Goodbye Penticton...

Things are happening in the little Oliver family.  Jason accepted a job teaching high school business/marketing at Centaurus High School in Boulder, Colorado.  He accepted the job at the very end of June and then things sped ahead: selling the house and both cars, packing up, emptying the house, preparing paperwork, planning for school, quitting jobs, renting a place in Boulder, saying goodbye to friends.

Rachel is growing up fast.  In the last month, she has learned to crawl, explore, pull up to stand, and cruise.  She can quickly get herself from one area of a room to another and explore what is around it.  She is particularly motivated to move rapidly toward food, electric cords, or boxes of interesting looking objects.  She loves to unpack boxes and throw the contents around the area.  She wasn't a huge help in the 'packing' department, but we're expecting great things when it comes to unpacking.

We're doing WHAT?!?!

Enjoying all the food left in the pantry

Last day at the beach

Jeff's family came to visit and say goodbye

July was quite hectic, to say the least.  Jason was home with Rachel full time while Meggan worked some extra hours covering for summer locums.  Jason had a lot to organize with getting ready for school and moving into a new home in Boulder.  His first day of work was August 8th!

We had so many great friends and family help us out during this hectic time.  Meggan's parents helped us clean the house to show and sell it.  Our friends Tricia and Chris bought our house.  Our friends Rachel and Kristen bought our cars.  Tamsyn, Jehanne, Kristen, Amber, Penny, and Caithy and Sean all helped us pack up and/or watched Rachel.  Meggan's brother Jeff and his family came to stay with us and watched Rachel during most of their visit.  We are so lucky to have such amazing friends!

Check out videos from the beach:

Things we're really going to miss about Penticton: the running/hashing community, the lakes, Skaha park, having friends visit us and the wineries, Nickel Plate cross country skiing, and, most of all, the great friends we made there.

Bye Bye House!

Moving truck arrives in front of sold house

This truck held about 8 families' belongings

So the actual move has been a little complicated.  Ok, a LOT complicated.  But in the end we managed to fit all of our things somewhere in the big orange truck and we all made it safely across the border... on to new adventures!