We've had a more eventful than usual past few weeks, which is probably only 'slightly eventful' in normal peoples' lives. This doesn't include Stephen, he's always busy, I wouldn't want you to think that he wasn't constantly busy.
1. Okay, so right after the 4th of July weekend my friend from college, Candice came into town and stayed at our house for a week! Even though I visited Candice in D.C. in May, I still don't get to see her enough and was so sad to see her go : ( We also spent time with Julie Foster another friend from college (and high school for me) who also lives in C. Springs, but I don't get to see her enough either! It was fun to get together almost every day and have dinner or get ice cream or hang out at Julie's house. We went to the park, hung out at the mall, ate Chick-fil-A and went to the pool. I'm afraid Candice's trip here was not nearly as amazing as my trip to D.C. ; ) Welcome to my world, Candice ; ) Anyway, the real reason she came out in the first place was to meet up with her parents and sister. They are biking across the United States for the school Candice's sister, Gwen, teaches at in Morocco! You have to check out their blog, Gwen updates daily and posts a little slide show of each days' ride - amazing!! They ride about 100 miles a day! Since Candice was in school until the end of July and wan't able to start with them in the Pacific (literally), she met them here in Colorado so she could stop by for a visit first and leave with them after their rest day here. Fortunately, for me, the team was running about two days behind so she got to stay longer than we had originally planned, yay!
Here they are packed up to drive to Pueblo where they picked up on their route across the country. They left Kyla here ; )
As I am writing this, Kyla just said, "Doesn't Candice look cute??" Haha! I wonder if Kyla is saying that because she picked out Candice's outfit for that day? Either way, Candice, you look totally cute!
2. The lease on our townhome is up in August, this is always the scariest time of the year because if we can't turn the place around and get new renters we lose money, fast. We were super fortunate that last year the guys living there wanted to resign the lease and stay another year, we were super UNfortunate that the guys, who started out so responsible have totally trashed the place. It's not a huge deal, so far we have done a deep cleaning and repainted after every renter anyway... but this is on a different level. Oh. my. One of the guys wanted to stay another year while two moved out, but he couldn't find new roommates. This is very good for us! I listed the rental on several different websites and two days ago two different parties wanted to go see it. No big deal? No, we hadn't seen the place either. So Stephen shows it to the people massive carpet stains, an empty liquor bottle collection to rival the world record, and *ahem* posters all. over. the walls included. They both LOVED the place! ?!?!?!? One couple, a military family, called that night and wanted it! We got the deposit yesterday and they move in the 1st of August. Can you believe our place was considered well taken care of compared to the other places they saw?? Well, now we can breathe, but the second the guys move out we have a LOT of work to do, including NEW carpet. The new renters are such a nice couple, the husband just returned from in year in Afghanistan and they are in love with the townhouse. She literally wanted to stay there the night they saw it! She loves the view, the trail by the house, the park and the brand new Kohls up the road. I'm so happy that it is perfect for them!
3. Colby has been taking a few steps now for the past several weeks, but just within the last couple days he is walking more than crawling when possible. Here's the video taken last night with Stephen's phone.
Hope you turned your sound way down, if not, I now know why 1. Colby constantly says "what's that?" and 2. why Kyla loves to act like she's walking like a baby and cuts Colby off before he can get to us - attention hog! ; ) So yes - Colby is 15 months old now and has redefined "late walker" for me : D Kyla was a late walker at exactly 14 months, but the first time she walked, she walked across the entire room, then back again and never really fell down much at all once she started. This is not the case, as you can see, for Colby! I remember being to anxious for Kyla to start walking but with Colby, not at all! At this point it has been bit easier for me, over all, if he is not walking all over the place, looks like that might be changing! He had his 15mo. appointment this week at weighs 21 lbs 6 oz. (13th %ile) so he's gone up from 5th %ile! All that eating like a garbage disposal has paid off!
4. Stephen and I are officially going to my friend, Shelby's wedding in August, and Kyla and Colby will officially be staying with Grandma and Grandpa! It will be a 4 day/3 night adventure for all! I'm excited and I think that everyone will have fun!
5. I am looking for a flower girl dress for Kyla to wear in my sister Laura's wedding at the end of August. Laura is feeling pretty... carefree about the entire event, so the options are almost endless, I even have like 6 colors to choose from! Any great ideas??
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