More Christmas pics

Merry Christmas!!

We have had such a great time over the last few days. Mama has been here visiting since the 19th, and the whole Hart family too, so you can imagine what fun we have been having. To follow are some pictures of the last few days of family and all our goings on. Wouldn't it be great if you were all here too!

Olivia helping mommy wrap by wrapping herself.

Olivia with Grandmama in matching jackets.

Auntie Brenda FINALLY gets a turn to hold Olivia with

Grandmama close by too.

The Hart family (and no one had to be photo shopped in this time!!:))

Ready for bed and ready for Santa.

Santas helpers - getting all the presents set.

Olivia on her little train, the favorite gift by far!

Merry Christmas to all of you and yours!

Visit to Santa

More Birthday Party Pictures

Happy Holidays

This is Olivia decorating herself instead of the tree. Stay tuned for more holiday fun.

Little Helper

Olivia loves to help now, as you can see, she can climb up in the dishwasher. Here she is checking to see if the dishes are clean enough to eat off of.

Below, it looks as if she is checking to see if everything is working ok. She doesn't seem to mind the water dripping on her.

And tonight, she even helped a little with the tree decorating. She really likes the balls and the little stuffed Snowman Chef ornament. And of course is just mezmorized by the lights.

Happy 1st Birthday Olivia

It is hard to believe that one year ago today, Olivia came into our lives. What a joy she has been. She is so sweet and so beautiful, she makes us laugh and today, yes, she makes us cry. But they are tears of happiness for what a wonderful little girl we have in our lives. Those 3 days of labor were worth it!!

So, today was her birthday party and we had a great time. Below are some pics of the day, the cake, etc. We hope to have lots more to follow.

Happy Birthday Olivia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Off to her first christmas party

Oliva went to her first christmas party to day at Inglewood, where Felicia works. She got to sit on Santa's knee and Recieved a new teddy bear. She also got to show of her blue jacket. sunday is her big first Birthday and party.

Spaghetti Dinner

I think it was way more fun to play with than what actually got in her mouth as nourishmnet. But we will definitly try spaghetti again soon, because one thing she loved was the chunks of tomato in the sauce!!

Olivia's First Day

Today Olivia spent a few hours at her new Daycare. We are easing ourselves into this new adventure but Olivia seemed to do just fine. She started playing right away. Mommy stuck around for a while and then headed to another room and then out the door. So, which one of us do you think was crying?? Although I missed her this morning, I am glad that she had such a good time. I picked her up before lunch and she was happy to see me with lots of hugs and snuggles. We came home and had a good lunch and a little play with Rascal and then she went down for a 2 1/2 hour nap!!

This evening she showed us that she missed her toys as well as one of her new talents - climing up on things - by getting right up on the table with them...

We have been really busy lately unloading a bunch of stuff we got from Arkansas. One of the items we recieved was this rocking chair that was mine when I was a little girl. It was given to me on my 1st birthday! Olivia just loves it and gets in and out of it all morning long. She even puts some little stuffed animals in the seat with her. Much to my dismay, she also insists on standing up in it!!! She is so adventurous. She climbs up on all the chairs now and hikes that little leg of hers up like she is going to keep on climbing. If there is a table close by she trys to go from the chair to the table! I can't believe it. Its amazing to watch her try to figure it out.

Olivia still hasn't taken that first step yet, but I can't imagine that it will be too long now.

Our Little Italian Girl

Luckily everyone in my family saves everything! But in this case it has brought back some really fond memories. In these pictures Olivia is wearing a little sweater that my Nonna knitted for me when I was a little girl! I just love it on her and I even bought the shirt she is wearing underneath just so it would match.

It reminded me of how much my sister and I loved to get the sweaters from Nonna (or anything from our Italian family was just so cool). I think I still have all of them, the sweaters that is. My favorite one is from when I was 10; we went and picked out the colors together. It was blue and yellow and had a few rows of gold dividing the two colors and little pom poms at the bottom where it tied like a draw sting. I loved that sweater and I loved my Nonna!!

I think that Olivia looks like a Trimarchi in this picture and that makes her our little Italian girl!


This is also a sweet little picture of Olivia and her "Baby". And it is officially her first word..."Baby".

Happy Halloween

Tis the season for parties!! Olivia got to go to a birthday party for her friend Marissa yesterday who turned one. It was of course a Halloween dress up party for the babies. They had a great time and Marissa's mommy made great food and snacks for the kids of all ages! (mommies and daddies included). This is Marissa the birthday girl looking quite adorable as a little Lady bug!

When we got home from the party Olivia helped Daddy carve some pumpkins. It was lots of fun and they look pretty cool this year, we are all ready for the trick or treaters...

Then this is what we woke up to this morning! What a beautiful sight. And Olivia thought it was hysterical when Lil Rascal came running in off the deck covered in snow...I don't think Lil Rascal agreed.

Today Olivia went to another party at her friend Trystan's house. There was lots of yummy food for us again and the costumes were so cute! Olivia went as a cuddley bunny and Ian did some pics before the party and at the party with her little friends. That pretty well sums up what we did this weekend. We are all exhausted and well fed!