Sprout Shell had a trade show scheduled the first week of August. It kind of fit in perfectly with the moving time line. We weren’t super excited about it though, since it did cause a lot more stress and coordination.

Back in May I scored a great deal on our hotel at the Golden Nugget. The north end of the strip doesn’t get as much attention, but this place was really nice and had a great pool–complete with shark tank in the middle and tube slide running through it.

Anyway, the trade show ended up not being what we had hoped or planned for. I did find some bedding for Kaia, scored some adorable Squeakers shoes for a great price, and we got a few orders, but that was about all.

Here’s our booth though…

So, we packed up and enjoyed the rest of our week doing this:

Chillin'

Reading

Drinking Coke

Trying on M&Ms hats

And SLEEPING!

Seriously. Our room got so dark with the curtains drawn it we wouldn’t know if it was 2:30 am or 2:30 pm.

Britton insisted on sleeping with me all week. He NEVER does that. He just rolls around and tosses and turns whenever we try it. He usually has to be in his own bed. Maybe he was traumatized from me being gone all day Monday, ’cause he was clingy all week too.

Our last night in town we went to a brand new restaurant–like, opening night–Max Brenner.

It’s a chocolate restaurant. Not everything has chocolate on it, or in it, but some things do. And especially their desserts! Oh my. We shared dinner so we’d have room for all the things we wanted to try.

One of the rare moments that Britton cooperated…until dessert came.

Our dessert spread

Dip your own ice cream, chocolate apple streusel with caramel sauce, Smores Sundae and Chocolate pizza with marshmallows. It was SOOOOOO good. We will definitely have to go back and try more of the chocolate deliciousness.

So, despite it not turning out like we planned, it was actually a very nice week. But, I was ready to get out of there and on the road to our new life.

This was the hardest part of leaving LA. We’ve had some great friends there. Most of them moved away ahead of us. Some have been there for us all along. And some were new. Sad.

Amanda and me amidst all of our chaos. Thanks for everything.

Michelle, fellow preggo, and distant relative of Mark’s–you’re great. So glad we got to be friends.

Our way too cool for words friends Adam and Erin–you guys rock! Thanks for the boxes too!

Aw, Paige and Mav. What will we do without you?!?!? Our lives will never be the same. Thank heavens for Skype.

And all of our other friends whom we didn’t get pictures with or get to say goodbye too…we love you and miss you and hope to see you soon!

Before we left we got together with a few of Mark’s former Napster co-workers (and friends, of course) for dinner at Chakra. It’s a great Indian in Beverly Hills for those of you in LA.

It was nice visiting and catching up since I don’t get to see them very often. Luckily the restaurant has a water wall that Britton found fascinating.

The Napsterites and friends…

Both Britton and Missy were unhappy at this point. I think for different reasons though. Missy–we’ll be sure to send you some Halloween pics, then you can photoshop yourself in.

The whole group. Thanks guys! It was great to see you.

So, when we flew to Denver to find a place to live we realized it was also our last little getaway before Kaia gets here. Britton was with his She-She (new name, we’re trying it out), and I missed him terribly, but we had a great time.

We went to see Inception–great movie. Though, I don’t know that it was entirely necessary to pay $17 for IMAX. Mark would disagree. We drove A LOT, had ice cream at Bonnie Braes, slept in, found a place to live (will take pics and get those up someday), visited the Temple grounds and generally enjoyed getting to know the area.

Since we’re super awesome, we didn’t take pictures except this:

and this:

The sunsets here are gorgeous!

On my way back to LA the clouds were awesome. I had to get some of them too.

It’s been forever since I’ve updated…and feel like I really should.

Yes, we have arrived in Denver, well Arvada, and we’re getting settled in. But, posts about leaving LA and all that will have to come a little later.

Here’s us at Disneyland with Gram

He likes to help shoot now. He does pretty well.

I found bunnies

Brit found the peeps in the cupboard and thought they were delicious!

Lay on my back?

He HATES to lay on his back in the pool. His teacher worked with him a lot on it.

Ready to launch

He does like to jump in though.

Drummer boys

Brit and his new friend Max drumming at the Grove.

But his favorite was the fountain

I tried to get him out the last few weeks and do things since I know he was bored if we stayed inside all day.