It snowed A LOT a few weeks back.  

I forgot I had taken some pictures of the kids playing 

in this beautiful winter wonderland.

They were heaven...

Aunt Ade's in the house

Aunt Adrienne came for Olivia's baptism and I am finally getting around to posting about it.

Ade is still crazy fun and oh so sweet.  

She is the best!

The classic jumping pic....the best I could get.

{We will have to work on Owen's jumping skills.} 

These girls adore their Aunt....

and so do Ryan and I.

Love ya Ade.  Can't wait to see you next month!

Olivia's baptism

Olivia was the only child to be baptized the month of November so we had our own private baptism. Lucky us! We had an aunt and uncle give prayers, grandma's and a grandpa give talks and aunt Ade help out/entertain/teach while I was getting Olivia changed and dressed.

Thank you!

It was a perfect day.

I don't think anyone was MORE EXCITED than Olivia!  She had been counting down since Dru was baptized.  She was prepared, anxious and beaming that day!  

 Grandma Kathy took Liv shopping and found this beautiful dress.  It was made for Olivia.

What a fun tradition.

 Aunt Rayne gave Liv a gorgeous silver  key necklace with a ruby.

She adores it!

Our cute primary presidency.

AWESOME friends who came to support Liv.

Olivia received scriptures from Grandma and Grandpa Martin.

She uses them everyday and loves to mark them.

Liv's best friend, Phoebe.

I made a little DVD of Liv's life to show at the lunch afterwards.  

It was hard to pick and choose photos (millions of options) so everyone was nice to sit through 

19 minutes of my obsession of Olivia.

  

Amazing family who love Olivia.

Cute Aunt Ade from NY!

Thank you mom and dad for letting us have the luncheon at your home!

It made the day go so smoothly and made my life a lot easier.

A little take away to say THANK YOU!

All on a Halloween night...

We started off our Halloween night by painting our pumpkins.

We may never carve again.

Then it was off to the Martins to start our trick or treating.

We were able to snag some full size goodies.  Yum.

 We picked up Aunt Kim for our little neighborhood that we love going to.

Kim was so great with Owen and such a big help!

Ryan and I watched this adorable sight house after house.

We are soaking it in because we know it will not be this perfect for too much longer.

Finally, we stopped at my parents for a bit.  They treated us to a Halloween feast!  

It was fun to chat, eat and watch the kids sort and count their candy.

We also sang our favorite Halloween song a few times.  

I love that my parents make holidays a big deal.

Owen "played" with his candy. 

 He loved to dump his candy, line it up and then put it back in his bucket.....again and again.