Head West Young Man

We are moving!
In one month from today.
We are moving to a tiny little town of 294 people. Actually we will be living 5 miles outside of this tiny little town.
We are extremely excited for this opportunity for both Jordan and our family.  After being out of school for almost two years Jordan realized that sitting at a computer looking at drawings and work packages all day was not for him.  We are extremely grateful for our time here in South Carolina, it taught us so much, it has been special to be able to take the kids to visit Jordan's dad twice a week, own our first home, have Bo, and so much more.  While these things have been great, we knew that we wanted our kids to grow up with a different lifestyle, a more simple and wholesome lifestyle.
After much prayer and fasting we have decided to move back to Idaho.  Jordan will be working on a large ranch.  And yes, we realize Jordan knows nothing about ranching.
We were not out looking for a ranching job, we were actually looking into other field engineer positions in the oil and gas industry.  While visiting family and friends in Utah this summer our friends Tim and Elaine stopped by, it was briefly mentioned about a possibly of an engineering position with their family's company.  When we got back to Aiken we talked about how we really missed Idaho and maybe we should look into that rather than oil/gas.  We also knew they were looking for a ranch hand for their cattle operation.  About 4 months later we were sitting in the living room and it just kind of dawned on us that we should ask about that position and seeing if there was anyway to make it work for our family.  For some crazy reason they said yes, and now we are packing up.
 This is a big change but we truly think it is right for our family.
Really though, it all boils down to that I look way more cute in the freezing cold than I do the sweltering heat.

Survival mode.

In the past 33 months I have either been growing a child or physically providing a child with all of their nutrients. For 9 of those months I was doing both simultaneously. 

In the past 24 months I have changed roughly 7,482 diapers. 

I have not slept through the night in two years. 

I have not slept longer than 3 hours in the past nine months. 

I have gone to school part time during all of this. 

I still wake up at 5 and make Jordan a lunch every morning. 

Most mornings it takes a whole lot of self control not to throw his camelback at his head. 

But yet I do it cause it's the only time we get to talk without kids. 

I have 5 loads of laundry to fold. 

It's been sitting in my room for over a week. 

I still have 3 more loads to wash. 

My sink still has dishes from thanksgiving. 

I am tired. 

Today is madilyn's 2nd birthday, and I can't even imagine finding the energy to buy let alone make a cake.