A Move and a Holiday all in one week!!

Well I guess it's about time for an update. We finally found us a place to live, barely in time!! Things were a little stressful for awhile. But we now live in a cute little house on the east side of town. Actually right behind where we lived when we were first married. The last weekend in June we went in and cleaned up the place. It was just totally remodeled from the 2x4s in. The owner's cleaner wouldn't have come until Monday or Tuesday and our landlords of our old place, wanted to move their stuff in Wednesday. Which meant we had to be out Tuesday. Saturday and Sunday we cleaned, Monday and Tuesday we moved. And I am so grateful to Selena and Amy helping me out so much!! And to Keith and Bo for helping with all the large stuff. I honestly don't know what we'd do without our great friends and family. When I found out that we had this house I called Selena and she and Amy came down Saturday morning eager to help. And the second Bo found out we were moving (even when we didn't know where to yet) he was all set to help us move yet again. And Keith well, that man is just amazing he is always willing to help somebody anytime. I just want to thank all the people who offered their help. We are blessed to have so many people willing to help us when we need it!!!

Okay so we spent the rest of the week setting the house up. Putting things away, and up on walls, etc. etc. Then Saturday morning all 5 of us headed to Aurora. Amy and Selena back home, Mike, Brooke and I for a visit. We love the 4th there. We spent one year down here and I refuse to ever again. Even Mike prefers there over here (even with all the people that's around... Since he really doesn't like being around a huge group of people). I being the smart little me that I am didn't eat breakfast (which is a no no anyway) beyond a few crackers and also took a vitamin that was 90% iron (which I didn't know). My body doesn't take well to iron. I have no idea why but it always makes me sick. Ironic, that I'm anemic and I can't take iron supplements like I should. Anyway I felt sick all day. Which wasn't good seeing how I was going to be in the sun anyway during most of the day. But luckily for me my usual sun headache didn't achieve it's height it was actually pretty melow. Which was nice.

Ok now I've really made this long. Well since I didn't feel good, I didn't know if we'd stay until it reached night time. And we decided to. We decided not to go to the rodeo that night. Instead we helped put on the fireworks over at my parents' next door neighbors the Chamberlains. Brooke was so exhausted she fell asleep during the middle of the fireworks. Which hasn't happened since she was 1. Sunday Brooke and I went to church with my family. Then afterward we had a great picnic outside with one of my alltime favorite family picnic meats... marinated turkey. Yummy not like I remembered it, but oh so yummy.

Also I was able to see a good friend I haven't seen since we graduated, Julie Miller Burns. I was so excited to see her!!! She about knocked me over from behind and I had no idea who she was at first. She is as beautiful as ever and doing great!!! We were able to catch up a little and enjoy the shade!!

We came back home and have been working on finishing putting everything together in our house. I have been so exhausted this week that I haven't done too much. Lazy I know. But it's practically done minus a few high wall hangings. Oh I have to add... we can have a tall Christmas tree, only this year it can be probably 15' YEAH!!! Skinny but tall!! I am so excited I love tall Christmas trees!!