All About Olivia

October 20th of this year, my sweet, opinionated, attention loving daughter, Olivia Jane turned 9.  I found myself writing her age down on something the other day and had to stop and think if that was truly her age.  I'm mean, really, 9!  How can she be in her last year of single digits already?  That's half way to an adult!  Everyone tells you how quickly they grow up, but it hasn't quite sunk in with me yet.  I haven't been blogging much the last few months because life has been soooooo busy, and quite a lot of that has been because of our active daughter, Olivia.  Since it was so chaotic we didn't even know how to squeeze in her birthday party.  We celebrated her birthday with family on Monday night, her actual birthday.  She is blessed to have family close by and that shows up for her whenever she needs them.

The day she turned 9!

Olivia with her Nana

Mia hugging her big sister with the new fox pillow Mia picked out for her (courtesy of Aunt Jen), while Jane looks on.

Papa squeezing in some snuggle time with Mia.

One of her new dresses.  She has quite a fashionable wardrobe.  I wish it was my size.

Mia being Mia with Aunt Jen.

Olivia and her new Under Armour sweatshirt and cute Naomi in the front.  Under Armour is all the rage with many kids these days.  I don't quite get it when I see the price tags on things, but it flashes me back to my obsession with Umbros when they were popular in my youth.

Dressing up in whatever crazy outfits they could find and dancing around the house.

I've never been one for big over the top parties with lots of friends, but as she gets older, I also understand her wanting to have some friends over for social gatherings.  So we decided on a slumber party the Friday night before her birthday.  We didn't advertise it was her birthday, just a sleepover.  The girls I believe had a lot of fun.  Andy, on the other hand, not so much.

From left to right Citori, Brook, Quinn, Averie, and Olivia

My camera had some changes on it that I couldn't quite figure out so a few pictures are out of focus.  Sorry.

The girls all got to make their own pizzas for dinner for the evening.

Being silly

Lounging out

Hoisting up Olivia

Pretending their sleeping all curled up on the sofa together.

Olivia also made a travel soccer team and these girls are all on her team.  I will get caught up soon and have lots of pictures from the fall soccer season.