I'm A REAL Girl!

For our entire 5 1/2 years of marriage, Spencer and I have constantly been working toward, planning for, anticipating the day when we would be "real people".  It didn't come when we graduated BYU, or when we had our first baby, our second, or our third.  It didn't come when we became financially independent, or when we planned and paid for our first real family vacation... Everything we have done has been in preparation for graduating Grad School and starting the rest of our lives.   I can't emphasize enough that all of our lives and plans have led to the great mystery of what comes after grad school.

Okay, he didn't graduate yet, it would be a weird time of year for that, don't you think?  But yesterday (last friday) my husband who has a fear of career-commitment (hence his love for consulting, which puts you on different types of projects every few months) finally committed to a full-time post-MBA job, which means we know where we are beginning the rest of our lives!



And that place is.....

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Bentonville, Arkansas!

Of all the places that we considered, imagined for all these years... Bentonville Arkansas was not one of them.

Many of you may know already that Bentonville is the birthplace of Walmart and is where the company is still headquartered.  Yes, my husband will be working for the "Behemoth of Bentonville"!  Oh, sure, people have a lot of bad things to say about Walmart but I have always loved it.  To me it stinketh not.

We're very very excited about this great opportunity for Spencer to work at this great company and also the opportunity for our family to live in Bentonville.  We got to go see Bentonville quickly last month as we considered our options and really, I loved it.  It's small.  Spanish Forkish, for my fellow Utah-countyers.  And then there are a few Provo-ish sized "suburbs".  But we liked Bentonville proper and will be looking there for housing.

After accepting, Spencer came out of the room and tossed chocolates all over the place in celebratory fashion.  The girls caught on to the excitement and stuffed their faces.

Yay, Spencer!  I'm so excited for him and proud of him and grateful for him.  He has made a lot of sacrifices for me and my sanity over the years and is the only reason I'm not checked in to an instution right now.  And inspite of all the family demands he's had he still managed to rock his interviews and get a great job in a place where the kids will be safe, have great schools, we'll be so close to the office, etc.

I am so so so so excited.  I have been watching every episode of  HGTV's "my first place", to try to warm up for house hunting.  It's all I can think about.  Arkansas!  Who knew?

Oh, and in case you were wondering, Layla is getting cuter every day.