Moving day

Moving day is drawing near! Chad has been packing every night, so we are pretty much ready to go. It's amazing how much stuff we have! Some good news - we have found a house! We will be moving to Ideal Street (no joke!) in mid-October. It is a four bedroom, two bath split-level. It's got a lot of work to be done, but the 2500 square feet give us a lot of room. One of our first projects will be to take down the wheelchair ramp...although it would be a fun sledding hill come winter:)

I also had a surprise development this week. Naviance, the computer company that I have trained for for over a year has hired me on full-time. I will be working at home, but will be supporting all Naviance users in the state, and when needed, the rest of the country. I'm really excited

We're still crossing our fingers for Chad to score a position in Duluth. Please keep him in your prayers. We would love to have him join us when we move into our new home.

The big 3-0!

Today I hit the milestone I've been waiting for! I turned 30! I had a great day - Chad and Maria gave me diamond earrings in the morning, Maria and I went shopping in the afternoon, and we went to our annual birthday destination, the Timber Lodge for dinner:) I tried to work as little as possible too. The flexiblity of my job comes in handy sometimes!
We're headed back up to Duluth tomorrow to look at another house. I was hoping that we would be done with our search by now, but we just keep finding new places to look at. We're thankful for our awesome realtor, Nicki Conrad, who is also from the Falls.
We're scheduled to move on the 27th, so we'll be all packed and ready to go in about a week. It's starting to sink in with us - every time we go somewhere in the cities we wonder if it's the last time we'll be there. Weird! We're excited for the new opportunity though. Turning 30 really is starting a whole new chapter of life - one that I'm so anxious to begin.
I had some time to take some new videos of Maria today. Check them out!

9.9.2008

Not too much new to report on. We went house-hunting last weekend and saw a few potential places, and it seems that every day we are emailed a new listing, so we're going to go back up this weekend to check things out. Hopefully we'll have a decision soon!
We had some people over for the Vikings/Packers game last night. Unfortunately for me, fortunately for Chad the Packers won. He now has bragging rights until they play each other again. I also owe my nephews M&M's, so I'm pretty bummed about that - I like to be on the receiving end of the chocolate!