

Random Pictures and HCG levels

My HCG levels are down to 25!!!!!

It went from 39 to 25 in 6 days!!! I'm so excited.

You can't really tell from the picture but Eric was having such a hard time getting Alaura's PJ's on they wouldn't go over her head he was getting pretty frustrated.

I thought I got rid of all the candy in the house, however Alaura found some that i missed.

We went to Costco last night to kill some time and she found this huge stuffed dog. i stuck in the toy bin with it and she had a blast climbing around and jumping on it. She even had to dig through the toys to find her boot when it came off. We ran around playing tag and hide and seek too. It was sooo much fun!!!

Here's Alaura dancing to the shrek song at Costco.

Pirates, pumpkins and lots of candy

I hope everyone had a great Halloween. We did!!! Eric even drove home from Fresno to spend it with us. Camie came over and spent the evening with Alaura and me getting ready, making chili (really good chili) and putting together our costumes I think they turned out pretty cute unluckily I don't have any pic's of camie's costume I'll get some from her ASAP.

We had a very busy couple of weeks. As I said earlier Eric's been in Fresno the past two weeks for Aries training for work. Alaura and I drove up to see him last Tuesday and we went to Red lobster and used his food allowance to get a pretty tasty meal, then we went to Cobb ranch ( a pumpkin patch) and played on the swings, looked at all the different pumpkins, and fed the animals. There's a slide show with pictures from it. That night was horrible, we haven't had her our room with us since she was two weeks old, She is the noisiest sleeper ever!!! Needless to say Eric and I didn't get much sleep, and Alaura and i didn't go back this week. Eric went to his class and Alaura and I got ready and went to the Fresno zoo. She had so much fun. It was so empty it was great. Unluckily I broke my Digital camera when we were there. alaura wanted me to hold her to see the flamingos, so I sat the camera on her stroller. Then we started walking to the seals and the camera fell off the stroller and the batter cover popped off and I couldn't find the piece i needed to reattach it. So I HAD to buy a new camera. Bummer. I love my new camera. It's a Canon Powershot SD750. It's really small and it takes great pictures. We're going to invest in a Nikon D40 as soon as we can, but this one is great for keeping with me all the time.

We've done a lot of Halloween stuff though. We went to Eric's parent's ward Trunk or treat last Saturday, Alaura and I went to Fresno Tuesday, Wednesday we went to my parents Ward trunk or treat (I'll get pictures from them soon too)This Monday we went to a Halloween party some friends had. Camie and I dressed up as devils it was fun (once again I have to get the pics from my parents) Tuesday alaura Camie and I decorated a gingerbread haunted house and tried to carve a pumpkin I posted a slide show with pics from that too. Halloween we went trunk or treating again. So Alaura got good use out of her costume.

Here's alaura getting ready for trunk or treating with our old ward colonial.

Here's alaura in the costume parade where she won cutest costume for ages 0 -5

Here she is eating chili and corn bread before going trunk or treating

I'm thinking of dying my hair black what do you think? LOL

Alaura and Captain Daddy!!!

Even her Monkey was a pirate!!!