Olivia is 3!

I can't believe my baby girl is already 3! She wanted cupcakes for her birthday instead of cake so Jake decided it had to be in the shape of a 3 since there was no cake to write on.

You can't really tell from this picture, but the letters on the cupcakes spell out happy birthday.

Ethan picked out this present especially for her.

She was mesmerized by this ball because it has glowing lights that flash every time you shake it.

She always wants to feed her babies, so we thought these would be perfect for her.

Her "Leapfrog" so she can be just like her Ethan-man. It's a leapfrog toy that teaches letters, numbers, shapes etc and we thought it would be perfect for her since she is starting preschool.

Happy Birthday my sweet, wonderful, beautiful, big brown eyed baby girl!!  We love you!!

Bowling with the Hirschi's

My kids love to go bowling in Ephraim, so when my sister found out that her son needed to go bowling for one of his merit badge requirements, and we happened to be in town for Memorial Day, we decided to go and take all the kids.

 

 Olivia and her "best buddy"

 

 Ethan hanging out with the buddies

 

 Ethan bowling without the help of the rail. He did ok, but I think his arm got tired because he started using the ball roller about halfway through the game.

 

Olivia refused to look at me because she was busy bowling.

A great time was had by one and all!

First Fishing Trip of 2012

**Random post I just found that for some reason never got posted (I think it is probably from April/May)**

We love to go fishing so it's nice that we only live about 20 minutes from a decent lake. The fish aren't all that big but since we throw most of them back we don't really care. Ethan does usually make us keep one or two just because he loves to have them even though he doesn't usually eat them.

These are from our first fishing trip of the year. I don't think we even caught anything this time but we did get a few bites and the most important part is that we had fun!

Ethan was showing me how far he thought he would have to cast in order to catch a good fish.

There were some geese swimming around by us and didn't seem to care at all that we were there.

Olivia spent the majority of the fishing time like this. We went up after church (which ends at 2:30), so she was definitely ready for nap time.

 The little black spot on the mountain right in the middle of the picture is Ethan. He started getting a little bored since we weren't catching anything and he decided to go hiking.