Good Bye Boots

This week was a hard one for the family we had to put Boots down. He was very sick and had a growth in his mouth. He was unable to eat and drink. After a few months of treating the growth fairly well it started to come back with a vengeance. We decided last Sunday we needed to help him move on. We love you Boots and you will be missed. RIP Bootsy-boy

Elliott Turns Three!!!

Elliott recently turned 3 and we celebrated at Liberty Park with a carnival birthday. Everyone came and I made little hamburger cupcakes for the big day. 

Elliott turns 3

Carnival Birthday

Fun Hamburger Cupcakes

Therapist

Just so you all know it took a year, but I am now licensed to practice therapy in Utah!

I love outdoor dinners.... I plan on making it a tradition at least once a summer for me and Tay. Good food and drinks with good friends. Last year we had it on the last day of summer and autumn equinox. Our Menu was veggie chili, pumpkin corn bread, yummy cheeses, bread and apple and peach pies.  Here are some pics of  event.

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Holy Moly Batman!!!

So I guess I should update everyone on what has happened over the last few months. Welllll.... Denver chewed us up and spit us out! We moved back to SLC in June and then I got a job as a social worker right away! So I started a week after we moved to Utah, I've been working for over a month now and I like to place. Taylor is also liking his job. Elliott has entered the "terrible 2" he will be fine one second and then just burst out of anger, frustration or fits of crying. It feel like I'm living with a teenager, just cuter! Potty-training got set back with all the transitions we have had... we are still working on it. But at least he insists that his potato man go in the potty (see pic below).

We continue to settle in.... it is at least starting to feel real, there are still some day that I think about going to a place or eating somewhere and realize that I'm not in Denver! I will post pics of our cute place, Tay and I love the location and we are right next to a park so I can continue to run.

Does anyone else feel like this summer had just flown by? Can it really be August?

Transitions

"People have to start with endings- letting go of whatever it is time to let go of- before they can make new beginnings" - William Bridges

And that is what I have been doing this last month... ending my time as a Grad student, school counselor, relationship with my clients, friends and own therapist..... I'm ending the life I have built here in Colorado in order to start a new beginning in Utah. It's weird because I realize Colorado is where I became myself, where I grew up and now I'm going back to the beginning, the place I left, so I can become grounded again. However, I feel like I'm coming back from war, changed.. forever and I wonder how I will "fit in" to the old system as my new self. How will people receive me, will I regress to old ways? It's hard to move on, all the while moving on to an old familiar place... but I have change inwardly and the external change serve as a symbol... a new stage of development. I think of the quote I put on my grad announcements by T.S. Eliot "and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." How very literal this is for me right now, what an interesting and exciting idea of coming back to "home" and knowing it for the first time.

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