Hello from CO

No pictures yet, sorry. I'm still trying to pull our lives together enough for that to be the first thing I think of.

SO, we moved to Fort Collins, Colorado a week and a half ago. We miss Utah, well, no we don't, but we miss our friends in utah, so that's is almost the same thing. The adjustment hasn't been too bad, I suppose. We've kept busy. I started homeschooling Jeremiah and Leah because CO schools are better than UT schools, so I don't want J to be as far behind, and the cutoff here is Sept 15 instead of Sept 1, so Miss Leah (born Sept 12) will go to Kindergarten next year, and we need to do two years of preschool in one.

Homeschooling has been great, it's low-key and flexible, plus we don't actually do that much. about an hour and a half everyday, and it gives us something to do.

Other activities lately:

Daily swimming at the pool. yes, one mom, three kids, it works.
Finding new parks
Yay for a Library card again!!!
Picnics
Errands, so many errands.

It's J's birthday tomorrow, so it's the fossil park, movies, macaroni for dinner, and our only friends over for cake and ice cream. J's excited, but he's been telling people he's 6 for a month now.

Oh, and we sold our house. It's done, so we're happy that now we only have one looming mortgage payment ahead. :)

That's the update from here. I'll try to get pictures soon. They may be of a messy apt, because keeping it clean with so much crammed in it seems like a monumentous feat right now. :) Such is life.

Our House

We wish we could just take our house with us, we really do love it, but alas, we can't. So, up on the market it goes. Click HERE for the listing.  Here are some photos.

So if you know anyone interested in buying a great house! Send them our way!!!

Upcoming changes

Radio silence has been due to some upcoming changes in our family. I've explained it so many times that I'm a little tried to hearing the story at this point, so I'll give you the readers digest version:

Greg got a new job, so we'll be selling our house and moving to Fort Collins, Colorado. We've decided to build over there so after we sell our current house, and before the new house is done, we'll be living in a tiny little apartment, it'll be awesome. We feel so blessed to have the opportunity, but very sad to move away from all the people we have come to know and love here in Utah.

Thats the gist. I'll keep you posted as things progress, but if you know anyone in the market for a great little starter home, send them our way!!!

ALSO - if you know of anyone who is selling an older, but still reliable car, truck, van, whatever, and would take under 2k, also send them our way.... Gregs car gave up the ghost and we're really hoping to solve that problem before he has to take our only car to Colorado with him and leave us transportation-less. Thanks!

Halloween 2010

Back in 2010 we only got one set of halloween photos of our family and costumes, but didn't get them until a couple months ago. Jeremiah requested to be a knight in shining armor, Leah a princess, Jeremiah assigned Colette the dragon role, Greg is J's squire, and I am a wicked witch.

Sounds that scare me

There are a few sounds that scare me in my house. Really scare me:

water running

chairs scooting across the floor

silverware in the dishwasher

loud THUMPS

Any of these sounds means something bad is happening.

I hear these sounds daily.

Bangs

You know there is only 1 reason for a 3 year old to all of a sudden have bangs.

Christmas in February

I know Christmas as in December, but I just found these pictures and realized I didn't post about Christmas yet. SO here are a bunch of random - not pretty - pictures of our Christmas morning. The kids didn't know what to think of all the juice pouches, fruit snacks, and raisins. They each got a few toys and some clothes, they loved it. Colette thought that her clothes were blankets and wouldn't let go of them all morning. Greg gave me a puzzle (i'm a nerd), and we spent the next two days working on it. The kids loved helping. Greg began the project of ripping apart our closet and building shelves and actual organization in there. It's a dream come true for us OCD organizational weirdos. That was my christmas gift and I love it.

We got a water cooler for Christmas and Colette carried it around like a basket all day. Pay no mind to her awesome hair. She slept with a pony tail and I took it out that morning. I'm sure she didn't care what she looked like.

Pinterest

Ok. I'll say it. I love Pinterest. But I have a major bone to pick with people who keep pinning pictures like this as "Motivation" or "My Goal":

 and this:

I might not be fighting to be thin, but I GET what it is to have a weight problem. I GET what it is to have an eating problem. And I GET what it is to want my body to look like something it's not. But REALLY???? THIS is what we're shooting for? It breaks my heart to know that this is what we think is normal, and good, and right for us. We should NOT be putting up posters all over the walls of our minds of the 1% of women who have bodies like that. How is that supposed to make us feel? Come on ladies!?!?!?!?! What happened to real women, women who took care of their bodies because they wanted to be strong, not because they wanted to look like the 1%. Who cared more about what their bodies could DO than what they looked like.

We get enough false and degrading messages from the media, and society, we do NOT need to give them to ourselves.  I loved this article in the NY Times about the real goal we should have for our bodies.

Winter Wonderland

First, an apology: Long story short - old camera died - I'm not smart enough for my "new" camera yet - Haven't wanted to post bad pictures. But at this point.... I've just got to accept that it is what it is. So, Here are the photos for the last little while. Enjoy!

 sorry, too lazy to go back and turn that picture.