Happy Birthday Olivia

Olivia is 2 today! She has grown up so much in the past year. I can't believe how much happens between the age of 1 and 2. I took her to her well child care check up and she is the perfect weight for her height. All her teeth have come in. She talks really well for her age.

Mike and I bought her a little pop up tent for the house and she loves that and asmall pop up laundry basket. Never too young to learn responsibility. She dabbles with using the toilet. Her incentives are receiving "My Little Pony" stickers. She loves Disney movies especially the old school ones with music and talking animals. Her favs are Jungle Book, Aristocats, 101 Dalmations, Lion King and the Little Mermaid. She loves music and loves to sing.

We moved her to a toddler bed and she has been doing really well until recently. I just need to buck down and let her cry it out but I am going to wait until we move. She loves to climb everything. She loves to draw on herself with markers. And she loves the outdoors. Overall she is a very easy going child and is generally happy.

Mike and I are so happy to have Olivia in our lives.

It's official... we are moving

So Mike didn't get the second interview in Lindon so we are moving to Boise. I was offered a job as an Instructional Designer at Boise State University. It really is a blessing. The pay is higher and I will be able to work from home part time after I learn the ropes. We found a cute twin home that is 2.5 miles away from campus. There are a ton of engineering firms in Boise so hopefully Mike will be able to find a job and we will finally get to go house hunting.

We are scared and nervous but excited at the same time. I have been packing for the past week or so because I knew we would be moving somewhere just wasn't sure where until today.

We grew up in Cache Valley and we love it here but this will be a nice start to a new chapter in our lives.

Labor Day camping

We went camping with my sister Kanika during Labor Day weekend in Logan Canyon. The weather was perfect. We got to sleep with the fly off and watch the stars. It was a lot of fun.

Olivia has become quite the camper. She was made for the outdoors. After we set up the tent, I threw in the camping pads and sleeping bags and she proceeded to go in and try to inflate the pads herself and pull out all the sleeping bags so they could fluff up. I thought it was cute.

She was super excited that we were camping with Kanika but extra excited that Peter the dog camp along. She could barely contain herself when she woke up and realized Peter slept in the tent with us.


Olivia loves dogs. Especially Peter.


She was so happy to be camping with Kanika and Peter.


Olivia loves camping

Trigger thumb surgery

Olivia playing in the waiting room.


She still loves her binky.


Spinning on the doctor's chair



Just woke up.


Waiting to be discharged.

Olivia had surgery on both of her thumbs on Tuesday. She was first on the list but it took awhile to get her sedated. The actually surgery was short and she woke up very quickly and she didn't even cry. The nurse warned us that 99% of children wake up from anesthesia crying and such. But Olivia was a real trooper. The nurse also said she should be groggy most of the day and would be back to herself by that evening.

Olivia did ask a few times for me to take the bandage off but she acclimated to not having thumbs fairly quickly. I have been giving her children's motrin for the pain three times a day but that is about it. She hasn't complained about pain. The surgery didn't slow her down. After eating some breakfast and watching a movie she was up and jumping on the bed and climbing stuff. She took a long nap and that gave her a ton of energy as you can see from the video. She is still daring as ever.

Where does the time go?

So I had grand plans of updating my blog because so much happened in the last month but I got busy and my blog got neglected. Mike and I had an anniversary in August. It has been 5 years. We went to snowbird resort and it was a lot of fun. My little sister took care of Olivia and it was nice to have some alone time with Mike.

Work is always so busy right before Fall semester begins and we aren't allowed to take an time off. Plus my job changed a bit and I have to travel twice a week to Brigham City and help faculty on that campus.

Mike and I have been trying to take it nice and easy and enjoy the rest of the summer. We went on a couple of mountain bike rides in the canyon. We went up green canyon and logan canyon. I am not as fast or as strong as Mike but I think I do pretty good. The weather is ideal especially in the evenings. It is hard sweaty work going up but it is always worth the reward of coming down.

Mike's grandma passed away over Labor Day weekend. It was unexpected but she was old and lived a long time. And Mike says she is in a better place with Grandpa Kunz because they are finally together. It was sad and she will be missed but we will see her one day.

Big happenings are going on but I don't want to spill the beans until it is official. I had a job interview a few weeks ago so we could possible be moving north. But Mike has a job interview this week and we might be moving south. Things are happening so fast but I have been so excited I decided to start packing. I am happy that things are finally moving somewhere.

Olivia's new swimming suit

Olivia loves to swim and I noticed her swimsuit is getting way too tight and one day we were at Walmart and Mike found this swimming suit that is a 3T and it was only $3. Can't ask for a better deal than that. She loves it. She basically loves anything that resembles a swimming suit.

Olivia is growing up so fast.

This happened in August but I was proud of Olivia. We came home and she asked to pee and she actually performed. We have a little toilet for her but she prefers to sit on the big toilet like us. She is pretty kick back about it but I hope she is proud of herself.

She caught me off guard so I purchased 2 books on potty training. I think Olivia is really close to being ready. We practice all the time and she actually peed in the toilet again. I was planning on doing the potty training stuff gradual like slowly let her wear underwear for 2 hour increments starting in the fall and maybe around Christmas take a week and do it full time. She might actually beat me to the punch though.

Bodybugg bands

I bought some new bodybugg bands that are a little bit more fashionable and the plain black one is my exercise one. I was pretty excited to get them. If I had the time and the crafty bug, I would probably add gems to it.