Joygirl Hailey: Olive's 1st Birthday

We were in Utah for Olive's 1st birthday. Due to the fact that she came the day after Christmas, Oh, and the fact that I was a bad, lazy, lazy mom we didn't give her the proper celebration! This called for a serious party to make up for the lack of. We celebrated with a few of our friends here in Yakima. We ate Swig Sugar Cookies, Italian sodas, Birthday Cake Popcorn, and Olive ate a cake, well more like played in a cake. Bytheway making cakes is super overrated and extremely hard. Like I would rather run a mile over make a cake like that again and that's saying a lot. I loathe running. I think I will vow to buy cakes from here on out. The cake was cute but was it worth 3 meltdowns over? ...possibly.

I'm supposed to write a post about how wonderful Olive is and how glad we are that she is apart of our family. But truth is i'm having a hard time wanting to talk good about her when all she has done is cry at my feet for 3 days. I'm so over this thing called teething. Who knew my sweet angel Olive would turn into a spawn of Satan. The whole day I spent making food and getting Olive's party ready while she screamed, if only she understood that I was ignoring her, FOR her!

She's a pretty big show off!

Despite the hardships and near insanity of teething I love my sweet, playful, brave, crazy, fun loving, friendly little diva. People are constantly saying to me how happy and friendly she is, that's what sticks out in her most. Example: We went to story time at the library and within 3 minutes of arriving she was already sitting in the story lady's lap. Didn't even have to warm up. I smell a possible kidnapping in later years...kidding. She is so smart. She knows her body parts and has started communicating so much the last month. She shakes her head yes and no for things she wants. Our lives are a lot easier when she can show me, and shake her head at me so I know what she wants! She recently has an obsession with kissing me. She thinks it's really funny and she literally kisses me 15 times over and over all over my face. Dance Parties: I made a resolution to dance more, not really good dancing but just crazy dancing with Olive randomly in the day. Olive has joined in. She stomps her feet and lifts her arms and giggles. It's the best. I can't believe how much she has changed my life. I'm so grateful for Miss Olive. She truly does bring me so much happiness, I didn't know it was possible to love a little human so much. The weird thing is my love keeps growing like a weed field, but love is a lot healthier for you than weed. Anyways, Glen was the hero on Monday because he brought home Olive the best present....dun dun dun A SLIDE! Here's some awesome pictures of our celebration.