Backyard Camping

Malaki had the fun idea of going camping.  It had been really warm out this March.  So, Dad took Lydia and Malaki into the back yard and we had a fire, cooked dinner and enjoyed the VW Bus Kombi that Nicole had bought.  It was fun!

 This is the inside of the bus.  I love it!  I am so excited to take it camping for real.

The Olsens are ready for Fall!!

Last night there was a brilliant thunderstorm that lasted through this morning. It was actually cool enough for me to mix up a long awaited steaming cup of pumpkin spice hot chocolate! Today had the crisp smell and great feeling of Fall. Fall is definitely my favorite season. Fall's crisp cool air means hot soup, hot chocolate, warm hoodies, snuggling in blankets, sitting by the fire, thunderstorms, the changing leaves... all things I love! With fall comes Halloween and Thanksgiving, two of my favorite holidays! But the one thing that is dominating my Fall Fantasies is FOOTBALL!! I am WAY too excited for BYU football this year. I love to go to the games and even watch them on TV all the while yelling things like "Rip his head off!!" The thrill of a good run, a tackle that levels the guy, the unbelievable catch, and of course a touch down is something I look forward to all week. Now some of you may have assumed this is Scott who is writing this post. And you could be correct, because Scott is always thinking about BYU football, that is a given. But today my friend, you are wrong. Nicole is now officially a die hard BYU Football fan.

Nicole worked extra hard getting the whole family ready for football season this year, here's the picture:

K falls in the river!!

For family night on Monday, we all decided to go to the Jordan River to go for a walk and enjoy the outdoors. Kennedy brought her scooter and Scott and Nicole walked. After we had gone about a half mile, we stopped and rested by the side of the river. We went down to the bank and saw muskrats! Or something things like that swimming in the river! They were really neat. One of them came and swam right past us. Scott could have reached out and grabbed it it was so close. As the sun was setting, Nicole and Scott got up and told K that it was time to head back to the car. Kennedy totally ignored them, so Nicole started walking back to the car, and Scott got and the scooter. Scott told Kennedy that we were leaving and started scootering away. A second later, Kennedy started screaming! Scott thought she was throwing a fit that because he was leaving her behind, but quickly he relized that those were some very serious screams. Scott hurried back to her on the scooter and found her climbing out of the river, completely soaked and covered in mud.

Scott took off his sweater to give to Kennedy and took off on the scooter for the car. Nicole got kennedys wet clothes off, Kennedy put on Scotts sweater as a shirt, and used Nicoles sweater as a dress! We are so sad that we did not get pictures of Kennedy.

Although Kennedy was pretty traumatised at first, she took it pretty well, and on the way home we were even teasing her about how the muskrats must of helped her get out of the river.

There is a bun in the oven

About week ago, Nicole decided at 12:30 a.m., to take a pregnancy test. Bad Idea. Nicole had already taken several pregnancy tests that week, and all of them had come up negative. She was so disappointed, but we didn't really expect that she would get pregnant on the first try either. So, she told me, "the test will come up negative, but I want to take one anyway." I told her to go ahead. That was a mistake, because we ended up getting very little sleep that night.

The test came up positive. We are expecting in May. It took awhile for the test to come up positive, and she said that she hadn't been waiting that long on the previous tests before she threw them away. We took a couple of the old tests out of the trash, and sure enough, they were all positive.

Nicole has been acting pregnant as well. All of a sudden, she hates garlic and she can smell things from a mile away(I now have to shower more often). She was craving ground beef so I baked her a meatloaf and she was very excited. That is not at all like Nicole to crave ground beef. She has also been craving bell peppers which is good because I love them.

We have plenty of boy names, but currently no girl names. So anyone who would be so nice as to suggest girl names would be very much appreciated. So far Nicole doesn't want to use a girls name that is really popular. She like M and A names, but your suggestion doesn't have to be one of those. Leave your suggestions by leaving a comment.