Recap

I guess I should update y'all on our life since we've been in Colorado. I tried to keep it brief, but I failed. I had a lot of stuff to cover. I would suggest maybe going section by section. Take your time, it's not going anywhere.

The Move
We were so blessed to have help moving out here from my mom and her husband, David. Yes, we both married men named David. To keep it simple, her husband will be referred to as Big Dave. Anyways, we spent our last night in Lubbock on our sweet friend's, Evan and Kelly's, futon, with our two cats locked in the bedroom with us. They had spent all day locked in that room while we packed the truck and cleaned our apartment. Belle, or Big Mama as David calls her, cried all night long. By 4am we were fed up. So we put her in her carrier and locked her in her car until we rolled out at 6:30am.
David and I traveled in the car while my mom and Big Dave drove the Penske truck, towing my car. They left about an hour ahead of us, and we passed them somewhere in New Mexico. David and I got to our new home in Aurora, Colorado and had enough time to check into our apartment, get the inspection done, and take a brief nap on the floor. Then, the Penske truck rolled in around 3, and we got to work. We had the whole place unpacked and set up by lunch the next day. I left out around 5:30pm to go stay with my old dance teacher, Jessie, and her baby for the night in Colorado Springs, and that is when the unpacking for the day stopped.

This is Jessie and her sweet daughter, Heather Faith. Check out their story here. Such an amazing story and testament of faith.

1st Week Adventures
Our first week in Colorado was super eventful, and exhausting. We went and checked out downtown Denver- 16th Street Mall to be exact- and stayed in my Uncle's apartment out there for a night. Then we adventured north of Denver and explored Red Rocks. Super cool place. It's an outdoor amphitheater, but is seems as though it's the free gym for Coloradans. Everyone there was running up and down, and across, and lunging, and crunching, and crawling, and skipping, etc. It was insane.
On July 3rd, we headed out to Breckenridge to see our sweet friends, the Trompeters. They had rented a condo for July 4th and were having some family bonding time. We are basically part of the family, so it was only natural we were there ;) We got to go out on a sailboat and watch the fireworks on the lake July 4th. One of the best fireworks shows I've ever seen. Our group got split in two, and the people who went on the other boat had quite the adventure. Let's just say their captain was a little high, and really drunk.

July 5th, we drove my mom and Big Dave to the airport, went home to do laundry and rest for about two hours, then we headed up to Estes Park to see David's best friend and his family. We went hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park and drove the road that is over 12,000 feet in elevation- scary, but super cool.
Finally, we went home and slept. A lot. For me at least. Then the job hunting began.

Shorter Life Updates
David works for the church in the youth department while attending Denver Seminary as a full time student. I volunteer with the high school youth on Sunday nights and will start leading a small group, next week, on Wednesday nights.
I work at a child development center, no longer in the potty training room (!). We will see what this change holds for me. I'm going to stick it out through Christmas then reevaluate everything then.

We put our sweet baby boy, Baghera, down two weeks ago. He had tumors in his chest cavity and one was pushing on his airway, making it very difficult to breathe. I'm definitely missing having my little purr-er and snuggler around. He was also super fun to shave :)








We hiked a fourteener with a group of kids from the church. Talk about knee pains that night and the next morning. I had to take aspirin and ice my knees as I fell asleep.

Making friends has been slow. I'll talk about this in more depth in another post. But it's happening! We did have a breakdown about a month ago. Both of us cried our eyes out. We definitely miss our friends and community back in Lubbock.

We have joined a young married's group and went to a Halloween party two weeks ago where all of the young married's groups got together. Our group did a theme of Holidays and David and I were Thanksgiving. It was great! We've been teaching them all of our games, and they love them! Not signs though. I hate signs. I refuse to teach them that one.
David survived midterms and is in the process of writing all of his end-of-the-year papers and beginning to prepare for finals.

I have picked up new hobbies, more intensely I guess. Blogging, obviously. Working out. I did this before, but I'm taking it more seriously. I'm actually lifting weights. Crafts and decorating our house. I keep getting cut off from doing this though. It seems that decorating the house and doing crafts actually costs money. Who would have thought. I think that's all for right now. I do want to pick up photography. I figure we live in a beautiful place, I might as well document it, right? We'll see if that one actually happens though.

I think that's all for right now. Thanks for enduring and reading this lengthy thing and catching up on our lives!