It Was Bound to Happen!

Sooner or later it was bound to happen.........
When your house looks like THIS......

Because you are trying to do THIS.....

and your daughter finds THESE.....

She will eventually do THIS...........

And if tomorrow you can't find me... check HERE.......

The status is.... I have less than 24 before the movers get here, B has several bids and 18 scripts due by Sunday, I can barely walk because of a Barbell class I did 2 days ago at the gym, I not only have circles under my eyes but I now have 2 under each eye and my bed is shouting my name but strangely I seem to be the only one that can hear it. Is there another word for utter exhaustion??? That word just seems inadequate.

THE HAPPY ENDING, it is hard to mess up that beautiful face!

Huge thanks to all my dear friends that have come to my rescue this week! I love ya!

Good night, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite!

Its a Girl! ....not really....

OK I have been laughing about this all afternoon. Today my sweet friend Stacy watched Douba and Hamburger so I could pack and while over at their house they played in the water and got wet so she put him in the most "boyish" clothes she could, something blue'ish. When she brought them home it was so funny, I could have sworn HE was a SHE. So to indulge my sense of humor I had to finish off the effect and put a bow in his hair and take a picture just to show off what an adorable little girl he could have been BUT will never be! By the way, if your can't tell from the stress in his forehead, he WAS very uncomfortable with this photo opt, kept saying "out, out" while pointing to his cute bow, thank goodness he much prefers being a boy :).

Theres No Place Like Home

There is no place like home.... I am not sure at the moment where "HOME" is???... But soon Austin will be HOME. We finally found a house and just signed papers on it. We were running out of time, the market there in Austin is pretty competitive and fast moving and we had to pull the trigger on something or we were going to be homeless. We are renting it for a year and will either buy existing or build near by. We are so anxious to be homeowners again, I never thought I'd miss yard work and painting walls the way I do :). It has been 2 years of "temporary living" and we are getting anxious to dig our heals in deep but that digging will have to wait a little longer. This is a brand new home, never been lived in and will work great. The surrounding areas that really appeal to us would still be in the school and ward boundary as this home, so it worked out perfect. Everything continues to fall into place and we are so grateful for the peaceful feelings, guidance and many prayers answered as we have made this change. This adventure continues to get more and more exciting!


We move out of our house in Colorado next weekend and will literally be homeless for the next 4 weeks during another whirlwind of events accoss 2 states. I will take more pictures and do a blogathon when we get there July 25th. Love to all!

Whirlwind Weekend

What a whirlwind of a weekend!! Friday night we celebrated Fathers Day (Happy Fathers Day Sugar Precious!) by taking the family to see Kung Fu Panda and then to dinner at Mt. Fuji Japanese, YUM! After dinner we watched the kids play in the fountains at Southlands and eat some delicious cookies from The Cookie Company.

Our favorite place to eat Mt. Fuji

At Mt Fuji. Daidy was quite worried about the fire on the table.


Southlands Outdoor Mall


Saturday I woke up at 4:30am to take the 3 older boys to the airport, they had a 7am flight to Utah. I got home about 7:45 and as I walked in B asks if I wanted to go to Austin? We had sort of discussed it but by the looks of my house at that moment I clearly had made little effort to do it. Anyway I paused for a minute, called the airline to see if we could get a flight and before you knew it we were running all over the house gathering our things to make a 11am flight to Austin.

Sending the boys off bright and early. (We love you tunzo and will miss you!)


We were in Austin by 2:00pm and then spent the afternoon with our sweet realtor Teresa (who dropped everything to be with us) looking at more houses both to buy and rent. We were also lucky enough to have Ben's parents come down from Dallas and spend the night too. We spent all day Sunday together doing all kinds of sight seeing and house shopping. By mid afternoon we said our goodbyes and we still had a few hours to kill before we had to go to the airport so we decided to go swimming, heck why not our perspiration had already made us wet!

Some things I re-learned about Austin
1) It is green and beautiful
2) Super nice people
3) It is a bit weird but we love it
4) It is HOT
5) It IS possible to sweat from EVERY pore without an elevated heart rate.
6) It is where WE are suppose to be
7) We are so excited to start our life there

My only regret is I didn't take a picture of Ben's hilarious fro hair. The humidity does some super funny things to his hair.

We got home Sunday night at 1:30am and we were exhausted! Actually still are :)


B's new office at Penn Field, of course in a few weeks the sign will say Fueld Films :) Yippee
Some funny little coffee house next to Ben's new office where a rather eclectic lady was singing about giving your Mom a hug and not watching too much TV or your brain will turn to mush.

Hamburger was having strange behavioral reactions to the heat, the constant sweaty forehead made him a bit loopy.


Plane ride home, leaving Austin

Tuckered right out!!!!!!!!!!!


FYI ---- CONGRATULATIONS to Brady and Nat (our partners) for selling their house in less then 24 hours! We love ya! Austin here we come!

Camping in San Isabel National Forest

Day one (of 3) at Ophir Creek Campgroung - Set up and "DON'T walk in the tent with your shoes on!'

Our hike to the waterfalls at Ophir Creek.


It is truly amazing that babies can get SO filthy in the woods. One might think they literally lay down in the dirt and lick the ground.... wait maybe he did do that :) I couldn't bear it a minute longer and a wilderness bath was mandatory.

You MUST look cute in the Mountains.... But wait Daidy always look cute!

Inspiration at its best.... B thinks movies all the time but this environment sparks more creativity and just at the conclusion of our campfire a bulb in his brain lit up and he was off writing in the spooky forest while the rest of us went to bed.

3 little pee brother boys..... not sure who's pee got on what shoes, I'd rather not know.

#4 can never be too far from her Daddy who "keep me safe" as she says.

Scary Stories about Bigfoot who smells like fish and dirt (inside joke) around the camp fire.


We thought it would be a fabulous idea to go paddle boating around Lake Isabel and have lunch on the lake. What we didn't know was we were really signing up for an hour long spinning class. The wind blew and blew, it was quite the work out! What we thought would be so much fun we spent yelling at each other to hold our lunches before we capsize and wildly maneuvering to the paddle seat to relive the present paddler. It was crazy :) but a funny memory now.



YES, camping is a lot of work, a BIG mess, days of recovery, totally dirty and those are all the reasons we love it! It is so fun playing house in the woods... at least for a few days. I would have been a great pioneer woman.

We went to the most AMAZING place called Bishops Castle and it deserved a post of its own, look below!

Bishops Castle

We had the fortune of experiencing Bishops Castle, this is like NOTHING we have ever scene before and only 2 hours away from Denver! Such an amazing and unusual place. It is called Bishops Castle after Jim Bishop, the crazy old man that has been building this huge castle solely by him self out of rocks since 1969... as a hobby, a self made masterpiece. You can climb many stories up to these look out towers, climb on/over wire bridges spend hours exploring the ins and outs of this castle. For those with a heights phobia this may be a bit intimidating but truly spectacular! There is a lot more information about this online if you Google Bishops Castle.







This is Jim Bishop - a seemingly friendly, harmless, normal looking "older" man that is politically motivated and has a ton of strange ideas about government and the world around him. Below is a few of Jim Bishops written opinions around the castle....

7 Quirks

I was tagged by my sister in law in Texas and like her, I am not very quirky. Maybe I should work on that, perhaps I would be a more interesting person. As I thought of what quirks I have, most of them have to do with strange behavior with my kids... anyway this was what I came up with.

1) I grit my teeth and shout out as a form of affection. (No, I do not have turrets)
2) I am obsessed with and literally feast on my babies breath. One must eat more than baby breath so I do also eat food occasionally.
3) I have issue with germs and wash my hands way more than necessary.
4) I have issues with eating meat off the bone.
5) I have a plethora of nick names for my kids and some dear friends and family.
6) I am high sensory ...smell, taste and sounds. I don't like noise and I literally shut down when I am over stimulated.
7) I have a psychological issue, not sure what it is but it is very difficult for me to get rid of clothes, especially my kids clothes.
BONUS 8) When I am stressed, I chew the skin off the inside of my cheek, YUCK I know.

You are IT - Amber L., Jen Y., Katherine L., Stacey T., Kristin M.

Outlaws Game at Broncos Stadium

One of the other things on our "to do list" is to go to a major sporting event. Here we are in sports mecca and we have not done one thing "sport'ie" so since it is summer and most sports are on hiatus we decided to take the boys on the train and go to a lacrosse game at Invesco Field where the Broncos play, it was awesome.



I am such an idiot! Clearly I wore the wrong shoes. They said the tracs train dropped off right in front of Invesco Field..... which it did... just one mile away! What was I thinking anyway??? Serves me right! Do you like my napkin bandaides?

Skate Park.... again

It is pretty sad when you go to the skate park frequently enough that you begin to recognize other kids and they you. This seems to be one of our favorite past times, if it were up to Tyler we'd be here everyday. For the most part kids are very courteous and respectful of the little kids and especially the mother hens like me that hover over make sure things stay in line. I am a totally believer in skate parks and am concerned that Austin lacks them. for being such a hip and cool city they should have more skate parks. When parks are properly managed in gives kids a safe place to go and be active.

Longboarding is RAD!

Now I know why Ben bought a 2nd longboard.... for me. I have long wondered why we had two. Longboarding is one of Bens favorite summer time activities and I have recently picked it up and am having so much fun! I feel like quite the "cool mom" and my skater kids think it is the coolest thing EVER their mom now skates or at least tries to.

Ode to OGIO

Ode to Ogio who makes the coolest bags and luggage on the planet. My bro in law is the president and when we made our frist move he allowed us to raid their dumpesters for boxes and has proven to be very helpful. These poor boxes have sure gotten some good mileage out of them.... this will be move #3 for these good'ol boxes. THANKS Ogio and Dave!