Shuffle

We've been in a bit of a shuffle for the past two weeks. We left Houston 2 weeks ago and came on a whirlwind house hunting trip in Denver. We looked in a few areas and decided we liked the area really close to my Aunt Nancy's house best. Hope she doesn't mind having us live close by! Aunt Nancy and her fam were gracious enough to be our home base as we sped around down looking at just about every house in our price range. She got out a whole bunch of little boy toys and watched Tate most of the day for us. He was in heaven with all the new toys and big boy cousins to play with too! It was torture coming back to the hotel every night. Luckily, Glenn had a new game on his phone to keep him entertained.

My mom flew out the next day to help with the boys and she spent some time seeing houses with us too. It was nice to have her opinion since all the houses were starting to blur...and look a little disappointing at that point. We just can't afford near as much here as we did in Houston. I knew that was the case, but it was still a little disappointing.

The last day we found two good options in our range. One was a foreclosure with a killer price which, upon further investigation, we found already had 5 offers on it. The other was a really cute house with lots of personality and little details. It's nothing like my home in Houston, but it felt the best by far of our options here. We decided to think on it and see it when we got back to town.

The next day the little boys and I flew to Utah with my mom to spend a week with my family while Glenn flew to Houston and supervised the movers packing up our house. He was such a trooper and insisted that the boys and I get out of town while it was all being packed. It would have been super stressful to be there, juggling the kiddos, and watching all our things being packed away.

We spent a great week in Utah with my family. Aubry brought the girls over a lot and Tate and Mya were instant buddies. They played all day together without any issues at all. We could hear them giggling and laughing at each other down stairs all day long. This is "exercising". They did a lot of "exercising".

Playing/hiding in the teepee was another fav. Tate called it the DVD for the first half of the week. "Let's go play in the DVD, Mya!"

It was wonderful. He was just SO happy every time she came over. It was a very relaxing week. We did a little shopping. Mom showed us this darling vintage toy store. I wanted to buy absolutely everything...but I didn't. We had a fun Valentine's day complete with delicious cookies from Flour Girls and Dough Boys. Mmmm, so good!We went out to lunch, made yummy dinners at home, had a little birthday evening for Tate, and took a trip to Cabellas. Tate loved the huge fish. There's so much to see at Cabellas. The kiddos have a really good time. This time Grampa took Tate to the shooting gallery. Turns out Tate really likes the shooting gallery.

Mya, on the other hand, was not so sure about all the loud noises and crazy things moving around. Lucky for me, I had fruit snacks which meant I got to be the favorite aunt for a minute and some snugs to boot!

I love watching my family with my little boys. Of course, I love to see my family and have great conversations with them while I'm home. But I also love to see them play with my kids. Grampa told Tate some great bed time stories. He makes up the best stories. Always has. Nanna played marbles and cars with them. And of course, there were plenty of snuggles to be had. Auntie Mallo came down from Logan for the weekend to hang with us and got in her fair share of snugs too. It was a wonderful week and went way too fast, as always.

Last Sunday we flew back to Denver. It was my first time flying with both kids by myself and I'm happy to report that it went very smoothly. It was a crazy short flight and both boys were very well-behaved.

We got moved in to our corporate apartment (pictures to come), and then went house hunting again yesterday because Glenn had the day off. Aunt Nanc watched the boys again (THANKS NANCY!) and we looked at a bunch of houses, including our favorite from last week. We had just a couple of options we felt good about, but we ended up putting an offer on our favorite that night. They countered yesterday and now we're under contract! SO fast. I'm still reeling from adjusting to having 2 kiddos, and now we're in a new city, new apartment, and buying a new house. It's nuts.

I'm adjusting slowly to this place. I want to get my feet underneath me before we move out of the city. There are so many cool things we can explore while we live right in the middle of Denver and I don't want to miss any of it. We bought a double stroller yesterday so that will help my confidence getting out with two littles, I hope.