Coming up on 2 years

I cannot believe we are about a week away from celebrating our 2nd Anniversary. While this will be a busy week leading up to our annual Labor Day Weekend in Estes Park, and the celebration of our second anniversary, I am very excited about what all this will mean for us this weekend.

Estes Park has long been a sanctuary, a retreat for my family. And now I am able to share that experience with my husband and the kiddos. What a rare and wonderful treat to pass along the tradition to my own family. I never thought I would be able to do that. And since Titus and I weren't alone in getting married, Madi & Abe were there with us, as a family on that wedding day, it is a joy to have them celebrate that side of the weekend as well.

As for our actual anniversary, I have no elaborate plans. We will spend our budget on the trip. But I do have a special gift in the plans, if I find the time to make it happen. My husband is to great to not honor in some special way.

As for now - I will return to work (lunch time is over) and continue plotting and blogging later.

Settling In

July brought us many more changes. With a bittersweet heart we moved our lives from a two-home family to a one home family. Titus got a new job in Kearney and we moved all of our belongings from Bridgeport and our Arapahoe apartment into a home in the country west of town about eight miles.

Mostly we are settled in. After five weeks of unemployment and driving my husband and family nuts, I am now working at a great church. It is very similar to where I worked before. In many ways I feel like I have come back home...minus the mountains.

Last night I walked down our driveway and looked up at the night sky. Stretched before me was a dark expanse of sky littered with stars. I just stood there, rotating around in every direction marveling at the beauty just above my head. We never saw stars like that living in town. And they are there every night for us just outside our front door.

And there is beauty all around our place. Just look at some of the pictures taken by Madi & I at the amazing beauty just outside our door.