Saturday, November 1, 2008

Halloween Fun

I hope you all had a Happy Halloween! Here are some pictures of the Halloween activities we've participated in over the last week....the Fall Festival at Olivia's school, decorating and carving pumpkins, decorating halloween cookies and trick or treating.





I've uploaded some of the other fun Halloween pictures to shutterfly so if you're interested in seeing more Halloween fun check out this link:

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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

More Pictures

Just in case you can't get enough of Life with the Leivas here's a link to some pictures I just posted on Shutterfly....
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Just when you think you know what's going on....

everything changes! One of the most challenging things about being married to someone in the military is that the only thing that ever stays the same is that nothing ever stays the same. Change is the only constant.
In my current state of nesting/uberorganizing I really wish that I could control every aspect of everything going on in our lives. Today was just another reminder that I am absolutely not the one in control and I should just let go and let God. Why is this lesson so hard for me to remember!
I know I'm being way overdramatic here, Mike just found out he's staying with his current unit a bit longer than expected. He had been thinking he'd move to a different unit around the end of the year, now he found out it's more like the end of next year. In the grand scheme of things this really isn't a big deal (at least he's home) but when you'd been looking forward to something and it doesn't happen it's always a little disapointing. Now that I've complained about it I can get over it!

Pizza

We recently discovered that Olivia loves pizza. We don't eat pizza all that often, her first taste of pizza wasn't until her first trip to Chuck E. Cheese a few months ago. This past weekend we had dinner at a local pizza parlor and were reminded how much Olivia really does like pizza. She likes it so much she even says pizza, except she pronounces it "pizas", if only she liked broccoli as much!