The Clayburn family was up for a while, and that meant it was time for updated photos for most of the kids. We went out to Greenough Park on a very frigid morning and got some decent shots. Here are a few of the behind the scenes photos, as well as the afterparty at the firepit!
It'd been a while since we experienced real cold and real snow, so moving back to Montana was definitely an adjustment. But with the cold of winter also comes a few things we didn't get to experience in Texas. That includes throwing snowballs, going out in the woods to cut down a Christmas tree, and the need for hats, gloves, coats, snow pants, snow boots, scarfs, ice scrapers, etc. etc. We got all that and more, and then braced for the winter! We spent our first two months in Montana living out of a hotel and still doing online school. Life's about the adventure I've heard...
Along the road to Montana we couldn't miss an opportunity to put another pin in the map! We stayed in Colorado on one of the days and took an evening drive to Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park. It's a deep hole in the ground, and I mean deep. I threw a snowball over the edge and it seemed like it took an eternity to hit the bottom. It was one of the first spots the boys got to make snowballs, and they made the best of their opportunity. There wasn't a ton to see or do at the park unless you wanted to make the dangerous hike down, but it was still pretty impressive to see. Farrah decided the cold up north wasn't for her so she jumped off the edge... they say she's still falling to this day...
It's been quite a while since this blog has been updated, maybe the longest break ever. But there's a reason for that. Things got a little hectic there for a while, and we're no longer writing from the same house or the same state for that matter. Once again (for the seventh time) we packed up and moved across the country. It was probably the hardest move we've ever had to make, but at least we were going to a familiar place. I was notified back in August that they needed someone to work in Montana, and since they knew it was where we were from, they came looking for me. They rarely if ever posted vacancies with paid moves, so it really was a once in a career opportunity. It was far from easy to give up the place we'd built for ourselves, including the house we'd just spent the last year destroying and rebuilding (ok, we weren't that sad to see that go), but being back in the northwest, in the mountains, in the snow, and near family, seemed like something we should do. So the stuff all got loaded up, the house got sold, and we were northward bound, saying goodbye the Lone Star State, the heat and humidity, and a great group of friends. We'll forever cherish our time in Texas and the people we met along the way, as we will most of the places we've been fortunate enough to live in and experience, but the posts on this blog and the pages of the book these photos will eventually appear on are made to capture the adventures of our lives together, and there are hopefully many, many more to come.
