Where in the world did January go?? If how fast January went by is any indicator of how this year is going to go I think we are in for a whirlwind of a year.
January has been pretty awesome! Here's a little recap:
-My parents came to visit. They were here over new year's. We went to the aquarium, visited the Krishna temple, went to the Norman Rockwell exhibit at the BYU art museum, the Bean museum, Ate at Tocanos and Waffle Love, and it was all so much fun! Olivia loved Pop Pop's mustache kisses and somehow made a video montage with music on Grama Noodle's phone.
-I started working out a again everyday. Winter, the cold, snow made it hard to get outside and exercise like I had been and so I just kind of stopped. But I'm back at it! Using fitness blender videos. They are seriously awesome and kicking my butt and I can already do a pushup!!! OK this is huge! I have no been able to do a real push up since probably middle school. And it is SUPER hard and takes everything I've got but I can do 1! Which is pretty great because that was one of my end goal for my fitness this year.
-Olivia is still allergic to milk. We tested it with cheese. She threw up and kept throwing up and got the worse diaper rash ever and so we are back to 100% no dairy, including me because breastfeeding is still going strong.
-We've all had our first cold of the year. It kicked my butt and sleep duck for all of us but we made it through.
-We went to the Midway Ice Castles. It was beautiful and magical. It was like being in Frozen and I loved it.
-We went to the free day at the U's natural history museum with Molly and Ellie. So fun, so awesome. Everyone should go because it was legit and following (I.e. chasing) the girls around while Olivia said "Ellie, Ellie" over and over was pretty much the best.
-John's sister Savannah came home from her mission! We haven't seen her yet but she comes back to Utah next month so we are excited for that. She's awesome and semi awkward, as every freshly returned missionary should be and its going to be so fun to get together with the WHOLE family whenever that happens.
-Those are the biggies for the month. Besides that we have had lots of library days, museum days, fun at home and around town, random dinner at friends and grandparents and basically lots of fun.
One last thing. Snow. This was my biggest fear when moving to Utah. All my friends who lived here and pretty much every one hear talks about how its nice for the first month and then it gets old. Well, last year we basically had none so I thought I was lucky to have escaped it. But let me tell you, I was not. Because I have realized I have a crazy obsession/love of snow. It's amazing and magical and every time it falls I just get so excited! Olivia loves it so much too! When it starts snowing to points and says, "snow!" In the cutest voice ever. And somehow as a socal girl I have adjusted to the cold super fast. So bring on the snow!
Side note: my love of snow in no way means I miss or live California any less. Because for real California wins every time and the beach and the food and the people and California.
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