Foil Dinners

Last week we had our first dinner party in our new home. The McDowell's and Gigi came over for foil dinners and s'mores. We have really enjoyed living where there is enough room for two dogs, a cat, a turtle, and a camp fire!

While Ian was busy getting the fire ready, the girls stayed inside to prepare the meals...I think Olive inherited my love for garlic salt..

After the craziness of having two two year old girls running around a fire, we decided to cook the s'mores inside.

Olive LOVES her friend Halle. We are so lucky we live close enough to hang out now! Both girls are very independent and neither one is afraid to speak their mind. They can be very sweet and cute with eachother, but most the time we just hear a lot of "Mine!!!!" being yelled from one or both of them!

Of course we had to watch a show our favorite show! I just love little girls!

We're Home!

Olive and I are finally in our new home. We moved in last week and have been loving every minute of it! We have missed all the fun of living at the Hunter's but luckily we are only a bike ride away. Since we've moved in I've been keeping myself busy cleaning and decorating and Olive has been busy playing with all her toys and loving our new life!

Living room

Olive is the best hostess if you ever want to join her for tea.

Kitchen

It's nice living out in the country, you can cook naked and don't have to worry about the neighbors peeking in!

Olive's Room

She's been so cute about keeping it clean and arranging her animals and toys.

My Room

Olive's new favorite game..Thanks Joe and Candy!

Guest Room/"Office"/Aunt or Uncle Room

I'm really hoping I can convince either Uncle Sam or Aunt Shae to move in with me...

Seriously, the girl can throw a great tea party. Olive has had so much fun having friends over.

This is our yard..it's just dirt right now, but it's going to be super cute...We have a white picket fence and everything. Olive keeps referring to it as the "park" and loves playing outside.

The dogs have settled right in, they love being out in the country. We are right next to a big empty field that the dogs and cat love to roam around in.

We are so grateful to be in our own place and really appreciate all the work that the Scott's put into the house to make it so nice for us. We are also grateful for our families and for all the help they have been from housing us, to moving us, to countless hours of free therapy..I don't know what I would have done without both of my families!

Happy Halloween

I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Halloween and a Happy November! I love the start of each new month. I always have so much hope that the upcoming month will be better than the last. I had to file for divorce this month. It was absolutely the worst day of my life. There have been so many times this year that I have thought "this has to be the worst day of my life," but I don't think any of it it prepared me for this. It's hard not to let a piece of paper determine your self-worth. Every signature felt like an admission of defeat and of failure. Not to mention the gut-wrenching sight of your daughter's life, and how she will be spending it, written down like it's some trivial thing, knowing that she will be the one suffering the most from her parents decisions. I know I can't focus on the events and choices that led me to this position. I know that I gave it my all and I have to accept the things I cannot change. I know that I just have to move forward and focus on the life that is before me and Olive. I am excited for November, because I know this month I wont have to experience that again.

October was not a total loss, it was Halloween after all. Olive and I got to do a lot of Trunk-or-Treating. We got to go to Oroville's and Gridley's and Olive definitely walked away with a lot of candy. She got so much she actually quit half way through to sit in the car and hang out with Poo-Zip.

Olive and Auntie Claira

Olive did so well this year. She loved it and wasn't shy at all. She said "Trick-or-Treat!" as well as "Thank you, have a Happy Halloween!"

Olive and her Uncle Scotty who took her under his wing and broke her in to the whole Tick-or Treating scene.

Kycle hooked Olive up with a more than average amount of candy.

Olive took a break to share some candy with me, that's right, she actually shared!