Lately, time has just been zooming by. We've been so busy and just so extremely blessed.
Vacation
In the first 10 days of June, we went on a vacation out west. First, we camped outside of Omaha and went to the zoo the next day. Then, we made our way out to Colorado Springs were we spent an awesome 3 days exploring. We were very fortunate to stay with my cousin and her husband. They had sweet accommodations for us. I took a nap everyday. IT WAS PURE BLISS. Did I mention they have no humidy and no bugs?? Ya, pure bliss.
Next, we visited some of Kristen's friends in Fort Collins, Colorado. They were awesome as well. They grilled out for us and took us to an awesome brewery in town.
Lastly (as far as the wild west goes), we headed another 6 hours north to Cody, Wyoming to see some friends from college. We got to see a gun show, drove through incredible state parks, and spent some time just hanging out and resting up before the long trek back.
The kids did awesome in the car. I attribute this to them watching movies on my laptop about 80-90% of the time. I'm excited that this trip went so well because it makes us feel like we have the option to travel further than we'd previously thought.
New House
Next, we sold our house and moved into a new house! We're super pumped about this house in so many ways. In its basic form, its a 4 bedroom, 1.75 bath house. But to us, its a much more adequate tool for pursuing some life goals than our previous house. As of now, we've been in the house for a week and have pretty well settled in. I'm still doing a lot of little maintenance things around the property, but things are coming along nicely.
Baby
Sometime in the next month or so, we're expecting little baby Kimball! We're pursuing another adoption out of Waterloo and her due date is Mid-July. We've been working with the birth mom quite a bit and everything seems to be going as planned. Also, people are being so generous with donations for our adoption that things are looking great financially. I was pretty worried about our finances, even while we were on our vacation. But, we've really been blessed here in these last few weeks.
I know this is an action packed post that probably should be at least three, separate posts, but oh well, life has just been happening at warped speed lately, so deal with it...
Derek
