moving details

Well, for those of you who have been following our many adventures of moving I am excited to say there were no major flaws in this move. The biggest thing was the moving truck we had was on it's last legs and could not climb hills.
Some exciting news that happend on this move --- Danica lost her first tooth!
Sorry no pics I have no idea where the camera is. We took it on our last hike Monday and found out that the brand new batteries couldn't even turn it on so it got put in the bag and I'm assuming that is where it remains.
But, I have lots of pictures from over the summer that I haven't done anything with so get ready - I have internet at the house again so here comes the details from the summer!!!

Love you all.

finishing the lottery

Okay - so several of you let me know that I left you hanging last week -
Well, here's the whole story.
Dave's brother was called to be bishop of his ward and he was extended that call the Sunday before we found out about our interview. Well, for those of you who know Dave and Rich we joke that they share a brain they have such a close relationship. So, of course Rich wanted Dave to be there. Well, if Dave had been high on the list at Carlsbad we would have started there on Aug 2 and not been able to come back up for Rich.
And now everything is falling into place with our move and so on and so on...

Anyway, it's been a really great experience for us and has built our testimonies and faith so much. I hope I haven't left anything out - that's the joy of having to go into town to get internet - but that will be over by the end of the week. So look for some massive catching up in the next few weeks.

Did we win the lottery?!

I only have a few minutes, but I wanted to let everyone in on our big secret. Yes - we won the lottery - the job lottery.

We found out about a month ago that Carlsbd's permanent job wasn't looking good. The head of interp told Dave not to get his hopes up - he wasn't very reachable (even though he had a 99 on his cert which is the highest he can get) She told us that because there were a lot of people that had a 99 they did a random integer to place everyone in a line up based on social security numbers. And we were down the list quite a bit with only one more position. Aghh. So there went our hopes of a permanent job.

Then ... We got a call a week ago monday and Carlsbad was calling to set up an interview for the permanent job. Emotions rushed through both Dave and myself as we had found out the day before some exciting news about our family (which we can't share yet). Well, we got the final call last Friday that they hired him and they want him on the 30 of this month.

So we finally made it and in less than half the time it usually takes to get on permanent with the park service We know that the Lord put us down the list for a reason, and that he made it possible for them to reach Dave. More of this will be explained in my next post (after I can share the family stuff we found out about).

Now - I'm off to find a place to live. YIKES