Six weeks!

I know I'm a little late sharing all this, but Randy's off in Alaska now. He's living with a couple of guys from our church, and moaning about having roommates again! The day he left, we had one last fun family outing to the Pacific Science Center. I must say, it was not as exciting at 29 as it was at 9. Isn't it funny what 20 years will do to ones' perspective? Anyway, we did the Science Center and dropped Papa off at the airport. We then went up to the top of the parking garage (cause of course we had to go around and around and around to the top!) and watched "his" airplane leave for Alaska. Incidentally, according to E, every plane we see now is "Papa's plane." Apparently he is permanently stuck in the sky. Along with the Holy Ghost, but that's another story. How are we surviving, you ask? One day at a time! We have good days and bad days. We laugh and we cry. I was helping my parents type up some letters my grandpa had written my grandma during... one of the wars, and I was hit by a wave of gratitude for Skype! And I was talking to my parents, and when they were engaged, my mom was in Texas and my dad was in Alaska, and it was $.40/minute to call each other! Thank goodness for cell phones! Having Randy gone has definitely shown us how much we love Randy, and what a rock he was in our family. We love you, Papa! We'll see you in six weeks!

As big as Alaska update!

So, I'm new at this whole blog thing, so it may take a bit for me to figure it out, but I thought I'd give you the big updates as they're happening in our family! For those of you who don't know, Scott is the manager of the Fred Meyer Jewelers here in Ellensburg. We moved (back) here in November 2008, and we said we'd be here 3-5 years. We had moved out of Ellensburg to Olympia because we really don't like it too much, but they dragged us back here to promote Scott to manager, so we said after that 3-5 years, we'd be trying to bust out of Ellensburg again. Our big desire has been to go (back) up to Alaska. Scott worked on the Yukon River going between Dawson City and Eagle, AK for the summer before we got married and absolutely fell in love with it! Anyway, our ultimate goal has been to move up to Alaska. Out of the clear blue, the regional manager of the FM Jewelers called Scott up and offered him the store in Juneau! It was a year-and-a-half earlier than we had planned on even beginning to look at stores anywhere.

Soooo... now that this dream job has opened up, what do we do? I was JUST in the processed of being hired by KITTCOM (our local 9-1-1 dispatch agency), and what about the kids??? For those of you who don't know, we've got three foster kids. We've had them for about a year. The hearing to terminate the bio-mom's rights was set for April, but it got pushed back to September. We hated to turn down this job when we have no idea what's going on with the kids, and the State has really jerked us around about them since day one. But at the same time, we don't want to push the kids into yet another foster home just as they're doing so well and are really settled down and adjusted into our family.

Finally, we've decided to take the job. Scott's going up on July 14th, and I'm going to do my best to be a single mom until the hearing. After the hearing, I'm heading up to Alaska to be with my hubby (hopefully with kids in tow!). Anyway, that's what's going on in our lives right now.