Here is where the fun begins...

...and by fun I mean complete and utter chaos where I just wanted to crawl into a deep dark hole and never return.


June started off well, because we got to see nearly everyone in Colorado who we love and care about all in a week span.  We did miss a few :-( which totally stunk.

Zachary finished his first year of preschool.

When we were not seeing friends, we were packing.  With all the late nights packing, Paul and I got some pretty great ideas.  Like how about we pull an all nighter and drive up to Kearney, so that we can give Bryce Anne (my sister) our living room furniture and kitchen table for her college house.

Yup. That happened.

It did look really nice in there

This happened too.

Bryce even bought us dinner while she was working

Moral of the story....

....This was basically my life until we moved

On Paul's last night in town, Aunt Lexa came over to babysit and we went to his cousin's wedding.

Let us recap for a moment: 1) Paul has now left. 2) I have no kitchen or living room furniture.  3) The house is only half packed, boxes have now taken the place of our kitchen table.  This was real life people.  Try to imagine it with me....

 ...and I promise it get's SO MUCH BETTER...

2 days after Paul left, I woke up blind in one eye and had to start 5 days of IV steroids! Yes! Just what I wanted.

But wait folks! There is more! Braden decided it would be a great time to bust his eye brow open and get 3 stitches in it!

That was pretty fun.

It wasn't all bad.  I did get to spend some quality time with my boys! And we made the most out of our living situation.

As you can imagine, I couldn't handle it for very long.  My dad flew into Denver to help me finish packing and help move us down.  We got a rental truck, which was too small, so half way through moving day, we had to go get a trailer to have pulled behind the truck.  That was fun.  We were going to sleep on the floor overnight and leave for Texas first thing in the morning, but that is what sane people do.  Us crazies, decided to just drive through the night. 

At this point we have all arrived in Texas, safely, and in 1 piece.  But this is not where the story ends my dear friends....

May 2014

That was the fastest month ever ;-)

I had my last game coaching the best group of girls, ever.  And wouldn't you know it was against Grandview.

We went to another Rockies game, and the big boys got to run the bases after the game.

 We did lots of hanging around.

matching PJs

A friend gave us her sons old baby uggs

I told him he couldn't chew on the cord

And then we drove down to Texas for a visit with my parents and grandparents.  This is where the real "updating" starts I guess.  I will give you the short version...

A few things we knew: 1) Our condo was wayyyy to small.  We outgrew it long before Chase was even born.  2) With my health being so unknown, we had to get closer to my parents, before we were forced into doing something (ie moving) when we were not ready.

Prior to our trip down to Dallas, Paul started applying for jobs like a mad man, and had set up 6 interviews for 3 of the days we were down there.  Within 24 hours of the interview he had offers from every company except 1.  If this wasn't the biggest slap in the face from the universe saying 'now is a good time to move',  I don't know what could be.  We were able to weigh the options of each offer, and make (what we hope is) the best decision for our family.

Top Golf, the coolest place ever.

not as epic as last years 'USA' photo

I promise, everyone was really happy and did have a great time.

So that's that. Paul accepted a job while we were down there, which meant two weeks after we drove home, he had to go back down to start at his new position. 

Now I bet you're really excited to see how June went uh ;-)