Hello from Sunny Colorado!

Well - we made it - we are officially here in Colorado and in our house... not exactly settled, but here! We are still surrounded by boxes.... :) Dan and I's bedroom is still carpet-less (should be in by Tuesday... hopefully...) So we have been unable to un-pack our bedroom stuff and unable to pack the stuff that will go in the room that our bed is in for now.We took a trip to the zoo with Grandma and Grandpa Cox before we left - the kids had tons of fun feeding the birds, petting the animals and hanging out with Grandma and Grandpa. We rode the Carousel - which the girls love - but Aaron did NOT! I ended up needing to stand with my arms around him until it stopped. Aaron loved petting the goats and anything else he could touch!
So Saturday morning the kids and I packed up into the van and took off for Colorado. The drive took a bit longer than anticipated - since I kept missing turn offs - for some reason - they aren't marked very well.... So after a long but mostly uneventful drive - we arrived safely and began our life as Coloradans (or whatever...)


One of our first things to do was get Eileen registered for school - since it had long since started here. So Wednesday, Eileen started her first day of school! Here she is all dolled up in her pink pants and pink backpack and purple (because i couldn't find pink) lunchbox. She has already made friends in school, but I think she is in a bit of a rowdy class which she doesn't like.
So our week has mostly been full of un-packing and trying to get settled in (as much as possible) my greatest accomplishment has been to make our kitchen functioning - enough that we got bread made this weekend.
We have also gotten to see a lot of Great Grandpa - he has been a bit help in entertaining the kids and letting me get stuff done - and we also went over to visit him yesterday and went swimming in his pool. The kids had a great time - but were shivering and freezing any time they got out of the pool!
We have loved the difference in the weather. Everyone here is complaining that it is too hot and miserable - our family thinks it's perfect... LOL - after coming from 104 degree weather and 80-90% humidity, this feels almost like fall weather!! LOL

We are having a bit of a hard time adjusting to the dryness - lots of little (and not so little) discomforts - we hope we adjust soon - Aaron and Evie are both a bit sick and Aaron is coughing a lot - we finally went out and got him a humidifier - but it only helps at night. We are having to make a conscious effort to drink more water and we are using lots of lotion and chapstick. :)

So that has been the last two weeks for us.

Our Texas ward turned out in force to help us off - we had tons of ladies to help pack and clean on Thursday and Friday and tons of men to help us load the truck on Friday night. Plus a bunch of my friends took me out to dinner Friday night. We are going to miss that ward - but we are looking forward to new friends to be made.

Until next week!