Winter

Apparently fall has passed us by, as it so often does here and it’s winter.  I say that and it’s expected to be close to 60 today, but again this is Colorado and it does these rapid swings year round.  Remember me needing to turn on the heat in July it was so cold?

Here are some pictures of trees I took yesterday burdened by all the ice and snow.  Our trees seemed to have fared ok and only the Aspen in these pics (last one) is ours.

It looks like now that I updated the theme, I’ll need to start posting in 3s to keep things looking clean.

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5-0

After this afternoon’s game against the Patriots, the Broncos are now 5-0! They’re off to an awesome start and I hope they keep it up! I’m already putting my Super Bowl hopes on them!  I have to admit that the anniversary old school uniforms were messing me up today.  I mean brown and yellow?  At least when I was watching the Kansas City v. Dallas game the colors were at least the same.

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Phone pics

Since Casey’s been gone, pics are easily uploadable to Facebook, and we can now send picture messages with our phones I’ve been using my phone a lot more lately to take pictures.  More so than my regular camera in fact.  Of course most of the pics are still of Brady but I’m not apologizing for that.  Here’s an upload of some of the better ones from my phone to get me caught up on posting them.  I think these start at the beginning of August and the most recent one is from today.

Caution: there are A LOT of pictures in this post – 67 in fact on 4 pages, if you’re using the arrows to scroll through the pics, you’ll need to click keeping reading or the page number to see them all.

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Good Intentions

So every time I plan on blogging, something happens to distract me from doing it. The other day I was going to do it from my phone and the app kept failing and I used THAT as my excuse. Maybe I should set up a calendar reminder so it gets done? I think I’ve been even more lax than usual (other than current stresses and happenings) is all because of Facebook. A great deal of you are on there too and as opposed to writing a long rambling post (as I often find myself doing when I finally do post) I just write little tidbits here and there pretty much keeping everyone up on the goings on. I realize this isn’t going to suffice longer. One of the reasons I like having a blog is to document the happenings of our life and Brady’s milestones and events and all of that and that just hasn’t been happening. And I never bought a baby book because I had the intention of scrapbooking one (and that hasn’t happened yet either) so I need someway to help me remember all of this. Tomorrow is the 7 (gasp) year anniversary of this blog and is as good a time as any to make a more concentrated effort to post. Keep me accountable!

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Through yesterday

Pics from the beginning of the month through yesterday – enjoy!

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMOdbc1A-Y0

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For Sale

As of Thursday, our house was officially on the market. Well the contract with our realtor was signed, but it wasn’t until Friday that it was on MLS and sign was in our yard. Like an hour after the sign was out, one of our neighbors walked down here and asked how much we were selling our house for and telling us they had the same floor plan and were looking for their sister-in-law. Thus far, we’ve had two showings, one on Saturday and another last night. We’ve gotten positive feedback from both showings saying that our house showed like a model and was priced appropriately. Unfortunately we haven’t received an offer from either of the showings – the first people wrote a contract on a house for $15K less and there was some talk today that they weren’t qualified for the amount of our house and the other people have only seen our house and one other thus far so had just started looking.  I suppose we’re not doing too badly considering the photographer just came out this afternoon.  Now our house is listed on the local MLS and will be on Realtor.com and other sites as of tomorrow.  I know I value pictures when I’m looking at properties and I’m sure others do too!

I’m praying right now that our house sells quickly and for the highest amount possible so we can get on with things and not be apart from Casey any longer than absolutely necessary. If you pray, please remember us in your prayer; if you don’t, send some positive thoughts our way – we need all the help we can get!

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Happenings

Our impromptu vacation last week to Austin, San Antonio, and Kansas City ended up being quite successful! Casey was asked to interview for a company based in San Antonio (but the position would be in Austin) which is what spawned the trip. Since Casey was heading down to Texas anyway and we hadn’t had a vacation in awhile, we decided to pack up the car and make the most of the trip visiting with friends in Texas and family in Kansas City. Casey’s interview was originally supposed to be for 2 positions (1 in Austin for 2 hours and the one in San Antonio for an hour) but he ended up only interviewing for the position in Austin for 4 hours and received a job offer on Thursday! We’re busy getting the house cleaned and last minute updates done before hopefully getting it listed early next week! So the big news in our life is that we’re ATX bound (hopefully to soon be joined by the rest of the fam)!

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Road Trip

We just got back on Sunday from 8 days spent in Austin, San Antonio, and the Kansas City area.  A more detailed post to come, but for now I leave you with pictures.  Since having Brady I’ve become really horrible at taking pictures of people other than her.  I need to start carrying my camera with even around town because I’ve noticed I’m seriously lacking on pics of her with other people!

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Landscaping

After many days filled with drama, tumult, and even more money our front and back yards have been landscaped.  We had to get new sod in the front because a fungus was causing the grass in our yard to die and topical solutions were not doing the trick.  Then our section of yard on the street side was overcome with weeds (LOTS of thistle and clovers) and we had gotten a letter from our HOA complaining and demanding action.  We figured while we were at it, we might as well get sod put in the side yard (previously the dog run) because our two previous attempts at seeding the area proved unsuccessful.  It’s finally done and we’re mostly pleased with the results.  Hopefully the sod can take root before winter comes in and kills it.

Before and after pics below.

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