A quick update/video.

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We now have only 12 days left here in California.

I can hardly believe how fast this summer has gone.

It is crazy.

But I can not even begin to tell you how excited we are to move to Oregon and for Michael to start law school.

It seems like we have been in school forever and we are just excited to start this last chapter of school.

And then in 3-5 years be done with it:)

We have our apartment all picked out so now we've just got to make the 14 hour drive to get to it.

Luckily my family is coming this very weekend to spend time with us and then help us get all packed up.

My mom and the 3 littles will then make the drive up with us and help us unpack.

Michael's famiy who live just 4 hours away are also planning on meeting us there.

Which we are so excited for since it's been like 7 months since we've seen them.

We feel so blessed to have such supportive families who are so willing to help.

I have no idea what we'd do with out them.

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 Olivia is such a sweetheart.

I can not even begin to talk about how much we love her.

Lately she has become obsessed with Winnie the Pooh's Heffalump movie.

When she tells us she wants to watch it she sticks her little tongue in and out while making a consistent sound. It's kind of hard to explain, so see below in the video.

She is learning so many words and is learning to communicate with us so well.

It amazing how quickly she changes.

It's really daily.

She reminds me so much of Michael.

Not just looks wise but mannerisms/personality.

I swear they are twins.
I took this little video of her today saying some of her words and animal sounds.
Her attention span is not very long so I will have to get more later because she is talking so much now!

 

3:
Things are going really well for us right now.
I am so happy right now with everything.
And I'm so lucky to have Michael and Olivia in my life.
They're everything to me.

There's a lot of upcoming posts I'm sure.
My 23rd birthday, our 3rd year anniversary, my family's visit and of course the big move so stay tuned!

Binky sharing.

Olivia has been lucky this summer to have made some super fun friends.

Burress ("deeeeeezzz" as she calls him) has been getting a little extra attention from her.

I think it is because they've started sharing binkies haha.

Bath tub fun gone bad.

So being the cute mommy that I am I thought I'd start to try out some of the pinterest toddler activities that I've pinned on my board.

The other night it was putting colorful ice cubes in the bath tub.

I honestly thought Olivia would just love it.

But I was so wrong.

See below for proof.

(The picture above was seconds after I put them in. I think she was a bit confused.)

Deciding that she was not a fan.

Kind of laughing and crying at the same time.

Now she's mad.

She hates the "tas" (colors).

Everytime we take a bath now she says "tas" and shakes her head while saying "no."

After we rinsed out the colors she decided she wanted to give the bath tub a hug.

And a kiss.

She's a funny little thing that's forsure.

But I love her so much and am excited to try out some other fun things that hopefully she'll like a little more!

Bachelorette Parties!

Lucky for me all of us girls in the group are big fans of the Bachelor/Bachelorette shows.

So every Tuesday night we've gotten together to watch the Bachelorette.

It definitely is a day we look forward to all week.

All the drama and cuteness of falling in love.

 It's just wonderful.

Emily definitely did not disappoint as this season's bachelorette especially when she ended up picking Jef from Salt Lake City!

Yay!

I've been rooting for him the whole time.

They are just so cute and I hope they stay together forever:)

(from left to right)

Nicole, Sarie, me, and Kylee

We made a lot of yummy food.

 Nicole, me, and Kylee

 Sarie, me, and Kylee loving every second of the show:)

Luckily the day after the Bachelorette ended Bachelor Pad started.

So our parties will continue!

Santa Monica Beach round 2.

On Sunday, we decided to go the beach.

This time we went with most of the group so it was a blast.

We took 2 separate cars and got lost from the other one causing a little bit of a delay.

(It took us 1 1/2 hours to find each other haha)

Parking is crazy.

Our day started off with Olivia peeing on Burress's arm. 

She had on on her swim diaper but it must have leaked out the side haha.

Then we had lunch on the pier and headed down to the beach.

It was a little cooler so most of us didn't even consider going in the water.

But you would not believe what we saw.

Dolphins!!!

They were swimming quite close to shore putting on a show for everyone.

Apparently some of the people started freaking out because they thought they were sharks.

Michael said that they were screaming at everyone to get out of the water.

We of course knew they were dolphins because there were two of them and they would glide nicely out of the water instead of swimming around all creepishly like a shark would.

Michael and some of the other boys caught crabs and brought them up to Olivia.

She loved them.

And calls them "pinch" while doing the pinch motion with her little fingers.

(She's been talking about the "pinches" ever since.)

We then went to a little pizza place for dinner and headed home after a long fun day.

I love living by the beach.

(I know I've said it a million times but I really do.)

Little Livy.

Sarie, Olivia, and Me.

We pretty much chilled here the whole time.

The "pinch"

Isn't it like the ugliest little thing?

I have no idea why Olivia liked it so much.

It creeped me out.

(From left to right)

Burress, Matthew, Butch, Michael, and Carter

Not the best picture of us.

Michael's eyes are closed, my hair is all over the place, and Olivia isn't even looking at the camera.

But oh well here we are!

The Dark Knight Rises.

You would not believe the talk around our little apartment in regards to this movie.

Everyday for months I was asked, "How pumped are you to see it?"

I of course responded the same way everytime.

"I could wait until it comes out on redbox."

To say Michael was excited is an understatement.

Lucky for us a couple in our group was willing to watch Olivia so that we could both go opening weekend.

He of course loved it.

And I enjoyed it as well but mostly because I got to hold my cute boy's hand the entire time.

Our weekend.

On Saturday we took another quick trip to Tutti Frutti.

I seriously can't get enough of it.

The coconut, pomegranate, and watermelon flavors were to die for.

We of course had to eat by the fountains just because Olivia loves them so much.
And I just snapped away because she is so darn cute.

Throwing something up in the air.

I love his face haha.

We had another amazing weekend.

On Sunday, we had the missionaries over for dinner.

Butch and Sarie helped with the dinner as well.

We had so much fun talking and mostly I just loved being around them because it made me so grateful to them for their sacrifice and willingness to serve for 2 years.

It also made me grateful for Winston.

I love and miss my cute missionary brother so much.

It is hard having him gone but somehow having those Elders in our home made me feel just a little closer to him.

And I'm so grateful for that.

Beach day!

On Monday, Michael took the day off so that we could spend the day at Santa Monica beach.

I've been begging him to go for quite sometime now.

We woke up that morning and got all packed up for the day.

Which takes quite a while when your packing for an unpredictable toddler.

We made the 45 minute drive and immediately upon arriving headed to the burger place on the pier.

The pier has so many people and so many different things going on.

It's a bit crazy, but super fun to walk on.

After lunch we headed down to chill on the beach for as long as possible.

Luckily it was just starting to get hot when we got there.

We immediately took Olivia down to the water thinking she would be in heaven.

We couldn't have been more wrong.

It think the waves scared her because after the first one washed up on her legs a little bit that was the end of that.

So it was back up to play in the sand.

She loved sharing mangoes with dad, smashing sand castles, rubbing sand all over herself, and resting on daddy.

After, we walked back up to the pier to get a snowcone and then headed for home hoping to beat the traffic.

We didn't.

Since I'm pretty sure there is always traffic in LA.

But we had so much fun and hopefully will get to go back one more time before we move.

Saying "cheese."

I love this boy.

Very excited.

(This is right before the wave hit!)

She loved burying dad's legs.

Sharing mangoes.

Taking a quick rest.

Headed down to the ocean for round 2.

Yep, not excited about it.

On the pier.

The water was so pretty.

I know I've probably said this before but seriously the beach has got to be my most favorite place on earth.