Our Future Baseball Star

 

Korver Loves to play baseball! Today he did so good:) He is getting so big!

Almost 2 Years!

My brother Kevin is coming home from his mission on February 8th! He will be returning from the warm islands of Hawaii... I think he will need to be put in a bubble or something to help him stay alive in this cold weather!!!! He will be speaking on February 10th so if anyone would like to come they are more than welcome to. The address to the Church is 320 West 500 North, Lindon, Ut and the time is 11:00 AM. I can not believe its almost been two years. It has gone by so fast to me! He will be coming home to so many different changes! I can't wait to see him!

Christmas and more...

Hello again. Im going to kind of skip forward to more recent things happening even though its been a while since I have posted. So Christmas was wonderful! Olivia got her pink bike from santa- I will post a video of it later:) Santa didnt wrap it up to look like a bike so when she woke up she was searching for a present that looked like a bike and told us "Santa forgot to bring her a bike"... 10 seconds later walla.. her bike:) We got the kids way too many presents this year- Im still having a hard time organizing where things should go. Korver's first present he opened was a basketball hoop and thats all he wanted to play with! We have to make him open his others, but he just kept going back to his hoop:) Steph and Jon came home for Christmas and it was awesome seeing them! Jon's dad invited all of us to go to a jazz game which was super fun. So my kids love looking at the jazz bear from a distance. We were in the box suites and the bear was going around visiting all of them and when he came to ours he shot a small cannon that shot confetti but it was also super loud! Scared all of the kids so bad! Korver was in tears and Olivia was screaming no! NO! No! (it was at the beginning of the game too so for the rest of the game anytime they saw the bear even if he was clear across on the other side or on the court Korver got so upset for the rest of the game) It was still a fun jazz game though:) Speaking of Korver a little while ago we noticed he couldnt open his thumb all the way and came to find out he had trigger thumb- so it is when your thumb is stuck in the bent position. and he had to get surgery on it. The surgery itself went alright but Korver was not a happy camper at all! As soon as he came out of the anesthia he was screaming and couldnt open his eyes but he did not want to stay there any longer. The nurse let us leave like ten minutes after he was out which really wasn't that helpful since they didnt give me any post op instructions, and of course Korver tore his bandages off right after we left- I thought they would have wrapped up his whole hand since he is only 20 months so he wouldn't have a chance to take it off but they only wrapped around his thumb. We finally got him used to his bandage and it took him forever for us to get it off after that:) Then other news with Korver he may have to have surgery on his legs if he has blounts disease which we will find out next month:( - he is really bow legged and so blounts disease is basically his tibia bone is growing too fast on one side, so we will find out if he will need to have the surgery or if he is correcting himself- with how bad it is. I will keep you updated with what we find out.

Dear Santa

For our letter to Santa this year,  I recorded a video of Olivia for Santa:)
Enjoy!

October Recap

Yes, I am a horrible blogger lately! life has been crazy with photoshoots, Mike's job, keeping up with Olivia and Korver I dont seem to have time to blog. Sorry I only post when its been holidays etc. Halloween was pretty fun this year. We did carve some pumpkins but I was horrible for not taking pictures. And we went to the pumpkin patch. Olivia was the lovely Rapunzel and Korver used her Mickey mouse costume. I had planned to do a family halloween costume but the time went to fast. Olivia got to dress up at her dance and she kept her wig on the whole time. We went to our ward trunk or treat and that was fun, except a little crazy with how many kids were there!!!! Im glad we went though cause thats where we got most of our candy since we only went to a few more homes(family). I have to start planning now on what our family will be next year... here are some lovely pictures from our halloween fun:

 

Future "Disneyland" characters?????...

 

PUmpkin patch picture:

 

 

Korver loved all the pumpkins! Especially the huge ones!!!

 

It was a pretty fun October!

 

 

I promise to do an update on what we have been up to!!!!!!

Family, Hiking, Dance

Our life is crazy lately. Last weekend Amy and her family were up and it was so fun to see them. I love hanging out with Amy! I wish they lived closer. We went on a fun hike up Payson canyon and had some family bbq's. It was a fun weekend.

 Grandma Smith and all the grandkids- Korver was so clingy as ever!!!

 

And I shot my first deer:)

 

 

Olivia still loves dance so much! So we made her more of a ballet tutu so she could feel even more like a ballerina!:) Isn't she the cutest ever!

 

Our Little Ballerina

So Olivia loves dance class!!! And I recorded her this last time so the video below is a little long- but it will give you a glance at how cute she is. I put music to it so you didnt have to hear the other parents conversations since we have to watch through a glass window. So everyday this week since dance class she has been wanting to watch Ballet performances- like the 2 hour russian ballet ones on youtube!!!! She loves it and then she will dance around and try to copy them. So lately classical ballet music plays a lot in our house. And then at night right before bed she will be so cute and tell us she is our dance teacher and teach us what she learned in dance! I love how girly she is!!!!