Getting Settled

We are almost a month in to Colorado living and getting settled. Will started school and loves it and he also started skating classes so that he can play ice hockey. I feel like Gisele Bunchen and Tom Brady. Ha!
Last week Pikes Peak got it's first snow and yesterday it was shrouded in clouds and rain but when the clouds parted this morning we were graced with this beauty. Now do you see why my wish list includes a view? Our friends who have lived here 5 years say that when the peak gets that much snow (apparently it's over 2 feet) that we, the minions living down below, get snow within 3 weeks. O.M.G.

I'm meeting our real estate lady this morning to look at a few houses. We still dont know if we want trees and a little land or if we want cookie cutter homes with sidewalks and more kid options. It's a tough decision. But we have lots of time.

Amazed at God's Timing

“...I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” John 10:10 NIV. This one always gets me thinking. Especially after I've read Waking the Dead by John Eldridge. "Life to the full" what a wonderful declaration. God wants us me to enjoy my life. He built in my family the desire to be outside, to see the snow fall, to ski, to hike to hunt, to fish to do all things outdoor. To look at the front range mountains in awe. To drive down the road and see random rock formations and just think to ourselves "how the heck did those get there?" For our young son to declare, "Look at Pike's Peak today, Mom!"

Last night I received news that left me with my jaw hanging open and a sign that I am in THE right state at the most needed time. I have a friend I have known for 15 years who has been struggling with anorexia and I was told has been in the psych ward for the last month because she tried to end her life. This is a wonderful wife and mother of 3 young children and these demons have been with her for so long and they are winning. They are stealing her life. Her joy. Her very existence. She has demons that have demons and has now reached a low enough point that her freakin insurance will kick in to help her battle her addiction. But here's where it gets jaw dropping for me - as I said, I've not known about any of this drama in the last month and last night I find out she's being transferred to an inpatient facility in DENVER. Denver. Really!? I've been across the country for the last 15 years and now I"m less than an hour from her. You can't be serious. I know, right? 

So in the midst of her fear and anxiety and the fact that her husband has told me that nobody will be able to visit her - here I am. In the exact state I am needed at the exact time I am needed. 

Jesus... comes to give life and life more abundantly. God still cares for this young woman. Her story is not over. And I am living proof to her that He cares. You are loved friend. YOU.ARE.LOVED.

Week One Down

We've survived our first week as Coloradan's. Funny, I thought it would be Colordians for some reason. Spell check doesn't even like that word. Ha! Probably because I made it up ;)

The weather here is awesome so far. I see why summer is everyone's favorite. 80 degrees with a breeze and no humidity... no more to say on that one! We went on a 5 mile hike today to Palmer Lake Resevoir and ate our picnic lunch. Our apartment is feeling less cramped. On the plus side, I cleaned the entire thing in 30 minutes. LOL.

Our apartment overlooks the entire front range. Oh yeah, I could get used to this view. Don't even try to put me in a house when I've been able to stare at this for 7 months. Hopefully it won't be 7 months till we find a house but you get the idea.

Update 8/5/2016

After driving for two days and coming across the plains in Kansas and heading up Business Route 70 to come over the hill and see the first Coloradan rock formations in the distance makes this whole thing feel surreal. Like we're actually going to live here? I still can't believe we are doing this.

 

 

That sucked- Date 8/4/2016

To be a grown woman and to back out of the driveway while your parents are crying because you are taking their grandson and moving across the country to try and follow your dreams - was really hard. What am I doing that's making my parents cry? Why am I doing something that's making them sad enough to cry? My dad never cries unless someone dies. I really hope this adventure is wonderful and I hope that my parents will come visit and that we will be able to get Will to come back and visit them. I am glad that we are getting the opportunity to try and go for our dream and if it doesn't work out we can come back - I don't want to come back but we have the ability to come back if that's not what we were hoping it would be.

Well....

AHHHHHHH. We have movers coming tomorrow to pack up everything we are taking to the apartment and then we've got the "REAL" movers booked. Holy cow! Whoops.. guess I should back up and say we are under contract again but with a different couple and not for as good as an offer as the first ones. I'm sure these people will back out for some reason too. I've lost all faith in the real estate contract whatever the heck I'm trying to say. So for now, we are leaving Atlanta with a contract but we will see once we get to Colorado if that contract is still in place. If its not than we may be better off in the way that we can get our moving quote cheaper after September 15th as well, we are now (drumroll please) the least expensive house in the neighborhood for sale. I never thought I would have a hard time trying to sell this house. Who would have thought. Oh wait, my husband, that's who. BLAH