I have an announcement...

I feel ready to announce something that has been a couple of months in the making...

Wait for it...

Wait for it...

Ok. NOW I'm ready.

We will be moving to BC in July!!!

Sorry to whoever suspected this was a pregnancy announcement. Didn't mean to get your hopes up. But wouldn't you agree that this is some pretty good news too?
I feel like now I can officially share our plans after telling my manager yesterday that I will be looking to be leaving my job in summer, and heading out west.
We still have alot of details to figure out. Housing. Jobs. Location within the Fraser Valley. Finding doctors, dentists, hairdressers, and locksmiths. But I am not as stressed about it as I thought I would be now that it is getting close. This is a pretty big deal for us. For Ty, it means having to leave his family, friends, co workers, and familiar surroundings. For Hudson, it means leaving his grandparents, his cousins (he says, "Maddie, Maddie" all day long sometimes), and aunties and uncles. And the puppies two doors down. For me, it means leaving my beloved open spaces (honestly, I feel so at home with these amazing prairie landscapes!), people that I feel I've just started to get to know and would like to know further, the church that we absolutely love, my cozy home on Zacharias Drive (you know, the one with all the bikes and brown Christmas trees in front?) and...a part of me. I am a different person than I was when I left. I changed the minute I drove away, on my way to Red Deer, 6 and a half years ago. I don't know how this person is going to translate once I get back to my familiar space. I am not necessarily worried about it. Just curious.

Anyways. More on that to come, as we start putting more of the puzzle pieces together. I am hoping soon I will receive my BC nursing license (allll the paperwork is complete, so now it's just a matter of waiting), and then I can really look into applying for a job.

What we are focusing on right at this moment is...leaving on our first "hot vacation" tomorrow! We are so excited that we are fortunate enough to be able to go away this year. Some have said that it must feel like a rip off going away somewhere warm, when it's been so nice around these parts lately. I say, nuts to that! I will be eating whatever I want, whenever I want, not cleaning up after myself, napping, burrowing myself in the sand like a crab, READING, exploring, and doing my hair without the constant, "Hudson, put down the shampoo. Let go of my mascara. Stop eating toothpaste."

Not to say I won't miss my little boy TERRIBLY. I will miss his fuzzy little head and his awesome baby vocabulary and even his mischief. Who else's little bare legs am I going to see poking out from behind the curtain, gum wrappers strewn everywhere around him? Who else is going to make sure I see every "cheepie" (bird) that flies nearby, or beg to see the moon out the bedroom window?

"Noisy. Noisy."

Who wouldn't miss this?

But he is in incredibly good hands. The first few days he'll be bunking up with Mom K, and Raquel, and then on Wednesday, grandma Gayle is coming out to stay with him for the rest of the week! So he'll be well taken care of - that part I am not worried about in the least.

Oh, freaky story about my mom and her first visit to Rosenort. Wanna hear it? Good.
So, her very first visit out here was not when me and Ty first got married. Nope - it was almost twenty years before that! She  had come out here with Chad when he was just a little tyke to visit some friends of hers who had moved here from BC. It gets more interesting. Turns out her friends lived just a couple of doors down from Tyler's house! They had a son about Chad's age that he got to play with. Ty also played with this friend when he was a young boy, so our suspicions are that perhaps even Chad and Ty played together while they were out in Rosenort! Crazy, huh? Rosenort is a tiny town, but it's very interesting how many different connections I have found between my hometown and my husband's hometown over the years.

Sorry for the rabbit trail. I'm off now to finish my final load of laundry. Bye for now!