Moving

The lease on our current home is up in August so (sparing you all the decision making details) we are moving 15 miles northwest to reduce Taylor's commute from 60 minutes to 20 minutes. We are very excited about the prospect of him being home at 5:30 instead of 6:00...for those with young children you know what a difference that 30 minutes can really make. And we're excited for it.

We are again going to be renting...due to the fact that a) we have an unstable job, b) we don't want to buy a house in Colorado for reasons which will remain unknown...=] (right?)

Our new home has a HUGE backyard...probably we have a 1/4 acre which is massive compared to our last two homes. Very excited about that and it's in a 1950s neighborhood so tall beautiful trees and all brick homes (standard in TX, not so standard in CO). The inside has been updated and is very nice. It's about the same size as our current home...the master is a lot smaller so Taylor and I are crowding together, but the boys' room is really big, probably bigger than the master. Only a one car garage, but we decided for the 20 minutes drive we'll take it. Tons of room downstairs for Taylor to have a woodworking workshop and now he'll have over an hour more a day in his life.

Already have James signed up for a new preschool (Kendrick Lakes) and Matthias in gymnastics. Talked to a couple members of the primary presidency and I think we're good to go. We move August 15.

James comments about the move...

"All the floor is wood so we can eat everywhere."

Me: I'm worried about you.
James: I'll just make new friends. I make new friends every time we move. In Texas I had Fencer (Spencer) and now I have Kylie.


One of Taylor's co workers (about 40 yrs old) was saying he and his wife have a combined total of 63 moves. We found this incredulous until I realized this will be my 19th move even having lived in the same house from 7 to 18. And James is on his 6th move. Only this time we get to move ourselves...