Living in Munchkinland

Marcie and her whole family came to visit Denver in their camper last week. They stayed at Cherry Creek campground which was absolutely gorgeous. It was so nice to see everybody and spend some time with family. We also got to meet some of Marcie and Ann's local friends and have a bbq at their house. They were really nice and we hope to build a friendship with them. I love my cousin and her whole family so much and I am so lucky we live so much closer to each other now!

Our house is a lemon. But it's in a great neighborhood. And it's ours. So we are fixing it. One painful, high cost item at a time. The lovely lady who lived in our house before us had installed concrete over hardwoods and sculpted it with wire to look like stone and then painted it white. In the kitchen, dining and living room. White. And then the paint chipped. And the pergo in the other rooms gapped. They gapped and shifted and pinched and cut your bare feet. So we replaced them. Yay! We chose a luxury vinyl planking and I LOVE it. But first we had to move all our furniture out of every room and then for two weeks I hid among stacks of clutter while men banged and sanded and trudged through every open door in my house. And then we bought and had installed all new door casings and baseboard, too, because when in Rome... But my new floors are beautiful! And then after those weeks we went to Moab and when we got back we moved all the furniture out of every single bedroom and M...

Yikes! I'm two weeks behind. But two weeks ago, we took the light rail to downtown and attended the Denver Chalk Art Festival and the People's Fair. It was hot, but fun and I got to eat festival food and watch a gypsy jazz band. I call that a win! Yay, Summer!

For Memorial Day Weekend, we rented an RV from Cruise America and headed out for Moab. We picked up our RV on Friday from a way far north location. Traffic was a beast, but we made it. We spent the evening loading supplies and provisions. The next morning we were off! We listened to Willie Nelson while we passed from sunny Colorado foothills into gorgeous green canyons, into a snowy, dark pass, down through sleety, icy hills and into bright red, hot rock canyons. The entire road trip took about 6 hours. Our campground was cute and right near the entrance to Arches National park. We settled in and then took a walk across the road to the river and climbed some rocks until the Danielsons arrived. We were visiting at their campsite when a dog attacked Holly and knocked me off my feet. I fell over sideways and crashed in the gravel. I was not broken, but I was bruised and banged and spent the rest of the trip ignoring it. The next day we loaded all the kids into the back of the pick-up ...