Moving to Indiana!

Most everyone already knows that our move is now officially happening.  I don't think it is really going to sink in for a while.  What a huge, life changing event!  Craig and I are excited to embrace the new adventure, challenges and all.  He is very excited for a whole new career path in bio-safety.  I am confident he is going to kill it!  

We are working with a relocation company that Dow hires to execute our move.  It is crazy how much is involved and how many different people/companies are contracted to get us where we need to be.  We have connected with a real estate agent in IN who is helping us with our house hunt.  We had two listing agents come to present to us about selling this house (we get to pick our favorite).  We had an inspection of the house today which is done in case Dow has to buy out our mortgage (if it doesn't sell after 60 days on the market).  We had a rep from the moving company come out to take an inventory of what they will be moving.  We will be having 2 separate appraisers coming to appraise our house here.  Another company is going to come out to help us with getting rid of unwanted items and organizing.  We have been painting, pressure washing, weed whacking, window washing, painting, organizing, cleaning, and more cleaning (I mentioned painting right?:-)) in preparation to list our house.  It is getting closer but not quite ready.  

We booked plane tickets to IN in July for a house hunting trip.  We finagled it so that we have a whole day lay over in Denver on the way out there so we can see mom and dad!  It will be a very short visit (late Friday night till Sat evening) but I am SO excited to get to see them.  I have not been to their new house yet!  

Phew.  I am exhausted just typing about it.  Time to go relax before bed.  The kids are doing great and are excited for a new house with a yard!  

Love to all, B 

Uncle Spill in town

Well look who we got to see yesterday!  The girls and I came home from berry picking yesterday to a message from Angie saying her brother was flying into Portland for a few hours on his way up to Whidby Island (for a friends change of command ceremony).  The girls and I were able to meet them out at the business aviation place to see Scott and watch him take off.  It was so wonderful to see his face and give him a big squeeze!  And any reason to get to see Pattie, JoAnne, Angie, and Bryn is also great!  

The Skipper was flying his own plane even:-)  Scott will be handing command of the squadron over to his XO in only a few months.  Crazy how fast 18 months can go by.  He still doesn't have his new orders, I can imagine how hard it is to not know. 

Angie, Katya, Reagan and Patrick watched the departure from inside the Atlantic Aviation building.  Elsie, Moira, Bryn, Pattie and I got to get pretty close to the runway to watch which was fun.  What an awesome treat!

First grade here she comes!

Our biggie has just two and a half more days in Kindergarten!  Last week her class and the first grade put on a little program for the parents, to thank them for sending them to Holy Cross.  This kids sang a few songs, told some jokes, and recited a poem.  At the end of it each kid took the microphone briefly to say what happiness is to them.  It was pretty cute hearing what they had to say.  There were lots of mention of family and dinosaurs (boys), Katya's response was an original.  She said, "happiness is having a Mom."  Yeah, I may have teared a little:-)  

We then went to her classroom where Ms. Baird gave awards to all the kids.  It was fun hearing her talk about each kid and what they bring to class.  There were awards for peacekeeping, curiosity, positivity, responsibility and such. The "biggest" award given by her teacher she called the SLE, which I need to ask her to explain again.  But basically it is the all around award, doing well academically, socially, listening, and as an active Christian. There were two given, and Katya received one.  We are so proud of her!  Later in the day Katya said, "I did really good in Kindergarten."  Love. Her.  

PS, we are still waiting on the job offer from Dow.  Craig's maybe future boss called to day and apologized once again for the wait.  The hold up is in HR.  There is probably a guy named Toby working there:-)

Cutie Bug Els

We are still waiting on a formal offer from DowAgro for the EH&S position in Indy, but Craig was offered the job. So it looks like we are moving to Indiana! Yikes! It still doesn't seem real and I definitely have my moments of panic. But the opportunity is one Craig just can't pass up. He has been waiting for an opportunity like this his whole career and the girls and I need to support him wholeheartedly. It will be an adventure to say the least! I will make an official announcement about our move when it becomes official. Until then, here are some cute pictures of our little.