Braden's Newborns

These are just some of our favorite newborn pictures that we had taken of Braden when he was nine days old. We did airplane pictures to match the theme of his nursery. Brian's grandma made this adorable hat :)

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This little guy is so calm and easy going. He almost never cries!!

Of course we had to get some pictures of our favorite sports....this is Brian's High School baseball mitt.

The little man is laying on Brian's autographed Jazz basketball.

I love this precious little face! He is such a little sweet heart.

His first nickname is "little guy." Brooklyn's favorite thing to do when he is awake is put her face right in front of his and say, "hi, little guy."

The proud older sister :)

Introducing....

Braden Scott Olsen

March 26, 2012

7 lbs 11 oz

21 Inches

6:31 pm

My due date was March 29th and the doctor didn't want me to go over so he gave me a three day window to be induced. On March 26th, the hospital called me at about one o'clock to come in.

Before they started me I was 3+ centimeters dilated and 80 percent effaced. At 3:15 they started me on a very slow pitocin drip. The nurse was going between our room and another one and she didn't want us to delivery at the same time. The doctor broke my water at around 5:30 and I was dilated to a 6. He left and said that he only needs 12 minutes to get back. A few contractions later I told the nurse it felt like I need to go to the bathroom and so she checked me. She told me she felt head and that she was going to call the doctor and that I should try not to push. (A request that was very hard to do!!) My doctor came a few minutes later after driving 95 mph. He walked in his house just to turn around and drive right back to the hospital. After pushing for about 90 seconds our little guy was born at 6:31 pm. Just over 3 hours of labor!

He has lots of hair!! Just slightly more than his older sister had and a little darker too. I think he looks a lot like his older sister when she was born. Brooklyn kept telling everyone that her mama and dada were at the "restaurant." I think she finally understood what was going on when she saw him at the hospital. When she first saw him she wasn't quite sure about him. She just wanted to look at him and not hold him, but she warmed up pretty quick :) 

 We feel very blessed that we are both healthy and are so excited to have this perfect addition to our family!

Papa's Secretary

Hello....Papa's office, can I help you?

Oh hi Grandma...let me get him.

 Papa.....Grandma would like to speak with you

Ok....I will transfer her

All in a days work :)

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!!