we moved!

and so did the blog :) in light of all the changes that are taking place, i decided to create a new blog as well.  i have been thinking about doing so for a while now because, well, if austin and i have another little o baby sometime, that wouldn't be fair if the blog was named after henry only, and there is no way i would create another one for that baby only and then try to keep up with two....really, what was i thinking when i created and labeled this one? hmmmmm.  SO i thought there couldn't be a better time than now to switch things over since that seems to be the theme of our lives lately.  don't worry, i will leave this blog up for a little while as we transition, but from now on, in order to keep up to speed with every mundane detail i have to offer :)   check out www.theofolks.blogspot.com

we'll be seeing you there!
much love
                    and
                             hugs
                                          ~sara

the great graduationing

this past saturday my brother and i graduated from sdsu.  he graduated with a BS (so of course we have to joke about that one right?)  and will be applying to med school, and i graduated with an MA in English....finally!  I would NEVER have been able to pull it off without the constant support of my family--especially Austin, who was really encouraging the whole way.  I am not kidding or just trying to thank people in a nice way.  I seriously would not have graduated if it weren't for him!  Soooooo we did it!  Its kind of a bittersweet moment because in my heart of nerdy hearts i would go on being a student forever if i could!  Also, I did get a little teary-eyed a few times throughout the day, especially when I walked in during the processional to see Austin beaming at me from the crowd while holding henry in his lap.  Like i told my mom, i would never have guessed that when i began grad school, i would have my 1 and 1/2 year old son at my graduation--how life changes!

why is this photo sub-standard?  i took it of the big screen because i could only see george's back from where i was sitting and wanted to see if i could get his face.  well i think i got his face all right....but maybe not the nice detail of a facial expression....

that's more like it! yay george--you rock.

 how come i am not in this sweet photo!  okay, i am going to interject something here that is really going to embarrass my mom, but sorry mom, i can't help it.  my parents just had their youngest child graduate college this weekend......and do they look like they are old enough for that?  seriously....i am crossing my fingers that i got those genes.  

 congrats george!

THEN it was my turn.  the graduations were so large that they had to have two separate ones.  i think george graduated with close to 1000 and i was with about 500 maybe.  otherwise it would have taken forever, and there is no way that henry would have been able to sit through all of that!  so austin made sure he took a good nap before joining the family for my ceremony, my mom-in-law, deb, also made it!

see, don't i look so smart?  thanks austin for capturing this

 walking by and smiling at henry....who does NOT know what to think. pretty sure he recognized my face, but the fact that i was dressed like a bazillion other people in the room kind of threw him for a loop :)

all decked out in his jackrabbit gear of course!

 yay!  wouldn't have done it without my boys!

 after the ceremony, we went back to my parents for some good food and enjoyed the nice weather outside.  but first we opened our gifts from our parents.  they got us each a gameboy.  hahahaha!  (i think it was a month or two ago when we were all able to get together for a family dinner and somehow we got on the subject of rummage sales and how mom gave mine and george's gameboys away when we were little at a rummage sale.  and, of course, we complained about how awesome it would be if only we still had our gameboys and were able to play tetris old-school style.)  i about died when i saw what was in the bag :)  

 and since we had to return our robes (that's right, i won't even tell you the ridiculous amount of money i had to pay to rent my graduation robe...i thought that it belonged to me after all that!  and then after the ceremony they wanted them back!)  we decided that we at least needed at pic in our caps together.  i don't know what i like more about this photo, the fact that i posed so decorously by holding onto one corner of my mortarboard, or the tractor in the background....or that george seems uncomfortable.  

 winning.

ps--for regular blog readers, i thought i would make this quick little addition/explanation.  YES, i graduated with an MA in English, and YES i often write fragments and rarely capitalize the appropriate letters etc...  I promise, I know how to write and write well.  In fact, my husband would tell you that I can be quite a grammar nerd at times....maybe even to the point of being annoying.  so why are my blog posts the way there are?  because i simply prefer the way lower-case letters look.  think of it as a stylistic handwriting choice, just typed......i know its weird.  like they say, though, once you know the rules, you are free to break them within reason, and i believe that inexplicable aesthetic appeal is good enough reason for me :)

happy mother's day :)

good O times :)

You are about to witness a whole mess of photos from our visit with the O (livier) fam!  

we'll kick it off with henry opening up goodies brought by the E bunny :)

a monkey face backpack!

 elmo books!

 a ducky for the bath :)

 a pretty colorful pinwheel--and with the 27 mph wind we've been having this week.....we've been inside blowing on it--haha

 some veggie tales movies!!!

And now it's time for..... funny faces with henry! ( For those of you who are familiar with the whole veggie tales phenomenon i'm trying to channel the same vibe as silly songs with larry...perhaps my husband is the only one who will understand this... :)   )

totally modeling his cool belt buckle and belt.  sooooo cute!  henry got them from his gran and grampa...or should i say the easter bunny?  or maybe we'll call it a grunny?  :)

bubble boy!  

henry loves bubbles and playing with them and saying the word bubble, so auntie faith was very happy to oblige his bubble obsession as we visited

blowing bubbles too!

time to go out and play!  lucky for henry, there was a pretty park right behind gran and grampa's house!

swinging with gran

 i love these photos :)

 tessa and henry

 swinging in auntie's lap!

:)

playing fetch with the doggies!! dad came up with a nice way to play while keeping our fingers spittle free!

 almost :)

  austin, i couldn't help myself.  loooooove you :)

it was a very busy and tiring day for everyone :)

some snaps with the o fam!  :)

uncle levi

auntie faith

auntie tessa

and gran and grampa!!

and we even tried to do some family photos for us!  

except.....henry was not very interested in taking any...so we ended up with quite a few shots like this that i included anyway because they make me laugh :)

yep, he wanted to do this instead...

but we did get a few sweet snaps out of the deal--thanks so much molly, i love these :)

there is only one bad thing about visiting family--saying goodbye!  you miss them even more!

ps--austin and i have been having a bit of a crazy week, which is why these photos are a tad late.  i had a poetry reading and am preparing for my little girls' showcase dance concert and austin will be taking another insurance exam monday for his new job and has switched in to super study mode!  wish him luck :)