1,008 miles – 15 hours and 41 mins
Our one-and-a-half day trek. Photo courtesy of: Google maps It’s here!! The day we will officially move away from Illinois and head to our new home in Golden, Colorado. The butterflies in my stomach...
View ArticleA warm weekend welcome
We’ve arrived!! And as much as I’m wishing for a great road trip story to share…I’ve got nothing. Our trip was long and uninteresting. And I got a little stir-crazy when we were on our last leg through...
View ArticleDanger + children = CO winter fun
It was Ryan’s birthday weekend and we were in for a treat – we got enjoy the Steamboat Springs Winter Carnival! I mentioned it at the end this post, but to explain it further, basically it’s the local...
View ArticleA great green weekend
Slight delay in this post due to spotty internet. It is going extremely slow for some reason today and is frustrating me to no end. But we had a great time this past weekend. I actually took off work...
View ArticleGetting campy
This post will be brief and not as descriptive as I’d like, unfortunately, but for good reason – my best friend from Michigan and her husband are coming to stay with us and will be here soon! So...
View ArticleBringing the Midwest to the West
Even though I’ve been meaning to update you all with my work situation since I feel like there is a lot going on, first things first – our week with Leah and Jared! Basically I was the third wheel on...
View ArticleWe are fam-ily!
Oh my goodness. These last two weeks have been a whirlwind of activity and adventure! And I’m currently working on a giant proposal…so I need to finally stop to take a breather…whew! Other that feeling...
View ArticleCelebrate good times
Whew. I have never felt more exhausted than after our last round of visitors. It’s official – the months of June and July have finally worn me down! Surprising, I know, but every week in between was...
View ArticleBabymoon getaway
All right. Now that most of the chaos of Christmas is over – more on that later – I am officially writing a brief post on our babymoon. (editor’s note: this is not brief) And since I really don’t want...
View ArticleRoad trippin’
All right, time to tackle the Midwest trip update. I’m going to probably make it briefer than normal and very few photos because I have like 80 million I could share (for those of you who are friends...
View ArticleAdventure recap
I cannot wait until springtime again. Lately I’ve had a few people asking me what there is to do here or what things they can do with their family and I had to go into my handy dandy archives of this...
View ArticleOn the road again
Last week was such a fun week. On the way home from our family farm visit, we decided to make an impromptu weekend road trip across the state to Durango with visits to Mesa Verde and Great Sand Dunes...
View ArticleMichigan trip
Sorry that the blog has been put on the back burner lately but I have a few excuses: a) traveling, recovering from traveling, cleaning upon return; b) work! lots and lots of work; c) I like watching...
View ArticleUpdates & eleventy million photos
Hi, my name is Sonora and I'm eating all of this. Try to stop me. Life has been a little bit crazy lately. With all the family reunions we’ve had in June (Rhonda’s wedding), July (Meyer family reunion)...
View ArticleBestie in the Westie
As I’ve mentioned in the past few posts, my best friend and her husband came to visit us last month – woo! We had a fun yet relaxing time this time around. If you recall from two years ago, we did...
View ArticleMichiganders
I think I just have two more posts before I finally feel caught up – woo! So as some of you may know, my last living grandma passed away at the beginning of October so Sonora and I flew back for a week...
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