East Coast Here We Come!

Brad started the application process for PA school again because after receiving a 'no' from every school but one (who put him on the wait list) we decided we should start up everything again for next year's programs.  So once again, Brad set up times to go shadow one of the PAs I used to work with.  Monday (June 16th) he went to do a day of shadowing, while Tacy and I hung out at home.  I had just worked three days in a row after coming back from a trip to California to see my family/be at my sister's baby shower.  So I was tired.  Around lunch time Brad calls me up.  What does he tell me?  He just got a phone call from Campbell University telling him that someone had dropped out and asking if he was still interested because they had an opening for him in their program!  Granted Brad was in shock when he was talking to me so he had no emotion in his voice at all.  For a second I thought he was just not excited about this.  But Brad said he was shaking so bad and trying to get over the shock of the phone call. 

So what does this mean for us?  Well it means that Brad starts a 27 month PA program in Buies Creek, NC on August 7th.  It means that we have 6ish weeks to plan and get already and moved to North Carolina.  It means that we are now hunting for housing across the country and I'm applying for multiple jobs a day.  It has been a crazy week!  We have at least gotten a moving truck booked (and for a great deal thanks to Brad's Dad).  We will be towing our Honda behind the moving truck and I will be driving the Mazda with Tacy.  So a fun drive for our family.  Some of Brad's family might be able to drive with us so we can have help (I'm mostly concerned about keeping Tacy entertained).  The nice part of the drive is that we will be going through St Louis (where Brad served his mission) so we can stop and see some of his old friends. 

Basically we are planning on splitting the 32 hour drive up into 4 days of driving (with 1.5 days in St. Louis area).  So right now we will leave the end of July and get to North Carolina that weekend.  We are going to try and drive the longest the first two days and then drive shorter amounts the last two days (when I'm sure Tacy will be done being in a car).  St. Louis will be a great break point so Tacy can run around at the St. Louis zoo, play, whatever with people Brad knows before we finish our trek.

Brad is flying out to NC in 2 weeks to go house/apartment hunting.  We have looked online and found some places we really like.  But I still want at least one of us to see them before we sign a contract.  It's cheaper for just one of us to go, and well I make more working right now than he does.  So he is going while Tacy and I stay here waiting for his calls and pictures.  It's all very crazy and overwhelming.  We feel very blessed to have the opportunity for Brad to get into PA school.  I will be putting off my BSN for a little (since you have to live in the state of Utah to be in Weber's program).  Hopefully I can get into a program out in NC or an online one so I can get that (as most places really prefer nurses with BSNs (sorry a bachelors of nursing). 

That is the current crazyness of our lives.  We are trying to spend time with Brad's family since we now only have a month left here.  I know that Tacy will miss all of her aunts, uncles, and cousin (plus the 2 on the way that we could possibly completely miss).  We are going to throw an early birthday party for Tacy since we are moving right before her birthday.  

We are excited for this new chapter of our lives.  I'm excited to go back to NC since I haven't been there for 15 years.  We joke that by the time Tacy is clearly speaking english she will have a southern accent.