Vacation

Our vacation this summer was going to Colorado and looking for a house to rent. We actually had a great time. We stayed with my sister Marilee and her family. They live in Louisville which is one hour from where we will be living. We were super busy there and I didn't take a lot of pictures, but I did snap one on the morning we left: (Charles (my Brother in law) was out of town, and Benjamin (my Nephew) was working so they are missing from this picture)

While we were there, we were able to find a house to rent. It is a 2 story colonial home in a
cul de sac. 3 Bedrooms, 2.5 bath, hardwood floors, and an unfinished basement. It's always exciting to move into a new home.

We went swimming at a rec center near my sisters house. The kids loved it! They had a kid play area with a slide & a waterfall. They had a river raft, diving board, and a huge water slide. Mason loved the big water slide and kept asking us to go on it again. I definitely got my workout in by going up those stairs a million times! We all had a great time.

Marilee watched the kids while Doug and I went out to eat and to a movie. We saw the Harry Potter movie. I loved the movie. Doug recently read the books again, but I haven't read the 6th book in a long time so I couldn't remember what was going to happen next. It was really good.

While we were there, a Greeley Band booster parent invited us over for dinner. She had also invited the Orchestra teacher and his family, and the choir teacher. It was nice to meet a few people and everyone was really nice. The kids did slip n slide with their teenage daughter. Afterwords they had set up an Ice Cream Social outside of the High School. A lot of the students and parents were able to meet us and everyone is very excited. It seems to be a close knit community with lots of support.

The only set back to Greeley is that when the wind blows from the West, it smells like farm. Definitely not the most pleasant smell. For the day we were there, I probably smelled it 3 times. It was interesting to me how the wind was changing directions several times throughout the day. The other set back...was mosquito's. We don't get very many mosquito's here in Pahrump, but we did when we lived in Utah. I just had forgotten. Kaylee was eaten up and felt better if she put bandaids on all of them. I think I owe my sister a box of bandaids. :) We had a great trip.