Monday, August 02, 2010

ANNOUNCEMENT

We still need to work out some details- so a slight possibility this might not happen- but we are probably moving to South Dakota! Joseph was offered a job while we were driving to Cedar City to stay with my parents. It is on an Indian Reservation near the town of Faith- where luckily they do have a congregation of our church- and it is in the middle of nowhere!

Seriously, go find a google map of it. I can't even find where the houses are for the reservation!

At first I was not too excited, but when I look at it in the past tense, it seems kind of cool. See, if you say, "Yeah, we live on a Reservation far away from trees, mountains, and people," then it kind of sucks. But if you say, "Remember that year or two we lived on a reservation and learned how to commune with nature, you know, back before we lived in this awesome town?" Then it sounds like a cool story to tell your kids. Right?

We are pretty sure this offer came so late, because if it came any earlier in the month, we may have turned it down hoping for something better. But for now ,we will be spending a week at my parents house, then going to part of a family reunion in Idaho the next week. We will leave there early, pick up all of our belongings in storage in Logan (see, it works out because we'll be close to our stuff when we need to get it!) then driving for two days to South Dakota. Joseph has to absolutely be there by the 16th, and school starts the 23rd.

So unless there are any further developments this week, that is the plan.

Anyway, just wanted to update everyone... thanks for reading!

9 comments:

Mellissa said...

Congratulations! That is so great that Joseph has a job! And South Dakota will be exciting! A new state to live in is always a new adventure, and you have the right attitude about it! Good luck with the moving and traveling!

Jill said...

I agree... it will be a good story to look back on! My in-laws have lived in all kinds of weird little remote towns in Alaska as part of my FIL's work with the public health service. Plus my husband grew up in New Mexico outside the rez there. They have tons of cool stories from the reservations!

Woodstock Family said...

Wow! What a change from good old Utah! A job in today's world is a blessing far greater than any can imagine! We wish you the best and so sorry we weren't here to help you guys move out! Congrats Joseph!!!!!!!

julie said...

Congratulations! It sounds like everything kind of fell into place nicely. What an adventure for you and your family! I can't wait to read about it! Good luck with the move and settling in!

Ruth said...

Awesome!!!!

Rose said...

Yay! I'm so glad that he found something!

KieraAnne said...

Yay! I'm glad you get to come to the reunion before you leave so we can see you before you have even more kids we haven't seen. ;)

tearese said...

So I guess no one won the poll about where we're going...the correct answer would have been "somewhere weird", which no one picked.

Anonymous said...

Yea! Yea! Yea!

(And you crack me up!)