We Are Texans Again

Not that we weren't Texans before, so I guess I should say we are Texans living in Texas again.

 

Not much to report. 

Trying to get set up in our rent house, trying to get the kids in school.

 

 

I either forgot how many people live in Houston or they've had a huge influx of residents.  I almost started crying in HEB (the grocery store) yesterday.  It was so crowded it was like the day before Thanksgiving, but apparently that's how it is all the time.

 

 

We've been wearing shorts since we got here, I also forgot that you sweat during the winter months.

I remembered when I broke into a flop sweat doing the laundry.

 

 

I'm also predicting Kyle will break his arm before we move out of this house. 

(He loves climbing the trees and has already fallen out and landed on his head.)

Fashion Fabulous Friday on Saturday

 

 

 

Lap fur never goes out of style!

These People Are 6 Today

You can't really tell 5 year olds turning 6 that now's not a good time for their birthday, and can we postpone it a week or two?

 

 

You also can't fake them out by telling them January 7th hasn't come yet, and that it's in a few weeks.

 

 

I tried plan #3 and said, "Why don't you invite a friend and I'll take y'all out to lunch?"

After they named half their class as friends they just had to take to lunch, I went ahead and just threw them a party.

 

 

It was the same exact party they had last year (at our rec center in the gymnastics area), but I had no time or energy for originality this year.

Poor Jason didn't even get to come since he was home with the packers/movers. 

 

 

Here are their party guests.

 

 

And here they are happy to be the center of attention. 

(I get points for getting them each their own cake, right?)

 

Kyle had a fishing cake (I call it the "Fishing with Freddie" cake).

And Reed picked out bowling  (The bowling with Granny cake).

 

 

 

And they got to do this

And this

so everybody was happy.

So You Might Have Heard

When it comes to Jason's job and the rumors and the maybes of moving here, there, and beyond, I've always been told, "don't tell anybody anything until the moving truck shows up."

 

 

Well, there's definitely a moving truck outside my door and my house looks like this...so I'm guessing it's pretty safe to say we are going back to Houston.

Though we are happy to be near our families again in Houston, we have loved every second of living in Denver.  We have loved our house (it's our favorite of all our houses), our neighborhood, the kids' school, our church, we even love the weather.

And of course, we have really enjoyed our friends here.

 

We have all had a wonderful time.

Thank you, Denver (specifically Broomfield) for being so good to us!

 

I will always look back on our time on Gunnison Way with happiness. 

Such good, good memories here.

 

(Oh and if you were curious, Jason is still working for the same company, but he's now the VP of sales for North America which is a job they want based out of Houston.)

Fashion Fabulous Friday- NYE

These two looked like this on NYE since they were too young to be in the Crested Butte kids' torchlight parade. (Kyle went into hysterics when he found out there was a parade he couldn't be in.)

The torchlight parade is very cool. The paraders ride the ski lift up at dusk and then ski down with torches when it gets dark.  (Don't worry the kids' torches were really glow sticks.)

 

 

 As a parade participant, JR looked like this.  (It looked way better in real life.)

First Class Travel

We went back to Crested Butte to celebrate the New Year.

 

The kids were slightly excited when we told them. 

Reed left me this drawing to let me know we needed to get in the car and go.

(Although that's JR's handwriting.)

It was easy to get Scott's parent's house this summer, but this winter was a different story.

You can't get to their house by car, you have to snowmobile in.

 

 

If you were wondering how we got all our stuff to their house on a snowmobile here's the picture.  You have to load everything in a sled and drag it up.

 

You can see all the cars in the background because that's as far as you can go on the road. From there it's foot, skis, snowshoes, or snowmobile.

Look at me being all wild west winter woman!

We could have just snowmobiled up to the house and called it a vacation.

The kids pretty much thought it was the most awesome thing ever.

2013 Blogdown Cliptacular

Here it is.

Our annual year in review.

(Disclaimer: As always, not all clips are necessarily the best or most exciting thing of that month.)

 

 

January

We thought it'd be a great idea to go skiing when it was -15.

 

 

 

February

Kyle, Reed, and I saw Phineas and Ferb Live while the bigger guys went hunting.

 

 

 

 

March

I went to a cooking class. (It didn't help.)

 

 

 

April

Kyle has the best celebration of a scored goal. Ever.

 

 

 

May

JR turned 10. I think he's still trying to celebrate.

 

 

 

June

JR might have had a birthday, but I certainly did not.

 

 

 

July

The new obsession.

 

 

 

August

My new favorite picture of all time was taken.

 

 

September

You might have heard. We had a flood.

 

 

 

October

JR won his first elected position.

 

 

 

November

We learned more about Jason than we wanted too.

 

 

 

December

JR kicked out Kyle's tooth and I had elves, a fat man, reindeer, and a fairy in and out of my house in one night!