The Calm Before the Storm

Welcome to the new blog.  As I am sure many of you now know we are official residents of Denver, Colorado.  When did all this happen, you may be wondering? But don't worry... Ill catch you up.   Now I know it may October but I am going to backtrack a bit.

Let's flashback to August when this new adventure officially began...

August 11th marked our last day on the east coast.  For months (maybe safe to say a year) now we have been eager for a new path. A new career. A new home.  Several things... and finally the time had come.

Unfortunately, during this time of departure, our adventure was not lead by a new career or home... YET!  But  we were not going to let us stop us from happiness. Our motto was there is no reward without risk.  So risk was our destiny.

Over the summer we tossed around several new cities that would possibly be of keep for the Berney duo.  There was New York City, Austin, Denver, Dallas, and San Francisco.  NYC/SF = too expensive.  Austin/Dallas = too hot... so Denver WON!

We packed up our POD. Bid farewell to our east coast friends (Miss you guys!!) And headed west.



It has been three years since the ol' Maddox (Car) and the chicas (cats) had taken a road trip quite like this.  And with all of our belongs loaded up into the POD which was temporarily stored in New Jersey, we decided to make the most of this time off!

We shipped off from the Garden State and headed west through PA, WV, OH, IN, IL, MO before we reached our first stop on Tour De Berney.... ARKANSAS! Since our time out in New Jersey, our sister Kristin had bought a brand new house in Bentonville, Arkansas and added a new pup to her growing family.  So after 19 hours of driving, we were very excited to see her, Landon, Indie, Addie and the new place.   It was great to be out of the car and in a place of family.  We had a blast.  I had never been to Bentonville before and was throughly impressed with all the fun things it has to offer.  We had some great food.  Played some great arcade games.  Sunk a few holes at Putt Putt.  Shot fireworks in the backyard. And the best part was getting to spend the time with some of our favorite people! It was great!  We stayed through the weekend before heading on to our next stop on Tour De Berney.

Continuing on we headed west again to find ourselves back home.  Our original hometown of Bartlesville, Oklahoma!  And boy were the girls excited to see some familiar stomping ground.  It is always nice to be back in your old room.  With you old pictures and memories.  But I also was enjoying the fact that our car was packed tighter than air sealed jar and we were finally to a place to unload! Packing the pod was not a fun sight... We were forced to get rid of a lot of things just b/c we didn't have the space.  So the car was our "aftershock" stuff job! It has to include all the extras... plus all of the MUST HAVES seeing we were living on the road for an undetermined amount of time! So it was nice to be able unload some of these random items! 

Bartlesville was a nice trip.  I immediately ingested 5 days worth of Mexican food.  Yes, I even had some lunch and dinner days.  Remember... Jersey doesn't do MEXICAN so my need for mex is always the first item of business. We checked out the newest club in town... the ol' Big Belly Club.  Which is quite impressive for Bartlesville.  Nice pool tables. Nice dance floor... and only the best bartenders in the state! :) 

While we had free time on our hands, we thought it would be a fun idea to head down to Dallas to revisit the home before the last.  So we let Mom babysit the kits while we drove down to D-Town for a weekend of fun.  Our BFFF, Tim Frick was ever so generous to let us stay with him.  We rioted the town just as though we had never left! I got to enjoy an awesome lunch with one of my Best and Oldest friends Mrs. Jennifer Brown. And got to meet her incredibly cute and genius daughter, Kaylen.  This girl sings Boomer Sooner and she is only 2! PRECIOUS! We had a blast hanging with our friends.... Miss you guys a ton!! 

After that Vegas style weekend, we headed back to the OK!  But not for long... It was time for us to get our feet wet in Colorado! 

See you in Mountain Time!