Big News ...

Our happy and exciting news is that we just bought this beautiful home. Our sad news is that home is in Colorado. We are so thrilled to move to the beautiful state of Colorado. The town we bought our home in is absolutely made for families. Mike has accepted an offer at a terrific firm there. We have friends from both here and college there. We truly fell in love with Colorado. We really feel like this is a good move for our family.

The sad part is that we are leaving our beloved Boston. And for me, I am leaving my home, New England. I will write more on that later but I love being from here. I completely love New England and in particular, Boston. I met Mike here. Living here and raising a family here is so different than just being a student here, as Mike says. I love that our daughters were able to live here. I feel that they will always have that connection to my home now. I have lived in Boston three times now. Every time I left I always knew that I would be back. This time I do not think I will be back (except for annual vacations). My heart aches a bit. As the saying goes "New Englanders are born, not made" (truth - this could be because New Englanders have a reputation of not accepting outsiders). But I am so grateful that we get to move to Colorado. When we were deciding where in the country to move to, Colorado was our clear cut winner. I know that we will be so happy there and absolutely love it. All of our friends who have moved there have said that they love it so much, they wished they had done it sooner.

I will also desperately miss the youth. I have always said that I have the greatest calling on earth (first counselor in the stake yw). I have been able to serve with the finest youth anywhere in the church. Many read this blog and I want them to know I truly believe that. The youth in our stake are diverse, supportive and unified. This experience, and even simply knowing them, has changed me forever. The thought of saying goodbye to my youth is so difficult. But I know that this stake is filled with the greatest people.

I will also miss our friends. We have the greatest friends. We are so blessed to have friends we have known since college here. I even have friends that I knew as a yw. We have loyal friends who we have been so priviledged to raise our children together. But I am comforted to remember the time we left DC. I remember crying for 3 weeks when we left DC. We had (and still do) this amazing group of friends. Each so different and all so incredible. We still love our DC friends (in fact, Em still has the same best friend from DC) and have been able to add more friends. Colorado, I am sure will hold more of the same.

So that is our big news, we will write more later.