London's big day

On Sunday the 15th we blessed London at church. Mark's mom, dad and brother Kurt were able to make it for her big day. The blessing of course was very beautiful. London wore the same dress that Sadie and myself were blessed in. The dress means a lot to me especially since my mom sent me the dress a little bit before the house burned down. Coincidence? I think not. She looked so beautiful in it! I love my little London! Later that day we had a big turkey feast with family and friends.



Sadie LOVES London so much. She is always kissing her and trying to pick her up. Whenever London is crying she says "mom, help Onion!"

While the birds were not trying to murder us Sadie had her first lesson of skim boarding and is now sacrificing everything in her life to go pro. You may find her on the cover of Skim boarding magazines some day soon.

London enjoying her first trip to the beach.



the water was a little too cold for my blood
We had a lot of fun with Marks mom, dad and little kid brother Kurt while they visited us for London's blessing.

The Albatross

I guess you had to be there.

Halloween Olsen Style

This Halloween, you might say that we took it easy. This year, there was no award-winning chili, no first-place jack-o-lanterns, no intricately hand-sewn elaborate felt costumes. Not like last year. But don't worry. We were still able to feel the spirit of Halloween. We did it as a family. We felt the spirit through crying babies, dirty diapers, and 20 minutes of driving just to find a decent trick-or-treating spot. For some reason our neighborhood, which is usually crawling with kids, was dark, desolate, and deserted on Halloween. I think I saw a tumbleweed roll by. There was one nice family passing out candy to spread halloween cheer, luckily( apparently the "wave" of trick-or-treaters came around 9:30 in the form of some teenagers with lame masks asking for candy).

Sadie really got into it this year, which was really fun. We had prepped her for a few weeks about her kitty-cat tutu and costume, so she was pretty excited. We also drilled her on saying "trick or treat" at the doors. We probably should have practiced a few more times because she still got a little shy. One thing she was not shy about was taking candy from strangers. She picked up on this pretty quickly, and while the kind folks were reaching out to put candy into her bucket, Sadie reached in and grabbed some more to help out. So that was a pretty big hit with her, and by the end of the night she was happy to say "trick or treat" for some candy.

Our cute little Cat Princess and Skeleton.

Cutest cat ever!! Ashley made the tutu back in September and Sadie has been wearing it and talking about her kitty cat tutu non stop. The whole tutu thing started when Sadie found a picture of Ashley's little sister wearing a tutu and Sadie couldn't stop talking about Abbey's tutu. So Ashley decided to make her one and she loves that thing.
Showing the ropes of an effective door approach.

A few days before Halloween we carved pumpkins. Of course Sadie was a big fan this year and loves anything to do with pumpkins. Sadie was hanging on for dear life, it was so sweet.

Naturally, as a man it was my job to cut the pumpkins, and the girls were in charge of the dirty work. Sadie picked up exactly one seed and placed it in the bowl. Other than that, she was happy to watch Mommy do it.
Our family...and our pumpkin family: the twins.

On tuesday we went to the ward Trunk or Treat. We are pretty sure that this is where Sadie got into the spirit of candy.
A lost kitty in search of candy.
shoveling as much sugar into her body as possible
Sadie being weird.

Sadie loves her friend Kennedy, she always looks for her when we go to church and asks about her.

It's pumpkin time again

Or is "pumpkin time" over in November? In fact, what is "pumpkin time?"

...Anyway, Sadie loves pumpkins. Every time we go to the store and she sees a pumpkin she begs and pleads with me to buy one, so naturally I was excited for her to go pick out a pumpkin at the pumpkin patch. The pumpkins she picked were hilarious. 2 small runts with holes in them, but she was very insistent on these 2 pumpkins. So I gave in like the cool mom that I am and they so proudly sit on our kitchen table. Oh, and I'm not quite sure what's up with Sadie's hair on this particular day, it's going through a weird stage you could say.

Sadie is really big on the fake cheeses right now, as you can tell from several of the pictures.
London wanted nothing to do with pumpkins.
They had a little petting farm and Sadie got to hold a cute little bunny.
Wow... I never thought Sadie would be brave enough to try out the bouncy house thing, but she loved it! She wanted to go over and over again. I love to watch my girl have a good time.