4 Years

Four years ago today, we started the day early. We had spent the previous day finishing up packing and loading all our belongings into PODS to be transported across Kansas and stored in Colorado. We got up early on Thursday, June 30, did a final vacuum of the house, and left our home in Gardner, Kansas for the last time.

We spent the day driving across Kansas (an exciting trip, in case you have never done it!) and preparing ourselves for a new start. We were so grateful to Jack's mom for flying out to help drive and entertain the girls during the trip. We arrived at Jack's parents house on the evening of June 30, 2005. Jack had to be in the office for his first day of work at ICat in Boulder the next day.

We have had many experiences since leaving Kansas. Sometimes it seems like we've been here forever, other times it seems like yesterday that we left our friends, home and activities there to 'come home' to Colorado.

When we first came to Colorado, we lived with Jack's parents for about 6 months. This was the time when we were house hunting and building our home here in Dacono. It was a great opportunity for the children to develop relationships with family that they hadn't seen much of!

In December of 2005, we moved into our home in Dacono. We had no neighbors at that time. We were actually the first house to have occupants on our street!



We got the pleasure of doing the landscaping on our back yard. This was a family affair, with Jack's dad doing a lot of work for us. We also had a fun 4th of July barbecue that year where we exchanged some manual labor for lunch!



We experienced the blizzard of 2006. There was so much snow, and we were snowed in for a long time! We're just glad we didn't lose power for too long. It did make us seriously consider getting a generator...


We were so excited to have a new child come to our family, especially after 10 weeks of bed rest before he arrived!

Joseph John Crews was born on May 21, 2007. He was born at 36 1/2 weeks, and we felt so blessed that he was healthy.





This home has been the site of exciting happenings like losing teeth, birthday parties and four Christmases.

We have also had two years of Rebecca going to school at Quest Academy, our neighborhood school.


We have enjoyed being able to spend time with family now that we are close enough to visit regularly.



Even though our lives are different from how they were while we lived in Kansas, there have been many fun and exciting things we have been a part of since we moved back to Colorado.