Summer Has Arrived

We are all so happy to finally come up for air and relax. What an extraordinary first year in Farmington. Skyler finished his first year in preschool, Kaden finished his first year of Kindergarten, Josh has reached his one year anniversary at Webb Chevrolet and I finished my first year of nursing school. This summer our next big task is to buy a house here in Farmington! We miss our home in Albuquerque and hope our tenants are taking care of it while we are away. It is wonderful to have Grandma Mills and the Palmers close by. They are such a blessing to us. Kaden and Darien are the best of friends and would spend every moment together if we let them. Being here in Farmington is truly bittersweet. We miss our friends and family that we have moved away from, although moving to Farmington has been accompanied by so many blessings. When given the time to stop and watch my children play, giggle, sleep, or accomplish something great it is the most clear reminder of why we work so hard, make sacrifices and strive to be more like Christ every day.

Skyler had his tonsils and adenoids removed and tubes put in his ears this month. He is doing very well now. He is able to hear, speak, eat, breath, and sleep better.

He is so proud of preschool but he is so sad that he can't ride the bus to school with Kaden. He is Kade's shadow. He says and does everything Kade does. I think I will change their names to Pete and Repeat. The picture on the right is Skylers first school picture. His teacher said that everytime the photographer snaped a picture Skyler said, " Oh! How cute." He is such a ham.

The population census of 2000' for the small city of Ouray was 813 people. I can't imagine the population being much larger now in 2009'. It is such a beautiful quaint little town. We stayed in the most charming bed and breakfast and even went to bed one night at 9:00pm. We visited a vapor cave, sat in the hot springs and hiked up the world renowned ice cliffs (which is a hiking trail in the summer). The part I loved the most was having time to chat with Josh without any inturruptions and having a silent breakfast while we just starred at each other. Silence is golden. What a wonderful way to recharge our batteries.

The picture above and to your left is a little waterfall. Water flowed between cracks in the rocks directly out of mountains and cliff faces. The picture above on the right is whats left of an old mine. The pictures in the middle are pretty much the entire city nestled in this little valley between the surrounding mountain terrain.

Last week we visited my parents and some friends in Albuquerque. We helped my dad with a few projects. The boys had a blast fixing lawnmowers, a rototiller, a generator........my dad had a lot of broken stuff. Lucky for him Josh is a mechanical genius. He He.