November 08 Update

Finally – I know – I have had more than one person kindly suggest that I catch you all up on our lives.

Boy – where to start - - - -

At the beginning of the year – my husband put in a job application for a company in Boise, Idaho. By March – we had forgotten about it - - - until they called him for an interview. They flew both of us to Boise for a long weekend so that Travis could interview and the two of us could look around! And look around we did!!! I had a lot of time to myself on Friday, while he was interviewing and looking around. I drove everywhere! It’s a nice area of the country – a little flat for what I like – but nice and OMG – I have never met such nice people! I was blown away how nice they all were! They offered my hubby the job – but in the long run – we turned it down – several things factored in (like the number of people, the lack of mountains and places to ATV, moving) and now in hindsight – it might have been better for us to just go and try it – but everything happens for a reason right?

Here is a shot of Boise from our hotel window - to the left:

And to the right - see - pretty flat!

We decided to stay in Grand Junction.

Since we decided to stay – we started the process of becoming big girls and boys – and on June 13th – we moved into our home that we bought!!! A new, 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom mortgage! Of course, during the move, I broke a blood vessel on the top of my right foot (dropped the darn gun cabinet on it) – to this day it still aches! Anyway – we have been busy, busy putting our house together.

First came the fence – we thought about doing it ourselves – then ended up hiring a contractor (his price was maybe $300 more than if we were to do it ourselves – yeah – hired him)!

Then my hubby went to Dallas, Texas for two weeks to train on a new aircraft coming out. A beautiful plane from Embraer called a Phenom.

I was lucky enough to be able to fly out and see him for a weekend! We went to the race track (of course) and then the Fort Worth Zoo! I had a blast that weekend!

We got to go into the infield at the Texas Motorspeedway – it was so stinking cool!!!

The zoo was a blast! It was way warm but it was a lot of fun!!!

The September rolled around. We tried to seed grass in my front yard.
One afternoon I got a knock on the door – a contractor in the area noticed me watering the dirt – lol – and offered me free sod. He was at a house around the corner and ordered too much. Of course I was on the phone to my husband and we went over, picked it up and laid it that night! So – the following weekend – we went to the same sod farm and bought almost enough to finish my front yard (miscalculated by a couple rolls). It looked so nice! See - - -

That night – what turned out to be a frustrating, horrible experience started. Kyle had a friend spend the night, the boys came out that night and their butts were wet!!! My two front rooms were soaked! We tried to call the contractor Sunday – no luck – but I left a not so nice message. The guy from the contractor’s office came out the next day. He looked at my house and left telling us he was “perplexed” as to what was going on (yeah – I was not impressed)! The next day – he tells me that it isn’t the construction on the house – it is because we planted grass up to the house and therefore they were going to do nothing for me! Yeah – what kind of joke is that? I can not plant grass to my house??? UM – hello – I will bet 1/3 the population in Grand Junction has grass up to their houses! I tried to file a claim with our homeowners insurance (more for validation then anything) – they denied it saying the house was built incorrectly. Then we had a County inspector come out – he determined my house was not built to code in the front. The rock work was not done properly. (1) it was not built to the end of the concrete slab and (2) it was not sealed. That was October 3rd.

Here is my poor house tore apart:

They finally finished the rock work on October 25th. And Finally, after a month plus of dealing with this – the carpet people came out and re-stretched my carpets. My house is finally back together again!

I will post more - we took a couple ATV trips to get away - an then there was Halloween too! I have more to post - just need to find the time to do it - LOL.

Anyway - I hope this update finds everyone well and happy!