Brooklyn Hits the Slopes

Brian took the little miss skiing for the first time a couple of weeks ago. I missed out on the action being that I was 8 months pregnant and all.

She used the smallest ski boots and skis the rental shop had.

Poor girl was so sad that she couldn't go down the big hills. Maybe next year :)

Go Jazz!!

We have had the opportunity to go to a few Jazz games this year already and we are very happy they actually got to have a season at all this year!

Ringing In The New Year

On New Years Eve we went to the annual dinner at Stein Ericksen. You may remember last year at this dinner I found out I had a shellfish allergy:(

The only difference was that this was Bs first time joining us. She played with toys at the table.

Oh how she loves her Trevor.

She was spoiled with some sparkling cider.

And played in the giant gingerbread house. Notice the giant gummy bears in the window! This thing was amazing!! 

Walking to the room from dinner. Oh how I love these two!

The next day her cousins came up.

Cousin love....

We also took some time to check out the scenery :)

The highlight of the weekend.....

The little miss or should I say our big girl is now potty trained!! She had interest about 6 months prior but we missed the window and luckily she became interested again and so we ran with it over the christmas/new year break. It was the perfect time because we had the time to go and sit on the potty every twenty minutes the first few days while she got the hang of it :)

All Was Merry and Bright

Christmas morning at the Olsen household.....

Once Brooklyn saw her roller coaster setup in the family room she didn't want to open/play with anything else. (obviously not her in this picture just a reference for size:))

It only took a few times before she was on and off it all by herself and pulling it up the track to go down again.

Another one of her other favorites was the "fishy game."

A little christmas dancing. "Roll it, roll it" as she calls is.

Mickey and Minnie showed up at grandma and papa's house

Brooklyn also got to hold her new cousin "baby Lexis," with help of course.

We opened lots of gifts....

Even one for the our little guy :) He got some sweet BYU gear.

Brooklyn and Baylor got some gear too. She got a new cheerleader outfit complete with pom poms.

One of my favortie gifts was a cricut.

One of Brian's favorite gifts was his new glock handgun.

We also got to see some of my family at my 91 year old grandma's house. This is becoming more and more rare these days :(
My family is getting so big it is hard for everyone to be there at the same time.

 My mom watching "Mickey" with the little miss.

We had a very Merry Christmas filled with so much love and time well spent with family and friends!!

Santa Claus

Santa Claus is so fun to talk about and see at a distance, but sitting on his lap is a whole different story....

Alexis Elaine

On November 29th at 1:06am baby Alexis was born to my brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Russ and Kristen Olsen. We are so excited to welcome a new member to the Olsen family!! She is so beautiful and such a sweet spirit. Seeing her reminded me how precious a gift these little ones are. Brian and I are now aunt and uncle to twelve nieces and nephews and one more little niece in the next couple of weeks :)

8 lbs 6 oz
21.25 inches

I think this little girl might have a little look of her daddy :) 

HaPpY HaLlOwEeN

On Halloween Eve we decided to carve pumpkins. This was Brooklyn's first opportunity at such an experience. You can tell how much she liked cleaning out the "punkins."

To quote her specifically I think she used the words, "Hold your nose, kaka poo poos."

However, Brooklyn loved the results!!

The one on the left represents Brian and he carved it. The one in the middle represents Brooklyn, and maybe the little one on the way. The one on the left represents me. Brian suprised me by putting a little baby pumpkin inside the one I carved. If you look close, you might be able to see the face he drew on it just off to the left side of the witch :) 

 

Our porch was ready for Halloween.

* Trunk-or-Treat *

Last minute, Brooklyn's grandma Debi made her a Minnie Dress. I think it turned out so adorable and she did such an amazing job making it!! We started out the night at Brian's parents ward trunk-or-treat. We thought it would be easier for her than going house to house and we also wanted her grandparents to see her.

She had to analyze frankenstein as well...it was a lot bigger than the one we had at our house!!

She got plenty of "Grandma" and "Papa" time.

* Trick-or-Treat*

After the Trunk-or-Treat, we went to my parents for some Trick-or-Treating. My dad took Brooklyn to a few houses as well as some of her cousins. It brought back memories of my dad taking us Trick-or-Treating to as many houses as we could before we got too tired.

While we were there we got a picture with her grandma, because a picture with "Papa" wasn't going to happen. Brooklyn loves her grandmas!!

 The little B got to see a few of her cousins (a pirate, iron man, and spiderman) as well.

{ :) We had a spooktacular halloween (: }