3 Months

If someone talks to time could you please ask it to SLOW DOWN for me??? I mean really, Olivia is 3 months old already? Time really does fly by. Days quickly turn into weeks, weeks into months and before we know it we'll be planning a 1 year birthday party.

Olivia has grown a ton. I mean just look at those chunky thighs! She is so stinking cute I can barely handle it (people...I am her mother!). We went to the doctor the other day and she now weighs 11 pounds and 11 ounces. She has changed so much in the past month. She is now cooing ALL the time, smiling at us (which melts my heart) and noticing all of her toys AND Lilly (our dog). Also, last night she slept for a full 8 hours straight. I woke up around 6 and turned to Hays to ask him if we had gotten up and I just didn't remember it. We have our fingers crossed that tonight will be much of the same. :)

If you haven't noticed, Olivia is beginning to look just like her daddy. Good thing her daddy is pretty darn good looking. She has his eyes, hair, ears, lips, and feet (poor thing). I am still claiming her nose to look like mine. I mean I gave birth to the child, shouldn't she inherit something from me??

Happy 3 month birthday little Olivia (A.K.A. punkin and tator). Hopefully, this next month will just drag by. :)

(fyi-I did not write this all in one paragraph, blogger is just really stupid. If you know how to fix that, please feel free to leave me a comment.)

Our Little Bathing Beauty

Is it summer time already?? Since pool time is right around the corner I decided to try all 6!! of Olivia's bathing suits on her to make sure they fit or will in the near future. I'm not sure how we will decide which one to wear because they are all so stinking cute. I guess we will just have to go to the pool A LOT so she can wear them all. She is one lucky girl with a very LARGE wardrobe. She behaved while we were trying them all on until the last one. She was getting pretty tired of being changed a million times. She will, for sure, be the cutest little girl at the pool this summer.

This 2 piece might be showing a little too much skin for mommy and daddy to handle.

Sorry little girl, the 2 pieces will have to wait.

Aunt Rebecca got this one. It has lady bugs on it because one day Olivia will be a Phi Mu

(only is she wants to though)

Yellow and white pokadot (a girl MUST have a pokadot bathing suit!)

Too cute for words....

Aunt Amie got this one. The ruffle is just darlin!

Aunt Cindy got this one. Might be a tad snug.

Just More Pictures Of The Little Munchkin

Three month post to come. Hope you enjoy!!

What A Good Daddy!!

Just wanted to give appropriate appreciation to the MAN of the house. Hays is such a great daddy to Olivia and husband to me. I am not sure what I would have done without him the first few weeks of new motherhood. He truly is everything he stands for and you can't ask for anything better than that. God knew what he was doing when He had us meet as freshman at Delta State and for that I am so thankful. What a great daddy and husband Hays is and what a blessing he is to me and Olivia.

Can we say green thumb??.....Maybe.

Cut flowers from our backyard

Hays and I have worked really hard since we moved into our house to make our front and back yards pretty. We LOVE spending time outdoors and wanted to have a nice yard to look at and enjoy. I guess I have taken gardening up as a hobby for 1.enjoyment 2.so our yard would look decent. After working really hard for over five years we can finally say that it's getting there. Now that I have other things taking up a majority of my time I hope that I am able to keep this up and still enjoy a few hobbies that I had prebaby. :)

Our Life (the last few weeks) In Pictures

Just a few pictures from the last few weeks. Time is flying by soo fast we don't know what to do with ourselves. Olivia has become so much fun and has such a cute little personality. It's amazing how much she has grown and developed in just a few weeks. Why didn't someone tell us how great it is to be parents?? Maybe we wouldn't have waited so long.....

Trying out the bumbo seat

After church on Sunday

We were lazy and couldn't get out of bed Sunday morning (we finally did and made it to church on time). No! Olivia does not sleep with us.

She is a BIG stretcher

Sweet little sleeping angel

Enjoying the beautiful weather, she's so tiny compared to us.

Laurie Glover came to meet Olivia, I'm sure they will be best buds just like their daddies

Hays feeding Olivia her bottle

She loves her swing, good investment so Mommy can get things done around the house.

He's Alive! He's Alive! Jesus has arisen and He is Alive!

Easter is such an awesome celebration. We often get caught up in the Easter egg hunts, bunnies and big dinners that we forget what we are truly celebrating. What a great God that we have to let His only Son die on the cross for us (the undeserving) so we could have eternal life with Him. And what an awesome day it must have been when they found the tomb empty and knowing that Jesus had arisen and was alive! Now that I have a child I better understand what a sacrifice God made for me and how much He must love me. Easter is my anniversary of becoming a believer and follower of Christ. I know how much I love Olivia (and it is a WHOLE LOT) but I also know that God loves me even more than that! Amazing.

She is such a little doll

In her first Easter dress (I think we took a million pictures)

This is what the Easter bunny brought us. Next year no fitting into the Easter basket

Me and Amie

Cousin Joshua (he was more interested in the bubbles)

Cute cousin Kai

Cousin Kayla hunting some eggs

First Beach Trip As A Family Of Three

The weekend before Easter Hays and I decided, on the spur o the moment, to take a little trip to the beach. It was a nice, relaxing time to get away since we have been cooped up in the house for so long. We did learn a few lessons on the way though. 1.No more spur of the moment trips, it ends up being not so spur of the moment 2.Car rides that used to take 4 hours now take any where from 6-8 hours 3.How to feed and change a baby in the back seat of a car 4.How blessed we are to have such a good baby that did awesome the entire trip and will allow her parents to pretend like they can live the way they did before a baby.

It was too cold and windy, contrary to what Hays thought, to take Olivia out on the beach so we captured the memory of the first beach trip from the balcony. We did lots of hanging out in the condo and shopping at the outlet mall. Many more trips to come for the little beach babe. Koodos to Hays' parents for allowing us to use the condo.

Easter With The Collins

Olivia and her cousin, Wil Franklin

We had dinner over at Hays' parents house the Monday before Easter. Hays and I always go to Memphis to see my family for Easter so we had dinner a little early with his. We had to take some pictures of the two little angels in their Easter best. They are both just darlin.

More pictures of Easter to come. Olivia is sleeping in her crib tonight for the first time so say a little prayer for us.:)

Two Months

We cannot believe 2 months has already gone by. We love her more and more everyday and cannot imagine life without her. That little girl has gotten so many kisses from her mommy and daddy in just 2 months.

Our Furry, Four-Legged Daughter

This is Olivia with our furry, four-legged child, Lilly. She was our first child that has unfortunatley, fallen by the waist side since Olivia was born. Poor thing. We just found out that Lilly has to have heart worm treatment. She has to have four rounds of treatment and be confined after each. Please keep her in your prayers.

Bath Time

During bath time. She has got to be the cutest thing I know.

Four Generations

This is my grandmother (Memaw), mom, me and Olivia. Four generations. I look terrible but we had to get this special picture.