Livi's new glasses!

So a new challenge has begun in our household. We thought that this new challenge would be keeping the glasses on the 14 month Olivia's face. Oh were we wrong...


Don't get us wrong, sometimes she does not care for the glasses and we find them on the floor rather than on her face...and we have had to put them back on her face sometimes near 50 times a day...but the new challenge is getting her to look through them!





She has already learned that if she tips her head down, she can look over the glasses. Now the new challenge is trying to teach her to keep her chin up! Grandpa Kelly and Grandma Lorie think Olivia looks like a spitting image of Great-Grandma Dani when she looks over her glasses!
So what do you think?!

Olivia needs glasses.

We took Olivia to the eye doctor yesterday and we were informed that she needs to wear glasses to correct her vision and lazy eye before it gets worse. Our beautiful angel will get her new glasses in a week and a half. If anyone has any pointers on how to keep them on her face, we are open to suggestions. We are preparing ourselves for glasses flying across the room. When I was a child I had to wear patches, have eye surgery and wear glasses. When I got angry I would toss my glasses across the room. I guess this is karma getting me back. I chose a pair of glasses that she can rip off her face, bend in half and not break! I was thinking on that one. It's been a little overwhelming and will probably only get worse before better, but we are glad that we can work with her and glasses before surgery is considered. Wish us luck!

1st Boat Ride...

We went to Flaming Gorge a few days last week for part of our Labor Day weekend. It was Olivia's first boat ride. She enjoyed it! You can see how much she enjoyed it in the first video. She probably would have enjoyed it more if she wasn't soo tired and hadn't fallen asleep on the boat! Here are a couple videos of her on the boat! Can you tell we are a little excited and overboard on videos these days?! We just learned how to put videos online and we figured everyone would enjoy a video or two of our sweet little girl!

Olivia is EXCITED!!

Olivia is excited to announce that she is going to be a

BIG SISTER!!!

We found out this week that we are expecting. It is pretty

early in the pregnancy so we are not sure when our new

little one will join us, but we are EXCITED!!!

I was sitting inside at the table and Olivia was playing out on the deck. I turned around and she had made her way down the stairs, pulled herself up on the swing and was rockin' away. She is getting very independent these days and very CUTE!

Olivia playing pat-a-cake!!

and some words to follow the pictures

Well I have a little bit to get caught up with. Trish has been doing a wonderful job in getting the most recent photos we have uploaded.
I've uploaded a slideshow of the happenings of the past 10 or so days. It includes the zoo (Trish took Livi and went with her grandma, aunt, uncle and cousins), a bruising encounter with the stairs for Olivia, the Atkinson family reunion, and a trip to Snowbird.
I also received news that I made the second round of the Jazz blog writer competition, though I needed a little help with my entry for the second round. I left for the reunion on Friday the 8th. After I left an email was sent to me advising me that I had made the second round and I needed to have my next entry submitted by midnight Sunday. Well I didn't have a chance to sit down check my email and write until Monday morning when I got to work. I sat down pounded out 250 words for my submission and pleaded my case. I was told it would be accepted without a problem. Now I am just waiting to hear any word for the next round. Here is what I wrote:

Defense? We don't need no stinking defense . . . wait, that's what the Jazz have, a stinking defense. When Utah plays team defense they are tops in the league, the problem is buying "Defense wins championships."
Team philosophy is staying in front of your man, contesting shots, keeping your man from going baseline while forcing him to the middle, to what though? An open space? Utah has lacked a shot-blocking big since the days of Mark Eaton. While Ostertag could have filled the role, he never wanted to. The best shot-blocking big on the roster plays in Croatia, Ante Tomic. Kirilenko is a help defender when it comes to shot blocking. Memo can be solid, but extending to block a shot isn't happening. Collins' best contribution to defense is bodying-up his man while playing mind games. Millsap's athleticism helps but his body type is a tweener, too big and thick for a small-forward but too small for a legit power-forward/center. Let's not talk about Boozer's want for a defensive skill set. Koufas and Fes are projects.
The Jazz' best option for defense starts on the outside. D-Will, Brewer, Price, and Brevin Knight's addition gives Utah four quick, handy guards that must keep their man outside. Harpring is slowing down after his 300th knee surgery, but he's still "crafty." "Kutcher" Korver tries, and we'll leave it at that. Questions remain for Miles and Almond, both are above average offensively, but if either could guard a dead horse they'd be starting.

So that is what I have right now.

Tomorrow is the final of the reunions for this year. I found out earlier this week that my dad's side of the family is actually going to have a reunion next year, so I am looking froward to that.
Also happening tomorrow is the Salt Lake City version of Ferragosto, an Italian festival. I'll be checking that out before the reunion.

I just finished watching the Raiders second preseason game, eventhough it's preseason I still have to watch. Eventhough, third and fourth stringers are playing down the stretch I like seeing the longshots, as long as they don't lose the game. Well, that didn't happen tonight. However, it was nice to see Quinton Ganther, from the U., put up some big numbers.
Now I am watching the Olympics and some quick thoughts are Michael Phelps is amazing, lucky tonight, but still amazing. And Usain Bolt from Jamaica, the world-record holder in the 100m in track, just made the 100 seem like a walk in the park, nobody should be able to run that fast that easily. I'm jealous.