Well well well...so here we are. New house, new city, new start! We are out in Boulder. Yes, we have moved again. We have been very very busy between new jobs and a new house. Ken is doing the Mr Mom thing for right now and I am back to work. I found a great marketing position at a firm in Denver that has offices around the world. It fit me exactly and after many different things in recent months, it was time for a fresh start. So why Colorado? Why not!
But seriously, we decided that we needed to make a city our own instead of being known for the family. The job was a tipping point, but we have been looking out here for a while. We still have both houses in Louisville...the original is still for sale with three price drops. It is definitely not a sellers market. Not with our luck anyway.
By the way, the picture above is the new house. 7 much needed bedrooms. Katie is still in Louisville finishing up her degree. She has applied out here for grad school and will be out here in a couple of weeks to join us. I am soooooooo grateful for her! How wonderful to find someone so committed to our family. She is excited from what I can see and I think she seems to be excited for the adventure. I have double and triple checked with her that this was going to be ok, because as much as I would love to have her a part of our family as our nanny (if you can even call her that anymore) forever, I have to face the reality that she is pursuing a graduate degree for a reason, not just to be able to be our nanny for the next 10 years. Although we would love that too. I feel like she is one of our kids and I consistently feel so proud of her and what she has accomplished and her aspirations for the future.
Ken and I are doing well. A breath of fresh mountain air has given a new life to the work that we are doing on our marriage. We have family out here, but we are essentially on our own out here so we are really having to rely on each other. Being that he is home with the kiddos for right now, he has a new found respect for what I was doing when he was working....which I think has been helpful as well. I REEEEEEALLY want to do the whole "told you so" routine with him talking about how hard it is with the brood. But I won't... I say it in my head though on a regular basis though.
Gia is become quite the photog now. After coming along with me to shoots, she thinks that she is a model or will say "mommy picture, picture mommy" everywhere we go. She turned two soon after we got out here, so we are officially in the terrible twos! And that is a serious understatement. It's almost terrifying to see how spoiled she thinks she is now. Absolute fits when she doesn't get what she wants. I think a lot of it is being in a big family and having to compete for attention. We try for that to not be the case, but with four, it is just not possible to be everywhere all at once. She also has had tubes put in since the last time I wrote. NO MORE EAR INFECTIONS!!
Jackson absolutely loves the new house. It is kind of a big circle in the downstairs, so its a race track for him to "run" around. He loves to chase the dogs around the track too.
Noah has gone completely mute. He was a chatterbox and then about a week before we moved, we get NOTHING. I called one of my sorority sisters because she is a speech therapist and she said not to worry because it is probably just in reaction to the move. Violet has made up the difference though. I don't know if it is the twin connection, or if it is just her playing "mom" but she talks FOR him, pretty much what he would tell us anyway. I am worried, but she assured me that its okay.
I need to get to bed. Even with the day off tomorrow, I have a ton to do! Hope everyone is doing well. I am exhausted!
