Finding our place in this world

For about two years, my husband and I had been talking about where we wanted to raise our sons. We had been living in the Chicago-area for over a decade. We had such a great community of friends and loved so many things about living in Illinois, but we felt like we needed to find “our place” … the place where we would put down permanent roots. We started researching, praying, and traveling!

Ted and I took a long weekend and visited the Pacific Northwest. It was sooo beautiful, we have life-long friends there, we loved it, but it wasn’t our place.

We took our family on a week-long visit to Tennessee. It was a fantastic week, there is so much to love about this state, but it wasn’t our place.

We went back to Tulsa where Ted and I met and got married. We love Tulsa. We have family there and some of our closest friends live in the Tulsa area. We strongly considered moving back but eventually decided … it wasn’t our place.

We talked about and visited a few other places … but none of them were ‘our place.’

Then, we came to Colorado.

Ted had been talking about Colorado for years. I finally told him I’d be open to taking a trip to scout it out and to see if I could imagine our family living there.

We planned our trip for June 2015, packed the car, loaded up our boys(ages 1, 3, 5, and 7 at that time) and set out across the country.

The trip was incredible.

Spectacular.

Soul-filling.

I could not (still can’t) figure out how so much beauty can be packed into one state. It’s really not fair.

And we knew….

Colorado was our place.

Now the question became…How do we get here?

Well, come back tomorrow so I can tell you about some of the CRAZY details about how it happened!