courtney rebecca

Hi! Yes, we're alive! Since we finished painting our new place, we've moved into it. We also finally got our old apartment cleaned out yesterday. Hallelujah, it feels great to be done with that! Now I feel like I can focus on our new home. We are so excited about our new townhouse because it's the first place that we've felt like we can really make our own. Yes, we're still renting, but since Jason's parents own the townhouse, we can do more than we would in an apartment and we are (tentatively) planning on staying here more long term, as long as our jobs are still within a reasonable distance. We LOVE the area, and of course, so does Kingsley. He loves staring out the front door all day and going on walks in the park that is less than a block down the street. Kingsley looking out the door. And barking. Always. So now that we're settled in (got the last piece of furniture in here today, my desk!), we've started talking about the projects we want to...

This past week was fantastic. My fabulous parents came to visit for an entire week! Their timing was absolutely perfect, since we just got the keys to our new townhouse. They helped us paint almost every room in the house. And by almost, I mean all but ONE. And I'm going back over there today to finish the last one. Even though we worked all week, it was such a joy and blessing just to be around my parents. It's hard living far away, but it means we treasure our time together even more. It was such a blast to get to make our townhouse into a home with their help. And we got to listen to music and dance around the whole time. And of course, we had fun in the evenings when it got too dark to work anymore (no overhead lighting in the new place!). Dad was an excellent ceiling painter. And Mom was the roller queen for the walls! On Friday we took a day off from working on the townhouse to just spend the day together and have fun. We kicked off the day with a round of disc golf at Re...

I'm a terrible blogger. I think it's my addiction to Twitter and Facebook. I've already said everything there is to say! We went hiking on Wednesday up in Evergreen with our lovely favourite Denver friends, James & Loren. Yes, they're our friends from college, but they finally moved up here! We are so thrilled to have them here. It's like no time has passed at all since we last got to spend tons of time with them. Except we finally all have jobs, and we no longer live in Texas. Anyway, we went up to hike in Evergreen because it was close to 100 degrees in Denver. What?! I thought I moved out of Texas to get away from the heat! It was about 10-15 degrees cooler in Evergreen, so we were there. We hiked about 4 miles in the Alderfer/Three Sisters Park, and it was gorgeous. I'm so glad we went.