Making Up

Myles is really making up for the first 2.5 months of his life. :) It always felt like he was so sweet, but his stomach or reflux or whatever it was, was just working him over. Poor dude. Now, he is such a smiley and content baby. He is usually my little side kick wherever I go. I'm starting to find my groove with managing three kids. That's mostly me realizing to let a lot of things go. The house is not spotless, a lot of days my kids look homeless (me too, for that matter) and there are not many gourmet meals being prepared. However, I find a great deal of happiness and my own contentment in my life by letting those other things go.

Swim Lessons

I felt like Luke was really starting to get the concept of swimming in Boise when we were swimming every day. I was excited to sign Luke and Emma up for swim lessons in Colorado. These were their first official swim lessons. Luke loved it and is ready to skip the next level. It was a lot of fun to watch him enjoy it as much as he did. Emma's experience wasn't as positive. After she went under water, not once, but twice on the first day and I was the one that had to bring it to others' attention to grab her, she was not digging swim lessons. I try to have the mentality of "get back on the horse and ride," but not this time. She is still young and loves the water. I want to keep it that way. We'll give it another go for Emma in a few months.

Favorites

A few of my "favorites" right now:

• This view from our house
• Afternoon thunderstorms 
• Fun part of the neighborhood with kids similar in age
• Perfect hill on our street for the plasma cars or any of their bikes, scooters, trikes, etc

Happy Father's Day!

We're extremely grateful to claim Bryan as our own. The kids love when he comes home from work and it's "wrestle time." They also enjoy going on hikes and anything outdoorsy with him. I was under the weather this Father's Day, but Bryan didn't complain and just rolled with our low-key celebration. The kids' favorite part of the night was homemade ice cream. Yum!

Catching Up

It has been so fun to catch up with our friends here. We love that the kids picked up right where they left off with their buddies. Myles made the rounds of meeting all of the new-to-him faces. He acted like he's known them his whole life, a whopping 4 months. :)

Our New Home

…well, sort of. We are renting a home until we decide what we would like to purchase or build. We didn't want to feel any pressure or rush in making this decision. As we unpack boxes, we're quickly realizing that we have too much stuff!
I need to give a huge shout out to multiple friends that have watched our kids, done my grocery shopping, provided meals, let us crash with them overnight and have just taken care of us since the moment we arrived. Rather than rattle off a list of names and inevitably forgetting someone, you know who you are and I can't thank you enough. But, I'll say it just a few more times, Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Let the unloading begin…

Hmmm, where to put all of this stuff???

One of my saintly friends, Elizabeth, packing in my groceries. 

Miraculous timing, I got to see Jess! They were on their way to Utah and I got to be one of her lucky stops along the way. Not only did I get to cry and laugh with her about life, but she totally took baby Myles so I could unpack.

It was challenging to unpack when I had little "helpers" around every corner. :)

*We've now been in the house for almost three weeks and I feel like I know where almost everything is…and if I don't, it must not be that important!

Colorado or Bust!

Let's do this!

After logging as much time as we did in the car, I felt like I should do a blog post or pin something to Pinterest about "How to road trip 20 + hours in the car with a 4-year-old, 2-year-old and 4 month old." Want to know my secrets to even enjoying the time in the car??? MOVIES with headphones for the kids, SNACKS and more snacks and lots of games of "I spy." I don't think that list will make the Pinterest creativity cut. I didn't even make one thing by hand, not even the snacks. :)

I almost started crying when I saw this sign.  So happy to be headed back to what feels like home.

I took pictures of the kids sleeping to try and help me remember the positive parts of the last leg of the journey. :) Actually, everyone did really well, including Myles. I spent a lot of time next to him, but he has come a loooonnng ways with tolerating the car seat. It ended up taking us close to 10 hours because we hit Denver traffic-I haven't missed that! 

It almost felt surreal when we arrived in 'Colorful Colorado.' 

It's great to be back.