Ready or not.....

......here we come!!

I think I must be in a state of shock because I know that reality has definitely not hit me yet. Today, Matt is resigning from his job here in Edmonton, and accepting a job in Lethbridge.

And the enormous task of moving begins.....

The whole story goes like this:

The last week of April, Matt got a phone call at work from Mel Salmon from the Generations Funeral Home in Lethbridge. Matt got a hold of him a couple of days later and found out that he was looking to fill a position down there for a LDS Funeral Director. They had heard that there was an LDS director in Edmonton, so they phoned around until they found him. They asked Matt if he would send in his resume, which he did, and then we heard nothing for over a month. Matt finally called and asked what was going on with the position, and found out that they were trying to acquire a new business and had to get that settled first before they hired anybody, and that they would call in a month or two. Two weeks later, they called and asked him to come for an interview. So Matt went for an interview on June 28. The interview went well, and they told him they would call in a couple of weeks. Well, a month went by, but they called this week and offered Matt the job. In the meantime, Matt had mentioned all this to his boss and they started scrambling and got Matt a raise! Hurray!! It has definitely been a long time coming that is for sure. The offer from Generations was equivalent to his raise up here, but the pull of family, living in a smaller community and a slower pace of life won the battle. We told our kids tonight and were met with some tears and opposition, but we are trying to make this into a great adventure and hopefully by the time we actually move, they will be excited too.

Let the new adventure begin!!