Quick visit to Garden of the gods

At Garden of the gods.  The sky wasn't blue today. The boys really liked climbing so I'll have to watch that.  Some of these pics look a little scary but no one was actually on the edge of anything high. It just looks that way in the pictures.

Picture update

So busy and trying to get settled here in CO. But here are some recent pics....

Taken by Jackson of course.

Kylie in my sunglasses

Off to Colorado!

Kylie getting brave. 

Pretty view

A visit to Adventures in Odyssey

Sisters

Pretty hair courtesy of Ms Shara

Sunday nap

Fixing hair

Egg hunt

And then a few Easter pics. Kendall was not really cooperating...

Big Move

I've done a terrible job of keeping up with the blog - but we've had a lot going on!

At the end of January Jared and I flew out to Colorado to look into a job possibility for Jared.  It's a long story but in the end he was offered the job and we decided to make the move.

This began the long process of making the move, making plans, finding a place to live, etc.  Jared worked a week from home and then headed out to Colorado Springs for 2 weeks to work and find a place for us to live.  I stayed home and fed the baby and did school and fed the baby and packed and fed the baby and looked online at houses and fed the baby and worked and fed the baby - among other things :) God has been very gracious though in giving us Kendall and right about the time Jared left she started sleeping 12 hour stretches at night which helped me out a lot!

So much happened Janurary through March it is impossible to remember it all!

After finally getting everything finished we made the move on April 1.  Just a couple days before that one of our vehicles died so we had to get rid of it. We had a lot of trouble getting or car out here but it has arrived.  We used all but one foot of our truck which was making me nervous for a while.

Houses here are very different than in NC but Jared found a great one for a great price that is very convenient.  Our plan was to stay there on air mattresses until the truck arrived - which was supposed to be 3-5 business days.  It looks like it will be more like a week.  

Instead,a very sweet couple from Jareds's office invited us to live with them while we waited.  They have space in their home available for when all their kids come to visit so we took it over and it has worked out really well.  Kylie has been excited to share a room with Kendall during this time.  They have been so much fun and so generous.  It's so nice to sleep in a bed, have things to use, do laundry, and they even feed us! So unexpected and such a blessing!

Someone sent some toys for the kids to play with and Jared's office owns a minivan we were able to borrow until ours arrived which was a huge blessing.

We've been cleaning the new place, setting up what we can, grocery shopping and doing normal life.  It snowed one day we were here and Mr Eric and Ms Julie sent Jared and I out on a date while they took the kids sledding! The kids had a blast! 

They also took us to check out the Adventures in Odyssey headquarters at Focus on the Family and the kids had tons of fun.  They have a 3 story curly slide - Jackson went down tons of times!

It's snowing again today but it melts quickly and warms up fast.

The kids and I checked out a Bible Study where they actually have child care for all ages of my kids and we all had a great time and I was able to meet a bunch of people to hopefully get connected.  I'm sure we will have lots more fun adventures. Her are just a very few pics I took along the way....