Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Our Announcement

Wow...a lot of you immediately assume "announcement" means pregnancy (see comments from previous post) as well as you have a great memory back to April Fool's last year...I completely forgot about that post!

Our news has nothing to do with a baby, however...it is a major life change. We recently learned of our next assignment and in late June we will be moving to the DC/VA area as Brad will be working at Headquarters Air Force in the Pentagon. So, if you're keeping track or at all confused...it looks like this:

Spring 2007 in WA. Summer 2007-Summer 2008 in NJ. Summer 2008 in DC.

Got it?! This was our first 1 year assignment and we're so fortunate that it was in a location where we still had a lot of friends from our previous stint in NJ. It has been a great year rekindling friendships and it will be hard to leave them, again! It will be nice to only be 2.5 hours away so we can visit on occassion.

We've already spent two weekends in DC exploring and checking out the housing situation and trying to determine the area that we want to focus in on in our house hunt. We're both a little excited and apprehensive. There are a lot more factors to consider in this move...Brad needs to commute by public transportation so we're looking for a house near one of the many commuting options. Our other major factor is the schools. We found an area we really liked but the schools got terrible reviews. So, cross it off the list. We spent an evening creating a spread sheet that shows the best schools in the county where we're looking to live and then mapping their school district and essentially we're telling our realtor to show us houses within those areas...unfortunately a lot of the houses in those areas are million dollar homes which are slightly out of our price range.

So...that is the "announcement"...hope I didn't disappoint! Apparently I don't seem busy enough in my posts and everyone thinks we need a fourth child!

2 comments:

Chelle said...

Congrats! Praying you all find the right place with the right schools, and that it all goes smoothly. And wow, that's a lot of different places in a short span of time you all have been moved to!

It is funny that so many of us assume pregnancy....well, glad I wasn't the only one anyway.

Anonymous said...

Melynie, what's your email address? Molly alerted me to your blog and I tried to email you but I must have the wrong address. Houses here are outrageous...we're looking too...but I can help you with schools and parts of town, etc. jana.murphy@faa.gov