Making Old Things New Again

My Friend Ciara posted on her blog shoes that she had Mod Podged fabric to and they were so cute I had to try it. These are some shoes that I was thinking about giving to DI, but now I love them again. It is was honestly really easy.







Can't wait to do some more...I think I feel a girls weekend coming!!!

How many times must I learn...

before I listen?

As we were heading to the rodeo tonight I had a thought pass through my mind saying, "you should bring a second set of clothes for Sophie and a jacket for myself." I immediately dismissed the thought by saying why would I bring a change of clothes? Sophie is nearly potty trained and we never have to worry about anything like that. And a jacket? It is 95 degrees out.

Well, as I am sure you have guessed, I should have listened. While at the rodeo Sophie puked all over herself and me. I am now the proud owner of a Day's of 47 souvenir t-shirt and my SIL Tara fortunately had brought pj's for her kids that we bummed for Sophie.

Lesson learned. Listen to what you are being told and don't think that you know better then the Lord. He has blessed us with the Gift of the Holy Ghost to help us be prepared for life's happenings.

Elmopalooza

It was Elmopalooza at our house yesterday for Sophie’s second birthday. We had Elmo everywhere, balloons, hats, cupcakes, a poster, piñata and books. It all turned out pretty cute.

Grandma Olson and Uncle Erik were in town and got to join us for the party along with lots of Beairds and Cravens.

Even Bjorn got into the action.

For a few days we had been telling Sophie that she was going to have a birthday party and she kept walking around singing the Happy Birthday song. It was funny because she kept saying “Happy Birthday Dear Grandpa” (well really “crappa”) instead of Sophie.

Sophie blew out her candles all by herself.


Sharing some cupcake with Daddy and Mommy. Such a nice girl.





To burn off the cake we went outside and jumped on the trampoline that we bought for Sophie for her birthday. Thanks to Grandma and Grandpa Olson for pitching in. Sophie and her cousins had a great time.

After some time on the trampoline Sophie opened her presents. She wanted to play with each gift and not move on to open the next one. She got lots of really fun toys and dress up accessories as you can see from the pictures.

She put nearly everything on and went to her room to check it out in her mirror. As she was standing there she was naming each item to herself. “That’s my purse, my glasses, my phone…” It was so cute! Sophie you are so precious!

And then there was the piñata. This piñata was well built and after each of the kids got a few turns trying to break Elmo open he was no worse for the wear.

Mia really got into it

Lauren was not to sure about the whole thing and gave the bat right back.

So I tried to help Sophie break it open, but after beating Elmo with the plastic bat still nothing. Next Mike and I helped Sophie jump up and down on him but Sophie was not a fan of that and burst into tears.

We figured that it might be traumatic beating Elmo, but thought it would only take a few hits and it would be over. After calming down Sophie by giving Elmo a few hugs, we pulled the strings on the back of the piñata poured the candy out.

It was such a great party and thank you to everyone for coming to play with us. It is always a blast to have our family around. Happy Birthday Sophie, we love you!


This was just a funny and totally cute picture of Mike and Chelsea.

Lagoon

Today was our stake Lagoon day. We could get in for free to just walk around and you could buy tickets for rides. Mike had to work so Sophie, Rex, Suzy and I went over after I got off work.
First Sophie went on the Boats

Then on the Whales. Sophie was holding on very tight, but seemed to like the ride. When the ride was over Sophie looked over at me and burst into tears. I thought she was scared, but when I got to here she said "I want it again. mama."

So we went on the ride again and a third time for good measure.

Then we took the "Wild Kingdom" train ride. It is possible that the "wild animals" were stuffed. The tigers and lions were all sleeping.

Sophie really liked the tunnel. Any time we even go under an over pass she says "tunnel, tunnel."

Sophie you are so precious. Mom and Daddy love you so much!

More Rides!



Thanks for a fun evening Sophie!