Whirlwind Weeks

Holy smokes, has life been crazy!

I know my announcement of the move was brief and detail-less. Well, I now have time to fill in those details, thanks to a delayed airplane.

At the beginning of the year Kirk decided he wanted to start looking for a new job. He started updating his resume and getting all his things in order. He sent his info to a few companies and quickly had interviews lined up, followed by interviews, followed by a couple offers. Those were local companies, but he still wanted to look a little further, for companies that would be close to somewhere he can go back to school.

He lined up some interviews for Las Vegas and flew out for a couple days.  He liked a couple places, and while he was waiting to hear from those companies, we went to Utah for conference and he had a few additional interviews. The day of his last interview in Utah was the same day he had to give one of the companies in Vegas his decision. I was home from Utah at this point, so after multiple phone calls and his interview we decided that Nevada would be the best opportunity for him. He called the company back and accepted the position, and we started making the phone calls and text messages to our family to let them know. We'd tried to let most people in our immediate families know that he was looking, that way it wouldn't come as a total shock when or if it happened. He came home from Salt Lake the following day, we started packing, and he put in his two weeks the following Monday!

We didn't get to see everyone we wanted to before we left, but man, life was crazy. Kirk had been in our house for 5 years, and I'd been there for 3, so we had a LOT of purging to do since we were going from a 1,800(ish)sqft house to a 1,040sqft apartment! It was two weeks of staying up till 3 in the morning, working all day, and coming home and doing it again. All I can say is two weeks was NOT enough time for us!! We barely made it out on time, thanks to Kirks sister ignoring our "we don't need help, we're ok!"

We got everything packed into a Uhaul, and started the 12 hour drive out. It wouldn't have been so long, but we were pulling a trailer and thanks to Californias traffic laws, we had to go 55 till we hit the Nevada border.  We got there at about 4 in the afternoon, signed all the papers, got our keys aaaand then started unpacking.

Kirk started his new job that Thursday, which was 6 weeks after his interview, and 3 weeks after he accepted the position.  We didn't know if it was going to take weeks or months for him to find the job he wanted, but it happened so fast!

The first Friday we were there I went down to the strip to walk around and go to the mall with my cousin, who also lives there, and seeing as I can't walk like a normal person should be able to, I fell down some steps in front of Caesars Palace. Typical.  The security people had something awesome to watch, and I injured my foot to the tune of not being able to walk for 5 days. Finally last Wednesday I was able to walk, and got almost everything put away! Which meant we had Thursday to enjoy it, before we left for Wyoming.

Which is where I am now. Waiting for a delayed flight. But that's a story for another post.