Progress

We received the news today that Jason passed his dermatology boards.  He woke me and had me read the email on his laptop.  I was so thrilled!!  We all are so thrilled ... and relieved that it's over with once and for all.  Residency!  It nearly killed us.  Not joking.

 

Meanwhile, our home is coming along.  I took this picture yesterday.  They're getting the stonework done and paving the driveway.  The inside is all sheetrocked and painted.  Looking forward to seeing it all come together.

 

The kids had their open house at their new school yesterday as well.  We met their cute teachers and found their desk where they'll be sitting.  It's such a precious country school.  I'm so glad they'll be going there. 

 

Tomorrow we head into Bozeman permanently.  We've been renting a condo this past month in Big Sky, which has been fun, but I am so ready to be settled and get these kids out of the house and into school.  We'll rent another condo (3 bedrooms!) for the next two months while our home gets finished. 

Picnic on the Gallatin

I packed a lunch and hauled the kids down to one of my favorite spots on Earth:  the Gallatin River.  We had fun being outside and splashing around in the freezing water.  Just a few more days until school starts so I'm trying to squeeze in all the fun that we can get.

 

 

New Home

This is our new home!  We have to wait until October to move in, but we are so excited.  It's just an itty-bitty babydoll house, which is what we wanted for now.  This will give us the time we need to search for land and build the dream home someday.  And then we'll turn this into a rental/income property.  But for now ... beyond excited to get into this and get settled.  Perfect!

I'll add updated photos of the progress as we go along.

Who Is This Peach Muffin?

Christiana...

I love this little girl so much.

Bungee Trampoline and Rock Climbing

More fun and games in Big Sky!

Feeling So Blessed

We are feeling so blessed to be in Montana.  We shopped a few homes today and I took these of our surroundings while we were waiting for our Realtor to arrive.  Lucky us.

Hooray!

We have rented a condo for the month of August in Big Sky, which is a beeea-utiful

 ski resort just south of Bozeman.  Jason doesn't begin work until September so we are being lazy and having fun with the kids, house-hunting in Bozeman, and taking in the sights and sounds of this amazing place.  We went on two different hikes today.  It's so fun just hanging around.

This morning we woke up and found a moose outside our window.  A moose!  We were all in the kitchen and Jimmy ran back to our bedroom and was yelling at us to hurry up and come see this!  So we ran back to our room and this moose was right next to our window eating the grass.  We could have reached our hand through the window and scratched his head.  It was amazing.  We were all screaming.

 This is our view of part of the ski resort off our back patio.  Glorious, isn't it?

And Christiana is so cute.  We are having a blast in our teeny-tiny condo.  Hooray for Montana!