Nomad life in Fulton

Once we got to Missouri, we spent time in both Fulton and St. Louis. We thought our time in Missouri would only last a few weeks, but it ended up that we bounced from place to place for several months while Jeff worked in Kansas City.

Jeff's dad is home in the afternoons most days now, so he spent a lot of time hanging out with Boone and taking him around the farm. Boone loves helping with the cattle and riding in the mule.

One evening, Bruce arranged with one of his employees for us to go over and see her horses and maybe have Boone ride one.

Boone checking out the horse.

Now he looks at it with grandma. He was never too excited about getting on the horse, which was so funny because earlier in the day, he had rode in a combine by himself with a church friend of Bruce and Carol's. The combine was much bigger and noisier than the horse, but for some reason, it didn't bother him at all.

(These next couple of pictures I took from Carol's Facebook album! Hope you don't mind Carol!)

As ridiculous as it was, I decided to get up on the horse and try and show Boone that it was not scary. I look ridiculous since I was pregnant, but it all turned out OK. Oh, the things you do for your children.

Boone climed up with me and sat for just a bit.

Riding in the mule with Grandpa.

Hanging out with Rambo. Sadly, Rambo has gone missing with all the cold weather recently! I'm hoping he's just hanging out in the hay barn, but we aren't sure! :(

(OK, back to my pictures!)

Celebrating Grandpa's birthday!

Helping blow out the candles!

Saying Goodbye to Colorado

So, after a few weeks of living without Jeff in Denver, we decided to pack up and go to Missouri to try and see Jeff more and see our families.

Before we left, I snapped a few pictures around our house so we could remember our little house in Colorado that we lived in for eight months. It definitely wasn't my favorite place we've lived, but it worked out for the time we were there and it was definitely the cheapest place we could find that would fit us and our stuff. Hey, a home is what you make of it, right?

Our living room looking from the doors into our backyard.

Our small, sort of messy kitchen!

This is looking at the living room from the kitchen. The gray curtains in the back lead out to the backdoor.

Stairs leading up to the bedrooms

The half-bath downstairs

Here's our welcome wreath we hang in each of our homes.

Here's looking at our front door. We installed a peep hole in the door when we moved in because was  really only one window that looked out onto the front and it was upstairs, so you couldn't see much.

Our tiny guest room getting ready to be packed up. Ironically, we had a ton of visitors stay here in such a small room during the short time we were here.

Here's our laundry nook upstairs. You couldn't even fit doors around it, so we just had curtains to close if we wanted to cover it up.

The master bedroom as we were packing up our bags.

The only full bath in our house. It had a door leading into our room and out towards the laundry nook. Sort of a strange set up, but it worked for the short time we were there.

Boone's room is on the right and the master bedroom is on the left. We stored all of Boone's books on this bookshelf so he had easy access to them.

Boone's room!

So, there you have it! Our small little home in Colorodo! While we didn't live in Colorado very long, we have great memories from our time there. I could see moving back there sometime in the future, but for now, onto our Missouri nomad adventures!

MOAB!

Our wonderful friends, Jaclyn and Matt Beaty planned to meet us in Moab in the middle of September! We were really excited about this since we had heard such great things about Arches National Park! Well... we almost didn't get to make this awesome trip because Jeff found out in August that he would be moving to Kansas City for work and then I had to have an emergency appendectomy at 14 weeks pregnant (YAY!) the week before our trip! So, needless to say, the odds were stacked against us, but thankfully, we were able to figure everything out and make the trip and we are so glad we did. The drive across Colorado was beautiful and the scenery in Moab is hard to beat. We had such a great, quick trip and it is ALWAYS fun to get together with the Beatys! They are the best travel buddies.

The first arch we went and saw the night we got there. 

Boone riding in the backpack. This may have been his last trip in the pack.

Such amazing creations. For a little perspective, you can see me sitting on the bottom left of the arch.

Our family of 3.5. You can just start to see a baby belly developing!

Love this girl! Jeff and I are so thankful for the Matt and Jaclyn's friendship!

I just love this picture of him. He has seen so many neat things in his two short years.

The delicate arch, way in the background.

Jaclyn being a haus, per usual.

On Saturday, we went to Dead Horse Canyon State Park. It was beautiful! That's sort of a theme around here.

It was a hot day there, and we didn't bring any sunscreen! We weren't expecting the super hot weather since it had been so mild in Denver around that time.

Boone makes a playground wherever he goes!

The Colorado River

Our (very) minimal cabin that we camped at in Moab.

Landscape arch on our last night there. Parts of this arch had already fallen down in the 90s.

After we got back from Moab, Jeff left the next day to fly to Kansas City and begin work there. Boone and I began a 5 month nomadic life also, but more on that later!