Wildflower in the Sun: Random Updates

This is just getting embarrassing now. This whole no camera thing is really cramping my blogging. More than that though, I am getting pretty sad looking at our photos from the year and we hardly have any good ones. We have a bunch of phone and Ipad pictures but those just aren't very good compared to what I normally take. We had so many great pics last year, but I guess this year will be a little different. I am starting to get pretty determined about finding a new one. Hopefully soon!

We have a had a great past few weeks, but very busy. Busy is not always a bad thing, but I prefer a more simplified life. Cap and I haven't been home much lately except for nap time. We haven't been doing school for a few weeks now. I am totally okay with that, I just know we are hitting that point where it is time to spend time at home with just us.

We are in the process of buying a friend's window company. Bryce has started driving up to Denver a little over an hour from here for extra work. We are thankful for the work, we just wish things would get going more here locally. Please pray that our current door hangers are more fruitful than the last.

Cap is being quite the character lately. His personality comes out more everyday. He has been loving his snow boots lately. After taking his pj's off in the morning, he usually goes straight to his boots and puts them on. He walks around with one shoe on lately. Or one sock on. He ask for tractors EVERYDAY. Seriously, ALL the time! Any kind of work type truck will do for him. Yesterday we got to see a train pulling tons of work trucks on its load. It was actually pretty neat. I have never seen that before.

Cap thinks we are super parents. He thinks if he ask nicely that I can just pull a tractor out of thin air. Or a balloon out of thin air. He can get kind of upset at times that we aren't as super as he thinks:)

A couple of cute things he said last week:
1. He was in his rubbermaid in the shower taking a bath, when some water randomly dropped out of the shower head. He yelled, "Rain!!! Jesus!!!". Cap knows Jesus makes the rain and so he got really stoked about the rain in the shower.

2. The rain in the shower led to a talk about all the things Jesus makes. We made a big list of things he knows and he was really listening to it all. The next morning I put him in a shirt that I had made him. I asked him, "Do you know who made your shirt?" He smiled and yelled, "Jesus!".

He is a cute mess. I am so thankful he is healthy and feeling good. He has a very different personality when he doesn't.

Thanksgiving was awesome. I have zero pictures of the day, but we had such a good time with family and friends. We had a random group of people all connected in one way or another with no family near by, so we had a Thanksgiving all together. Sometimes when you get 15 people, some never meeting before, it can be awkward. But it wasn't at all. Many laughs and stories that day, and bunches of yummy food.

We will be in Texas for Christmas this year. We haven't been their since 2009. We are looking forward to it, and I am excited about the drive. I miss road trips! Bryce and I have always had so much fun driving across country.

I really love the church we go to. Great teaching. Amazing music. Good community.

Beautiful weather here. We have had random really cold days followed by high 60's which is warm here. I can easily wear shorts in the sun when it is high 60's which I couldn't in NC. Oh, and found out we have 360 days of sun a year!!! That means only 5 days a year does the sun not come out at all during the day. Crazy! I could have 5 days of clouds in 1 week in other places I have lived. For someone who really needs sun, this was a cherry on the top for me. Even on snowy days, the chances are high the sun is going to come out.

We bought a Christmas tree. It was looking likely that we would have one this year, but I kind of got sad about the whole deal. I really like having Christmas decorations out. We had to get rid of most of our when we moved but kept a few that we still really liked and meant something to us. Well, it took all of 5 minutes to put them out around the house. I got sad. Then tried to figure out the cost of a tree and if we could afford one. I found one for $20. And found a tree stand at thrift store for $2.50 so we went for it. So, I felt good about our purchase and love having the tree in the living room.

Okay...off to play with playdough or something crafty.

Well, 5 hours later. No playdough. Instead we went to the park and had tons of fun. I took the camera because I am for some reason extremely sentimental about the pants he is wearing in the pictures. They no longer fit, and I retired them last night. I got them out of the dirty clothes hamper and decided we must take some pics. My mom bought him those pants when he turned 1 and for some reason I am just sad they don't fit........good bye green pants. See you again next round I am guessing....