Looking back

Our first married Christmas I bought this Christmas memories book. Each year you put a photo 

from that years Christmas, and then on the other side of the page it has a whole bunch of questions

so you can rem the details of that year. 

This is our 4th married Christmas. Hard to believe. Time always seems to seep away.

Here are pics from each page from the past. 

 

Our first married Christmas

My Mom, Dad and sisters came down to SD to visit us!

                                          

                                              Our Second Christmas. Ethans first Christmas.
                                              He was about 3.5 mths. We celebrated at home.
                                              Josh deployed a few weeks later.

                                           
                                               Third Christmas. Met up with Joshs family and
                                          grandparents in Florida.

Thanksgiving 2011

Ethans Costume

Not really sure how we will always celebrate Halloween/Fall with our children. But Ethan is still younger so we have just been focusing on the fun of fall with friends and candy. Last year I made Ethan a pirate costume it was a lot of fun. Josh and I took him to a fall festival and some friends met us there.

 


This year not sure what Ethan and I will be up too. Thinking of maybe walking the neighborhood for some candy. Ethan will prob enjoy that. Josh and I talked about what Ethan should be this year. And he suggested Flash. I looked around in the stores to see if they had anything but nothing. And online everything is so expensive and cheap looking.

So I decided it would be fun to make it. I had a lot of fun making it. And Im proud of myself. It even has muscles! LOL :)

Chi Fi La

Happy to say while in AZ I had Chi Fi La 3 times! And each time it was free because my mom had tons of coupons for free stuff lol!

This was the Thursday before we took off. I convinced my mom to let Tera and Tasha out of school early. So we all went to lunch. Then the whole family and my dad too drove us to the airport.

Ethan enjoyed playing in the Chi Fi La slide, tunnel thing. And I even went in with him lol.

Goins Wedding

My friend from high school was married Oct 15. I was one of her bridesmaids. The day of the wedding was very busy. We woke up and headed to get ready at her house. Then lots of pics with the whole bridal party. 

The wedding was nicely decorated and a good sit down meal.

Here are some pics from the day. My sister Erika flew down from college and was also in the wedding. :)

 

Time to update

Its time for an update. I wish I was better at keeping up with our family blog.




We just got back from AZ and we were there for 3 weeks. Ill have to write a post about dif parts of that.

We are officially half way through the deployment. Just waiting for the ball to start rolling and time to keep going.

Ethan is growing up so much. He loves playing with his toy cars. He enjoys eating snacks. His fav is fruit, gummy snacks, gold fish, granola bars, and the newest cookie crunch cereal. At grandmas house all the snacks are in the low cabinet. So he would always help himself to snacks. If he was supposed to or not!

Josh is doing well. He has been working crazy busy over in the desert. Hoping he gets a break soon.

Check out my friends blog

http://www.singingthroughtherain.com/2011/09/faith-deployedagain-review-giveaway.html

She is also doing a book giveway! I want to win lol

Found!

Today Ethan and I went on a walk with Aiden and his Gma. On the way back from our walk heading home. A couple asked me if I knew whose dog this chihuahua belonged too. I told them no. I guess they were heading out so I told them I would take the dog and post him on the ellsowrth lost and found pets page. Because pets are found within a few hours after posting on there. 

Ethan was in love!! I posted him on the page and within 5 min a lady that found him once had his owners number. And they came to pick him up 5 min later. The owner said he just got back from deployment and while he was gone he got a call that he was found in North Carolina!! He had to pay 400 dollars for him to be shipped back lol.

Just Like His Dad

This picture reminds me so much of Josh.

Random Deployment Thought

Sometimes it feels like since Josh is gone everything starts to break, go wrong.

Ethans newest words

 

Speech has really helped Ethan to start up his talking. He says a lot of words and signs now. His newest thing is saying Choo Choo and then signing train. Its so fun. Cracks me up everytime!

Pics

Diaper Malfunction LOL

Giving his grape a ride in his car

Ethans Friend Addison

Monday Monday

So another week begins. Another week down. Things are going well here. Ethan still has his moments. But it seems he only breaks down when he is really tired or wants something really bad. Like tonight for example:

After dinner Ethan was playing with his cars and I was cleaning up. Then I decided we would go walk and check the mail. Ethan already had his bath for the night. He was looking all cute in his zip up car jammies. As we walked down the steps to head to the mail box. He decided he was going to mow with his mower the whole way there. It was really cute. I even laughed.

After I grabbed the mail. I noticed Ethan never stopped at the mailbox. Instead he was happily heading down the col di sac street. I guess he wanted to mow the whole base. Who knows what was in his mind. I stopped him and tried turning his mower toward the house. But he did not like that idea. 

Instead he had a huge melt down and was rolling around on the road... Who knows what people were thinking. If any were watching. It was rough, and after a few more melt downs we made it inside.

Now looking back it was pretty funny lol. Josh thought it was hilarious.

Josh came on skype tonight but the connection over there wasnt very good. So we couldnt skype. Ethan was all excited too. He always runs over and asks daddy daddy? He loves seeing him and hearing him. Even if Josh just talks on the mic without video, Ethan knows its his dad.


A few days ago he was on webcame and Ethan showed Josh every car (almost) that he owned. LOL hes like dadda dadda, car car, vrooomm and he rolled it on the desk, then he showed him the next one and the next one lol. It was very funny. 

So handsome

Visit from the grandparents

My Grandparents from AZ came to visit Ethan and I this week. He had so much fun with them. Of course he had to show off his collection of cars. And scare grandma with his new rubber snake! AHHAa. We had a good time eating at a few restaurants for dinner. Watching Ethan play and entertain us and going to the park. And of course some shopping. Ethan is also getting 3 teeth right now. He isint fussy or grumpy but very very slobbery. So here are some pics from our week that flew by.

Fall??

Today was such a nice day! And it feels and smells like fall! I cant belive it. Made me feel very happy. Because knocking down another season makes us just that much closer to having Josh back home.

Not much exciting happend today. Ethan and I went and a nice walk before dinner. And he decided he wanted to help hold the leash. My grandparents from AZ will be arriving in an hour or less. Im excited to have some company around. :)

Fun with Friends

Today Ethans bud Aiden came over to play. His parents went out to celebrate thier 4th anniversary. We had fun. the boys played cars, played outside and we all sat on the couch and ate rainbow goldfish.

While outside Ethan was mowing the grass. And then he decided to start running/mowing towards the park. So Aiden and I had to go catch him. Then we went on the swings. It was a good day. 

Daycare

Ethan started a new daycare last week. Since I have a set scheduled. I found a really nice lady and she has a nice house and set up for the kids. She also dose all kinds of activities with the kids. I really think Ethan is enjoying himself. 

Thrifty Tuesday

So I went to the thrift store on my lunch break. I was only able to be there for about
10 min, since I went home first to let my dog out, eat and talk to Josh for our 15 min.

I found a cute little kitchen. My friends son has the door one. So I got him that it was 5 bucks
and then I got him a lawn mower for 4. Good deals. I also got him about 6 pairs of shorts.

I am keeping the kitchen and mower for outside. Since he has only one other outside toy
his Coupe Car.

Here are some pics!

Dipping

Ethans Newest Thing

I thought Id blog about Ethans newest thing before I forget. Ethan is all into dipping his food now. So he loves to dip his veggies in ranch and his hotdogs in ketchup. And sometimes he gets alittle dipping excited and dips all his food in the ranch or ketchup. But hey at least he is eating all his food. Thats sometimes a challenge with a toddler!

First Post

Welcome to our new blog. Ive never been good with keeping up with blogging. But I am determined. I promise this time! So welcome Friends and Family, as I write about our daily adventures in the Olson Clan.