Goodbye Bessie! You were a good truck.

We sold Luke's baby (affectionately known by me as "Bessie" or "Beast") on August 2nd.  I posted the ad for it on the 1st and honestly didn't think it would sell so quickly.  The ad hadn't even been on the site for 24 hours yet!  Luke was sad to see it go, but it has been a reliable "friend" to him for almost 10 years so I think it was time for us to part ways.  Plus the fact that we would have had to pay for it to be shipped since the Military is only going to pay for one POV to be shipped and that will be the car (which we are shipping in a week!!)

We still don't know where we are moving to officially since Luke hasn't accepted a job yet.  As of right now our options are Augusta, GA or he takes a year long deployment to Afghanistan while Carlos and I live close to family (I'm gonna say that that will probably be St. George or some where in southern Utah).  If he doesn't take either of those jobs then we will most likely end up in Albuquerque for Luke to go back to school.  He has a phone interview today with the GA job and I'm secretly (well not so secretly anymore) hoping that he gets that job.  But if he feels that the Afghanistan one is better then I will support him in his choice and will be glad that I can be closer to family during his absence.  Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers as we wait for the time to make one of the biggest decisions of our life to date.  Mostly pray for my sanity because I will be losing it by the end of the month after all the out-processing and moving is over with.  Our last day on Oahu is Sept 12th.    It will be bittersweet to leave.  I will miss all the wonderful people in my Ward and all the friends I have made out here!  But on the positive side we will be able to spend more time with family once we are back on the mainland.

Anyway, I will post more updates from July soon.  I need to go to bed now as it's midnight which is waaayy past my bedtime.  Love you all!

~Nicole