I am finally posting a blog...the first since October! Maybe in the new year things will settle down for us. No promises.

JD & I are celebrating our 9th anniversary today! Woohoo!! We've been blessed.

Addison has pink eye, but seems to be on the mend. Hopefully Ayden won't fall prey as well.

I'd say we are about 75% settled in the new house. We've just started hanging things on the walls. The goal is to get all the windows measured in the next day or two so we can retire all the temporary shades before the new year. Our master bedroom is undergoing a transformation. We moved our other furniture to the guest room and bought new stuff for our room including a king-sized platform bed. Now we're just waiting for the mattress and bedding to arrive. I'm super excited!

You can see the mountains from all our west-facing bedrooms upstairs. JD & I both have a thing for the mountains. They are BEAUTIFUL!

My family will be joining us here at the house for Christmas and JD's parents and brother are coming up for a New Year's visit. We're really looking forward to being with everyone over the holidays. However, it will be sad to not be with all the Karys and Thomases this year too ~ we miss you guys and all our other comrades up in Canada!

JD's GreenTent work is going very well. One of his co-workers, Josh, his wife Hannah, and their son Elijah have relocated to Colorado as well. It's been fun hanging out and getting to know them better. How nice to already have good friends just minutes away.

The snow has come and gone but will surely return. Not sure if we will have a white Christmas or not.

Hopefully before long we will have lots of pictures to post from the past many months. There is much catching up to do!