We're Home, But Not Yet

In the past 2 weeks its been very exciting. We bought a house, decided to move to Las Vegas, and I saw about 4 lifers here. Well, were to begin... I'll start with when we got to Vegas.

We stayed in Milagro for 2 weeks and then moved out and headed for Las Vegas. We thought that we would maybe look at a few houses, see if there is any good schools or jobs for mom and dad and overall we didn't think that we would be impressed. We were wrong. First we found a fabulous school that was centered on outward-bound stuff and was 1st grade to 8th grade and then dad found a nursing clinic that he really liked that would work for mom too. And then we found an amazing house on the outskirts of Las Vegas that had a excellent birding area and a sun room where you can watch thunderstorms. There is also a room that would be mine and has room for a bed and a study. After we looked at the house 3 different times we decided to buy it!

I'm still getting over the shock of getting a house and that our trip is almost over (it ends after we come back from Cape Cod to the house on August 2).

Yesterday night we did a big hike at about 12,000 feet in Carson National Forest with our friend David Benevidas and his two kids Isabella and Eddie.There wasn't a trail and we went to the top of a snow field (I didn't go up because I was too queasy). On the way back I saw a lifer-a Broad-tailed Hummingbird- and I also saw a Golden Eagle getting mobbed by a Red-tail (hawk)! I wrote I journal entry on the hike too so you can just read the other post (June 21st, 2008). After the hike we had a campfire with Dave, Isabella and Eddie.

We are going on a plane (it'll be the fist time I've been on a plane in about a year) to Cape Cod on July 1st and are gonna visit with our grandparents for a month (from 7/1/08 to 8/1/08).