Birmingham, AL

I hear it’s a nice place and we are about to find out first hand because we will be moving there in June!! The last week has been a wild ride! We worked together to put in applications to a few Life Flight companies and within 48 hours Omni Flight gave Nicholas a call to set up an interview! We spent Tuesday looking for interview clothes and had terrible luck finding any suit jackets that would fit Nicholas across the shoulders and not just hang on his waist, we knew anything we bought would have to be altered so we decided  to make a trip down to Nashville on Wed  to shop around more at the bigger malls. That didn’t end up happening because Tues afternoon Nicholas received a call from the guy that would be interviewing him and he found out that the interview would be happening at the hangar and not in an office setting and he wanted to do the interview on Friday! A quick call to Derek confirmed what we were thinking about business casual and we headed back to Belks on Wed morning to get the boy a pair of dress pants and a tie. We were really lucky because earlier this year I found a nice dress shirt at Old Navy marked down to $3 and everything else we bough was also on sale so we didn’t end up having to spend very much on dress clothes and the boy looked sharp! I wish I had been able to get a picture of him all dressed up but he left around 7am on Fri morning for the almost 4 hour drive down and he decided to change once he got there so he wouldn’t look like someone hit him with a wrinkle bomb.

We didn’t want to get our hopes up too much before the interview because we were shocked number 1 that he got a call back so fast and we knew that he could get down there and either hate the job/hate the people/hate the area. We were just looking at it as a good first step in the right direction and it would be nice to get that first interview out of the way. Thankfully Nicholas ended up loving everything and he got the job! He will be working for Alabama Life Saver and he is really excited about this change in career. It will be the polar opposite of everything he’s done up to this point and he thinks it will be a nice challenge. However now it feels like someone pushed the fast forward button on our life and we have A LOT to do and we need to get it done NOW.

We have less than 6 weeks before they want him in TX to start a training class and we have to get this house ready to go on the market and packed up. We were expecting to have more wiggle room so things moving so fast is a big surprise. We’ve been doing a few things here and there around the house but just taking our time and now we are out of time! We are planning to rent in Birmingham for at least a year to make sure that is somewhere we want to stay long term so we are praying we find a house in a nice area with a fenced in yard that we can afford. We are also praying that once we put that For Sale sign in our yard we’ll have people flocking to see it and we have a contract very quickly.

We are looking forward to the move and career change but as with all changes we are nervous. We’ve been here in Clarksville for almost 6 years now and we know the area and have a great group of friends, we’ll be leaving behind our “comfort zone”. It will be nice to be so much closer to home, our drive will have 2 hours shaved off of it and I’m thankful for that! We’ll also be closer to our friends at Rucker and the beach so we consider all of that a plus.

So that’s our life right now, we have lists a mile long of all the things we need to take care of so if you don’t see much of me it’s because I haven’t had much time to be online. We are still planning to come home for Easter though and can’t wait to see everyone!

And now I want to take a nap because just reading back over that makes me tired!