Where do we go from here?

After returning from Spain, we spent 2 weeks with my brother Bob and his wife Jenny. During that time I had two interviews with eBay and we drove all over the place looking at apartments. We found several that would have fit our needs but there was one in particular that we liked especially well. We put in our application and surprizingly they accepted us!

So back to Texas we flew. We spent a week with our best friends Tim and Denese Durr in Woodville. We rented a couple big 26 foot moving vans, loaded up all of our belongings from our 2 storage units and drove the 1400 miles back to Salt Lake. Here's some of the highlights of the trip:


April in her truck out in front of the Durr's house. Getting ready to start the long journey back to Utah.

Me anxious to get the journey over with!

We spent way too much time AND money at gas stations along the way!

Along the open road in Kansas. Notice the orange cones keeping us in a single lane. We LOVE road construction. April did manage to take out one of the cones back in Oklahoma.

April took this picture of me driving through Denver! Can you believe she actually risked her life in heavy traffic just to have a cool pic of me on the blog? She's awesome!

Life Changes Fast

What a whirlwind this past two weeks has been!

As you can imagine, we've been feeling like we're been in a tornado and had our entire life swept up and displaced. To add to our woes of unexpectantly leaving Spain, we learned yesterday that our house in Texas was broken into. Someone ripped out all the light fixtures, and ceiling fans. And the dishwasher and oven/range were stolen. They also spread horse manure all over the front porch and kicked in a bay window in the dining room.

Even though we were all moved out and had no intention of returning to the house it is heartbreaking to us to hear this news. We feel violated and abused even though the house is no longer really ours.

Yet in spite of this we do have good news to report. I have already had two interviews with eBay and I hope to be given an offer of employment with them sometime in the next week. My former friends and associates there were very excited to learn that April and I were planning to stay in Salt Lake and I was looking to come back to eBay.

We have spent the past couple days looking for an apartment or home that will be big enough to hold all of our "stuff" and still be within our very limited budget. We looked at several apartment communities throughout the valley and finally chose one with spacious rooms in a quiet development. We explained our financial situation to them and asked them to consider us as tenants. They called today and said they would accept us. We rushed right over and gave them our deposit. The apartment won't be available for us to move in until August 28th but that will give us time to fly to Texas, rent a truck (or two), load our things and return to Salt Lake. I'm guessing that I won't be starting at eBay until September 1st so the timing will be perfect!

Our new home has 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, a garage and patio and it has cathedral ceilings. Almost best of all is that it's a one level development with no one living above us or below us. I'll give you all more detail and post some pics as we move in!