bumper cars
this week i decided that i wanted to do something more active with olivia. so i thought we could play outside and have some games. we have these little cars that are basically little bumper cars and liv loves them! i set up some races and holly, owen, and liv had me time them to see how fast they could finish the course. it was so funny to watch them all and they were so cute!
one of liv's favorite things to do is swim. she's on a swimteam and talks about swimming all the time! she had been asking me if we could go swimming for a while and it would always be too cold or something. but, i finally took her swimming and i have never seen her happier! she's such a good swimmer, too. i'm sure we'll go again!
fred meyer
this week i took olivia with me to go fill up my car and then we shopped around in fred meyer for a little bit. she seriously loves shopping..girl after my own heart! we also stopped at target and obviously had to get slurpees there:) After three hours of shopping she still didn't want to go home.. love this girl!
ice cream
this was such a good idea but it didn't really turn out like i wanted. i thought that since it was a h o t day, we would make ice cream because who doesn't like ice cream?! we made the ziploc baggie kind and she was so excited. she loves cooking so anytime we do anything in the kitchen, she gets super excited! anyway, we go to eat it and it's really salty..oops. i must have not zipped the bags up tight enough or something. olivia didn't care though! she was so cute and kept asking for seconds and just loved it.
i know i say this all the time, but i feel truly blessed to have liv in my life. she is such a sweetheart and she makes me want to live my life better. i never want to do anything that would disappoint her. last week we had girl's camp and she amazed me the entire time. we went on a hike that wasn't too hard, but it wasn't easy either. a lot of us would stop and feel really tired and kind of down on ourselves because we did not want to do the hike! at one point i had just finished climbing up this really steep hill and i was so tired and hot and just wanted to be done. in the middle of my whole pity party, i looked behind me and saw liv. She was smiling and climbing up that hill. never once did i hear her complain. i felt the Spirit really strongly then and i knew that she was one of Heavenly Father's choicest Spirit Daughters. He knows and loves each of us. He knew that i needed motivation from liv to get me through that hike! He wants each of us to be happy. we are on this earth to experience joy and to learn. "Happiness is a way of travel, not a destination." that quote is my new favorite. be happy. And if you're not happy, pray for help to become happier. that's what i did and not even a couple weeks later, liv came into my life. i love being happy. yes, there will be trials. yes, there will be hard days. we all have them, but it's up to us to not dwell on the hard times. through the Lord we can make it through anything. and remember, you are n e v e r fully dressed without a smile!
happy monday!
xoxo
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