Back in CT

After two VERY long days of driving, we arrived at the Hine House at 10:00 PM with our massive truck/trailer. Tim was a rockstar and drove one 18 hour day, and one 16 hour day to get us back east. My dad and bro switched off in Tim's truck, and we were all exhausted, but happy to have arrived safely and quickly.

The past few days have been spent hanging out with family and friends, as will the week to come.

Today, we rented our storage unit and will be unloading and returning the big yellow truck.

Then a week of fun before Tim starts his new job - complete with lots of outdoor activities, climbing, biking, swimming at the lake, and hanging with fam and friends. Sarah's shower is also next weekend :)

Will update more once our life gets a little more settled!

Last Day in Boulder, CO

On today's schedule:
*Tim is climbing the first Flatiron - someone he has wanted to do ever since we moved here. It is a trad climb, and multiple pitches, but not a hard grade. He is climbing with a friend named Steve, they should have fun on their early morning climb :)
*Moe's bagels & Ozo coffee for breakfast, and I'm going to bike to get those things :)
*Finish packing up the rental truck and cleaning our apartment - only small things left, and 2 1/2 rooms out of 5 to clean.
*Go to bank/post office/change address on mail/other things that need to be done before moving.
*Spend the afternoon wandering around Boulder, driving up Flagstaff, and other fun Boulder things to do.
*Mountain Sun tonight for a final dinner with friends :)
*Off to bed, we have a VERY early start tomorrow!

Farewell Boulder. Adios Colorado. It's been amazing. Best place to live, we will be sad leave it.
Can't wait to see all you East coasters though!

On a sad note, terrible to say goodbye to all the families I work for...but M & A was ridiculously hard :(

13 days...

We leave Boulder in 13 days from today...I'm a bit overwhelmed by that idea, super excited and super sad at the same time.

Maybe we should start packing?

Big News!

This past Friday, Tim got a phone call that is going to change our lives a little (or big!) bit....he is going to be an Assistant Project Manager for a construction management company in NEW YORK!

Yes, you read that right...NEW YORK...oh, and FYI he starts August 1st, therefore, we are moving back to the  North East in three weeks!

It is bittersweet, as we absolutely LOVE living in Boulder (I mean who wouldn't? - hiking, biking, climbing, skiing, and other general activeness, great restaurants, a great church, friends, etc. all in one place!) We are going to miss the easy access to activities that we love to do, and our friends, and I am especially going to miss M and A :( but, we prayed a lot about this job, and it just feels like it is the right next step for us.

Plus, going back to the NY/CT area, we not only have one of us with an actual full-time "real" job, but we have amazing family and friends SO close! We may just have to work a little harder at being active when it isn't in your face like it is in Boulder, but that's ok :)

So, CT/NY/MA people, get ready! We are coming back, we love you, and we are so excited to see you! 

and

Boulder people, we love you, and we will absolutely come back and visit ASAP (I mean, I bought POWDER skis to use for this coming season, and we all know the east is NOT the place to use them!) 

(Flatiron Sunrise from Moe's Bagels - LOVE this view!)

And Boulder, thank you for being an amazing place to spend our first year and a half of marriage, it's been wonderful and we will miss you too!

Love is in the air!

This past Saturday, my lovely sis-in-law Sarah got engaged! Her new fiance, John, flew to CT from Japan (Japan people!) to propose atop Mt. Washington. All I have to say is well done John! We are so excited for this new and exciting chapter in their lives, and are looking forward to the wedding day festivities! (In fact, Li and I are going bridesmaid dress scouting today!)

Surprise! He flew home from Japan for the weekend!

Atop Mt. Washington

(I totally heisted these pictures from Sarah's FB, hopefully she doesn't mind!)

Sar - We are so happy for you, and love you very much! John - We are so excited for you to become an official part of this crazy, fun family! We love you both lots!

Also, a little over a week ago our awesome friends Emma and Adam got engaged in New Hampshire. They used to live out here in Boulder which is where we got to be very close friends, but I also graduated high school with Emma. They are one of the most amazing couples I know, and we love them to pieces! We are so excited for them and I particularly thought it was fun that they had their celebratory dinner at Simon Pierce in Quechee, VT where my family has a condo and where we took wedding day pictures ourselves! We love you both and are SO excited for your wedding (at least we hope we get to come, I mean you didn't get to come to ours so maybe we will be banished hehehe).

Emma and Adam at Gold Hill last summer on a very fun double date night!

Congrats again to the happy couples! Ladies, if you need any planning help, let me know :)