Thanksgiving. In April Shaun's sister and her family moved to Costa Rica. Moving to latin/ south american countries is kind of their thing. Logan works in Global HR and went into that with the intention to live abroad. It honestly is SO amazing, i'm slightly jealous. Anyway, since its costa rica we decided we had to visit once while they were there! We went down with Shaun's older brother Scott and their parents. It was so fun to spend time with family, and get to see our niece and nephew! We went repealing down waterfalls, surfing on an AWESOME beach, and hung out with toucans and monkeys, just to name a few highlights. Carter did great on the trip and didn't lack receiving any attention. Little Ansley was so cute with him and would pick him up, put him on her lap, then smile as big as her little face would allow. We loved it all.
After we got back from Costa Rica we unpacked our bags and packed them back up for our trip to the NFR just a few days latter. Poor Carter. The NFR is like the super bowl of rodeo and for those who dont know or understand it, just know you should want to go. AGCO (Hesston) is a major sponsor of the rodeo and has a booth that they set some equipment out at. One of the tractors (global series) Shaun has been very involved in its launch so he was sent out to stand next to it and talk to all the farmers that came by. Since AGCO is awesome they invited me out as well, so of course we took them up on it. I LOVE the rodeo and it was so nice to be back in a place I felt like I knew and understood. I even pulled out my boots after 3 years of sitting in my closet and put them on. Whoa, big deal folks. I SO SO SO miss horses and rodeo, and our hobbies. We've learned to just kind of cope with out having any of the things we love but when we go back to things like the NFR were reminded and... thus become slightly depressed. :) kidding, kinda. Anyway, being at the rodeo with AGCO was really nice they took care of EVERYTHING so pretty much all I ever had to do was walk down to the lobby and every need you can imagine was taken care of.
Another wild note, we're not moving to Idaho anymore. WHAT.THE. HECK. trust me were still trying to figure out how this all just happened. Back in October we accepted a job with Agri-service. We were stoked to be able to move back to a place where all our hobbies (camping, hunting, horses, 4-wheelers, faming) were much easier to get to. We put our house on the market and flew back and forth to Idaho looking for a place to live. Fast forward to last week.... We finally received an offer on our home that we felt was worth taking. We signed and now are under contact. About 2 hours later Shaun sent me a text the said... Want to stay in Georgia? I was just offered a position here. Uhhhh..... Once Shaun explained the job i new it was something he would love and be very interested in. When I get the word that it can be explained i'll be sure to tell everyone but, for now just know that about 70% of our conversations were about the products and farming related... with this new job i'm expecting about that to jump to about 99.9%. At the same time Shaun had accepted the offer in idaho and we were at a complete loss to which would be better for him/us. We wanted to move west, he really wanted dealership experience, he likes the CEO ALOT and Agco told him it would be a great position. But this new one was a job that is a major compliment to receive and could push his career forward in hyperdrive. It was a HORRIBLE decision. We would say, ok were doing Idaho then about 15 minutes later (not kidding) we would say eh... lets do Georgia. This crazy flip flipoppiness (pretend thats a word) went on for about 3 days... until last night. We decided we had to stay up till we came to a final conclusion since we were to move in 4 days! We did it and were staying. I feel good about it. Agri-service is AMAZING and told shaun they support him in either decision and that the door is and will remain open. I think shaun needed their vote of confidence and understanding to fully decide that its ok to take this AGCO position. So, heres to a little bit longer in Georgia!
Side notes... Yes we sold our house here in Georgia, we have no idea what were going to do yet, I guess buy a new one? We'll be looking at them this week.
We would love to move to the country here but the commute for shaun would be way to long... stinking Georgia traffic!
OHHHH and to make this post even longer... Sorry folks. We have an announcement!
That's right Little Cater is going to be a big brother! I'm about 15 weeks along and thanks to modern medicine we know that its a girl! oh and yes... it was planned :)
Here are some pictures from the last few weeks. Carter is now 8 months! whoa! I'm going to try and put together his little update thing I do and post it soon. He's a wild man! Not sure why they are placed so weird. I gave up fixing them.     |
| We were so excited to force this kid to be a cowboy :) Guess he has a couple years before we do that. |
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| Vegas did work on the little guy |
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| At the NFR |
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| In Costa Rica with our little niece. |
