New House

Pictures are coming soon! But I just wanted to say that we LOVE LOVE LOVE our new house and we are loving Colorado! Parker is BEAUTIFUL and we are literally across the street from Wal-Mart, Target, Home Depot (our 2nd home these days!), Bed Bath and Beyond, Kohls, a movie theater and a library. YAHOO :-)

Right now we are in the process of painting every single wall so our apartment is comfortable and looks like a home rather than a prison or a hospital. So far, we love the color! So refreshing. This has been so much fun! Stressful and exhausting, but a lot of fun!

Daniel starts school in about a week.... eeeekkkk. Medical school- it's finally here! I pass it everyday on my way to work and just get excited. Yeah for Daniel!

Ok, that's all for now. I'll get pictures here in the next few days. Those are much more interesting!

Oh, Beautiful for Spacious Skies

We had an AWESOME fourth of July! My family went out to Utah for my nieces blessing (so sad I missed it, really I am) so it was just Daniel and I - and Mark, but we hardly saw him all weekend. Anyway- we planned to do things with our friends Taylor and Valerie when I called Friday to see what their plans were they invited us to join them on Monument's "Fun Run". I personally think that the words 'fun' and 'run' are cliché's- those words can not exist in the same sentence. But, despite my initial reaction we signed up. AND it started at 7 AM! Who does that during the summer or ever for that matter? Oh well, we did it. It was 4.2 miles (more than I had ever walked in my life) and ended at the Monument parade. Here are some pictures I stole from Val because our camera is broke:-) Thanks Val! 

Here we are at the start of the race- we were in the way back

Taylor and Daniel actually ran the race! 

See how tired and sweaty we are? We worked so hard! 

SO.... we had SO MUCH FUN! I loved it! Val and I were keeping up with everyone at the beginning of it all. We kept up as we ran around the lake. And we even kept up with everyone along the long side of the lake, but as we 'ran' more and more for some strange reason we were slowing down. Odd. So being the good friends we are, we decided to go at each others pace- a  brisk walk. We finished our race in record time for us! Taylor and Daniel ran a head and beat the whole bunch, then mama Fink and daddy Fink (who pushed Isaac). We had a grand 'ol time. I loved it. We wanna make it a tradition. 

Ok sorry, that was a short story really stretched out. So after the race we went to the pool where we were rained out:0( Then took a much needed snooze and went off to the Fink's for a BBQ and a movie. Like I said, it was a fantastic 4th of July. We had so much fun with our old friend/family. 

WE AREN'T HOMELESS ANYMORE!!

Daniel is my/our good luck charm. He was in Virginia helping re-build a house for his brother while I was in Colorado trying to find a job and maybe a house. Daniel was gone for a week and I had made no progress what so ever. I placed dozens of resume's and nothing was happening. So I decided to meet Daniel in Utah (where his flight was coming in so he could drive our car back out to CO), I mean why not? I wasn't doing anything:-) We stayed there for a bit and decided that we needed to kick it up a notch. On Monday we drove up to Parker, looked at a house, put a bid on a house and both of us went and got jobs that started the next day. We also looked at an apartment complex where we could possibly rent if the house didn't work out. And we loved it! All because Daniel was the driving force. The house fell through so at the end of the week we signed a lease with the apartment complex and we move in July 11!! It feels so good to have a plan and some place to call our own- soon. 

I'll post about our awesome 4th of July as pictures come in. We are still without a camera, so we rely on those of others... But here are some pictures of our recent adventure in the outer banks where we just had a family reunion. SO fun!!!