Celebratory blog post (as promised) and MORE

I mentioned in my last post that you'd all be seeing a "celebratory blog post" pretty soon about Jeff's interviews for Edward Jones- and this is the one!!!! Jeff was offered a job as a Financial Advisor for E.J. on Wednesday! We were both very excited when he got the call. We have felt very blessed through this whole process of Jeff hearing about the job, shadowing, finding out he really enjoyed it, applying, interviewing, WAITING, and now finally hearing the good news. And why shouldn't we be excited?? He's going to have a very stable, rewarding career, he will be helping people toward their financial successes, he'll be working for a top-rated company in terms of job satisfaction as well as client satisfaction,  we will, as he builds his clientele, qualify for all-expense paid 5-star vacations to reward him on his excellent work....... Sweet, right??    

.................It gets better.

Jeff got another call on Thursday from Edward Jones. (We're beginning to LOVE calls from them, bringing us good tidings of great joy). This time, it was a guy named Chris, who is a Regional Hiring Manager for E.J., and who Jeff originally contacted to see about starting a career at E.J. He gave Jeff some even better news: he wanted Jeff to take over an entire office, inherit all the clientele for that office, which means the difference between starting out with a strong base of clients rather than starting out with zero clients. AWESOME!!!!

...................Almost.

I've failed to mention one majorly important detail about this job opportunity- can anyone guess what it is? LOCATION. Where in the world could this golden opportunity possibly be? Meridian? Nope. Boise? I wish!!! Utah? Thankfully, no. Sunny California?? If only. Ladies and Gentleman..... Let me introduce you to our new home-

Rupert, Idaho.

Home of the.......... uh........ um............ Wait, what is in Rupert??

So I do a little bit of research: Google- Rupert, Idaho. Search results- travel.yahoo.com/rupert, idaho. "Things to do" in Rupert-click. 

This is the result I got:

Insta-panic! 

"Okay, self. What about shopping?..... Okay there's no button that says 'shopping'." 

Breathe in, breathe out. 

"Okay, self. What about restaurants?..... Okay- Wayside? Guadalajar Mexican Restaurant? Doc's Pizza? Aguila con el Taco? Le's Chopsticks? Burgers Etc? Cargill Animal Nutrition?- Wait, what? Cuisine type: Agricultural Supplies & Equipment???" 

Sheer panic!

Well, this will be an adventure. One of much learning and.... change. But we really are so grateful for the opportunity that we have been given and feel so very blessed to have gotten it. I have to go, but I will write more once the whole idea has settled in a little bit more.