If you have been following my posts on here or on facebook you know about our long struggle with deciding to move to Arizona or stay in Utah. Well after not hearing back from a potential job after two weeks we decided it's time to just pack up and say goodbye. No use in prolonging our lease. So we put our apt up on ksl and an hour later we had 5 people scheduled to come take a look the next day. After that things just flew. One minute my mom was on the phone wishing Brandon a happy birthday and the next they were in the car on their way up to pick us up with their nifty trailer.
Speaking of trailer. I worked all night to pack up the rest of our apartment. I stress "I" because it was still Brandon's birthday and also his last night in Utah... He grudgingly came down to Arizona with me. I didn't want to make it worse than it was for him. So after 2 am rolled around I decided to call it quits. Oh, did I mention I had a 7 am doctors appointment 5 hours later? Oh ya not just a doctors appointment but a starve yourself, come in and drink this crap, and let us poke you and take all your blood four times!! For three 1/2 hours. Words of advice? Do not ever ever ever never ever fail your first glucose screening test. It is one of the worst experiences of my life. Perhaps because I hadn't finished packing and my parents were only hours away to come get us, or perhaps because sitting in a lab for 3 hours with nothing to do and no one to talk to is hell. Anyways I passed with flying colors so that is a happy note, another girl there failed which, may not be so bad. A good strict diet might be just what the doctor ordered. Nope, not me, I took it as a "I'm not pregnancy diabetic!! Let's celebrate and eat ice cream. Ugh" At least from this pregnancy I hope I can take it and learn for the next one. A fit pregnancy is the way to go. Feeling lethargic is terrible.
Oh so back to packing. My parents brought a trailer that I just KNEW everything would fit in. After a very careful came of Jenga, our couches and washer/dryer got in with a couple other things. Everything else got put in my car, Brandon's car, and the Titan. Fortunately, we only had to leave a few things like our 2 nightstands, a mattress, a couple chairs, and a tv stand. Not bad considering I thought ALL we were going to be able to fit was our couches. So it's nice to know we'll be coming into a nice new king size mattress soon.
For the time being we are living with my parents. I hate admitting to that. I watch all these hgtv shows about people finally being able to buy their own homes after years of living with parents and I always thought about how horrible that would be. Well turns out it hasn't been bad at all. Perhaps because no one is ever home ever. And we are on the complete opposite side of the house as well. It's kinda nice, I'm such a home body and love being with family. If we had an apartment I'd prob still spend most of my time over here anyways. Well, after about 4 days of being here Brandon got the job!!!! WOOHOO!!! Happiest phone call of my life. He was so worried after having a "terrible phone interview" Gosh, he could be drunk and he'd still interview amazingly. I am so jealous of him. I sit and listen to him interview a lot. He's so brilliant at them. Me on the other hand, it's more of a if I get the job it's because they just want me to stop interviewing and get out. "okay okay you have it take the job just get out!!" Haha, but not, really. So this job he got is in Tempe but they're based out of Utah so they flew him up, got him a rental car, offered to fly me up with, AND get us a hotel. Wow. you know the company is promising if they're willing to invest almost 2 grand to train you. Well I stayed here and he is staying with his brother so it only came to about 1,000$. Man. Such a great feeling if it wasn't hidden by the fact that he has to be up there for two weeks. Not joking, I have never heard a more true statement than Distance makes the heart grow fonder. I miss my husband so much. I have had an amazing two months to spend with him and now that he's gone it's just awful. And when he gets back it'll only be to go straight to work all day and see him in the evenings. I hate being grown up.. or at least having a husband that has to be.
But, okay, back to the title of this post. We are here to stay! For how long? I guess as long as I can keep working my magic and keep my husband happy here. I have my first doctors appointment here in 4 hours and everything will be set from there. I have to say, I really liked my last doctor so my hopes are that this one will be great too. So weird, the doctor that delivered me is delivering my baby. So crazy. My sister has him for a doctor too, oh ya she's due in 3 WEEKS!! Holy cow. 9 weeks seems so far away compared to that.
Week 30: Final COUNTDOWN! Officially 10 WEEKS left. Two months! 59 days! I can't stop saying it. It's so CLOSE. You are officially living in ARIZONA now. I had quite the SCARE after straining myself during MOVING. I was not ready for you to come yet! Keep COOKING. I want a HEALTHY baby boy. You have a new DOCTOR, Doctor BECK, who is also Aunt Raylenes and Grandma K's doctor. He's supposed to be great. As for now, just keep KICKING and keep GROWING. I love those 1 am kicks that WAKE me up. They make me SMILE!
I like this post! Sometimes it takes a leap of faith and for Heavenly Father to see your actions before he grants you blessings. That was pretty brave of you two to move down here....and look what happened! Congrats! And we lived with family after moving back from Utah and it was such a blessing until we found a place. You've got awesome parents and it sounds like you have a sweet husband. I'm happy for you!
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