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Christmas Card 2011

kristen — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 08:01:42 +0000

Merry Christmas Everyone!

We are exited to share with you our Christmas Card for 2011. It is a word game of all of the sayings that Samuel says – “Samuelisms”. Click picture below to play. We hope you enjoy!

Samuel the Sonic

kristen — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:05:32 +0000

There is a new hero in town – Samuel the Sonic! Samuel really enjoyed dressing up as Sonic the Hedgehog for Halloween. See him running around to theme music in the video below the picture.

Epic Adventure Videos

kristen — Fri, 27 May 2011 15:21:00 +0000

Now that it has been almost 6 months, we hope that you had a great time adventuring with Samuel!

We had many questions about the adventure, but the biggest one was that people were having a hard time navigating through, so below is the entire list of videos that are available and the three different endings. Can you find all of them by going through the adventure? Enjoy!

All Videos:

P.S. Samuel is now 22 Months

Merry Christmas & Epic Adventure!

kristen — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 08:00:50 +0000

You have been chosen to embark on an Epic Adventure:

The Olsen Fam Christmas Card Adventure 2010

Click on the link above or click play on the video to start your adventuring!

Merry Christmas,
The Olsen Fam (Joe, Kristen & Samuel)

Note: Please adventure on a computer as mobile devices do not show YouTube annotations.

Happy Halloween – Meet Little Steve Jobs

kristen — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:20:26 +0000

Meet our little Steve Jobs!

Samuel dressed up as one of our favorite CEOs, Steve Jobs, for Halloween; complete with black turtleneck, blue jeans, glasses, black socks, and white sneakers. He was quite the hit at both of our workplaces with people stopping to take pictures.

Our little Steve also had his very own iPhone that he was demoing.

This softie version is handmade from silk printable fabric, felt, glue, thread, foam, marker, and paint. The real iPhone 4 is on the right.

There are more pictures in the Halloween 2010 album. We had a fun time and we hope you all have a Happy Halloween!

Samuel’s First Easter

kristen — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:29:23 +0000

We had a fun time at our church’s Easter service. Every year we have it at Morro Rock. This year even the flies were excited so they came out in force and were a bit distracting. Easter Sunday was also when our founding Senior Pastor Tonye handed over the reigns to our Senior Pastor Jack. We really enjoyed Pastor Jack’s message and it was fun to hear a Easter message from 1 Corinthians 15:1-22.

After that we had BBQ with our friends and I took a bunch of photos. Sandra took some photos of our little family and here is our favorite one:

Samuel really enjoyed getting to be held by a bunch of people, although he doesn’t really show it in the pictures. Here he is with some of the ladies:

Our friend Amy “the Baby Whisperer” was able to get Samuel to go to sleep in her arms:

Also, it appears that the U-Haul is very romantic. Here are Samuel’s Godparents Josh & Sandra:

There are a bunch more of really fun Easter pictures.

All in all it was a great day at the beach, and we can’t wait for when Samuel is older and we can teach him more about what this day really means.

Valentine’s Day Recap

kristen — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:20:21 +0000

It’s a bit late in coming, but Joe gave me several surprises for Valentine’s Day. He doesn’t really like it, but I love celebrating all kinds of Holidays, so it was extra sweet what he did.

Early in the week when I was having an especially frustrating day he surprised me with a gorgeous flower bouquet. Then when I came downstairs on Valentine’s Day, there were all kinds of filled chocolates from Ghirardelli waiting for me (Joe was at church early).

After church that day we went shopping and had lunch at Panda Express (one of Joe’s favorites). We came home and relaxed, and then we cooked Chicken and Portobello Rollups while watching The Lion King (it was his idea to watch that movie!).

We had a fun day together and I love him