boxes everywhere

Our living room and kitchen has been overtaken by boxes!! All we have left to pack is the kitchen!
I really like this moving thing. I'm like "detoxing" my house.


I told my parents that we were moving on Tuesday. I called my dad first and all he said was, "Do you want to talk to your mom?"
And then my mom proceeded to make up a whole bunch of junk to try to convince me to not move. Basically she really doesn't care whether or not we are happy or where God wants us to be...its whether or not I'm upholding the image she expects me to have.
It's so frustrating to have lived with my parents for 18 years and the only relationship I've ever had with them is working. We didn't do anything outside of working. Neither really cared about what was happening in my life...except when it interrupted my ability to work or her "reputation."
So when I was talking to her I told her that I wasn't calling her to get her approval or her opinion...I was just doing the polite thing and letting her know. Then she kept on talking about how Joel and I will go absolutely no where in our lives if we don't stay in Moscow to finish our degrees.


Olivia is seriously the cutest little girl EVER.
She's trying to talk and mimic what we are saying. So far she can match up the number of syllables of what we are saying but not the sounds...at all. lol Like this morning, I was saying applesauce....so she would say "a-da-da."
Bottle is "ba-bo"



I want SUMMER