Colorado!!

Many of you probably know, but we moved to Colorado and are settling in just fine! We left Texas on April 13th, made it to Dallas, spent the night, drove to Salina Kansas April 14th, had a tire blow out on the trailer pulling our other car, but managed to fix that after about 1.5 hours of killing time while it was getting fixed, stayed the night, then finally made it to our destination, Aurora, CO, on Monday April 15th. We only had to endure the snow and ice for the last 45 minutes or so , but other than that the drive was quite pleasant. Preston was the only other passenger we took since Alexa had flown back with Grandma Kathi, so dealing with only one child was a lot less stressful! He honestly did pretty well! The only thing that really got to Pat and I was that Preston kept sliding his arms out of his car seat straps and we had to keep pulling over to fix it, or just try to fix the straps while driving, and in our little Subaru car, it wasn't the most comfortable thing!! Oh and about a few hours before we arrived in Aurora, Preston had a HUGE poo poo blow out!! Up his back, clothes, out the diaper, (somehow his car seat stayed clean) so we had to strip him down at a rest stop and change his entire outfit! I washed his clothes out but somehow the clothes ended up getting thrown away, but oh well, they were pretty nasty!!

We were welcomed by a light "winter" snow storm when we first got here, but the snow quickly melted! Then just a few days ago it was nearly 80F degrees!! BEAUTIFUL weather!! But now it is snowing again, and COLD!! I think the high was in the 30s? I'm really looking forward to the warmer spring and summer weather! (I can actually say I look forward to summer, because it will be quite mild compared to what we are used to in Houston!! :o)

We are staying with my sister and her family until our new apartment becomes available on June 10th. We LOVE our new place, but the unfortunate part about it is the price! It's a couple hundred $$ more than our place in Texas but I guess that's just the going rate here in SE Denver :o/
And because of the increased living expenses, we've had to face the fact that I'm going to need to work at least until Pat gets hired on as a full-time regular employee and has a decent salary. He is getting paid for his internship, but we don't know what will happen at the end of his 12 weeks. They might asked him to stay on, or the might ask him to come back to them after her graduates in December, or maybe not at all? We just don't know what the future holds, so for now I will be a full-time working momma.

Pat's internship will be at the Sprint Corporate office, just a few miles away from our apartment, and I will be working at a Primrose school in Aurora. I'm excited to start working again, but not at the same time. I really have enjoyed staying home with my kids for the past few years, but I know this will only be for a short while and that it will significantly help my family in the mean time. I really will miss being with my little Preston boy all day since he is definitely a momma's boy! And also Alexa because she is such a sweet girl (most of the time ;o). I will only get to see my children for a few hours each day, but I guess I will just cherish that time even more!! I just keep having to remind myself, "I can do [hard] things through Christ which strengtheneth me." (Philippians 4:13)