Summary of the last 8 years

After Jamaica, we moved back to Flagstaff. We had been living in Mesa for about a year. Cora was born in February of 2001. We had started an art gallery in Williams, Arizona with the photos Lynn had taken. He is an excellent photographer. The gallery, however, was short-lived and in July, we closed down and moved back to Mesa. When Cora was a year old, Lynn and I went on a 10 day tour of eastern Europe, including Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Hungary. My mother-in-law watched Cora. We missed her like crazy and decided that if we ever did continue to travel, we would have to take our kids. We loved Europe! Lynn had been there before but this was my first time. I can't find any photos of our trip or those first couple of years (not that I've looked very hard, I'm just too lazy to upload them on the computer if they aren't already there.) After we got back from our trip, Lynn started to dabble in real estate. It was just the right timing and real estate took off. Lynn became an enterprenuer over the next eight years, investing in real estate both residential and commercial. He had found his nitch. After Cora was born, I quit at the insurance company and became a stay-at-home mom. In 2003 Grae was born and Jonah in 2005. We moved many times to various homes in Mesa and then to Gilbert, building up a real estate nest as we went. It wasn't that fun to continuously move, especially with little children but we hoped it would pay off. During those next few years travel continued to be a high priority (whether we had money or not). We drove cross country, from Arizona to New York twice to visit family in Pennsylvania. Our children are great travelers so in 2005 when Cora was 4, Granger almost 2 and I was 6 months pregnant, we took our family to France. In 2006 we took our children to New Zealand and Australia and in 2007 we went to Spain and later that year to Guatemala with our entire family. We continue to LOVE to travel and have been very blessed to be able to do so. Although we throw all reason out the window when we do go. In 2006 we moved to Snowflake, Arizona in an attempt to get out of the "rat race". We always wanted to raise our children in a small town and felt we were finally able to do so. Snowflake has been perfect from the moment we got here and we love have four seasons a year! It is also a perfect location for mountain biking, hiking and other outdoor activities, which our family loves. Hopefully we'll get to stay.