We're Therrre.

Name the movie the title comes from and win a possible real prize from San Antonio (but surprise, the prize will be a gecko, which may or may not survive the mailing).

We did it. We arrived. We are there. I guess I will just do a quick wrap-up? Could be long, might be boring, will definitely be worth it. Actually, I have no right to promise it will be worth it. But I can promise long. And I hereby promise boring. With that super enthusiasm, let's get started!!

THE MOVE 2011:

I guess I'll start at the beginning. We've been worried/just really thinking about Matt's job for the last six or so months. Things at the site are shaky, and Matt has been contracting with the site. The company he was contracted out to was announcing sweeping layoffs and we weren't sure what that would mean for us. So we aced up (I know aced up is not a term but it's okay because I didn't help with his resume, so it had no made up terms in it) his resume and put it on monster and kind of forgot about it. A few months ago we had contacted a few friends in the oil industry and were really thinking that was where we were headed. Texas seemed like it was heavy on our minds for some reason. And then in late November, a company called Booz Allen Hamilton called and wanted to do an interview. The position was in San Antonio, Tx, as a contractor for the air force (should that be capitalized?). Matt said that the interview would give him good practice, he wasn't really interested in moving for a company we hadn't even heard of. So he interviewed. He was offered the position the next day. We kind of laughed it off, but told ourselves we would give it a few days to think about it. And... here we are. I really feel like we are supposed to be here. We did some research and Booz Allen (i need a t-shirt that says booz) is a great company to work for. I can't deny the things that went on during our decision making that led us to come here. So ... here we are. :)

Packing, not so fun. Saying goodbye to people I love and will only communicate with over the internets and Christmas cards, not so fun. We hit a few snags along the way, I suppose one of the worst was when the moving semi got stuck in our driveway after loading all of our earthly possessions. After three hours, an industrial-sized tow truck came and pulled him out. It was awesome. Or when we took the car in for a "trip inspection" and came out $1200 dollars later. Also awesome. But all of that is over now. The drive here took 26-ish hours from Idaho Falls. I dropped Matt off at the airport for a week of training in Virginia and drove to my sister's house in the SLC area. We spent the night and then my dear, sweet, saint-of-a-woman sister drove with me to San Antonio. It went much better than I expected it to. I dare say that I even had *gasp* fun. The kids did great, thanks to Amy, the portable DVD player, and the dollar store. After two 11 hour days in the car, we rolled into San Antonio late Tuesday night after staying the previous night in Albuquerque, NM. And no offense if you love to vacation there, but New Mexico didn't do it for me. Land of enchantment? Really? That's your slogan, New Mexico? More like Land of nochantment (oooh, clever Carol).

We took half the day Wednesday getting the key and getting to our new rental house. We had to buy a fridge, and it didn't get delivered until Friday. The kids have never eaten so much Easy Mac. The rest of our stuff got here that Friday too. Now we're just working on unpacking and getting life going down here.

Matt is liking his job. His commute is about a half an hour to 45 minutes in traffic. The office where he works has two big jets parked/mounted in the parking lot and the building is carnation pink. The entire building is an oxymoron, right? Pink, with cammo jets out front? By far my favorite detail so far.

Our house is pretty close to Lackland Air Force Base, so cool jets and big planes fly over our house throughout the day. We went to pick up Matt from work yesterday, his office is minutes from the base, and jets were taking off right over our heads, we could hear all the noises and everything.

Lindy has started school and I think she loves it. She's made some little friends already and her teacher is really nice. I think she is getting adjusted. They have a music class that they go to once a week, and she is thrilled about it.

I do have some cool pictures, but I can't find the cable to my camera...so I will have to post all the pictures later. I'm lame. I'm sorry. I just wanted to let ya'll (eh? eh?) know that we made it and that a cool post is coming soon. I promise. Please don't leave!
Oh also, I wanted to let you know that I am slowly getting around to all the blogs I've missed. They make me a little homesick though, so it might be a while. :)