Meet Molly!

       Meet Molly!  Our Golden Retriever. 

We brought her home at 8 weeks old on June 15th.  It's been a super fun 10 weeks with her. I was looking forward to sharing many pictures and videos to document her growth (and cuteness), but unfortunately I lost all pictures and videos on my phone and none were backed up since we got her. Very sad day. Luckily, I do have some on Instagram and pictures from Eric's phone. I procrastinated 10 weeks of documenting and can't any more! She is now 18 weeks old and is about 38 pounds. She will probably get close to 70 pounds. She's the softest, cuddliest puppy. And super smart, we love watching her learn new tricks. She loves her belly rubbed, playing in water and is getting used to camping. We love her so much!       
<<< Molly at 5 weeks old.
  

Molly and Sadie^^^

We couldn't choose between these two pups. They were identical and we couldn't go wrong either way.  Molly is in Eric's arms.  Two days later Eric's brother and his family went to choose one and happened to choose the one I'm holding (Sadie)!  They had no clue she was one we almost chose. 

The day we brought her home.  One last picture with her mama, Maui! 

 These two pictures are one week a part  

Sunday afternoon cuddles 

She loves the rain, but loves the mud after even more! 

Eric started a new semester of school and we hang out waiting for him.  

Haha, I could not believe how good this selfie came out.

First time taking Molly to Pine Valley mountain for some hiking and it was so much fun!

Play time

This pictures shows Molly's personality really well.  Family selfie at the end of a work day and playing with Molly!

She has loved her mini-pool on hot days!  She is definitely loves any body of water. 

I am a crazy dog mama now.  Molly is the best.  I can't believe she is ours for hopefully the next 15+ years! 

Taylor Swift Concert!!

The month of May revolved completely around Taylor Swift.  My best friends from college and I bought tickets the day they went on sale back in November and we road tripped to California!  *I don't know how to continue typing without sounding like a 15 year old fan girl, so I'm just going to go with it.*  Even if you don't like Taylor Swift's music you have to acknowledge how far she has come and how well she does it.  I can remember sitting at my yellow desk, in my blue painted room, doing my math homework at the age of 13 and listening to tear drops on my guitar.  WHAT GIRL DIDN'T LISTEN TO THAT SONG and think of a specific boy.  And when you're 15 and someone tells you they love you, you're going to believe them?!  Exactly my life.  Eric and I were crushing on one another at 16 years old.  We were best friends and only wanted to spend time with one another.  Now this was TEN years ago and times have changed cause we're married, but back then... Eric's parents had a rule that he had to take another girl out in between his dates with me.  Basically they didn't think he needed to be getting "serious" at a young age and let me tell you, when Love Story came out I felt like that song was made for us. 

We could swap many more stories about how we feel connected to a song because she writes about her real life... real feelings and events that happened to her.  So I'll skip to the details of the concert, because Taylor can PERFORM.  It is so evident that she spent hours and hours practicing for the tour because it is an insane production.  For me, one night would be fun and then I'd be like "that was exhausting, I miss my couch and netflix too much. No more tour".  But no, she performs weekend after weekend flawlessly for two hours straight.  She engages with every single person in a stadium of 60,000 people!!  And she looks happy while doing it.  

We screamed, cried, sang along to every lyric and danced.  She sang so many past songs and our surprise B-stage song was All Too Well.  My videos of the concert are random snippets and include my screaming and horrible back-up vocals.  We were surprised with Troye Sivan and Selena Gomez at our concert.  When Selena walked on the stage the screams were SO loud, you almost can not hear her singing.  Three months later and I still reminisce about her incredible show!  So I put all of the video clips and pictures into a video for myself to enjoy 😂 (And I included it at the very end)