and moving to a new city, new schools, and friends but right in the middle of painting projects
and dreams of French doors and wrap around porches something amazing happened...James was offered a faculty position with the University of Idaho.
So 7 months after buying our home and making some of the best friends:
and a doting aunt with only boys who doesn't mind getting creative with hair.
And we arrived just in time to celebrate this sweet kid's 10th birthday. Who's favorite thing to do on her birthday was kayaking with Aunt Marilyn on Fish Lake.
And then we found some time to soak in the beauty that is Idaho and spend time with family, after all, that's what life is about and why we took a leap of faith and followed our hearts when it made more sense financially to stay in Tennessee...and I'm so glad we did. We couldn't be happier, unless...
we all of our family and friends decided to move to Idaho (and to be honest, I'm working on that starting with these sweet nephews...one and forty five minutes is still too far away. ( =