Life is full of surprises

Life for us has taken an unexpected turn. Since it has been so long since I have blogged, I will recap the last couple of months for our family. On December 19th we moved from Japan. We went to Utah and spent the holidays with our families. On Jan. 1st Shane and I went down to Los Mochis, Mexico to look for a house. We found one that was smaller than we liked, but clean and fairly new and in a good location. I stayed with Shane there for a week as we looked and I also spent time visiting the schools etc. From January 8th until February 14th I stayed in Utah with the kids while Shane started work in Mexico. Shane came to Utah get the rest of the family on Feb. 11th, and our plan was to drive down to Mexico (because we wanted to take the car we had in Utah) leaving Saturday the 14th. We were going to stop in Gilbert, Az to see Spencer and Kristol and then spend a few days in Tucson before making the rest of the drive to Mexico. Well, that was the plan anyway...Shane flew in on Wed the 11th. On Thursday night we were up in Cache Valley with Shane's family having a "Mexican fiesta" farewell party. Just as we started to eat Shane got a call and disappeared for a while. As I was eating he pulled me into the other room and said, "we aren't going to Mexico". All of a sudden I felt sick and said "what??"' The company had just decided that day that in order to cut costs they weren't going to have us go to Mexico. When Shane's boss called the first thing he said was, "don't worry, you still have a job, but..." So, instead of Mexico we are back in Tucson. It took a few days for this news to sink in, but now that it has I feel good about it, and there are definite benefits to being back in the states. Back to the story...we decided to leave just as we had planned, because I was sick of being in limbo (as fun as it was to be with family and see tons of friends). So, Saturday we left Orem and drove to Mesa Az. We went to church with Spencer and Kristol on Sunday and hung out all afternoon. This was also Shane's birthday. Kristol made us a very delicious dinner (thanks again Kristol. You are the best!!) that was much appreciated. Being close to them is one of the benefits of this change of plans. On Sunday night we drove down to Tucson and have been here this past week. We are now in a rental condo but will be moving into a rental home at the first of March. We have started looking for a house, a van, cell phones, you name it we are in the market right now. It is a bit overwhelming when you need them all at once. Someone from HR went to Mexico last week to cancel all of the contracts that they had for us (house, van, schools, etc), and also brought back all of the stuff that we had already moved down, mostly Shane's stuff, and our laptop. We got that back on Friday night, so life is much better for me now that I have a computer again. Anyway, this is a lot of rambling, but now the news is out...WE ARE BACK IN TUCSON.