It's been four weeks now since Lucy came to us and Andrew and I have decided that we finally feel like a family. Not to belittle Reed, but with he has really felt like our little buddy. This fun little person that gets to tag along with you and make things a little more complicated, but a lot more fun. But now I feel like we fit the definition of a family, because neither parent gets time off when you are each saddled with a kid. Life is a lot busier, well actually just with nursing a little one who is constantly eating. I forgot how much time is dedicated to a newborn's eating schedule. So, sadly Reed gets a lot more TV time now, but I'm pretty sure he doesn't care as much as I do.
The newest adventure for our family is our upcoming move to Bozeman, MT. As Andrew continues to work on getting into Medical School he decided that he should get a Masters degree to help his application, so that is what we are heading to Bozeman to do. It will be a one year program, Medical Science Masters, and will be very fun to live in such a dramatically different place than where we are currently, dry Reno. The other major difference is the size, Bozeman is less than 40k people, which will be the second smallest city I have ever lived in (Cedar City, UT for my freshman year of college is number 1). On a side note we are excited to live so close to Yellowstone and Glacier National park. We are really excited to be taking this step, in the hopes that it will lead into Andrew getting into more schooling right after. We still haven't found a place to live nor have we found renters for our house here in Reno, YIKES! But we are hoping that the month of July will solve these two problems for us, we are going to need a lot of faith and prayers answered. (Because there is still the possibility that Andrew could go to Medical School here we are choosing to not sell our house) This little decision is a little bit harder work, but will hopefully be a better decision in the financial long run. We have so loved our ward and this is truly the hardest thing to be leaving. We are just praying we can come back here because I feel like it was just too short. We also didn't get to go many places that we had on our travel list, mainly because we chose to travel to Europe last year instead, but we still want to visit San Francisco, the Redwoods, Yosemite and Mammoth to mention a few. I feel like we are leaving here with so much unfinished business, places we need to visit, more remodeling on our house and friendships that I wanted to strengthen. I might be singing a different tune in a year from now, but for now I'm just trying to focus on the positives and all that the future has to offer us here and now. You have to move forward with the opportunities that are placed in your path and not wish for the ones that are not there now.
So...here's to our last month in Reno for 2015, but hopefully not forever.
