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the battersby box the battersby box tuesday december 3 2013 west coast update the last few months have been a whirlwind for us we moved across the country again and are living back on the west coast we are loving being back and have been busy seeing old friends and family we are settled into our rental house we really love it it s across from a lake which we have lake rights to and it is quiet and peaceful our stuff fits in here perfectly and everyone that sees the place says it was like it was meant for us we feel that way too come visit us we have extra bedrooms we spent a few days at long beach with colin s parents and the dogs we had the beach basically to ourselves and it was so fun to be able to let the dogs just run free which they don t normally get to do and see them enjoying the beach we celebrated colin s 39th birthday he is finally as old as me again i always love that his parents came up to celebrate with us colin is a huge seattle seahawks fan so for his birthday i got him tickets to a game we had a lot of fun even if we were in the nosebleed seats and the seahawks won yay colin is settling into his new job and really likes it when i found out we were moving back here i decided that i wanted to get back into dispatching and just got hired at the issaquah police department i start in a few days working shift work again will be an adjustment for me but i m looking forward to once again doing what i loved to do it was a big decision for us to move back to the west coast we had a house and good jobs in new hampshire but it felt right from the beginning and everything has fallen into place since we ve been here it was definitely the right decision for us and we are very thankful posted by colin and heidi at 6 30 pm 2 comments monday november 18 2013 i m not ok it has taken me 10 months to admit that if you had asked me how i was in the days following my brothers death i would have answered i m ok it s the standard answer many of us give when we re asked how we are along with fine and good i clearly was not ok then i m not even ok 10 months later his children are not ok although if you asked any of them how they were doing they would also tell you they are ok fine or good because that s the answer you re suppose to give because that s what everyone wants to hear after my brother died i threw myself into home improvement projects to keep busy after that i was busy planning the move back to washington state then it was keeping busy unpacking and getting settled in a new place now that everything is all unpacked and i m not working yet i have a lot of time by myself to think specifically time to think about my brother something i ve tried to keep from doing for the last 10 months oh i know he s gone i know all too well that i can t pick up the phone and call him or text him or see him but now i m left with time to think about that to actually allow myself to grieve that loss in some ways losing my brother was harder than when i lost my dad because i had my brother there to share the grief with someone that had just lost their dad too but i don t have any other siblings that i can share the loss of my brother with maybe instead of saying i m ok i need to share my grief with others that loved him as much as me like my nieces and nephews they know that i loved their dad but they need to know i miss him every day and i m not ok with him being gone they need to know that some days i wonder like they do if everything will ever be ok again when someone close to you dies the rest of the world stops for a few days as you go through the motions of planning and having a funeral when that s done you see other people going about life as normal you think the rest of the world has gone on i need to go on so you get up every day and do those things that you need to do because you have responsibilities and people counting on you you go on and make the best of this new life without the person you loved but that doesn t mean that you stop missing that person that you don t still think about them and love them it doesn t mean that anyone will ever replace them because no one can it doesn t even mean that you re ok it will be a year in january and i m not ok with this new life without my brother in it but i m finally ok admitting it posted by colin and heidi at 12 24 am 2 comments friday august 9 2013 moving back to the best coast the west coast big changes are coming for the battersby s colin has accepted a job with radiant zemax in redmond wa and we will be moving mid september we are excited for this new opportunity to be back in the seattle area where we met and closer to our families colin s parents will be a 3 hour drive away and my mom and nieces and nephews will be a 6 hour drive we have many friends there that we are looking forward to spending time with again after being away for so many years we ve enjoyed the last 10 years on the east coast except for all the weather related events that left us without power for weeks at a time we will miss our cousins the jurgies in vermont our friends the maine coastline manchester monarchs hockey games and the fall in new england but the pacific northwest has always been home and there s no place like home p s it s probably only fair to warn those of you in the general vicinity of where we will be living that historic storms and other such that hasn t happened here in 100 years events seem to follow us wherever we go so don t be surprised when mt st helen s erupts again posted by colin and heidi at 5 59 pm 2 comments saturday july 13 2013 chicago chicago i mentioned in the previous post that we flew into chicago and had colin s parents pick us up there to go to aunt val and uncle bob s surprise party we arrived in chicago in the early morning and had the day to spend sight seeing chicago is one of the cities that i have wanted to visit for awhile we started our day off at the willis tower where we had a view of chicago it was a little foggy in the morning but we were still able to see pretty far i got colin s mom out on the sky ledge and you can see the look of uncertainty on her face lunch was our next stop and we ended up at perry s deli the portions were huge and the food very good i would definitely recommend this place we all gave it 2 thumbs up after lunch we hopped on a double decker bus tour to see downtown chicago the bus makes several stops and you can hop on and off at any stop along the way one of our stops was navy pier i think chicago has the most beautiful skyline of any city that i have seen thus far the architecture is amazing colin and i can t wait to go back when we can spend some more time there i was surprised at how clean the downtown area was and how friendly the people were i told colin i think we have been living in the northeast too long colin was wearing his bruins shirt the bruins were playing the blackhawks in the stanley cup finals and he expected to hear some ribbing every single person said what a great series it was and good luck to your team if the situation had been reversed and a blackhawks fan was wearing his teams shirt in boston he would have been heckled and swore at it was a different experience for sure you can t go to chicago and not have pizza so we ended the day at vito nick s they are known for their thin crispy crust pizza that we love and can t get in the northeast so we opted for that over deep dish we were not disappointed it was great pizza next time we are there we will hit up gino s east which was recommended to us by a few people until next time chicago posted by colin and heidi at 8 37 pm 1 comment a well kept secret a few months ago we were told about a surprise 50th anniversary party for colin s aunt and uncle in indiana colin s dad s sister aunt val and her husband uncle bob colin s parents were planning to drive out from oregon to go to the party then they were going to drive to nh to see us for a few days we decided to fly out to meet them at the party and drive back with them to nh when i first found out about this party from colin s mom we were a little worried that she wouldn t be able to keep it a secret the party wasn t until june so she had to keep it a secret for about 5 months she emails val every day and they are very close colin and i had bets on when she or his dad would spill the beans because neither of them are known for keeping a secret since they drove from oregon colin s mom spent the week before the party emailing val from whatever hotel room she was staying in at the time and lying to her about what she had done that day in oregon she almost gave it away once when she sent an email meant for me to val talking about a deli in chicago that her friend recommended she covered it up by saying the email was meant for a friend that was going to chicago we had to remind her not to post anything on facebook or say anything in her emails that would give it away aunt val and uncle bob live in west lafayette in so we flew into chicago which is a couple hours away the day before the party colin s parents picked us up from the airport aunt val and uncle bob were truly surprised they had no idea they couldn t believe that all their friends and family could keep a secret like this for so long it was wonderful to see them and get to meet other family members we hadn t met before and meet some of their friends we spent the weekend in indiana visiting with family before making our way back to nh all dressed up and ready to par tay mom dad battersby uncle bob and aunt val a little dancing aunt val colin uncle bob us with aunt val uncle bob colin s parents val bob a miracle shot where colin and his parents are all looking at the camera at the same time jerry and his sister val colin s mom thought that she deserved a reward for keeping the secret for so long and so did we so we bought her a lobster dinner when we got back to nh posted by colin and heidi at 8 13 pm 1 comment older posts home subscribe to 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