follow up and a little upset......

Well we went the fish hatchery again on thursday. I forgot my camera, but i found these and this about sums it up. I don't know how i was imagining it, but i sure didn't imagine it like this!! They cut the female fish open, scoop out her eggs into this black tub, and then take the male fish and squeeze out their sperm and throw them in a bucket....it was pretty gross, but i guess they were doing it to "save" the fish.... i just was a little upset. i wasn't NOT expecting this!! It was fun to see it all happening though. We can't go to the Salmon Festival this year, but for sure next year!

date night

Ben and i went on a date to the Feather River Fish Hatchery. It was really neat. All the Salmon and Steelhead fish were just JUMPING out of the water. I have never seen anything like this before. We then went to Tong Fong Lo's for dinner. Ben's parents babysat. it was nice to get away for a night!

the Blanket

She now cuddles with the blanket next to her head. as she takes her nap, she is on her stomach and crazy hair when she wakes up...but boy is she happy when she wakes.

10 Months...

At 10 Months, she is doing pleanty.....

Pulling herself up and walking...holding on to anything.

saying baba, dada, mama, papa, we are working on lala

she has officially forgotten about the pacifyer.

her hair fits into a clip. I love this one.

she crawls like crazy!

Eats just about anything. i even made a lasagna and put her portion on the ninja with some water and she ate that.

she sleeps through the night and takes her 2 naps a day, but she has been doing this for a while.

and she has 2 teeth.

she is GREAT and we LOVE HER!!

Our DVD player died. we gave her the remote since she wanted the other ones that worked.

she is teething. This is what i come into in the mornings. plus the snot running down her face.

bed time. She loves it when daddy puts her to sleep with a song. Church hymn of course.

She loves bananas. I asked ben to cut some up for her. he gave her the whole banana. but she ate it...

Getting ready for church. She is such a lady.

She LOVES these sunglasses.

I would just like to say how much i love my husband. He called in sick to work yesterday so that i could just sleep and get better..... thank you!!! and i love you!

utah-idaho

Monday -Monday 8/2-8/9 we went to utah and idaho. it was really fun. it had been too long since i had been there. I got to visit with my really good friend Beth. i love her and miss her so much. then we hung out with Bens family for a day, then went to the SL temple. ben had never been, so we did a session, went the the Lion House Pantry for lunch, and walked around a little bit. That night, we got to visit our friends Kevin and Emma Cherry. It was nice to see them. We then headed up to Farmington to see some of my mission budies. that was a highlight...it had been 5 years since we had all seen eachother.

thursday we headed up to pick up my mom and molly and we all drove up to idaho where brooke got married. it was awesome. her husband, Tyler, is great. we were up there for 3 days. first time i had been to idaho. very remote and full of fields. peaceful. my whole family was there is it was really fun! this is the first time all 5 Cavaness kids have been together since my wedding. we didn't really get a chance to all hang out there either, so sat night was really fun. we all just talked and joked around.

we came back on sunday and oliva had a pretty rough week. i think i was probably the lack of schedule that we had out there, since i am pretty strict with our schedule here. but all in all we had fun. cant wait to go again.

Olivia loved being thrown into Aunt Lanell's Love sak.
A. Lanell took her swimming while ben and i went to the temple. i guess she had fun while pooping all over the deck. ;)

GOING PRIVATE!

HAHAHAHA just kidding...i think it is so funny when people say they are going private and then dont.....i don't really care who looks at my blog. I actually put a counter on here to see if anyone other than myself was actually looking at this thing! and suprisingly there are! so for all you out there who are blog lookers and aren't very good at making comments (like me)..
YOU ARE BEING COUNTED!! ;)

4th of July

puckering up for a kiss! she even makes the smacking noise!

Ben loves taking her swimming.

I saw a post today on FB that said ....do we celebrate the 25th of December, the 17th of March, the 31 of October, or the 14 of Feb.? no it is INDEPENDANCE DAY!!!....i thought it was stupid! so what, it is independance day.... it is also the 4th of july. does it really matter what we call it as long as we understand what we are celebrating?? no! at least not to me!

I don't really like it when holidays are on Sundays. Today, we didn't really do anything. we went to church and came home. although, olivia looked pretty darn cute in her new dress...thank aunt Lanell. Ben and i dressed patriotic today as well. it was fun to sing all the USA songs in church. we had to leave early. Olivia was NOT happy in Sunday school. it didn't help that is was during her nap. so we came home and ate lunch. on the way home, this looser backed into our car. i guess he didn't know the difference between reverse and forward. we got all his insurance stuff though. i have to call tomorrow. Then after lunch Olivia took another nap. 30 min into it, she cried...those first teeth still haven't come through....and when i went to get her, i picked her up and rocked in the recliner in her room, she fell asleep on me. so i just layed there and enjoyed it for about an hour. then i had to wake her up so she would sleep tonight. I sure do love her though. i give her kisses everyday and she is catching on. she is starting to pucker up for them. she is also rocking. any day now, she will crawl..i can't wait!
I just can't get enough of that girl! 8 months and getting bigger by the day.

Fort Bragg

This last week we went to Fort Bragg. It was really fun...other than the cold weather and everyone getting deathly ill!! Ben's family all got together and we went camping. Ben, Olivia and I stayed in a Hotel. I thought she was just a little too young to camp out. Although, i am sure that the air matresses were more comfortable than our cheap motel beds.

This was our last day..wed. the sun finally came out and I felt like we could actually go to the beach. Olivia did pretty well. She had to sleep in the moby...thank heavens we took it.
Ben on the first night. it was COLD... we didn't really have much of a fire either. the wood we brought was still a little green. the last night, we buckled down and bought wood...talk about costing an arm and a leg. but we were all much happier once we were warm.

For one reason or another, everyone got sick. out of all of us, Ben, me, Olivia, Lanell, and Lila were the only ones who didn't get sick. So maybe next year. we are talking maybe Bear Lake...that would be fun!

Olivia at the beach. she is just so cute!!


at the end of the last day...she was so tired, she actually fell asleep in Lanell's arms and then stayed asleep until we woke her up for her shower....yeah... the crappy hotel didn't have a bathtub, so we had to give her showers everynight. which means we had to take them with her.

WE NEED HELP!!!

we are flying out to utah aug 2-aug 9th. we are renting a car and we need a car seat...to rent a car seat with the car is $50 a day...that is right...you read $50/day!!! so i am wondering if there are some WONDERFUL people in utah that might have a car seat that we could borrow for a week and return it before we leave...any takers?? we would LOVE to borrow a pack n play as well that Olivia could sleep in...please let us know ASAP!!!! we would like to save the money and not have to purchase them when we get out there. I mean, come on...how can you resist this face??

Ben's grandma's 80th bday was this last weekend. I was asked to make the cake. this is the first big cake i have made for anyone. i was a little nervous, and ofcourse, there are things that need to be adjusted next time. but you can see that it turned out ok. the worst part was that ben's family made a big deal about it. and that just wasn't me. i felt a little embarassed that they kept talking about how good it was. that is why ben was there for me!! i had a person to hide behind.

It is supposed to be a wishing well....the roof was a little small...but i think it turned out ok. It was 3 layers, so it was a little hard to cut and serve.

anywho...we had a really good time. part of ben's family was there. not everyone, but it was at the park in Redding. Olivia did really well, until after she ate the 2nd time, she was NEEDING a nap. so we took off and i think she fell asleep as soon as we got to the car.

The Silver Dollar Fair

Today we went to the Fair. it was fun. we got there right at 10am.... Ben had to work at 2 so we got there right when it opened so that we had some time to walk around and enjoy, rather than being rushed. i HATE rushing! so we went to all the exhibits. They were acutally pretty neat...and i decided that i was going to enter the fair next year. that would be fun!
Above is Olivia and Daddy near the baby animals.

These were the baby goats...they were so cute. they kept crying and they seemed kind of scared. and there was this little boy taunting them, i wanted to punch him. i wanted to pet them, but i didn't know if they were scared or what. so we just walked on. poor little goats.

all in all, it was really fun. we got TONS of gross, greasy food. but hey, that is what the fair is all about right>>>>the corn dogs! ;) Olivia will definately have more fun next year...i am sure of it. she wasn't all that interested this year...i think 7 Months is a little too young.

Thank you Aunt Lanell

I love my new outfits and i made my moms mothers day great!! i love you! -Olivia

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all! This is what I made for my mother and Ben's.
On another note, Olivia is doing GREAT! i will have her 6 month pictures done soon...and will post someothers. I just love being a mother!

cakes...

well i started decorating cakes again...it is super fun! i can't wait to do more. i am doing it for fun so if anyone needs a cake...i sure would like the practice! :)

Food food food

This is a typical evening feeding. She sure loves sweet potatoes. This is what happens when the baby food isn't thick enough. she loves talking while she eats as well...therefore..i should probably get a bib as well. she sure eats a lot too! when she was nursing...she didn't eat too much. that is why i switched to formula. now she is a HEALTHY eater. that is making me really happy. she is slinder too, so i don't feel like i am over feeding her. We sure love her a lot right now!!!

OATMEAL!

She loved it, as you can see the oatmeal landed all over her face.
she still doesn't have the swallowing thing down. she likes to chew on the spoon, so she only swallows part of the oatmeal. most of it lands on her face or on the bib.

New bows and a vacation

I ordered some bows from my friend tacie in Idaho....she makes them. i got them sat in the mail...i love them, but as you can see Lily isn't as excited as I am.

I LOVE THE RED!!

This is daddy and Lily in the hotel room before our friends wedding. My childhood friend got married in sacramento and we decided to go down there and attend. we stayed the night in the marriott in elk grove and it was fun. this is before the reception. Olivia has a problem with slobbering, so i took off her dress until we left.

I love this girl

almost 5 months

My Life is good...

The other day my wonderful husband and I were at the kitchen table eating lunch, as we always do since he works nights, and we were talking....Ben says to me" I was thinking today about how good my life is. We are happy, healthy and have a wonderful little baby. We have a great situation being in our apartments and we are going somewhere. I am really happy!" SO AM I! things are just going great right now...and I could jinx them, but lets pray for the best.

Today we had a little play date...it was fun to see them together...Diesel was so happy and Oliva wasn't sure abou the whole thing...it was really cute....can't wait until they are older and we can play more and more.