stealing internet AGAIN....

Heath will probably have a heart attack when he realizes that i'm blogging while we're at a company party...I'm stealing away a few momnts to update my peeps... :0)

So....life is good here in Colorado...Loving our town...the shopping here is AWESOME! We live right next to Flatiron Mall .... I'm literally less than 2 miles from tons of restaurants, walmart, target, mcdonalds, chick fil a, um...what else do i need to survive? I'm looooving the area.

As far as my sardine can that I now call home...we're settling in...I'm very happy with our decision to move into a smaller place...I feel like I'm decluttering my life and shedding all the junk that we seem to have accumulated over the last 5 years.

THE WEATHER....I'm actually liking it...not to be comfused with Loving it...I think I prefer to be able to wear my flats and flip flops everyday... in sunny CA or AZ. There is snow on the ground...and moving day wasn't too tuff with that...cause the walkways and such were shoveled.

OH MY>>>>> Get this...while we were unloading the truck my boy PULLED THE FIRE ALARM!!! Seriously, kill me. I was already stressed out cause I was tired, and at any moment would burst into tears cause of my new found loneliness in my new city, I was sad cause of the size of my new home, and my kids were little punks (and rightfully so considering the last month of chaos)...and my 4 year old decided to top it all off with ALARMING the entire complex of their new neighbors! Welcome!!! The fire truck came and everything! Oh my. They were totally understanding and nice about it. Jacob went straight to time out and didn't know anything about the fire truck cause he was in trouble... Totally a funny event...but totally made me want to die. The fire alarm pull thing is 2 feet outside our front door....we literally walk by it every single time we leave our home.

I was joking with my sister (who is here for the week helping me with the move :) ... I said that I had Jacob pull the fire alarm to see how many stay at home mom's are in my complex...they all came running out with their kids....poor moms.... I just wanted to see how many are around...what a way to make friends...eh?!

I'm missing my mom. I want to go to her warm loving home for dinner on sunday. I want Jacob and Lexi to go to McDonalds with their friends and cousins. Sad face. I want to get a diet coke for me at sonic and pick up and extra for a friend... : ( boo hoo. I miss everything.

When my princess sees the snow outside she yells, "Snowman!" Cutie...she calls snow...Snowman. Love it. She's such a cutie. She will NOT wear her cute boots...and she won't wear her new snow hat. dumb.

My sister chelsey goes home tomorrow....boo! I wish I could just have her, kacie, and my mom rotate every week....so I always have a friend, helper, and a hug....all month long!

Ok...I've been away from the partay for like 15 minutes now. PLUS, I'm now officially emotional and look it...shoot. People keep popping their head in heath's office to say hello to the bosses wife...and I'm looking like an emotional wreck. Ugh.

moving update...

Blogging from my heath's laptop mooching off my parents wifi...

Leaving for CO tomorrow!! Yay! Most of the hard work is done...Truck loaded...house clean... :)

Saaaweeeet. Thanks to all my amazing friends for their help this week ... for their babysitting help, hugs, words of encouragement, fun girls lunches... I'm so sad to leave all my girlfriends!

Thanks to MY FAMILY for all their love and support...and HARD work during the move! My mom and sister in law cleaned my bathrooms!!! (and lots of other stuff...) Aren't they totally amazing!! I'm so sad to be moving so far from my BLOOD! (hahaha...morbid...LOVE IT!)

Seriously my heart is so full right now and empty at the same time with my thoughts of leaving AZ, tear...

next blog will be from BROOMFIELD COLORADO! :D

never thought this day would come...

I need laundry soap...

yes...I'm out...What the stink!?

Today...in a laundry furry I started a load...water running...and didn't have SOAP for it! Ugh!

Me...the stockpiling...couponing...domestic goddess (ok...the last one is a stretch) doesn't have laundry soap. Gees!

I started to panic and everything...seriously, what's wrong with me? I used oxy clean instead...oh well...off to walmart during preschool tomorrow...

Let me just say...I hate that I'm currently using up all my stockpiles...not coupon shopping...and not watching the sales! Eeek. CAN'T wait til I have time for that again.

Deeeeep sigh. Going to walmart to pay whatever price they have for me...maybe I'll grab a coupon if I can make myself go to my dreaded coupon box...that I haven't touched for weeks. sad face. Oh my beloved coupon box...I miss you.

j

from a garage sale...

Do you shop garage sales? If not...then you might not enjoy this post...

Yes...I'm crazy. The weekend before I'm moving out of state...I went to garage sales...I HAD TO!! My sisters and I have a little tradition...most Saturdays we go around 7am to QT (gas station that I LOOOOVE) and get me a d.coke, donuts for all of us...and we go shopping!

Some Saturdays we're gone for 2 hours...some only an hour or so...I always bring Jacob and Lexi...they love/hate garage sales...and always get something by the end of the trip.

This week...

Jacob bought:
back massager (um...ok...he liked that it spun on the table while it vibrated...alrighty)
helicopter (like he doesn't have enough toys)
I think that's it...he spent $2

I Purchased:

drum roll please...

TONS of gap and old navy winter clothes for LEXI! yay! Like 12 pieces and 2 sweatsuits, 1 bathing suite and a bathing suite cover. Saweeeet...winter clothes for Colorado that will fit clear thorough next winter...and a cute suite to fit this summer! Price: $16 - um HELLO!? :) I LOVE name brand clothes for the kids cause they are do durable (thanks to my amazing friend Jen Kent that passes on AMAZING & expensive clothes to Jacob :)

Puddle Jumpers, pink $2 - to help with the snow for now...her current pair of boots aren't water proof...plus I would rather die than to have her walk in the dirt, snow, rain, mud...with her adorable black furry boots. haha.

SNOW SHOES!! for Jacob! Just his size...very nice pair that are totally new! $1 can you believe it! Bonus...they are black...so totally unisex for Lexi to wear in a while. yay.

Here's the deal...I was SICK about that fact that my cute boy would want to play in the snow when we get there...but that I wasn't prepared to let him do so cause snow stuff just isn't as available here as in Colorado....how sad...I'm transplanting him to a new place and he wouldn't even be about to explore the first few days there til I buy him boots...my son LOVES to play outside and dig in the dirt :) scroll down and you'll see a few pictures from previous posts. Now he can! (minus the parka he will need...anyone have one?)

SNOW SCRAPER! for my car! Seriously...I found a snow scraper in Arizona! It's cute...it has a fur mitten thing over the handle so your hands don't get covered in snow. LOVE IT! $.50

Another story...I had a bad dream Friday night that I was in my new home and sad to be in Colorado and all I wanted to do was to get a coke and go grocery shopping with my kids...but I was so unprepared for the snow that I couldn't even scrape the snow off my car...I was crying in my dream trying to get all that snow crap off my car to take my kids to the grocery store. Stupid...I know...but I worry about stupid stuff like that. And ... I found a snow scraper ... awwww .... He cares about the little stupid things in my life.

Um...what else...oh... a soap dispenser (dumb) but it was so pretty, child lock door handle thing, 3 books (I have an obsession with hardback books that are pretty colors...not the book cover part...the actual book...I'll take pictures sometime of my collection...) ... I think total I paid $4 for all that. ps...my book obsession doesn't even come CLOSE to my sister Chelsey's obsession...and she actually reads the books! what a concept!

So total we spent $25 but LOVED every minute of it...getting time to be with my sisters and getting WINTER stuff for COLORADO! Yay!

Broomfield COLORADO!

Heath and I jumped on a flight to Denver CO Tuesday morning and hunted for our new place all day...then grabbed a flight that night. The trip was very productive and I learned a lot about how I feel about snow...

I can handle having the sun out, snow on the ground, and a temp over 3 degrees....I can handle it with my new wool coat, layers, my cute new black boots, skinny jeans, and the super cute new scarf I wore...LOL. I had fun.

I'm not sure how I'll do the first time I drive in the snow, or when I have to get out of bed at 2am to a crying child FREEZING while I walk over there...or when my kids want to play in the snow and all I want to do is sit by a fire with hot chocolate. Oh well...I LOVE CHANGE! I'LL Love this! Right?!!

So...Broomfield is the city/county we'll be living in...

Here's the wikipedia stats on it...so interesting. I'm so excited!! More details as they come...

Currently packing my life...downsizing...trying to take only 1/2 of what we have...moving from this 2300 sq foot home to 1100 sq foot apartment...yikes!

Its painful to downsize...but at the end of this new lease term my savings will WOW me! I'm so excited for that part! Plus less to clean....yay. That will be great! Pictures? Umm...maybe after I get settled a little. :)

-j

Pictures of the kiddos...finally :)

Lexi after playing in the dirt outside...see the tear...awww...her face was so dirty that the tears were cleaning it...

Playing outside...they love to play in the dirt! This picture is from December...look at the SUN! awww. Arizona weather.

Lexi is sitting on Jacob's toy car thing...using the steering wheel as her table for her mac and cheese. haha.

sunday

the sun is out :) loving the weather.

went to sunday school and relief society for the first time in a long time ... released from primary counselor over cub scouts ... but my last few duties as cub scout leader end a week from tuesday. I'm heading up the Blue & Gold Dinner and I'm so super excited!!! The preparations this next week will be stressful...but I'm LOVING getting ready for this. I love to do pack meetings and stuff for the boys cause its so much fun during the hour that the boys get to have their recognition...it makes the many hours of preparation so worth it. I'm going to miss my calling. sad face. pack meeting is like planning a party every month...i've LOVED it. i think my favorite was the jungle safari...but i really liked the cub scout heros cause i got to incorporate americana theme...my favorite! haha. i guess i'll have to throw real parties with fun themes to make up for not planning pack meetings anymore...um...ya...that would be crazy. lol. or...i could go to church the first sunday in Colorado in my scout shirt...HI! I'm Julie Avery...call me as a scout leader please. haha...who asks for that? ! crazy.

packed part of my master closet last night. i had 2 trash boxes, 2 garage sale/goodwill boxes, and the rest won't be boxed yet (not til week 6:)...it feels so much better. why don't i do this more often?! i'm thinking that in a year work will make us move AGAIN (STORY OF MY LIFE) and i'll get this amazing opportunity to uproot my life, kids, loose friends :.( , loose the junk in my house, and clean clean clean all over again. lucky me, right?! i know your jealous of my mad moving skills. deeeep sigh.

funny. we don't have a flat yet. we have 3 big boxy tv's that were all given to us one in the TV room, jacob's room, and one in the master room. this past christmas we talked about getting heath's 'dream tv' haha, he's never called it that...but i think it is. so anyways, we didn't cause we didn't want to move with a freakin 60 whatever inch tv...not the best idea. and we were thinking to save space during the move of selling the largest boxy one at our garage sale for what...10 bucks. haha. i dunno. anyways...so the master TV just started making a humming sound, jacob's TV started only working when it feels like it, and the BIG TV (that we wanted to sell is working just fine. Of course. just my luck. decisions decisions. I joked with heath that we should ditch all the tv's and just buy one small flat for the kids' room. mount it on the wall and that's that. we don't watch tv's anyways..just use the computer. DONE...walmart...can you please have an amazing tv deal...? thanks.

got a fortune cookie last week that was funny. it said, "ask your mom". LOVE IT! good idea. just ask your mom. duh.

Alive...barely...

Still alive over here in Sunny Arizona...NO WAIT its raining cats and dogs. Loving the weather...but I sure wish it was still a beautiful 70 degrees. We're moving in, wait...let me count the days...35 days. 5 weeks....2 days ago it was going to be in 4 weeks...this keeps changing...well, a date has never been set...so it can't change right. K, enough of my babbling.

Still moving to Colorado. Current city we're interested in is Arvada. We'll be finalizing the decision on the 6th (fingers crossed) so I can start imagining how things will look in our new prison. ( I mean Place) We'll be downsizing for the next 6 months or year...depending on how long I can take it...trying to be Stupid (I mean responsible)...kill me. No, really...we're going to be fine. :) We've been spoiled with a 2300 sq. foot house with our little family...its been like a vacation this past year living near family and in such comfort. I might even decide to ditch my cal king during this move...WTF?!! Has she gone mad?!! Maybe.

I've been packing (following my 6 week, wanna be 12 week plan). My garage sale pile is getting HUGE and I'm totally throwing away half my life...hmmm. Went thru my old Tennis stuff and Hot Dog on a Stick stuff last night...couldn't throw one single thing away. Oh well....who needs purge packing anyways!?

Wearing my purple and black flats today, yes..IN THE RAIN...nothing will stop me from enjoying the Arizona weather for the next month. I'd like to promise pictures sometime soon...but I know that just won't happen. Sorry Folks. Cub Scouts and Packing is ruining (I mean Running) ... my life. There I go again with the cheesy jokes. You love it.

Julie

my youngest is still sleeping...crazy...so i actually have time for a shower, breakfast, and a quick house clean up before i go for my morning run....to get a d.coke of course. loving today...except that i still have a cold. ugh

hoping to blog some pictures....someday.

No freakin way...

My son is so funny I just could blog his funnies all day.

Here's the latest...

He came home from preschool the other day with Candy Cane from SANTA! WOW! :) He told me about his visit with Santa and that he got a delicious candy cane. Thanks Santa!

So here's what he said to me this morning while I was 'decking the halls'...

"MOM!!! Stop decorating! Christmas is over!"

"What are you talking about Jacob?! Christmas is next week?!"

"No mom, Santa already came to my preschool and gave me a candy cane. It was delicious. Christmas is over. Stop decorating!!"

(cracking up inside I say...) "Christmas is next week, Santa is coming to our house too Jacob!" :D

"No mom"

Hugs and kisses....who could resist hugs and kisses after that one?!!

That was pretty much the extent of our conversation. Alrighty then Jacob. So if I understand this correctly...he got a FREAKIN CANDY CANE from Santa and he's satisfied?! Sheesh. Good thing I took it easy on the gifts this year...maybe I should have bought him a whole box of candy canes for $1.09 at Walmart and spend the rest of the $ on myself! Shoot. :) Loving our life!!!

pj