Pictures!!

Here are the pictures I promised!  I got a little carried away and posted quite a few!  

Austin started work yesterday which has left me stranded here at the hotel.  Luckily target, kohls and a few other stores are nearby so I can go for a walk to see things (maybe to get some sexy boots, right Heidi!).  

We went to church on Sunday and everyone already knew we coming which was nice. The furnace was broken so we were freezing the entire time!   

Anyways, we have stayed busy house shopping and mortgage loan shopping, we have a couple houses we are looking at seriously and I posted some pictures to give you all an idea.  

We made it!

Well, we left Arizona on Friday (which happened to be my 25th birthday... pretty exciting day, boy I am getting old!).  We went up to Utah and visited some family and friends... it was freezing cold and didn't know what we got ourselves into, (it snowed in the beginning of October, can you believe that!).  On Sunday morning we were headed to church and our truck didn't start!  Talk about freakin out... we realized it was the battery and after giving it a little jump (and a few prayers) it started right up and we haven't had a problem with it since.  On Monday we started our journey eastward, just so you know, Wyoming and Nebraska are the longest states in the world!!  It seemed like forever just to get to North Platte, Nebraska where we stayed the first night of our drive.  On Tuesday we made it the rest of the way here to Valparaiso, IN.  We stayed at a Best Western the first two nights, a little ghetto and it smelled so we decided to move into Holiday Inn Express instead.  It is wonderful!  A kitchenette, laundry room and a soft king size bed (yeah, we're in a suite since the company is paying and we will be here for a while).  

We have spent the last two days shopping for mortgage loans and checking out houses.  It's an exciting time.  Anyways, I have taken pictures of our adventure but do not currently have the capabilities to put it on my computer so this will have to do for now, I will post more later.  

FYI, Austin starts working on Monday the 20th, hooray!

On the Move

Austin has been so bored the last few months waiting to get a job... now that he has one and we are getting ready to move he has been REALLY busy!  Calling moving companies, getting pre-employment papers filled out, re-packing boxes and building a camper shell on our truck!  Can you believe him? What can I say? He is AMAZING!  We are going to drive our truck to Indiana and don't want to worry about people stealing things out of the back so he decided to build a cover so we could travel at ease.  

Did you know it is actually cheaper to ship a car then to drive it?  Crazy huh?  Because of this we are going to ship our two normal cars and drive the beautiful truck.  Moving far away is pretty expensive, luckily the company is paying for all our moving costs!

We now have boxes A-X all inventoried (is that a word?) so that if we lose one we will know what was in it... pretty good idea but time consuming (especially when everything was already packed in the first place!).  

Anyways, we plan on leaving on Friday.  We are going to head up to Utah to see some friends and family before we go to the midwest (it only adds on about four hours in the whole scheme of things and when you are already driving 26 then what difference does it make?).  We will update you as we go!