Mack is still the Man

I must say that the mighty Texas Tech Red Raiders are so lucky to have played the Longhorns after what was probably the touchest 4 game stretch in college football this year. Notice anything about these teams? Oklahoma, Missouri, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech....ALL FOUR of them top ten teams at the time Texas played them. YIKES. How physically/mentally exhausted would you be after that? Here's who Tech played prior to Texas...K State, Nebraska, aTm, and Kansas...something tells me that Tech wasn't suffering from any kind of physical or mental exhaustion after that "fluffy" line-up of games. Tech was just the LUCKY team to have played Texas at the end of their TOUGH stretch of top 10 teams. Orakpo and Cosby hurt and on the bench helped, too. The Olson Team just needed to clarify where their loyalty still lies even after a loss. We'll just have to depend on Oklahoma and Oklahoma State to take care of business against the mighty Red Raiders to keep a Big 12 championship hope alive. If not, have you notice how many TRUE freshmen and sophomores the Horns have in the starting lineup this year? Not to mention a veteran quarterback in the best shape of his life coming back for his senior season. Wow. Can't wait for next year!

Hook em

Both of my boys were born in October....

Jack born on the 2nd and Erik born on the 29th...October is a fun month of celebrating in our family! Jack tackled the birthday boy! He's really into tackling/wrestling these days.

Happy Birthday to Erik (well, yesterday)!!!! We had Jack's favorite babysitter come over last night so Erik and I could go out to dinner and celebrate. He chose to go to Kotta Sushi Lounge which sounds like a bad idea considering the baby in my tummy but on the contraire...it was a great idea! Obviously no sashimi for me but it wasn't hard to find rolls that are either steamed or fully cooked in some way and the extra Omega 3's are always good:) Kotta is by far the BEST sushi we've had.

We will continue to celebrate through the weekend as we have our church's Fall Festival tomorrow and Jack is the firefighter on duty...after that we will head down to Waco just in time for our little firefighter to help manage the bonfire at Baylor Homecoming. Saturday we'll try and do the Chi Omega breakfast, parade, and at least part of the game until it gets unBEARable:) We will tivo the UT/Tech game and try and get home by the early evening to cheer on Mack Brown and the #1 Horns!!!!!

Busy weekend for the Olson's. Hope yall have a good one!

Fall is FUN!

Here are a few pictures of Jack at Anna's house for a Halloween playgroup, Jack at the pumpkin patch, and Jack wearing his Baylor/Cowboy gear last weekend! Enjoy.

The Dragon (Duke), The firefighter (Jack), and the Shark (Jake)
All the kiddos...I love how Kate is falling backward into the potted plant and the dragon and the shark is about to eat Jack...so cute!

Fighting fires is hard work mom. I need some goldfish.

Down...set....HIKE

Integrating his Baylor/Cowboy gear.

Having fun at the Big Orange Pumpkin Farm on Bill Bates Ranch in Celina, Tx.

Jack's vocabulary at 1 Year

Dada- Dad
Jeca- Mom (yes, my child calls me by my first name...we're working on changing that)
Joosh- Juice, Milk, or Water
Ha- Hot
air- Hair
kendi- Mackenzie
GaGaGa- God, Jesus
ous- Outside
Da- Dog
Cack Cack- Duck
Oooo- Cow
hi- Hi (He says hi to every person and thing he sees)
cheese- Cheese
cool- School
yck- Yuck

Some of the motions he's doing:
Sic em bears (pictures of that to come)
All done
So big (which is also "touchdown")
Waving
Blowing kisses

Mackenzie's birthday and visit to Paris...Texas

Cutest picture of Mackenzie telling us she's ONE!
Jack reading a book with Jeremy...longest he's ever sat still!
Jack, don't eat Mackenzie's birthday toys.
Practicing for picture day at school
What happens at daddy's office stays at daddy's office...yes, that's a mini slot machine they were teaching him to play with...
Grana got Jack a set of drums. They will be staying at Grana's in Paris :)
Loving his uncle Jeremy! Look how worn out his shoes already are...this kid is nonstop all day long!
Brady was SO cute at Mackenzie's party! Look at that BIG smile:)
And finally, Mack and Jack. Checking out the new books.

Jack is the BIG BROTHER!!!

Since we had both sides of our family in town for Jack's birthday weekend we decided to let our families know that we are expecting baby #2 while they were all here to celebrate with us! Baby #2 is due in late April which makes me 13 weeks right now. We had our 12 week perinatology screen this past week and we took a good long look at our growing baby and everything measured healthy and normal. Dr. A thought it looked like another boy but we'll confirm in a few more weeks as our regular OB was quick to remind us of our experience with thinking Jack was a girl for 4 weeks! So far I've been feeling great with the exception of 1 experience with nausea. I wanted to include a few pics of our little man during the Texas/OU weekend and it's clear where our loyalties lie on Saturdays!!!!! HOOK EM HORNS!!!

TOUCHDOWN TEXAS!!!! He would get so excited when the Horns scored:)
Jack and Mackenzie....I could handle two kids right??? :)
Jack riding his 4 wheeler during halftime
After the game, we took Jack to Dr. Pepper Ballpark for their 1st Annual Frisco Roughrider Pumpkin Patch. Erik was excited for free Brats and Dr. Pepper products! Of course we still had to support the horns and make sure any remaining OU fans were reminded of the score:)

First Haircut

Jack's hair was getting a little unruly and his hair is not one bit curly so as it got longer it looked pretty unkept. We decided to take him to a this fun little place for kids to get his hair cut and he did much better than we thought he'd do. Here are some pictures of the event!

testing out the car before the haircut
doing pretty well...
a little mohawk action
All done and riding in the hummer!