Seahawks win the Super Bowl! Valentine's Day, Snow day, and St. Patrick's Day

2014 was a very special year for me because my team, the Seattle Seahawks won the super bowl!  I also won my fantasy football league mainly because of the Seahawks players I had.  Of course, I got Olivia a little Seahawks dress that she wore proudly on Seahawks game days.  We had a small get together with our friends the Mowery's and the Cullimore's for the Superbowl.  The Seahawks hard game was the game before when they were playing the 49ers and they ended cremating the Broncos in the Super Bowl, was not close at all!

All dressed in our Seahawks gear

Seahawks lucky dress

Happy girl watching the 'hawks

Sweet girl

Mommy and Olivia watching the Seahawks in December

Go Hawks!

Valentine's Day this year was pretty low key.  Sean and I celebrated with fondue on our own after the kids went to bed and a yummy bottle of good wine.  We also got Cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory for dessert.  We watched the Olympics afterwards while we ate (I know so romantic!).  Brandon had a blast with Valentine's Day, he had a party at school, and Cupid brought him a Bucky bath toy along with some candy.  Daddy and Brandon went and got mommy two bouquets of flowers too!  So sweet!

Happy Valentine's Day-Olivia at 7.5 months

First valentine's day

The kiddos on Valentine's Day

Shot of the kiddos

Hard to get them both to look at the camera

Valentine's Day 2014

Cupid came and rang the doorbell and left a Bucky bath toy among other things

Valentine's day morning

Love these two!

Beautiful flowers from Daddy and Brandon

We got Brandon's first real snowstorm this February of his life.  It started snowing on a Thursday afternoon and continued all through the following Saturday.  Sean and I both had work canceled on Friday so we had a fun snow day.  We loved having our Subaru during the snow as we were easily about to drive in it.  We made it to Fred Meyer and got some food and a snow disc for Brandon to sled with.  We also ventured out to the Mowery's house and played in the snow with them.  Brandon had a blast in the snow and built a snow man with daddy and loved sledding.  Olivia was pretty indifferent to it.

Snow baby

Snow day

Watching big brother sled

Ready to go down the hill

Going down the hill near our house

So much fun

Olivia and Addie in Brooke's house

Staying warm at 7.5 months

Over at Logan's house

Logan and Brandon in February

Making a snow man with Daddy

Snow man in our backyard

Daddy and Brandon's snow man

 St. Patrick's day was really low key this year.  For one, it was on a Monday and for two we have kids.  I did dress the kids up in their St. Patrick's gear to celebrate and Olivia definitely looked like a little Irish lass with her red hair and pale skin!

First St. Patrick's Day

Her dress says "I am a Wee Bit Irish"

Sibling love St. Patrick's Day 2014

Love these two

Kissing baby sister

Brandon 3 years 3 months

Happy St. Patrick's Day from Brandon

Our little Irish lass!

9 months old!

Olivia is 9 months old today.  She has changed so much in the last month it is astonishing.  She has gone from a fairly immobile little baby (she could roll around to get to things but that was about it) to full on crawling and now pulling up and cruising to get to things and get around.  She love to stand and we have to be so careful because she is way more adventurous than Brandon was at this age and will suddenly let go and try to walk by herself.  I have to be constantly watching her or by her side as she can pull up at any time and then slip and fall and bonk herself.  She does not like to get hurt and seems to be more dramatic than Brandon about her falls at this age.

Olivia at 7.5 months

Bath time at the end of November

Shopping with mommy at 8 months in Target

Pulling up at school at almost 8 months

Olivia loves her walker at almost 8 months

Happy girl!

Olivia continues to get cared by her teachers at Rocking Horse Day School (where Brandon goes to preschool).  She loves her teachers and is really happy there aside from not napping there sometimes that great and coming home tired.  They do not have a dedicated napping room so it can get noisy in there which sometimes makes it hard for Olivia to fall asleep as she is overly stimulated.  Olivia also is really beginning to interact with the other babies.  She likes to wake them up now that she can pull up so they will play with her.  My mother, Olivia's CiCi continues to take care of her two days a week.  It is so cute seeing Olivia excited to see my mom.  It is awesome that she is formulating such a close relationship with her.  As my mom says it really does take a village to raise a child.

8 month old picture in March

Happy girl 

Playing in the baby room at the Children's Museum with Addie

The water is fun

Olivia learned how to wave this week.  She can wave bye bye.  I swear I heard her say "bye bye" the other day.  She loves playing with her walkers and baby dolls.  She loves paying attention to details such as the baby doll's eyes that open and close.  She could spend for hours playing with the string of my sweatshirt.  It is sweet to see the relationship between Olivia and Brandon continue to grow.  Brandon sometimes gets annoyed with her because she takes his toys but for the most part he is a nurturing older brother and gentle with her.  Olivia is enjoying Brandon's toys now and her eyes lit up when she sees him.

Olivia playing with her toys on St. Patrick's Day at 8.5 months

Olivia and Addie at Four Graces Winery

Olivia at Four Graces winery

I am getting a bit nostalgic as I watch Olivia grow.  It just seems like yesterday I brought her home from the hospital and now she is a cruising 9 month old.  It seems like she has grown up before my eyes.  She is way more like a toddler now than a baby.  I am sad to see her grow up but it is so fun at the same time watch her become her own little person.

Standing up and playing at school

Happy girl when standing at 8.5 months

9 months old and trying to take the sticker off!

Pushing her walker

I can walk with my walker at 9 months!

9 months old today and standing almost on my own