Sad News (for some)

With the mortgage industry being what it is, Ian's company has been closing a ton of offices. We thought he would be safe but just last Monday he got a call from the regional manager asking him how interested he would be in moving to...Arizona. (Of course, the Bennetts were here that day and that is why I said said sad news for some...) We're pretty sure they wouldn't be offering this position to Ian if he still had a job here in California. He told his regional manager he was highly interested and since then we've just been sitting on pins and needles waiting for more news.

We really don't know much of anything except for the fact that the job would be in Arizona. We don't know what part, we don't know when, we don't know the salary, and I hate the unknown!!! We were hoping to get more news last Friday because this week all of the managers are in a conference and they probably won't be discussing or deciding Ian's job. But all they told him on Friday was what they thought the relocation package would be...but who knows.

He's done some sleuthing around and figured out who's position he thinks he'll be taking, but we don't know how many offices in Arizona they're closing, so that's still an unknown. But at this point I don't think they're going to change their minds about sending him there and I don't think we'll change our minds about moving there because if we don't, he most likely won't have a job here.

So here are the positives:
We'd get to be closer to family(the Bennetts and my aunt) and friends(Kelli and Amber). We'd most likely get a bigger home and a bigger yard. The winters aren't cold. Moving always causes you to clean out junk and get rid of all the things you don't need. And most importantly: Ian would still have a job.

And the negatives:
We LOVE this area!! We've never been in an area that we've loved more. We have the best friends, the best ward, everything is nearby(shopping and restaurants). We love our neighborhood: the pool and park are just down the street, it's gated, I can walk Emma to school, and many of our best friends are just down the street. I don't want to leave any of it!

We'd be leaving my sister, which is one of the main reasons we bought a house in California. Not only will she and I be sad, but the girls just love Shan and Jed.

There's no way we'll sell our house. We'd have to sell it for much less than we paid for it, and we're not going to do that. So we'll rent it out - ugh. But I love this house! We've only been here a year. We've been making it our own, little by little, and I love it more and more each time we do something new. We moved 8 times in the first five years of our marriage so we said when we moved into this house that we wouldn't be moving again for the next 5. Here we are 1 year later and talking about moving again.

We're both in new callings at church and we just got a new bishopric that Ian and I were both so excited about.

You know, there are too many negatives, I think I'll just stop now. I've kind of resigned myself to the fact that this is going to happen, so I've been focusing on the positives anyway...like a bigger house with rooms for each of my kids so Emma and Mckenna don't keep each other awake...and a yard the kids can really play in, instead of stepping one way and running into a fence and then stepping the other way and running into the other fence... or getting clobbered by our dogs since they don't have enough room to play. Although - I don't know that we'd be able to take them to AZ anyway because of the heat.

Anyway, I know that whatever happens it will be bittersweet and we'll just have to be happy. I think the hardest part for me is all of the people we will leave behind. But we'll be coming closer to many people too. Ah well...wish us luck and I'll be sure to post as soon as I know more. :)