Today marks the one year anniversary of our move to Colorado. Guess some reflection is in order on this…

The Good

• Our house
• Year round swimming has been great for Carter
• Skiing-again, great for the boys. I personally would list it in the bad category.
• Children’s Hospital was a nice facility.
• Zoo
• Fun sports teams to become fans of
• Generally great accessibility for Carter.
• I have made nice friends through my online stuff that live here.
• My work has really taken off since I have been more focused on that here.
• Less stress and travel for Bob-not to mention the obvious reason we moved here
• The landscape can be pretty at times

The Bad

• Still really miss our friends.
• I hate being so far away from California. I hate that we can’t jump in the car and be there in a few hours. I really miss the beach and Disney.
• The snow-notice I didn’t put this in “The Ugly” category. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be
• Not really getting out to make new family friends yet. The few homeschool groups we tried here just didn’t work out well for us. I miss having barbeques too.
• Our backyard-no one here seems to care that split rail fencing provides NO privacy. Pretty creepy if you ask me.

The Ugly

• Tornadoes- I know only one has actually caused damage to the house but I am completely freaked out by them now.
• Being so far away from family. This has been hard this year with everything we have going on.
• Just being generally lonely

So, I guess that sums it up. Would I move back to Vegas? Probably not. I would however, jump on a move to Phoenix right now, which is something I really never thought I would say.

I really, really am trying to make “Bloom Where You Are Planted” my motto for this upcoming year.