Big News!

Whoo-hoo! We are moving!!

I could go into a real long tale of what the past year has been like for us, but I'll be brief.

We have wanted to move out of Arizona for what seems like forever. We tried, gave up and then out of nowhere Brooks gets contacted by a company he had previously interviewed for. This was on a Wednesday, in fact this past Wednesday. On Monday he interviewed with one other person, on Tuesday he was offered the job. And that was it!

Where is this exciting city we'll be moving to with amazing schools and superb Autism support? Welllll, that's the catch. It's actually none of those things, it's Tucson. But- this is a big company with offices in at least 30 cities so the opportunity to get the eff out of Dodge is far greater than if we stay here. And that is what swayed the deal. It's also Brooks' very own building, an opportunity to get experience with tenant improvements and construction (which seems to be what every other company wants) and possibly less work for a little more money. He'll be going from 1.5 million square feet to 140,000. That's fewer tenants, fewer roofs for rain leaks, less copper pipes to be stolen and sprinkle systems to get air stuck in them and then accidentally alert the fire department. You know, just an average day in the life of a property manager.

By divine chance, we had planned on going to Tucson last weekend anyway, so while we were there we filled out registration paperwork for Taylor at Sonoran Science Academy (Paragon's sister school), and found an apartment. We've reserved the UHaul, scheduled the electricity and now are just counting down the days.

The only thing we have had to sacrifice on is our planned vacation. Brooks' wanted to give 4 weeks notice, but the best they could offer him was 3 weeks so we had to scrub the trip in order to give Carlson adequate notice, since otherwise Brooks would have been gone for two of his last three weeks.

We've signed a 6 months lease, then will be buying a house which means we'll be broke for a while. Our only vacations then will be staycations and trips to Phoenix.

But we're all excited! I can't wait to finally unpack! And, crazy as it sounds I can't wait to pack it all again and move to our dream place.