Friday, January 28, 2011

January 2011 Mayo Family Update




































"I wanna color pitcher", "daddy i wanna watch Dora", "I wanna [fill in the blank]". Oh, life with a 2 year old. It's fun and exciting, but it's also challenging and wearing. Dr. Dobson tells us in his book, Bringing Up Girls, that a toddler around this age is going through a stage similar to puberty where they get a rush of hormones. "No!" seems to be a major part of Vivian's vocabulary, so we're trying our best to teach her to be obedient and respectful.

















We finally have finished our kitchen remodel that we started a year ago. I thought I'd finish it in a few months. Oh well. Working a full time (and sometimes more than full time) job and trying to live life really makes it hard to take on a large project and expect quick results. We are really pleased with the outcome. This is my second attempt at building cabinets, and I am improving for sure. Alexis designed the kitchen, I built it. She has VERY good taste in my opinion.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Halloween 2010

I think the picture says it all ;)

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Update















2009 Holiday Pics

Friday, January 8, 2010

Vivian's 1st Birthday






















Well, what do you know. We always heard/thought that kids walk at about age 1. Vivian started taking steps at about 11 months, but they were usually very unstable and only lasted about 5-7 steps. It was pretty much the day she turned 1 that we could officially say she started walking. Enjoy the Pics!












Saturday, November 7, 2009

Friday, November 6, 2009

More Pics of Vivian Fall 2009

Luckily, our neighbor just did some re-landscaping of their planter strip, and Vivian got to show off her "Cruising Skills"






Sunday, October 18, 2009

October. Vivian is 9 1/2 months




Saturday, 10/17/2009, at the Aurora Pumpkin Patch with Cayla and Nick


Friday, August 7, 2009







Vivians first experience on the Oregon Beach.






On wednesday, August 5th, we all went to Cannon Beach. The weather mostly cooperated and Vivian had fun playing in the sand, putting her toes in the freezing ocean, and posing for our photo shoot.






As we wonder whether or not we give Vivian enough attention, play with her enough, and try to teach her basic human things like "Hi-5" and peak-a-boo... she has no clue and couldn't care less that we planned this whole day for her.





Monday, July 6, 2009

Sunday, June 7, 2009

New Pics of Vivian






Check out the new jewelry





Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Vivian as of May19th


Vivian is now 4.5 months old and cute as ever. Lately she has been learning balance... isn't even close to sitting up all on her own, but we help her out with pillows and she tries. We've been able to get her to laugh by acting like psychos or tickling her. She has about 2.5 sets of thighs right now. Just in the past week or so she's been almost accidentally rolling from her belly to her back. I say accidental because although she'll do it once or twice, but it's like she doesn't remember that she knows how to do it. So sometimes she just throws a fit when we put her on her belly.

Monday, April 20, 2009

Friday, March 27, 2009

It's been a while... Here are some more pics

The Beautiful Ladies
Her biggest smile on record

Doctor says she needs "tummy time", but YOU try laying her on her belly! This is as close as she'll get for now with out screaming her eyes out.
Vivian on the changing table... She always gets smiley when we change her diaper







Sunday, February 8, 2009