Moving.

Hey hey hey, I'm back. 

I have so much to catch up on to get my record keeping up-to-date, so I'm going to try to cover it all TODAY. We'll see how it goes.

I'll start with the move.

We're out.

And...
we're in.
It's been exhausting, and we still have a lot o' projects to get done.
We have been living the past couple of weeks with one working bathroom sink + mirror (in the half bath on the main floor), and one working shower (in Mar's bathroom). On Thursday of this week we finally got countertops + working sinks in the master bath and Mar's bath, however we are still mirror-less other than bedroom mirrors leaning against walls. We also have some minor carpet issues, and may need to have it replaced down the road. Bill and I have yet to get the tile started in the master bath shower -- we're shooting for completion in the next couple weeks. We have rearranged furniture too many times to count, have attempted to sell some of our excess (about 50% success rate), unpacked at least a hundred boxes (maybe that's a little exaggeration...? or not), and have taken numerous more Goodwill runs. (I have yet to regret any donations so far... knock on wood.)

I need to repaint Mar's bedroom (AAAUUUUGGGHHH... I am really not good at paint color selection) before we get things hung on her walls and permanently arranged.

I have about 5 more boxes that should go into our combined office/craft room, which is pretty much full. I'll be donating some of that craft stuff to those who have more room to store it {wink}. I found a taker for my container of cross stitch floss and fabric. I even tossed the baby sampler I started for Lo over 21 years ago. It was about 20% complete. I couldn't yet part with my container of glitter, however. I'm sure I can find a good purpose for it... it's so sparkly and beautiful hahahahaha. Mi mamita could tell you how much I loved shiny, sparkly things.
Still do, apparently.

Yesterday I spent the day tailoring my Target curtain panels to the correct length, then ironing and getting them hung. Super glad to have that project accomplished. Bill spent the day installing our new kitchen faucet and getting the kitchen sink in working order (the countertop guys installed but didn't hook up). Then he spent about 3 hours mowing the lawn and pulling a few weeds (the hilarious thing is he told me it would take 30 minutes, since our yard is... smallish). The back lawn was seriously a jungle, and our 15 year old basic-model-purchased-at-Walmart lawnmower had a hard time getting it mowed. Thanks to Bill's efforts, however, our yard looks 100 times better.

As things in the house get a little more put together, I will share pictures.
It's just all a bit messy still.


Now let me skip backwards a couple weeks...
I took a quick trip to UT and got to see these beautiful babes.

Britt and Austin took me to Cupbop for my first time... YUM.

Then we hit a nearby Sweet Tooth Fairy for some sweets.

The next day we were in Payson for Hailey's wedding.
Such a beautiful day.

There's our Billat framily.

In between the wedding and the reception, we met up with Scarlett so Gigi could take her shopping for her upcoming birthday. It was as fun as I had hoped, especially once she had made her selections and was so excited about her gifts.

After a few hours of shopping (Shi shopped for a b-day gift, too), we headed over to Hailey and Matt's reception.

 

I sat next to Wonderful Sweet Scarlett for dinner. She loved the candy table the best {wink}.

I also got to hang out with Evie that evening, but my phone died before getting any pictures.
{Boo.}

I was actually chillin' with Evie when I snapped these pics... the last my phone had juice for that evening.

I drove back to CO on Sunday, moved on Monday (which was much much more stressful than I had anticipated, btw), and had a panic attack Tuesday when I found out the buyers of our Parker home were coming that evening for a walk through (we technically didn't need to be out until Saturday, so I was planning on cleaning AFTER the big move). I sent a plea for help cleaning to a few of my friends (okay, most of my friends, which are only a few haha), who in turn asked a few more people, and I had a crew of people show up to get the Bent Oaks St. house in order. Such a tender mercy. We closed on Wednesday, had multiple graduation parties to attend in Parker on Friday and Saturday, and said our final goodbye to the house Saturday afternoon. 

There may have been tears.

 The following Monday was Memorial Day. Mar had to work later in the day, so we decided to go explore our new town that morning, beginning with the Castle Rock incline... the one I thought we were going to do almost 2 years ago for Labor Day with Jason and Lex (reminder here).

Not only did we find the incline,

the one with 200 steps (not 2744),

we found beautiful views,

and a super fun park with a ropes course, zip lines, a pool, a splash park, a long zigzag slide, tons of covered picnic areas, and lots of fields and grass.

 

And can I mention it's less than 10 minutes from our house??

Monday was also Wonderful Sweet Scarlett's 3rd birthday.
I wish we could have been there for her party!
(which wasn't at Chuck E. Cheese - I think this was pre-party birthday entertainment)

Little Mama had planned a sparkly-unicorn-themed party at their house.
I like sparkles, too {hahahaha}
I can't wait to see pictures!

Friday was Mar's last day of her sophomore year, and last day at Legend High School.

I forgot to snap a picture before she left that morning, so I grabbed one when she got home... after she had spilled some chocolate on her adorable purchased-on-Memorial-Day-at-the-outlets-5-minutes-from-our-house dress. She had tried to wipe it off, to no avail, so just ignore the smudge.

She was in a hurry to get to youth conference, which was going on in our new Stake Thurs/Fri/Sat. Since she had finals Thurs and Fri, she had to catch the activities after school each day. Luckily it was a local YC, and she only had half days at school. She said it was awesome.


Mar's made some new friends, and has even gone on a date with one of them.

Unfortunately (or fortunately) he is headed to college in UT in a couple weeks.


And here are a few of my other favorite snaps from the past few weeks:

We're headed back to UT this weekend (Bill and Mar are coming this time) for Hunter's wedding. I am so excited to see those UT kids, grandkids, parents and family again!
Not as psyched about the long drive, but figure it's totally worth it.