She never ceases to amaze me... or make me laugh!

One day I was just cleaning away and getting the house organized and then I realized that it had been very quiet in Liv's room for awhile... I went in to find this sweet picture. She moved the foot rest from the rocking chair we have in her room in front of her new "barney watching" chair covered herself with a blanket and was just sitting there, feet propped up, enjoying Barney with a capri sun! It was so funny!

Yep... this is the life!

I put her in the bath the other day and she said "mom? su bubbles?" How can you say no to that? she actually asked me for bubbles? Usually when she wants something she just whines till you finally point to what it was she wanted... my baby is growing up and actually talking to me. 

Labor Day weekend

For labor day we decided to head up to a condo just outside Depoe Bay that my grandparents own. It's a super nice place and right on the ocean, so it was so much fun to spend lots of time at the beach and Jon even humored me and we went into Newport and then Depoe Bay to look around at the cute shops. It was a great weekend and very relaxing after our stressful move here. It was nice to just spend time together as a family. So, here are a few pictures of the fun weekend we had.

We bought an Elmo kite to fly... Livi liked it every now and then but it sure kept Jon occupied :) he is a master kite flyer :) 

Olivia's favorite thing to do was dig in the sand

and she even tasted a little bit. 

she was trying to get it out of her teeth and off her tongue for a while

the beautiful view from the beach right below the condo

Once she discovered the water and how fun it was to splash in it we couldn't get her out

she was soaked by the time it was time to go

Jon showed her how to make a castle with the buckets... and she showed him how to destroy it :)

It was such a blast! And it's so close we will probably try to spend as many weekends over there as possible. Thanks Grandpa and Grandma!

Oregon... a new chapter in our book!

Well here we are... our home for the next three to four years... Cornelius Oregon!!! We moved here on the 22nd of August and we are loving it. We are renting a house and it is so marvelous to have a home with a yard and no one living above or below or right next to us! It's fantastic and Olivia has really enjoyed the backyard and all the space she has to play inside and out. We also have a school playground right down the street from us and Liv loves swinging there. It has been different being in such a small town but we aren't far from the coast or Portland. :) And we really love our ward here... it's so nice to be able to go somewhere and always feel welcome and the gospel is the same everywhere you go! Our first sunday here was so great, the ward was very happy to have us there and it was just such a comfort for us to feel that sweet spirit and have so many people welcoming us so warmly. Thank goodness for the church!! It helped calm our nervous, scared and homesick storm we were experiencing.
   Jon's parents helped us move, and we sure are glad that they were here to help us. It was very overwhelming moving to a new place in a new town in the opposite direction from what we are used to... (we're so far from Provo and have really missed our friends and the familiarity there) but... they helped us a TON to clean things up in our house and get things to where we could make it a home. While they were here we took a trip to Tillamook to tour the cheese factory and of course get some famous Tillamook ice cream... YUM!!!! After Tillamook we drove to see the coast to a beach at Oceanside. It is such a beautiful and peaceful place and Olivia had a blast playing in the sand and chasing the waves.

Here are Dan and Charla at the Tillamook factory.

Checking out the cheese samples... my personal favorite is the squeeky cheese!

Olivia REALLY enjoyed her ice cream cone!

Livi, Dad and Grandpa playing tag with the waves

She discovered she can draw in the sand and then that is all she wanted to do

How sweet is that... daddy and daughter!

Me and Liv running away from the waves... she was laughing so hard she could barely run.

More pictures to come! :) I will soon post some pictures of our house and some other things that we have been doing since we got here!