The Job and The Move

As I sit here tonight, I cannot express the range of emotions that I feel about this move that we will be making here in just a few short weeks.  I mean WOW! That is really all I can say about it.  I feel happy, excited, joy, sadness, anger, a grateful heart, love, overwhelmed, confused, anxious, ecstatic lonely.  I mean really every descriptive word that you can think of to describe how you are feeling, that is how I feel.  This is by far one of the hardest things I have ever done, that's for sure.  But since Day 1 I have seen the blessings that led us to this point in our lives and I am so incredible grateful for those blessings.

This job kind of came as a shock and was a pretty intense process to get to where Clint was offered the job.  He prepared and worked so hard to get this Job and it payed off.  From his first interview to the last it was about a month and we were very unsure as to what was going to happen but were prepared for either outcome.  Funny thing was, when he had his final interview in Chicago, his flight was canceled and he had to spend the night in the airport in his suite, no toiletries, and his phone died.  Needless to say it was a long 48 hours.  But oh so very worth it.

I told my parents the next day and it was one of the hardest things I have ever had to do because I knew it was going to blind side them and not what they expected to hear from me that night I went over there.  Telling the rest of our family and friends wasn't as bad, there were some it was harder to tell over others.

Clint has now been with the job for 6 weeks now.  The first week he worked from home, the next two he was in training first in Chicago and then Atlanta.  Then he took off for California and has been there now for 3 weeks.  We have seen him on the weekends up until this weekend and we will be moving down there in 6 weeks.

We need to be out of our house by May 30th so that the new family can move in.  We will be renting our house out so we can put more money into the principle of the home, sale it off years down the road so we can buy a new house in California.

We will be renting a house out down there.  But before we rent we will bunk up with Clint's parents until we can find a place.  But we want to be very selective in buying a place.  Get a feel for the schools, wards, neighborhoods.  We will be looking in a few cities in Orange County and then Oceanside.

It is going to be incredibly hard to leave my house, my friends, my family, everything I have ever know.  I am really excited to experience the church outside the state of Utah, but nervous about it too.  I am excited about the beaches, the culture, disneyland, sea world, padre games etc.  It really is endless.  But I have several questions to how will I raise my kids in an area that is not predominantly LDS?  How will my kids adjust?  Will we find a place we love?  Will we love the school?  What city?  There are endless questions.   

Something that Clint and I discussed from day 1 was that we were going to just go with the flow since there were going to be so many thing that will be up in the air.  Also, we didn't want this to turn us against each other and get mad over dumb things, because we knew it was going to be stressful. So we have already had to stop ourselves, sit back and just laugh.

These pictures are just some of the pictures we have shared back in forth over the last couple of weeks.  Our lives have resorted to lots of pictures and facetime.