Big changes are upon us...

There are big changes on the horizon for our family.
Big changes for any family can be scary and I am a little nervous about this big change.
You may remember back in April when I posted about Jason going to Texas for training.
Jason was gone for 5 weeks and then came back home and we resumed our life in CA.
With the Texas thing, the timing just wasn't really right for our family. 
So Jason came back and our family was back together.
We went back to our normal routine but working in Texas was always in the back of Jason's mind.
6 months passed and Jason received a phone call that he wasn't expecting to get at all.
He got the call saying that a Directional Drilling job he really wanted, had an opening and if he wanted the job it was his!

This was music to his ears.  This was what he wanted when he went to Texas the first time.  He is beyond happy, nervous and excited for this opportunity.  The best part is he'll be doing something that he really likes.

On Tuesday October 8th, Jason accepted the job and he will be starting his new job November 4th.  The girls and I will be staying back in CA.  He'll get his first big break the beginning of December, so in that time we will celebrate our family Christmas early and just spend time together.  We will also get family pictures done.  This change isn't going to be easy.  The girls are getting bigger and they don't like when daddy isn't around.  In the drilling industry they don't have a set schedule, he could be gone for 10 days before he gets 2 - 3 days off, which in those 2 - 3 days he may or may not come home.  So there could be times we don't see him for a whole month or more. 

I just hope I'm able to keep things under control here.  Being a "single" parent isn't easy and doing it alone again scares the crap out of me.  I hate not having back up in the discipline department and then I feel like I'm the bad guy all the time and daddy's awesome!  I just hope I'm able to keep my cool and not to stress out to much while he's gone.

 

So this time I can for sure say....

WE ARE MOVING TO TEXAS

 

 

Again I am nervous about moving out of state and not knowing anyone there.  Our good friends from High School live in Texas but they will be 3 hours away.  So I will be going to Texas friendless.  I will be meeting some new girls with kids but meeting new people is a little nerve racking!  I am a shy person and it takes me a little bit to warm up to people.  I am excited for the move and this new opportunity for our family.  So again fellow Texans I will be in need of some friends.  We are going to be living in Bandera, TX near Jason's friend.  We chose to live there so that when our husbands are gone us girls will be close by.

The week of the 21st he'll finish is little bit of work here and there...on the 25th we'll be taking our engagement pictures and having one last date night with friends, the 26th we'll be carving pumpkins with friends and just getting things together for the birthday party, we'll attend my aunts Halloween party that night and then the 27th we'll be celebrating our baby girl.  We are having her party on her actual birthday and on the 28th & 29th we'll just be spending time as a family before daddy has to leave. 

Having a time line to kinda go off of for when daddy will be home is nice to know.  I plan to make a cute countdown for the girls.  The question of "when will the girls and I move there"?  we will move sometime between February and May, it kinda just depends on Jason's schedule and when he'll have a longer break. 

So here's to a crazy new adventure for our family!