A while ago I said we had an announcement to make in a future blog post...but then we had Aaron and life gets really busy I'd rather use his nap time to nap myself instead of blog. But we are moving to Maryland very very soon (by the beginning of next month). Anyways, let me tell you the story of how this came to be.
A long time ago David and I had been looking up places where we might want to live one day. Mostly for fun, but also with some seriousness. When searching "best places to live" and other variations of that so many places near Washington DC come up. We kept talking about how cool that would be....without really thinking what it would actually mean and without being too serious about it.
This past year I had been sort of nagging David about making sure he went to career fairs and making connections and thinking seriously about his plans post graduation and other things like that. Last summer he was working on a wind tunnel project for one of his professors and had to call one of the companies that built something on the wind tunnel for some kind of trouble shooting or something (as you can tell, I clearly know so much about what he does). He noticed the company happened to be in Maryland and asked them about potential openings when he graduated. He emailed them a little bit, but we didn't really think much of anything would come from it. Then, they contacted him about an internship and we thought (with our circumstances) no can do and moved on to other things.
Then, they started emailing more and more and somehow got a video interview set up for a full time position. It went pretty well but we I wasn't all too sure about it. Soon afterwards, they offered him a position. However, it wasn't much better than opportunities we had here in Utah and so David turned it down. We started thinking about buying houses here and trying to rent out a basement apartment and things like that and we were getting excited about that although I could always tell David wasn't quite settled.
Then, one day after work he said he wanted to take me on a date just because. He even took me to one of my favorite places--Zupa's. Once we got our food and had chatted a little about our day, David said, "well, the reason I took you here wasn't really just because" (or something like that) and told me that the company in Maryland had contacted him that morning about another position. This one paid quite a bit more and was a much better starting off point than any of our other options. He asked how I felt about it and I said it was worth looking into. Then he said "well, I'm glad you feel that way because they already booked me a flight and I am leaving on Monday". I was a little a lot shocked.
A week or so later, he was offered the job and after lots of talking and thinking and praying we decided it was what was best for David's career and also for our family.
So now we are moving at the end of this month all the way across the country with a brand new babe! Lots of new things all at once, but we know we can handle it with each other and are excited for our new adventures.
Please come visit us??
Love,
Kristy Jane
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