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Sunday, June 23, 2013

Liv-ing on the Edge



Here I am saying good bye to my kiddos for the last time! I totally loved watching them perform the Kung Fu dance and Japanese Fan dance I taught them! They did an amazing job and I will miss teaching these cuties!





Shout out to Janet and Linda! They were the best team I could have asked for! What amazing ladies!!!



 Law of the Universe #432:  Olivia will always stop crying when you are in the most uncomfortable and/or difficult to maintain position possible. 






Jazzercise! Yeah we think Liv looks like a jazzercise instructor here and we convinced everyone that we saw that to agree with us!




 Cute picture of Mom and baby Liv!





Here is Olivia at three weeks old partying in her favorite boucy seat! This bouncy seat is just one of the many lifesavers that cousin Lori gave to us! She is the best!


This picture shows the progression from pregnant to newborn to genuine baby!  These ladies were so fun to work with and will be such amazing mommies!




 Grandma spoiled Olivia with her favorite relxing position while everyone spoiled Brian during his recovery from eye surgery.  My parents were such lifesavers and we really couldn't have made it through those days without them.



We just love Olivia in this sun hat!



Olivia was sure excited to finally meet Grandma and Grandpa Bingham!  She even put on her finest pink shoe-socks for the occasion.  (Does anyone know where we can get some of these in an adult size?)





Dinner with more fam! It was so fun to have everyone here!










And now we present to you.... 
The Blessing Day!

We had such a great turn out for Olivia's blessing! Brian gave a beautiful blessing and we loved being able to spend some time with so many family and friends! My only regret is that I didn't get enough pictures of everyone that was there! But here are some we do have! (Also you will notice that Olivia sneakily slept from the time we got to church until everyone left from the lunchin, but at least she didn't cry during the actual blessing. That was Brian's biggest fear... well besides actually giving the blessing;)



We just love Aunt Gayle! You can also see cute little Boston in the background. Olivia was getting passed around quite a bit that day, maybe a little too much for Boston because at one point he came up to me and said, "Where's your baby?" He wanted to make sure I was keeping track of her. What a good older brother:).



Sean and Tara! Don't they look so natural with a baby;). 


Sweet Katie! Two beautiful girls!


Indie was sweetly looking at baby Olivia, but when I pulled out the camera to capture the moment she immediately said "Cheese!". Her mom has clearly trained her well. 



Michelle and little Logan! We sure love them!



And of course my bestie Lees had to take her turn. It's a shame that she just moved back to Utah in time for me to move to Tennessee. I will miss her a lot!



We had to get a four generations picture with mom and grandma! What a wonderful heritage Olivia is blessed with!


All pictures are better with some more smiles!


Love my sis! I also love that sweet little Hannah! She always seems very curious when she has he opportunity to be really close to Olivia. Right now I think she is trying to decide if Olivia's binky or head band would be better to put in her mouth:).  




Friends!



 Of course we had to get one of grandma Bingham on the blessing day!




Just our little fam:)






And one with grandma Ward!



We had everyone from my family there except for Leslie. I love how are the girls wore coral.  



We love Kristin! Not only was she so kind as to take the family picture above, but she also took the adorable pictures of Olivia coming up next. She is great! Plus she is a baby magnet:). 

And now the Olivia Photo Shoot! (brought to you by the lovely Kristin Farrell)




We love this picture because it looks like she is raising the roof!





Sunday, June 2, 2013

Bingham, Olivia, No Bath

Well, seeing as Olivia is now one month old, we better catch up on documenting the first two weeks of her life.  Our lives sure have changed since she came into the world, but we are quick to agree that we would never go back to life without her.  She is truly a joy to have and we look forward to every new day with our sweet little girl.  


  As further proof that Kelly ought to be a spokeswoman for Orbitz Gum, she looks amazing even after giving birth just minutes before taking these pictures.  Way to go Kelly!

 Olivia Jean Bingham: 7 lbs 4 oz, 21", born on April 30th, 2013 at 1:03 PM

And now, pictures of our amazing hospital visitors:






 There should be pictures of Lori and Gayle here but we clearly dropped the ball and missed our photo opp.  Bummer!

 Brian insists on always putting Olivia's bunny in the car seat with her :)

 Olivia No Bath no more!  She actually doesn't mind bathing too much.

Relaxing with Grandma Lorna!

Hannah:  "No no no, Olivia. You don't raise your right arm until we've finished the part about "tip me over and pour me out".  You really are a newborn aren't you!"

 Seriously guys, I spent all day at the tanning salon AND I just got my nails done.  You're gonna need to be really careful when you unbuckle me.  (Okay, really, we don't tan our baby.  It's just the jaundice.)


 Happy One Week Birthday, Olivia!

 Olivia's first book:  Grover and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Museum.  According to Brian, it simply doesn't get much better than reading about Grover's hilarious mishaps in the "Things That Make You Slip and Fall Hall".

  Please disregard the fact that this picture is upside down.  This photograph is proof that Olivia is actually part wolverine.  After a few days in her "E.T. Bed" she clawed her way through the cover simply by waving her arms and kicking her legs.  Way to go Liv!


 Karate kick to the face!

 Right from the start Olivia has had a taste for the finer things in life.  Here she is enjoying one of her favorite things: a hair washing in the kitchen sink.  Really, though, wouldn't we all still enjoy this kind of treatment?\

And now, Mother's Day 2013:

 Why did we start our Mother's Day collection with a picture of Olivia and Brian?

 This whole Mother's Day collection is still not making sense...

 Okay, fine.  I guess Kelly appears in this one :)
 
 There we go!  Kelly's very first Mother's Day with 13 day-old Olivia!

 Lion King!

 All the proud Mommas :)

 Grandma and Grandpa Ward with all the grandbabies!

Hannah giving Olivia a big hug.  This was when they realized that they were destined to become best friends (as predetermined by their mothers :) ).