Christmas Time!

Adam, Ollie, and I saw a lot of people over the holiday season this year! Here is just a photo post of lots of good times with friends and family! It was so fun having Ollie here! Her first Christmas! Babies just make everything so great!

Bill's Holiday Party! I look forward to this every year....well, for the last two year;)

High School friends get-together!

Adam and Ollie hanging with Joe!

This is kinda blurry...but this Linds and this outfit need to appreciated.

Jen has such fun parties. Look at us dance....Woo hoo...

Aim's list of all the famous people she has meet in Cali. Watch Out.

Waking up my first Christmas morning!!!

Christmas and Grandpa Mikes!

Adam just gets more and more fun as the years go on!

Grandma Robin taking pics of me and my new toy!

Gramee Lu and her famous peppernuts!

The girls! It took awhile to get a pic with them all looking! Miracle pic!

Awww....melts my heart!

Max playing his violin with his groupies.

Let's do this...

Only family pic we got...ughhh?

Adam wants Uncle Keith to sell him this Gibson banjo for a good price. Ha. He's funny.

 That wraps it up! Now that we have a kid, Adam and I think that it will be fun to think of our own holiday traditions with our family! This winter break has been exciting, yet exhausting. I'm looking for to the next few days where Ol and I will just be relaxing in Wichita! I have four books that I have started in the last few months and my goal is to finish at least one...I'm crossing my fingers!

Thanksgiving.

This year was Ollie's first Thanksgiving! I feel like we were traveling all over the place since we went back to Nebraska! Busy, busy! Fun busy! It was fun to get back and hang out with family and friends!

Ollie @ 10 months

Ollie girl! You are 10 months! You are loving life and loving attention! You have perfected your crawling and are all over the place! You love to pull yourself up onto anything...tables, doors, legs, Bruce...the list goes on. You are saying more sounds when you talk...and you will talk and talk and talk when you are in the mood. We visited family over Thanksgiving and you always started out shy...and slowly got to be pretty loud as you "chatted" with everyone.

You love to "show" us stuff...anything. A little piece of paper on the ground, food, toys, and sometimes nothing...you just pinch your little fingers together and show us "something". And you get so excited when we respond to your "stuff"! It's the cutest thing!

You love your daddy!!! I never see you smile so big as you do when you see your daddy! Seriously! He loves it:) You and him love giving each other "high fives".

I also somehow remembered this little "mouse" crawl that my Grandma Sapp used to do to me. She would crawl around my body with her two fingers and then nibble here and there...nibble at the foot, nibble at the tummy, nibble at the ear....you LOVE it! It mesmerizes you! We can even get you to fall asleep sometimes with this little "mouse crawl"!

You now have one more tooth coming in that we can see...so that makes the total...2! ha :) Good job!

Mom pushed you in you in the Mustache Dash!

 

Ol, this is such a fun age! Your dad and I keep talking about how much we love it! Thanks for making us instantly in a good mood whenever we see you! I can't wait to spend all Christmas break with you! Woo hoo!

Halloween in Wichita

This Halloween was Ollie's first Halloween! Fun! anddd Halloween in Wichita is crazy. I guess, Halloween in our College Hill area is crazy.  These people go all out. The whole month of October people are putting out millions of pumpkins, dozens of ghost, black cat, and spider blow ups, orange lights, themed yards, which of course is finished off by "caution tape" so the steady line of trick or treaters doesn't get too out of hand! Last year, Adam and I felt like we were in a movie when we meandered the streets of this festive neighborhood. Literally, there was barely space between you and the next person...it was almost like a parade down a couple of these streets. It's super neat! Anyways, our new neighbors, Krista and Justin, asked if we wanted to take Ol to a couple of houses with their little one...We met and the little ladybug and lion took on the neighborhood...;) 

(***Thanks guys for letting Ollie borrow the ladybug costume! It worked out perfect!) 

 

 

Ollie @ 9 months

Ollie! You are 9 months! Hip hip hooray! You have a tooth coming in on the bottom row and you sure know it. The nights have been getting a little longer as I think that is when teething bothers you the most:( You love pointing your finger and fist up in the air (as your 9 month picture shows)!  You wave (it's backwards, but hey...a wave is a wave), and YOU ARE CRAWLING!!! You started crawling about a week ago and now you are on the move. You crawl to something that can help you stand. Then, you stand. We have a coffee table in the living and this is how you approach it: 1) crawl to table 2) make your way around the table to clear off everything (by now mom and dad just stack tons of toys on the table for you to throws off) 3) start fussing until mom or dad get you, move you a little bit away from the coffee table, and reload the toys and start the "game" over. 

We love watching you discover new things! It's a super fun age you are at!

We love you so much Ollie girl!

 

A song!

They played this song at church the other day and I loved it! So pretty! You should listen to it again and again like I do:) 

And this cover is fun. 

I love this part and the line "take my deeper than my feet could ever wander"...I just feel like that is so great to pray for...to be able to trust God and be challenged. Mmm. So good!

Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders
Let me walk upon the waters
Wherever You would call me
Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander
And my faith will be made stronger
In the presence of my Savior