Scouting California

Glenwood Springs

Here we are on a quickly decided trip to California.

Clay forgot to book his ticket in all the chaos of finishing the Milkbarn, so we drove out with him in one shot.

 My plan was to visit schools and see homes and have the kids visualize where they will be living soon!

some excitement, some trepidation

frisbee stretch

gross!

exactly

After driving the first 10 hours, we switched seats and I got to look at those desert clouds

I love clouds and have been contemplating for sometime to make a mixed media selection of work with clouds. 

Lucy the 16 year old!

While checking everything out we got a dose of reality with temps hitting 107. 

We aren't in Kansas anymore :)

good thing we had a hotel pool

Buenavista Beach
We had a day in between school visits and home shopping, so we headed an hour to the beach!
It was a nice local stop and clean and fun

a couple blocks from the beach was a great frozen yogurt place :)

Here we are sitting in someone's courtyard while looking at the house...still so hot!

Returned to Boulder and captured these moments of low clouds moving fast through the flatirons

and a beautiful sunrise on the Milkbarn

The kids are feeling okay but there are tears about leaving friends and beautiful Boulder. It has not been easy. There have been a lot of challenges to this move. I still know it was the right thing to do and where we need to be. I'm not sure why I thought there would be some amount of ease in the move. 

It is also hard to watch "hard" happen to your children. 

I know it will strengthen them. 

I can't take it away and if I did I would be depriving them of growth. We are moving to a really different kind of place, it will take awhile to adjust but I plan on celebrating each accomplishment for all of them. 

I haven't been the best and most calm mother either.

 But I am excited to go, to reach, to try harder and to see what life has for us there. 

So far, warm summer nights are there and perfect :)