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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

We're moving!!

To those who know us well, know that with the exception of the time we lived in Sugar City (for 2 years) we move a lot. Within our first year of marriage we moved about 4 times. Well, now that we've been settled in our new place for 6 months the time has once again come for us to pack up our things and move. Toward the end of this month we will be relocating to Idaho Falls. We had decided that eventually, within the next 6 months or so, we'd move to Idaho Falls. Mainly because there are more job opportunities for Craig and it will be closer to Pocatello where he'll be attending grad school for the next 4 or so years. Craig has no desire to live in Pocatello, or anywhere in between there and Idaho Falls. From Idaho Falls he can take a shuttle bus to campus, which is about an hour away. In the process of deciding when was the "right" time for us to move, we didn't know if wanted to find Craig a job in Idaho Falls first or move to Idaho Falls first. In the end we decided that it really didn't matter since either way there is a 30 minute commute to Rexburg. Then the decision came down to whether we wanted to move before or after our baby came in October, maybe September. So about 2 weeks ago we decided that we should look for places to live in Idaho Falls. If there was any thing good, then maybe we'd move before our baby comes but if not then we'll move later. Last week we went home looking in Idaho Falls with a list of about 14 places that we wanted to go look at. Most of the places we looked at where just complete trash, either the home itself or the community or both. Some of the places we looked at honestly should be burned in my opinion. All of those places that were either nasty on the outside or inside were immediately crossed off our list, leaving us with a couple that we wouldn't mind living in. One place we looked at we almost immediately liked, or liked as much as you can like an apartment. It has 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, washer/dryer hookups (which was a big deal since most the places in our price range do not), and a 2 car garage. We applied for it last week and found out Monday that we were approved. We thought about it for a couple days since we're not really in a rush to move and decided today that we will be moving there. We're going to go on Friday and sign the paper work and then on Friday the 26th we can start moving in. So while this move may seem random and spare of the moment, we did put a lot of prayer and thought into our final decision. There are only 2 things that will be hard about this move, 1. Sarah is pregnant (even more so than when we moved 6 months ago) and really can't do a lot of the work, and 2. Craig is always working and won't have ton of time to help with the move. But somehow we'll get down there and all settled. I'm sure most of it will be because of our wonderful friends and family members who are always willing to help us out.... No pressure to those who may be reading this ;) Our ward will be so disappointed to hear on Sunday that we are moving. Especially since Craig just got a new calling as the choir director and our primary kids are starting to like us. But, it's time for us to move and make some necessary changes in our life.

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