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Sunset out our front door :) As I have been unpacking our boxes, I feel like I am just unpacking my life.  Unpacking memories. Unpacking keepsakes.  Unpacking my emotions.  I'll get side tracked and look through old photos(I was so young!) I'll think about when the kids were little and how simple life was. I'll think about when Clay worked through the union in SF and how content I was with our little life way back when. I've thought about my life in Colorado. How time seemed so condensed there.  Did that all really happen?  did my kids grow up and become teenagers? did I love the mountains enough? were we good to people? will I miss the crazy mountain weather? did we leave it better than we came? I also think about the Milkbarn. I think about leaving it before I could enjoy the "finished product". That thought is very difficult and frustrating but it is an important one to acknowledge. Moving forward doesn't mean not thinking about yo

September in California is sure pretty for labor day we headed to Ventura to spend the afternoon on the beach and then we played tourist and walked on the pier and ate some pretty good tacos :) This is our relocation/  "what are we doing" pose :) Ventura Pier flanked with american flags Then comes Patriots Day aka Chester's birthday...it was a low key family party he asked for thai food...he got thai food later in the month Henry joined the hiking club and they hiked Vasquez Rocks which is where a bunch of Star Trek episodes were filmed and lots of other films. California has a variety of terrain and weather so for our stay here, I want to explore all the parts we don't know! We have been to Burbank almost every weekend for a tournament for Lucy, so we found this fancy bakery on the way.  gold flecked cake pops for winning the game Homecoming is thankfully different here.  It is no pressure fun which is what we