August 29, 2012 - Kasey got the best news in a L.O.N.G. time! Back at the beginning of July, Kasey asked his boss {yet again...} if he could put in for a transfer to a job opening in Salt Lake City, UT. Not even 3 months before that, he asked about applying for a transfer to the Denver area. He was expecting the same answer he got when he asked about Denver. A big, fat, NO. The main reasons being that: 1 - nobody in their right mind wants to stay in Rawlins/Sinclair so getting someone there and keeping them there is nearly impossible. 2 - the only other guy Kasey works with will be retiring soon, but no date set. Well, Kasey had a few important people pulling for him so his boss reluctantly agreed to let him at least apply. Getting out of Rawlins was still a bit of a long shot, but our hopes were sky high. I started researching the entire northern Salt Lake area - you know, just in case :) We agonized over whether or not we would get it for 2 MONTHS, weighing the odds and speculating on what might happen. The decision came down to 6 candidates, and Kasey was the most qualified for the position but the situation with his station {location and coworker} were a big obstacle and the outcome could have gone either way. Fastforward to the end of August, his boss and the Rock Springs technician Rob played a dirty joke on Kasey knowing his hopes were as high as can be. Rob told Kasey that their boss was going to be calling him with bad news, that the job had been absolved and that the tech they already have in Salt Lake was going to take over the position's responsibilities so to be prepared. His boss took a whopping 20 minutes to call him, all the while Kasey's mind is going crazy {"what am I going to tell Krista" being at the top of his list.} Kasey answers the phone and Dale tells him that he got the job. Then my jerk of a husband played the same joke on me except told me immediately after that he was kidding. Took me about 3 hours to come back from that. Kasey got the job with the stipulation that he would go back and forth from Salt Lake to Sinclair every other week to help cover his empty position until they have someone to fill it. That's going to be rough, I worry about all the 5 hour stretch he's going to be doing on the interstate in the winter. Those roads can get nasty. But it's all about the big picture here, and if that's what we have to do, so be it.
They gave us 1 month to coordinate our family's relocation. Nothing I can't handle, haha! I started packing and looking for houses right away. I was pretty worried about finding a home in a safe neighborhood with a great school in a nice town and close to Kasey's new office, etc... We decided that we really liked a town called Kaysville, UT which is only 15 minutes from his office. I called on this house that is in a great location and in the school district we wanted, we went down to take a look at it, signed a 6 month least and plan to buy by the summer if everything is as picture perfect as it seems like it will be :)
We only have 1 more week here, and we are SO excited! Kasey flies out to Pennsylvania for a class and won't be back until Friday. We will be renting a uhaul, packing it up, unpacking over the weekend, then Kasey will be at work in his new office on October 1st! We are in for quite a week/weekend, but I gotta say I am looking forward to it! Wish us luck!
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