The Big Girls

  

Katelyn has decided she is a tomboy... 

i was actually really surprised she walked out of her room in a pink hoodie.

Annie claims to be a tomboy too, but she never shies away from dressing up!!

Week of October 16th

Jeff and Kristina moved during this week.  For once they actually took me up on watching Elea for them!  She's like one of my own and it was a good time having her for almost a week.  We've never spent too much one on one time with her because there's always so many other cousins around.  It was really nice having her to ourselves (without her mom and dad around too!!).  She took great naps and slept great at night (not normal for her).  I think the craziness of our house exhausted her!  I'm pretty bummed this is the only picture I took the whole week.  Like I said... it was a crazy week! 

October... Finishing up Soccer

we had a great time watching the girls play soccer this season.  it was a little crazy having 3 of them play, but they really enjoyed it.  Katelyn's team ended up taking 1st place.  we won't talk about what place annie's team took! haha  we were really impressed with annie though... she's always just wanted to take dance and wouldn't try sports.  and let's be honest, i kinda thought she might have the coordination of the aunt she's exactly like!!  but come to find out, she is VERY athletic.  she picked up the game very quickly and did a really good job.  samantha's team was hilarious to watch.  just picture a herd of sheep running around!

It's a.....

I know i haven't even posted that I'm pregnant with #5, so this is kinda a 2 in 1 post!  So, I'm about 19 weeks pregnant, and that makes the due date around March 20th.  i was hoping for a boy, SO BAD.  derek was praying for a girl.  (he thinks raising a teenage boy would be torture!)  katelyn and annie were hoping and literally praying for a little brother.  sami thought it would be a girl.  so we took all the girls (except katelyn) to the ultrasound.  the technician was awesome.  he asked if we wanted to know the sex and when we said yes he did that first.  all the other times the techs have made us wait until the very end of the ultrasound to find out... which is torture!  so the tech tells us the baby is spread-eagle and it could be a really ugly girl, but he was 98% sure it was a BOY!  i started laughing and derek was in shock.  it was hilarious!  he really never thought we would have a boy.  he was happy the baby is healthy, but i think it took him a good day to get really excited.  now he's always telling me to "take care of his boy."  after the ultrasound we took the girls to maverick to get a treat.  we decided to get katelyn a blue icee to tell her.  when we got home she run up to the car and asked what it was.  derek handed her the icee and i asked her what color it was.  she looked at it and then started laughing and crying.  she was so happy!!!!  i wish i had her reaction on video... it was priceless!  anyway, we are all really excited!  kristina and shanna are both having boys too, so it works out perfectly!

ok, a little behind

here's the past few months in a nutshell... i feel like i start posts like this a lot!

  

we've spent some time being sick.

 we've spent a lot of time at the lake with friends.

 we've spent time together... fixing things!

 our sweet alexis turned 2 on august 28th.  we gave her a kitchen (with help from grandma & grandpa o. and great grandma helen).   elea, jeff, and nina gave her food to go with the kitchen.

 grandma & grandpa sullivan gave her new clothes... which she loved!! 

 then she got to talk to them on the webcam...  um, ya!

 not sure how to comment on these two silly girls!!  they must get it from grandpa sullivan!

 

derek's gone fishing.

 the 3 older girls played soccer... we were down at the fields monday - thursday for about 2 months!

 the little girls have danced.

and we can't forget derek's fantasy football draft!

10 YEARS AGO TODAY...

 

10 YEARS LATER!

makes a mother proud

you know your a mom when....  your 9 year old wakes you up at midnight because she's puked, you instantly start imagining the mess your about to have to clean up, you ask, "is it all over your bed?", she says, "no at 11 i got a bowl because my stomach hurt and i puked in that."  I COULD STILL CRY WITH JOY, RELIEF, APPRECIATION, AND LOVE FOR MY RESPONSIBLE, BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER!!!

7 Peaks! TRADITION... TRADITION!

we started going to a water park every summer the thursday before the oliverson reunion.  we started out going  to raging waters, but the past couple of years we've gone to 7 peaks.  (spencer does trade work for tickets and hooks us all up!)  this year is was raining and pretty chilly when we first got to the park, but then the clouds parted, the temp rose to about 85 degrees and there were only about 20 cars in the parking lot the whole day.  it was PERFECT!

the little girls ran for the wave pool as soon as we walked in!

lex and lea like it best when the waves were turned OFF!

Derek and Jeff took Katelyn and Annie on the steepest slide FIRST!

Kristina, Lea, Sam, Lex and I stood at the bottom and watched!  Jeff went first...

I thought Katelyn would be freaked out, but she jumped on the slide like it was nothin'!

(did keep her legs crossed!!)

katie loved it.  she ended up going on it 3 more times.  she also did the boomerang 5 times and some other steep slides a bunch of times!!  after kate is was annie's turn.  she was terrified.  it took a lot more coaxing for her to finally go.

"GOOOOOO ANNNNIIIIEEEEE!!!"

"GOOOOOO AAANNNIIIIEEEEE!!"

Annie finally got the guts to do it!

"yay!"

she ended up loving it and went a few more times too!

Derek was last... his wave was HUGE!!!  ha ha ha

the funniest part of the whole day was when kristina and i thought it would be a good idea to ride the boomerang together on a double tube.  it was TERRIFYING!!!  and the whole time i was screaming, "this was so stupid!" and 1 other choice word!  the next morning we started cracking up because we both had really stiff necks!  anyway, it was a great time.  Nancy and Jace were there with us too.  

(We missed you, Becks.)

Omaha Reunion

Annie and Lex ready for our 5 hour drive up to Salt Lake City.  We made it up there around 6pm, picked up Grandma Helen and went to IV for dinner... of course!  Wednesday we did a little school shopping and then headed to Heber City to see the Goates' new home.  It was wonderful seeing all of them.

Lex and Mills

remember this guy?!?!  Shauna and I wondered if the ackwardness would start up yet, but not even close.  they acted like they've seen each other everyday!!  Annie's grown just a little bit!!  Alex has some catching up to do!!

derek and alex talking about "the jazz"  After spending a couple hours in Heber we headed back to salt lake.  the smiths, evers (minus mitch), the goates, and us met up at Cafe Rio for dinner.

Samantha, Ben, Kambryn, Jantsen, Creighton

Shauna, Rich, and Amelia

Allie (don't worry Mitch.... it was no fun at all!)

Kyle and Janel

Alex, Jackson, Katelyn, Annie, Easton, Alexis, Shauna

after dinner we went to "Classic" to play and meet up with a bunch of other people.  it was a blast.  litterally!  we all got in the "blaster zone" together and shot each other with foam balls and got all hot and sweaty!!  It was so fun to see everyone!  I didn't do a very good job with the camera, and i ended up not getting a picture of Katelyn's age group or Lexi's age group.  Next time!!! 

Isaac Taylor, Lexi Hopkinson, Annie and Alex

Shauna and Janel... i think they must have just shot derek in the face!!!

we are going to have some amazing pictures for their wedding video!!  (seriously...)

Creighton Evers, Gavin Hopkinson, Jackson Evers, Ben, Samantha, Riley and Ben Taylor