We made it!!

We made it to Phoenix (glendale) after a very long (35 hours) ride in the budget truck!! We did it in two days, which was a little crazy! The trip went pretty smoothly! The dogs were wonderful! They both laid on my lap almost the entire trip! The worst part was the last 4 hours of the trip! It is basically all coming down mountains. So it was dark, we were driving a budget truck, pulling a car, and running off very little sleep after waking up at 430 central time that morning! But I am here to blog about it today! :)

We love our house! We were a little crazy and bought it without ever seeing it in person. We trusted our realtor and he did a great job! Its in a pretty good neighborhood, across from a park, and is huge! It feels much bigger than our last house even though its only 200 more square feet! It has 4 beds/2 baths and a pool that is already getting lots of use!

It has fresh paint and brand new carpet in all the bedrooms! So no painting for us!! It does need some updates but nothing needs to be done right away! It was clean and ready for moving in!!

Here are a few pictures of the pretty much done rooms!

We do have one room that we are not quite sure what to do with. It is technically the Formal living & dining room but we have no need for either of those. Its a long room and is in the front of the house. Any suggestions??
We have all of our bookcases but since we already have two couches we dont really need another one..

So one thing I was worried about was the dogs and the pool. See Kazzi, poor thing, just isnt that smart. He is so sweet and cute, but no brains! I didnt think he could swim! Well he can!!! Its a good thing too because this morning he was running around the pool and slipped in! It scared him to death and I grabbed him out but I couldnt help but laugh!
Krone wont come near the pool.. but Kazzi has decided that he really like relaxing in it as long as someone will join him..

I mean does it get any cuter than that???

Dont worry Krone is adjusting well too! You can usually find him relaxing or chasing kazzi..

Well thats about it for now! It has been the longest week ever but we are adjusting to the changes and enjoying spending time together before work starts next week!

Life as we know it

So this is our life right now!

We are so excited to move and so sad to leave! It is still surreal!
A part of me cant wait to pull into our driveway and run into the backyard and jump in the pool! The other part is sad to leave the slow pace of the south where Ive really grown to love everything (except the humidity, mosquitos, and other bugs)! The fireflys have just started to come out and play! I love watching them out the window!
One thing I am worried about is traffic. I know that sounds silly but for the past three years I have had basically a straight freeway shot to work with two stop lights and open road! It has been soo nice! I now get nervous around traffic, even though I learned how to drive in Las Vegas and have driven in some of the worst traffic there! Oh well! I will just have to get used to it!
My last day of work was last thursday and since then I have been so busy packing, painting, running errands and trying to get everything organized and figured out!
So only 6 days now until we head off to Phoenix, well actually Glendale since that is where we will be living!

Big Big News!

Colby & I have an exciting summer planned! We thought we would start it off with a bang and go on a 7 day cruise!  We will be cruising with Brittany & Cade and have many fun adventures planned! Our cruise stops in Cozumel Mexico, Roatan, Honduras, Belize City, Belize, & Grand Cayman! We are so excited!
Then we will be continuing the summer by packing up a U-haul and the dogs for a cross country drive to ............

PHOENIX ARIZONA!!

As I talked about in my previous post, the American Express site here in Greensboro is closing down. We had the opportunity to fly out to Phoenix to check it out to see if it was an option to move. We went down there thinking that we would be staying in Greensboro, and left there with almost no doubt that we would be moving to Phoenix. What happened in between? Colby was offered a promotion to be a supervisor! 

We were ecstatic and shocked! 

The written offer came through and we accepted it! 

We will be moving in the middle of June and will hopefully be making it in time for my sisters graduation! :) 

So we have lots to do between now and then, like renting out our current home, packing, and selling lots of stuff but we are looking forward to our new adventure! 

So thats are big big Big news! !