This last Saturday we had a wonderful ward Christmas party! We ate some really good food and had a nativity. Ethan got to be a sheep with a lot of the other little kids in the ward and then after the nativity we had a special visitor. Ethan wasn't sure about him but when he saw he had candy he sat on his lap so he could get some! We had a lot of fun and we are really going to miss this ward and all the wonderful people in it.
As most of you know Mike is graduating on the 18th and we have been searching high and low for a job. It has tested our faith and has been quite discouraging. This last week Mike was flown to Kansas for an interview. We were really hopeful that this would be the one since this is the first time he has been flown out to interview. I got a call shortly after his interview telling me that he got the job! We are so excited and extremely grateful that we were blessed with this opportunity. We will be moving to Tennessee! The job is in a small town called Rogersville which is in northeast Tennessee. We are thinking we will be moving to a town just 30 minutes north called Kingsport. It's quite a bit bigger then Rogersville and even has a hobby lobby! Mike is working at a company called Kiewit and it is a construction job so that means we will be moving around quite a bit from project to project at least for a little bit. We are so excited to move and start this next chapter. The next step is packing, not looking forward to that.
We decided after much debate to go to Wisconsin for Thanksgiving this year. I was a little nervous because I didn't want to drive 24 hours with two kids. But we sucked it up and went. We had a heck of a time getting there. As soon as we reached Island Park it started snowing and it was still snowing in Billings where we decided to stop for the night. I'm sure many of you are thinking Billings isn't that far from Rexburg, well it isn't we had driven 8 hours when it should have only take us 5 so needless to say I needed a break. The next day was better we drove about 15 hours so that we could reach my parents house in MN to get a break the only problem is as soon as we got about 15 minutes from my parents we ran into bad weather again. We must have just missed the ice storm but the storm left the roads slick. They were like an ice rink, I have lived in MN for 10 years and have never seen anything like it. so those 15 minutes turned into 2 hours. Luckily we made it to my parents in safety, we later found out that that night there were over 400 accidents and 12 snow plows crashed...I am so grateful we weren't one of them. The next day we had a leisurely 6 hour drive to my brothers house in WI. Once we were there we had so much fun. Ethan enjoyed playing with his cousins and we were excited to meet our newest cousin Charlotte who was only 3 weeks old. We played in the 5 on 5 in the Turkey Bowl and our team won the coveted trophies! We ate so much good food and played a ton of games. We were so glad we got to go to visit and we wished we lived closer. We are grateful for the Meier's hospitality to let us stay in there home! The drive home we took a different route in hopes that we could get better weather. We did get better weather and so we drove the 25 hours straight through. Grateful to be home and ready to start packing up our house for our next adventure!
