Wednesday, April 2, 2014

New technology's here, growing faster each year, this is the place.

In case you don't follow my Facebook account, Instagram feed, Twitter updates, or the smoke signals I send out my bedroom window at night, we have an announcement. No, it's not pregnancy. I feel like the only announcement people expect from married folk ages 20 to 40 is pregnancy, and everything else is just a disappointment. So you'll have to get over it I guess because the announcement is that we're moving back to the mother land (Utah). Actually the announcement is a two-parter. Stephen secured a job at a law firm, THEREFORE, we are moving to Utah. It's a massive relief. Not that I ever had any doubt in Stephen's ability to find employment, but for the last three years when we've told acquaintances that Stephen is in law school, they've responded as though we told them Stephen was enrolled in a miming academy. It's not a great market for lawyers right now, a wide-known fact, so we've braced ourselves for what might happen after graduation. We're lucky to now know.

So. Utah. When we left Utah three years ago, it was in a very "Smell you later!" kind of way. We thought we had outgrown the place, and maybe we had, but it took moving to Colorado for me to realize how much I like the state to the west. Maybe it's because our families are there. Maybe it's because the companies I work for are based there and it's nice to go into an actual office. Maybe it's because the mountains smack you right across the eyeballs with their beauty.


Maybe it's simply because it feels like home. 

But we will miss Colorado. It's been three very eventful years, and I think I'll always look back on our small little life here with fondness. I'm glad Ivy can say she was born in Longmont. I'm glad we've met friends who I hope we'll have for life. I'm glad that we've learned how to be a family away from family. 

But I'm also glad that Edith won't be our neighbor anymore. Smell you later, Edith. 

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  1. Yeah, yeah $20 says that 3 years from now, we'll be reading that you're moving back to Edith, (maybe not the motherland, but the mother something) and how you're not sure if it's the dirty looks, crazy rants, or the wall banging, but something just felt so good about that tiny apartment next to the crazy lady.

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    1. The Mother of all evil, perhaps? I am going to miss living in constant fear of running into her in the hallway.

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  2. Family, lower cost of living, mountains and milder climate (who knew this was a description of Utah); these are a few things luring us back too. We'd also like to go on a vacation somewhere other than Utah, maybe a bit more tropical.
    Loved hearing that law school life has a familiar ring to it, no matter where you go. So happy for you!

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    1. The vacation thing! Yes. Every single time we have a long weekend or a spring break, we're in Utah. I'm ready for Cancun. Hang in there!

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  3. Sweet! Where will you guys be? Sara and I live (and I work) in downtown SLC, with all the shnazzy lawyers. I've always thought our families should be friends. =)

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    1. Stephen will be working in downtown, close to the courthouse. Are you in an apartment? Is it decent?

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  4. Miming academy. Good one. Totally understand that. Congrats to you both!!

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  5. Congrats! Excited for you. Also, kinda jealous. After we moved to NM last fall, I was like--hey, this is awesome! And I haven't been back yet. But I miss home reaaaaaaally bad. And I'm trying to talk my hubby into moving back someday. Because he loves being off and doing our own thing, and I miss my family pretty badly. Anyway--this is all to say, I am so glad for you that you'll get to move back. That's awesome!

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    1. Thank you! I think it was good for us to be on our own for a while, but I'm happy we're headed back.

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