It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas...

Big Green Tractor

I took this video tonight of Olivia singing her favorite song "Big Green Tractor" by Jason Aldean.

Thanksgiving

Better late than never right?

We went down to Gulf Shores to celebrate Thanksgiving with the Robinson side of the family and like usual had a blast! We played on the beach, ate tons of food, and just enjoyed each others company.

This is a picture of all of us Thanksgiving day. I think we had about 60 there for Thanksgiving lunch. I love my family!

Movin' on up....

to the east side... to that DELUXE apartment in the skyyy!

Just wanted to show Y'ALL that we "backyardigans" (as my parents call us) are getting REAL high class over in our necka tha woods. We installed a column in our foyea.

drum roll puh-leeeez!

OK so for real. Our attic stairs broke while I was getting Christmas decor down, so now we have a 2x4 or 10x20 or whatever you call that piece of wood propping up our attic stairs! HA! You didn't REALLY think we were getting hoity toity high class didja??

Eh. Some people might care, but it just made me laugh :)

Wrapping Up this Semester

I have really been a slacker blogger lately, but I just haven't had much to talk about! Olivia is just rolling along through life just as fast as it will take her, and I've been so busy with school and finishing this semester! Then I will be starting my LAST one! I can't believe I will be graduating in May! It's crazy!

I really haven't hardly gotten my camera out since Halloween because Olivia hasn't really been in the mood for pictures and I haven't been feeling very creative! We've had a rough couple weeks. I feel like everything is a battle. What to eat, what to wear, where we are going, getting in the carseat, peeling her off of me some days at school, especially bedtime and naptime... it's really wearing me down and my patience is almost gone! Some nights she gets so tired, she gets wound up and crazy so she won't fall asleep and then I can't get her to bed until after 10 (LIKE TONIGHT! She's unfortunately still up) and I am having a problem with getting her to sleep in her bed without a fight. We are heading to Gulf Shores for Thanksgiving and then Disney World the week before Christmas so I really hope those two vacations will give me a break to just relax! Hopefully Olivia will cooperate and have fun! I don't mean to complain on my blog, but that's just what I'm feeling right now - so if you see me in public and I'm a wreck, you know why!! haha :)

I do have just a few pictures from the last week or so... this little zebra shirt is ADORABLE!

So I cleaned out our kitchen cabinets last week and decided to name all our "tupperware" so we would know what lids went with what bottoms. Olivia helped me name them LOL

And this is what I found Monday when she took a nap. She fought it for nearly 2 hours, screaming and crying and finally piled stuff up on her bed so she couldn't lie in it to sleep, but she eventually got so tired, she just made herself a little spot.

Railroad Pictures 2009

Halloween

This was the first year Olivia was really old enough to go Trick-or-Treating so we invited two friends from church, Mia & Connor, and her cousin Emily over to go with her. They had a wonderful time, except that Olivia thought she had to be first to every door. If she wasn't, she would throw herself down in the driveway and scream. Luckily it only lasted about 6 houses and then I threatened to make her go trick-or-treating by herself.

This was at my grandparents house. Olivia just opened the door and went right in, so the others followed her! We were afraid she would do that at every house! LOL Luckily she didn't.

The whole gang, worn out and full of sugar.