First of all, Happy Fall.
I guess it's more like we skipped fall and went straight into winter.
Because of the snow.
I'm hoping the snow and freezing cold stops so that we can enjoy the nice breezy (not too cold) fresh air, the beautiful, colorful leaves,
and my favorite is of course the constant pumpkin baking that will be filling our house really very soon.
Below is a pumpkin truffle that we found at Thanksgiving Point.
Isn't it the cutest thing?
It's definitely going to be hard to eat something that cute.
I guess it's more like we skipped fall and went straight into winter.
Because of the snow.
I'm hoping the snow and freezing cold stops so that we can enjoy the nice breezy (not too cold) fresh air, the beautiful, colorful leaves,
and my favorite is of course the constant pumpkin baking that will be filling our house really very soon.
Below is a pumpkin truffle that we found at Thanksgiving Point.
Isn't it the cutest thing?
It's definitely going to be hard to eat something that cute.
Now on to the exciting lives of us.
Since pretty much every post is about our sweet Olivia, I figured it was time to put in a few words about my boy and I. But don't worry there will still be some words about Olivia too. I just don't think it is possible for me not to talk about that little cutie.
So....
We are living in my parent's basement right now. Which has been very nice for several reasons. #1: It's free and so are a lot of other things. #2: We have built in babysitters. Which of course means romantic dates. (It's been a crazy few weeks so we're due for one of those.) #3: And I just love being around my family, especially my mom. We do lots together. We are anxious however to get out on our own. We have spent the better part of our 2 happy years living in either my parent's or grandparent's basement. So it will be fun to get out on our own and have our own place. But we are so grateful to my parents and grandparents for letting us live with them.
It has been so nice not to worry about spending at the very least $600 a month on rent.
Michael is still going to BYU. He's in his 9th semester, but will be graduating this very December!! His major his Spanish, with a minor in philosophy. But don't get to excited about this graduation because there's lots more school for us ahead. But that's a good thing right?!
He just took the LSAT for the first time this past Saturday. So we should be getting his score on October 20th. As we've discussed over and over where we want to go to law school, we've pretty much narrowed it down to 2 choices. Michael doesn't really want to live in Utah, and I'm okay with that but I don't really want to live all the way on the other side of the country you know. So we've agreed that we would like to be somewhere on the West coast. But where? We have no idea yet. As we've researched law schools, we've realized that it would be beneficial to go to law school close to where we want to live. Mostly because of all the internships you do and how your name gets out and stuff. (Talk to Michael for more details, I obviously struggle in the explaining department. )So originally our goal was to go somewhere like Virginia, or Duke. But for now our 2 tops schools are:
University of Washington.
My top pick. Mostly because I would love to live in Seattle.
University of Oregon.
Our top reason for considering this school is that we found out that they have part-time graduate student teaching positions where you literally work 8-10 hrs a week and get your tuition paid for for. Is it a top law school? No. But it would be so nice not to come out of school thousands, thousands, and more thousands of dollars in debt.
And I think it would be fun to live in Portland as well.
(Actually I just found out its not in Portland haha. I 'm not sure where it is, but I'm sure it would be fun just the same:)
So we shall see I guess! He's been working on applications and personal essays and all that stuff. He also had to talk to some professors in the Spanish Department to test how well his Spanish was. (Vocab, accent, and all that fun stuff.) We find out that score in 6 weeks! Now that the LSAT is over his current project is working on getting published. We're thinking that would look great on his transcript. So this has been the busy, and stressful life of my boy. But I am so very proud of how hard he works to support our family, how hard he works in school, and what an amazing husband and father he is. Because if I was in his shoes, well....we'll just say I'd barely be passing, and I'd definitely not be pleasant to live with!
I am so happy that I get to spend my days at home taking care of our Olivia. She is my little bundle of joy and I enjoy every second of being her mom. Now that she is mobile (not walking yet) I have had a bit more time to do things like, crafts, sewing, scrapbooking, and my new favorite reading. I just barely finished the Help. Oh my gosh, it was such a great book and I can hardly wait to see the movie!
I teach the little 8-9 year olds in primary every other week. They are quite entertaining as you can well imagine.
Well this is getting kind of boring so....
We'll move onto this little love:
Since pretty much every post is about our sweet Olivia, I figured it was time to put in a few words about my boy and I. But don't worry there will still be some words about Olivia too. I just don't think it is possible for me not to talk about that little cutie.
So....
We are living in my parent's basement right now. Which has been very nice for several reasons. #1: It's free and so are a lot of other things. #2: We have built in babysitters. Which of course means romantic dates. (It's been a crazy few weeks so we're due for one of those.) #3: And I just love being around my family, especially my mom. We do lots together. We are anxious however to get out on our own. We have spent the better part of our 2 happy years living in either my parent's or grandparent's basement. So it will be fun to get out on our own and have our own place. But we are so grateful to my parents and grandparents for letting us live with them.
It has been so nice not to worry about spending at the very least $600 a month on rent.
Michael is still going to BYU. He's in his 9th semester, but will be graduating this very December!! His major his Spanish, with a minor in philosophy. But don't get to excited about this graduation because there's lots more school for us ahead. But that's a good thing right?!
He just took the LSAT for the first time this past Saturday. So we should be getting his score on October 20th. As we've discussed over and over where we want to go to law school, we've pretty much narrowed it down to 2 choices. Michael doesn't really want to live in Utah, and I'm okay with that but I don't really want to live all the way on the other side of the country you know. So we've agreed that we would like to be somewhere on the West coast. But where? We have no idea yet. As we've researched law schools, we've realized that it would be beneficial to go to law school close to where we want to live. Mostly because of all the internships you do and how your name gets out and stuff. (Talk to Michael for more details, I obviously struggle in the explaining department. )So originally our goal was to go somewhere like Virginia, or Duke. But for now our 2 tops schools are:
University of Washington.
My top pick. Mostly because I would love to live in Seattle.
University of Oregon.
Our top reason for considering this school is that we found out that they have part-time graduate student teaching positions where you literally work 8-10 hrs a week and get your tuition paid for for. Is it a top law school? No. But it would be so nice not to come out of school thousands, thousands, and more thousands of dollars in debt.
And I think it would be fun to live in Portland as well.
(Actually I just found out its not in Portland haha. I 'm not sure where it is, but I'm sure it would be fun just the same:)
So we shall see I guess! He's been working on applications and personal essays and all that stuff. He also had to talk to some professors in the Spanish Department to test how well his Spanish was. (Vocab, accent, and all that fun stuff.) We find out that score in 6 weeks! Now that the LSAT is over his current project is working on getting published. We're thinking that would look great on his transcript. So this has been the busy, and stressful life of my boy. But I am so very proud of how hard he works to support our family, how hard he works in school, and what an amazing husband and father he is. Because if I was in his shoes, well....we'll just say I'd barely be passing, and I'd definitely not be pleasant to live with!
I am so happy that I get to spend my days at home taking care of our Olivia. She is my little bundle of joy and I enjoy every second of being her mom. Now that she is mobile (not walking yet) I have had a bit more time to do things like, crafts, sewing, scrapbooking, and my new favorite reading. I just barely finished the Help. Oh my gosh, it was such a great book and I can hardly wait to see the movie!
I teach the little 8-9 year olds in primary every other week. They are quite entertaining as you can well imagine.
Well this is getting kind of boring so....
We'll move onto this little love:
She's sick right now.Hence the swaddling and holding still for more than 2 seconds!
We took her to her 1 year doctors appointment today.
Here are her stats:
Height: 27 inches-11th percentile
Weight: 17 lbs 1 ounce-2nd percentile
She's still so very little.
But so very cute.
And of course healthy as can be!
She had to get 4 shots.
Poor little thing.
She's not walking yet, but is getting to be quite the fast crawler.
She's very good at standing up on things and walking around them.
She loves giving kisses to everything, even the carpet, waving bye bye to everything, going upstairs to see Aunti Sophi's bird, wrestling with mom, reading books, eating and drinking anything she sees mom and dad with, going outside, dancing to music with dad, screaming when she wants something or doesn't want something, biting and hitting(we are working on that one), calling everything except for an actual bird (she knows that word) and me (she knows mom too) a bbbbbbbb. Whatever that means! We think she knows what things are but just calls them a b because a lot things start with a b. For example: banana, baby, bird, bib, binky, bottle, bye bye, bath, book ect. She turns on the light switch in her bedroom, plays peekaboo and pat a cake, gives high fives, and so much more. But most importantly she brings so much love and joy to her mom and dad every single day. And we couldn't be happier she's ours.
Wow. That was long.
But this is kind of like my journal.
So I'm thinking I might want to remember some of these things!
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