Claire - Another random update

First of all, let me just say, that oh my goodness, I miss you guys so much.

Okay, now that that´s out of the way, I´ll jump on the bandwagon and give a little update of what´s going on.

Not much happened in the first week of being home. There was a lot of sitting around, going out to dinner with Grams, and then trying to unpack everything before Dave got in. Dave arrived last Tuesday evening, and it´s been fabulous having him around. He´s getting on with the family really well, which is rather impressive. It´s been nice out, and we got a new gazebo-type covering for the porch, so we've all been eating together outside a lot lately, so that's been really nice. With that and the late evening TV times here has been a lot of hanging our together time, and it's gone well. I think my dad likes having another boy in the house for a change :-) Even Kate has opened up and will talk to him. Last night we played Scrabble with 'stupid Kate rules' and she played with us, so that's pretty awesome. She's also applying to cruise ships this week, so that's super exciting. Hopefully she'll have a job soon!! We'll see how the hunt goes, but I'm just glad she's making progress towards her goal.

Although family time has gone well, planning other things to do has been quite the challenge. Lets just say it, Denver is boring. Okay, so it's not THAT boring, but when you have 3 weeks to fill, it tends to get that way because I'm attempting to spread out the things that we DO have to do. Yesterday my dad went on a bike ride up Lookout Mountain, so we drove him to Golden, dropped him off, and then spent the day there and took a ride up the mountain to see the prettiness, and then met my dad for lunch and came back home. So that was a fun day. And we went down to Cherry Creek with the nice farmers market (which was really just prepared food more than produce, which was a bit of a shame) and had a walk around. Next up on the agenda is properly going downtown for and outing, and also perhaps out for some pho in the next day or two. We'll see what we end up doing, but hopefully the boy doesn't get too bored of the suburbs before his holiday is over. I don't think he realized just how little there is to do on my side of town. But we're planning to take a proper trip up into the mountains for a couple days, so that will be splendid.

Anyway, right now we're at Caribou Coffee, the Montana or Minnesota based coffee competition of Starbucks which Dave has rather fallen in love with based on their red tea-raspberry blended drink. The boy is reading while I catch up on emails and other randomness that needs to be done, but I fear I ought to get back to him before he gets too bored and decides to walk home just for the entertainment value.

I miss you all terribly, but am so glad we have the blog to catch up and check in every so often.

All my love,

Claire