Transitioning

I started this blog because I love my life. I get to be with the people I love most in the world, enjoying and experiencing life together. I wanted to capture and chronicle that for myself, for people who love us, for others who live similarly or for people who are just curious as to what it's like to be home with 4 kids all day. Ordinarily our life is fun, adventurous, creative and happy and I love expressing that through words and photos. But lately, life has been difficult and heart breaking. It's felt as though the joy, fun, adventure and creativity have been sucked out entirely and I haven't found much worth sharing. We're painfully transitioning, leaving a life, home and people that are very dear to us and attempting to start a new life elsewhere. It's not that there's not good in the transition. There is. But, we've held on to something so hard, for so long, at times feeling like it was being ripped from our grasp and now that its time to let go the sense of loss is tremendous. The weight is gone but its absence is felt.

Of course, in the midst of it all, there have still been cupcakes,

 (made by Tanner)

and gory wound effects

 (by Tanner, again)

 and hours reconfiguring train tracks

(by everybody)

And although the next few months will include a lot of packing, stress, sadness, house hunting, job hunting and probably overwhelming busyness, I feel like glimpses of our life are coming back.

cozy reading time

 catching minnows

meandering.

 swinging

 Only Dominick sees this hill and says "Cool! I'm gonna ride my unicycle down it!"

and does.

 thoroughly enjoying this pig

(and oddly resting goat)

 making friends

engaging in quiet chicken conversation

And, I took the kids to a local park so they could film a movie Tanner's been planning, only to discover someone else was already filming.

So before they shot their own, they got a chance to watch the professionals for awhile. We have no idea what it was but we do know it involved a man in a suit rescuing a little boy from a bad cowboy with a gun. Great experience!

I'm not sure how much time or inspiration I'll have for this blog in the next little while, but I feel like we're finally starting to get our groove back.