Its OUR Life!

Yep, this sign is in our front yard; so that means we must be moving!!! Its true, Adam and I are packing up and heading to Arizona in, gulp, two weeks! I know crazy. Last week during our trip to Arizona I had a job interview and a subsequent offer that we accepted. We've given our two weeks notice at work and listed our house for sale and we're one our way. Its very exciting and very overwhelming at the same time.

I'll be working as a Financial Analyst for American Express and I am very excited about it. I think its going to be a very good career move for me with lots of opportunity to grow and advance. The Phoenix area has the biggest number of American Express employees with over 7,000 and I'll be working at a center with over 3,000 employees. American Express is ranked in the top 100 employers and I'm excited about the opportunity to join the company. Getting hired happened FAST. I sent in an application, was set up for a phone interview within a week and two days later they called to set up an appointment to fly me in for an in person interview. We were able to coincide it with a planned trip to Arizona for the 4th. I interviewed and they called me the next day to offer me the position.

Adam is still working on his options. Eventually he would like to return to school to get his MBA and he wants to do that at ASU or Thunderbird. We weren't enjoying his current job situation and he's ready for a change.

We spent some time checking out houses while we were down there. It was a bit overwhelming for me... OK a BIT is an understatement. I was way overwhelmed. Houses down there DO NOT look like they do in Boise. I have no idea what to look for. I don't know what a nice house looks like or what a nice neighborhood looks like. Around here you basically look for grass and nice siding.. yeah there's hardly any grass in Arizona and siding is actually not a good thing down there. Who knew.

So our plan is to pack everything furiously, and head out in two weeks. We'll live in an apartment for a couple months while we sell our house here and find something down there. It will be difficult to leave family and friends here, but it will be great to be close to our Arizona family as well. It was a lot of fun being with them this last weekend and meeting my new nephew and I look forward to competing for favorite Aunt Status. I think Adam might have some trouble being the favorite Uncle for awhile cause little Brycen doesn't seem to care for him too much! It also helps that my good friends Andy and Erica are down there so I'll already have some friends in the area as well.

As soon as we're settled we welcome anyone to come visit us! My dad informed us he'll be visiting us in January and wants to slide down a water slide... I guess we better find a house with a pool!

For those of you here in the Boise area, we'd love to see you one last time before we leave - we're crazy busy but if we can find time to go to lunch, dinner or just stop by and say hi we'd love it! And for those of you in Arizona, see ya soon!