Olivia Grace: December 2007

New Year's Eve Party

Aunt Shell and Uncle Tim

Christine and Angie

Dan, Uncle Tim, Derrick

Dan, Rick, Daddy, Uncle Tim

We had some friends over tonight for our New Year's Eve party. We knew we didn't want to be out on the roads tonight, not to mention the weather was supposed to be pretty bad. So, we were in for the night, and had way too much food, alcohol and games! We had a ball and rang in the new year at midnight...but were up until about 4 am. It was a lot of fun, although next year we decided to do the Pere Marquette Party so no one will have to worry about the food...or cleaning up afterwards!!

Pictionary

This was hilarious...Shane bought a big easel and whiteboard to play pictionary. It was so much fun..girls against boys of course!

Obviously with pictures like this, the boys were no competition for the girls! We won!!!

Kaleigh had her own easel to play with and she put us all to shame with her pictures!

Pre-Party

Mommy and Olivia

Aunt Shell and Olivia

Psoing for a pciture, but not quite taking our eyes off the TV. This was too cute..Kaleigh was showing Parker how to do it and then leaned over and game his a kiss!

This was Parker attempting to the The Robot dance....hilarious!!

What an artist!!!

Grandma and Grandpa over for a visit!

Me and Daddy

Me and Grandpa

Dancing Machine!

Trying on Grandpa's boots..what do you think...too big!?

Wrestling with Grandpa...finally!

Today was spent cleaning house...how exciting right! Grandma Dina needed some Olivia time so she watched her so Shane and I could really clean the house. We were having people over for a New Year's Eve Party, and we had put it off long enough. Later in the afternoon, Steve and Mel came over to drop off a refrigerator and stayed for dinner. We hadn't seen them since Christmas, so it was a nice visit! As usual, it took Olivia a while to warm up to Steve, but she managed to wrestle with him after a while....and she wasn't shy about dancing for everyone!!

We love Aunt Shell!

Aunt Shell and the kids came over today to visit. Daddy had a poker tournament in Morton, so we figured he would be gone all day. There were two tournaments, but he got out fairly early on this first one and didn't want to wait around for the second one, so he was home earlier than we expected. But, we had fun with Aunt Shell and the kids anyway. For some reason, we didn't take as many pictures today? But, we did get one of both the little ones loving on Aunt Shell!

A Big Helper!

Flexible Olivia!

Nothing too exciting going on today, so I decided to get some laundry done. Of course, neither Olivia nor Winston were big helps. Olivia kept unfolding all the clothes, and Winston...well, the picture explains it all!

Final Christmas...#7

Since Olivia was feeling a lot better today, we decided to go to Gma and Gpa's tonight to celebrate our last Christmas of the season with Dad and Linda! Unfortumately, Gma and Gpa were still in Colorado, so we would have to see them when they got back. But, we did go to their house since they had left all the kids' gifts there. We simply ordered pizza and had a ball. The kids were spoiled once again, and the favorite gift of the night was Kaleigh's operation game...everyone joined in the fun! And finally, we are done with all the Christmas events of the year! Thanks to everyone!!!

Silly Kidlets!!

Whoa Daddy...not too fast!!

Hold on tight!

These two were being silly and laying in the hallway...of course whatever one did, the other had to do too!

As I mentioned...two peas in a pod!

And then Kaleigh joined in too...all three in the laundry basket!!

Presents!!!

A princess shirt for the little princess!

Yeah...bath toys...just what we needed!!!

Sweet Kaleigh...can you tell it is Christmas and she is getting presents! Look at that face!

Mommy and her Daddy!

Toys, toys, and more toys!

I'm not quite sure what the intent of putting the basket on our head, but nonetheless!

Look at me Mommy..I'm very good at balancing!

Well, maybe not! I promise I only took this one picture before going to her rescue! :-)

Home with Mommy!

I stayed home with Olivia today, just to keep an eye on her and determine whether we needed to go to the doctor. Not to mention, it was so slow at work that I was able to work from home just fine. So, we had a good day and you could tell she was feeling a whole lot better. She played all day and I got quite a bit of work done, so all in all, it was a good day. She even played on her laptop, while Mommy was on hers. This is typically the only way she will let me work, otherwise she wants to be in my lap.."helping."

Back to Work!

Sweet Olivia didn't want me out of her sight all night. I realize she has her paci in her mouth, but desperate times call for desperate measures. Not to mention, then end is cut off of it, so she wasn't all that interested!

Well, after all the Holiday Festivities, it was time for a reality check. We went back to work today and boy was it tough. So tough in fact, that I left a little early! It was so slow at work and the day seemed to drag on! So, we left early and came to pick up Olivia. It turned out that it was a good thing. We got home and she was so clingy all night. You could tell something was wrong, but we didn't know what?? She was wiggling all over the place, so we thought it was her stomach. And then it happened...Shane was holding her and she threw up all over his shoulder (and in his pocket). We got her into the kitchen and it just kept coming. She had chugged an entire cup of water, and that is what it took. She felt so much better after that, but was still pretty sleepy and clingy all night. In fact, she fell asleep on the chair, which she never does at home. So, it was to bed early tonight without any dinner, but hopefully she feels better in the morning!

Christmas #6

One more stop for the day! After Dina's, we were off to Randy and Joyce's for the Cline family Christmas! Even though we had three stops today, it was actually really nice because we weren't having to rush from one place to the next. We could actually stay and visit for quite a while before having to move on to the next place. So, although it was a long day, it was relaxing just the same. We headed over to Randy's and Olivia finally fell asleep as we were getting close. She desperately needed a cat nap, so I was glad for that and didn't want to wake her when we got there. So, as I went inside, Shane stayed in the car with her, and you'll see from the picture, I know why he volunteered! He was just as tired! We had a fun night, great dinner, and the gift exchange was just as unusual as it always is on the Cline side!! You'll just have to take my word for it..too hard to explain! :-)

The end to a long day....last stop!

Well, it was our last stop of the day, but we needed a little cat nap in order to get us through! Olivia fell asleep on the way, so Shane stayed in the car with her for a few minutes to get a good nap in...and needless to say, he fell asleep too!

Miss Olivia petting one of the two rats! I won't attempt to answer the question regarding why they have two pet rats, but they were actually pretty nice (except for that long nasty tail)!

Olivia and Mommy (starting to wind down from the day)!

Aunt Jenny and Miss Olivia

Imagine that, Daddy and Olivia were on the computer playing music!

Christmas #5

OK, is anyone keeping track. This is the fifth Christmas we have been to if you include waking up at home. After we got ready, we went to Dina's to celebrate with Grandma, Dave, Jean and Bob, Aunt Jenny and Uncle Don. We had a wonderful breakfast and then enjoyed the gift exchange. We actually convinced Dina this year to draw names rather than try to buy for everyone, and wouldn't you know, she cheated! She fills our stockings every year, so that was her attempt to get away with buying all of us gift cards. She says she played by the rules, but we all know better! We'll have to be a little more creative next year!!