I thought it would be good to get caught up. What's gone on these past five years?
Sometimes it feels like this
Since we last met:
We sold the Gypsy Cafe in Bailey, CO.
We sold our house in the mountains. My parents moved to Denver and we bought a house in Littleton, CO.
We re-homed Luke (our boarder collie) because of health issues, cried our eyes out and went and picked him up first thing the next morning.
We decided to travel on the road full-time and sold everything.
We traveled the United States (and a bit of Canada) for 6 months. It was an amazing experience and one we still crave from time to time.
We survived a major accident at the end of our 6 months on the road and moved to Oregon, the town Erik and I grew up in. We re-bought everything we sold.
We've built a successful business.
We've moved five times.
I worked on a few personal photography projects.
We went through therapy to overcome the trauma of the accident (we were a mess), which ended up helping me overcome a lot of hidden crap. Life changer! It's too much to mention here, but I see a future blog post going into more detail.
Erik and I have both gone through topical steroid withdrawal (I might go into my personal journey in a later post, but for those interested now, here is what it is: http://itsan.org/).
The kids have all become pre-teen/teenagers.
We've brushed our teeth approximately 4380 times.
We've spent a collective 7110 hrs eating.
We've vacationed, made life-long new friends, re-connected with old friends, grown closer as a couple and a family and have defined even more what's important to us in life. We've laughed a ton, cried a ton, failed, succeeded, experienced and dreamed.
Oregon has been a great experience, but a new chapter is in front of us...
Where are we heading next?
