Colorado
Posts from our time living in Fort Collins, Colorado.
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Colorado State Capitol Visit and Travel Diary
A couple of pictures from our eighth state Capitol visit in Denver. Swipe to see a view of Denver from up in the dome. Usually they won’t let little kids up in the dome but that was not the case in Colorado, so this Capitol building was special in that way. We spent the week…
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Summer 2019 Travel Schedule
Hello from Colorado! (Yes, I’m posting this a bit late.) Our Summer 2019 road trip is in full swing and this year we’re headed North and West. With a schedule packed full of partying with our clients, workshops, and some good old fashioned exploration, you’ll want to follow us @roadwarriorwp on all the socials so you don’t miss out. Questions?…
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Considering finding out baby’s gender
We’ve never known what we were having for any of our past pregnancies. I always love the surprise and not knowing what we’re having until baby is born, though it seems to torture everyone else. This time I think I might be convinced to find out what we’re having because planning is feeling a lot…
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Long Drive to Denver, Colorado
We made it! Day 2 of our trip was an epic 15 hour drive. We decided to suck it up and push through to make up for lost time the day before and today we’re all thankful to not have to drive anywhere. By the time we got to the campsite outside of Denver, I…
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Magical Drive Through Gnome-Filled Forests
Another #thowback from Colorado camping adventures. Around Red Feather Lakes (a teeny tiny town almost in Wyoming) there is a multi-mile mountain road that meanders through pine trees and is literally covered on both sides with gnomes, tree faces, and fairy gardens. It’s an incredible and magical drive. While we’ve planned the major stops on…
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State Forest State Park: Camping with Views.
Camping spots with a view. Back before we were outnumbered by kids and running a business full time, I used to be really good at making Shutterfly memory books and giving them to the grandparents. I still get emails from them every now and then with “memories from X years ago.” This was in my…
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Colorado House Renovation Before and After, Part 2
This is part two of my blog post about how we flipped our own house, doing a renovation and updating in 6 weeks, prior to listing it for sale. In Part One, I showed you the major changes upstairs when we took a wall between the dining, living room, and kitchen down to a half…
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Designed to Sell: Flipping Our House, Part 1
It’s officially been a year since I arrived in Texas. When we decided to list our house for sale during our spontaneous cross-country move, I somehow managed to talk Chris into taking a gamble on a full renovation and trying to “flip” our house. For a while now, the Fort Collins real estate market has…
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Work-Life Balance Interview: Meg Appleby
Last July, as I was working figuring out how to better balance my life, I started interviewing other people who seemed like they have it all together. I always had the intent of sharing these interviews with you, so I recorded them for both video and audio sharing. Seven months later, I’ve finally made time…
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The Work/Life Balance Project
I’m writing this post as we drive down the highway in the middle of Tennessee. We’re headed back home from a visit to my mom’s house outside Detroit. This would seem like a normal Christmas voyage, except two things are different: “home” no longer means Colorado, and we’re currently towing a 38 foot travel trailer…
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Maternity Leave for Small Business Owners
📍 ColoradoOn May 9th, I gave birth to our third daughter, Adelaide, while running on just an hour of sleep, following a 10 hour work day into the wee hours of the morning. Adelaide was born at noon; I rested, ate food, worked to get our breastfeeding relationship started, and spent an hour responding to client…
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Adelaide’s Birth Story
Adelaide is 6 weeks old today. I started writing this blog post two weeks ago, but today it’s getting posted, no matter what. After both Nora’s birth and Zara’s birth, I had their stories written within a week, but this time around it’s felt like I’ve barely had any time to process anything. Between work,…
