Saturday, August 22, 2009

It's Official!!


On Thursday evening, Lance accepted the job at NetDevil as the Executive Producer of their new super-secret project. He is very excited for the challenging work to come and feels like he'll fit in well at this great company. He was impressed with everyone he met and is excited to begin working from Virginia on Monday. He ended up have a total of 6 months, 3 weeks off work and he's ready to get back to it! He will work from here until we are ready to move... which hopefully will be soon.


Next step is to sell our house here. It is back on the market so please feel free to forward our MLS listing to anyone you know who might be looking for a great house in Fairfax City.



As soon as we get a viable offer on the Hill St. house, we will head back out to Colorado to look for a house there. We looked at a lot of places this past week and know there are a lot of great houses available in Louisville and neighboring Superior. The schools are top-notch so we'll be happy wherever we end up. Our timing is a little off though because they already started school so the kids will miss the first few weeks or so. Luckily, we have a little time on this side before school starts here. If we get to September 8th (our first day of school) and still don't have any interest on the house, we'll keep them here. We don't want to put the kids in a school out there without being in a house so that we can be flexible about neighborhoods. There are three schools there that I'd be completely comfortable with so it's best to keep them here until we are sure of where we will live out there.
So, there you have it. A long six months of uncertainty and a lot of hard choices during that time but we are super happy that we waited for the right offer with the right company in the right place.
Now the hard part of packing begins... UGH!!!


Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Colorado or Bust!!

~It's not official yet but it would be a big surprise if something derailed our plans now. Lance's interviews all went great and the company is happy to have him. We don't have the official offer yet and expect to get it tomorrow (which is a great birthday present for me, I guess!) So we'll leave Friday and get home to organize the next month. We'll sell our house in Virginia and do the drive West.... I can't believe it. We've been carefully waiting for the best offer and it seems we did the right thing to hang in there and hope for a perfect fit.
Here's a great shot I took from my rear view mirror!!
More to come... Beth

Monday, August 17, 2009

From Colorado...

I'm really tired so only going to update with a quick blurb -- all is great here. I'd say that it's 99% chance we're going to move here. (Wow, that's weird to write) Lance's offer is likely to come tomorrow. They discussed salary, title, benefits and everything looks almost too good to be true. I spent the day with a real estate agent and the houses are great, reasonably priced, and more than a few to choose from. I'm going out again with her tomorrow afternoon and we'll know for sure if Lance accepts the offer by tomorrow evening. (Wow, that's weird to write)

So I hope all our friends out there love to ski. We're doing everything we can to get you all top-notched accomodations when you come to visit.

More later...

Oh, this is a real photo that I took from the backyard of one of the houses on our list...

Pretty sweet!!