She's alive.....

Hello, Yes I am alive. I know its been a while. I have been busy and Blogging just fell to the wayside. But I am back and ready to blog. I have a ton of random pictures of some of the things we have done in the last month. Busy Busy.

We have put Lilly on a 1100 calorie diet. Its been very hard but it seems like she is getting taller but maintaining her weight. Happy Day.

This is I think the hardest thing I have ever had to do in my life. Trying to keep my 3 year old healthy and not go insane from the crying for food. Its so hard but we know this is what we need to do to keep her healthy. She is just a few inches shorter than Gracie. Everyone thinks she is a 6 year old. but she is just a happy sassy almost 4 year old.

Emily is Growing fast as well. She talks really well and loves to hang with mom. She is a mommy's girl that is for sure. She is with me all day and even all day on Sunday since I am her teacher.

Here she is listening to the Muppet Show on my mp3.

Go Utes...

We are so excited for football season. Football is our favorite sport for our family. We have season Tickets to the Ute Football games and the girls each get to go with one of us and Cheer for the Utes. Gracie, being the oldest, got to go to the first home game. She had a great time. I think she is the biggest fan.

Red inside and out.

Lilly got to go to the next home game. She was pretty bored but that is to be expected. She had fun though but I think she spent most of the time looking at the crowd instead of the field. I have also been doing a little babysitting here and there to make some extra money while I am looking for a job I can do from home. Here are the girls with Sillia coloring at the kids table.I love Emily. She has really become a mommy's girls. If I ever go back to work i think its going to hit her the hardest. She is with me every waking moment. She is funny...Summer is gone and it is fall. But the Kids are still enjoying the time outside. Gracie is showing me her tricks on the monkey bars. Goof.As some of you know, Barney our Cockapoo chooses to live an "alternative" life style. Yeah, we believe him to be gay. So I thought it would do him some good if we made him a little more Manly or Studly if you will. We chose to give him a mow hawk to help him look a little tougher. He just looks like a bigger dorkus. Oh well...we tried. I guess you just can't change some people/dogs.Emily is really into the babies. This is her taking a nap. She is a mommy of Quadruplets. She loves every one. She is usually hauling around as little as two babies and at the most 4. How sweet. What a great mommy she will be someday.Lots of pics of Emily. Trying to get her off the bottle. She's my baby though. Maybe deep down I don't want her to grow up??? Or it could be laziness.Thanks to my Aunt Coke for providing us with peaches this year. RuthAnn and I spent one day making yummy Vanilla Peach Jam.We bottled over 80 jars.I love canning. Brings back memories of canning with my mom. And it always looks so pretty.Check out this spider I found on our porch the other day. Its HUGE. It was the size of a 50 cent piece. HUGE. I have never seen a black widow that big before.And it was defiantly a black widow. Check out that red hourglass on her tummy. Totally scary. Happy Halloween huh?? She is dead of course.Well, I have been busy trying to rearrange Gracie's room. We took down the queen bed. It was just too big in that room for a little girl with a lot of stuff. Thanks to Jamie and Anne and Ikea we were able to get a bed fit for a little girl. And as you can tell, Gracie is so happy with her room.Here new bed. She LOVES it. We also moved the tv/dvd in with her and made a little theater area for the girls. Lilly likes this part. I think its because she is allowed to be in Gracie's room. Gracie really loves the new room and I do too. Now we'll see if we can convert the toy room into an office (if I find a job I can do from home)

I was pleasantly surprised by my sweet friends Ethan and Heather Bratt from Seattle. They came down to Utah for a missionary reunion and came to visit with me for a short time (too short if you as me) At first they found me not home (hence the sad faces in the picture) But we finally hooked up and spend a great mid conference meeting. I miss you guys..thanks for thinking of me and stopping by to say hi. ( Oh Beth..sorry to hear about all your Scuttle"Butt". Hope everything is "running" smooth.)

Here is the newest Olsen addition. This is Marshal James Olsen. Born August 20th. What a cutie pie. We were please to see him blessed after conference this Sunday. I also took the opportunity to take some family pictures of some of my brothers....Brother #1: Ross and RuthAnn and family. (Todd, Maggie, Abby and Joey)Brother #2: Lance and Kristi and Family (Jake, Bayley, Becca, Jordan and Justice)

Lance and Kristi

Brother #4: Jeff and Jenny and family (Olivia and Kira..and the bun in the oven..pray for a boy)Brother #6: Jer and Ash (Ash-a-lee as the girls call her)

Well that is all for now. Gracie is doing well in School. Her teacher is Miss Murphy. She loves riding the bus and having school lunch. Lilly loves preschool. She loves her teacher and her old friends from Daycare days. Emily, well, she loves me...and that is the best of all.