Welcome Austin Villalon

Congratulations to Diane and Rhoger on the arrival of Austin Luis Grove Villalon. He was born on May 13th at 10:46pm. He was 6lbs and 7oz, 20 inches long.

We went to visit them after they got back from the hospital and he is just precious! He looks just like his daddy and was very content while we were there. Here are some pictures, isn't he adorable!


The happy family:

Here's me and Livi with Austin:

Miniature Golf

We decided to go try taking Olivia to play miniature golf on Mother's Day afternoon since it was so nice out. Let's just say that she's no Tiger yet, but she understood to put the ball in the hole!

We had fun playing golf. At the golf place, there was a snow cone/ice cream stand. We *attempted* to let Olivia have a snow cone! I say *attempted* because she wouldn't let us help her and she dropped the first one on the ground, then we got her another one and . .. yeah . . . let's just say - she's not ready for solo snow cone eating yet! ha ha!

Before I end this post I wanted to tell you about another funny little thing Olivia has picked up. The other night she was behind our chairs in our family room and she was acting like she was stuck. So I asked her if she was stuck and she told me "No, I'm fine" - how funny! Grant and I just looked at each other like, where in the world did that come from! She'll say it from time to time now and we just laugh! How funny! She has been trying so hard to repeat everything and talk in full sentences. She tries to explain things to us and half the time we cannot understand what she is saying at all! But she's trying so hard and she'd getting much better at letting us know what she is talking about!

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all the Mom's out there!

So, after The Little Gym on Saturday, we went to surprise our mom's for Mother's Day and give them their gifts. We left straight from the gym. Olivia usually wears herself out at the gym and this was no exception. Here she is when we first got into the car. She was asleep within about 15 minutes of us leaving.


We went to my parent's house first and surprised my mom. They had been gardening all morning and dad was trying to finish up in time for us to get there without spoiling the surprise. So when Mom kept wanting to do more and more stuff, he was hustling to get it all done in time. But they were finished when we got there and she was very happy to see us. Olivia didn't even want to leave when it was time to go. Grandma has lots of fun toys to play with!

Here are a couple pictures of my family with Olivia. I couldn't get one of them all looking.

For once, Mom's eyes were OPEN, but Dad's were closed! ha ha

Then later that afternoon, we went over to Chad and Becca's house to see them and Grandmom and Granddad. Not so much of a surprise for them, but it was good to see everyone. We all went to dinner and got to hang out. We also got to see baby Emma again! She's so little and cute!

Olivia and Drew had a lot of fun playing together. So much so, that I couldn't get a picture that wasn't blurry - they were running around too much!

Here they are giving each other a very quick hug:

Here is sweet little Emma:

Here is a picture of the guys with Drew and Olivia. Unfortunately Olivia's eyes are closed in this picture, but at least she is smiling!

Even Granddad got to hang out with Olivia. She's always been a bit hesitant with him, but she climbed right up into his lap! She even stayed there for a while with Drew and Granddad.

We headed back home that night so I could enjoy a nice quiet Mother's Day at home. It was a very busy Saturday, but very nice to see everyone.

For my Mother's Day, I got to sleep in and even got made some yummy pancakes! It was a nice relaxing day and I enjoyed it.

The Little Gym

We had a very busy weekend last week and I'm going to break it up into a couple different posts. On Saturday morning we went to The Little Gym and took some really cute (and funny) pictures and videos. Olivia LOVES going to the little gym and is getting pretty good at some of the equipment. She can swing on the bars all by herself. She can walk on the balance beam pretty well, but we're still working on jumping off the end of it.


Here are some pictures and videos from last Saturday at The Little Gym:

Here is Olivia with Miss. Rachel:

Piggy Tails!

I was finally able to get piggy tails in Olivia's hair. (I had to wait for it to get long enough AND for her to be still enough for me to do it!) So she had piggy tails all weekend! Look how cute!



Gracie also got piggy tails (though, hers were short-lived!). Here she is when I asked her to say "cheese!" ha ha!






On Saturday Olivia and I hung out with Sara and Gracie for the day and went over to see Grant with his booth at the Wake Forest "meet the town" thingy. (where companies can set up booths to meet the public and get good advertisement, while the public and shop around and get crafts and stuff).



Afterwards, we decided to stop at Target to get a couple things (did I mention that we all rode together so the girls were screaming and going crazy in the back seat while Sara and I were going *crazy* in the front seat! They even popped one of the balloons from the vendor show in the car while Sara was driving!) Anyway, we put them both in a cart at Target (Livi in the front, Gracie in the back) and what a traveling circus it was! You can imagine me pushing them around telling Gracie to sit down repeatedly while trying not to steer too close to the isles or she'd grab everything, meanwhile Olivia was dropping a trail of raisins on the ground and spilling her milk! wow! Guess we got a glimpse into have multiple kids! Then we all went to dinner with the boys and even went and got ice cream after!



On Sunday, our good friends Lexie and Jenna came over for dinner. They are former classmates of Grant's at Duke. Lexie has spent the last several years in New Zealand getting her PhD in Physical Therapy and has never met Olivia (she left when I was pregnant), but has been a great follower of the blog. It was great to see them and catch up!

Jenna (left), Olivia and Lexie (right) looking at Olivia's scrapbook

We had a good, but busy weekend (as always!) and got to hang out with some good friends!

Here's a video of Olivia dancing! Lately she has been dancing everytime she hears any kind of music! It is just too funny!