What I've Learned- so far

Good evening- hope everyone had a blessed and stress free sunday! Eddie and I have spent the weekend researching Oklahoma City and its real-estate. It feels as though were planning for a huge event in just a matter of weeks; and essentially we are. Ed's only has two more weeks of training and we're thinking that we'll be sent to search for a new home and back our bags- except we've got our house here to handle (if it would only sell its self!) Oh, yeah and did I mention the relo (relocation) people lost Eds paper work and that's why were now having to do the whole process at warp speed! Any who, I told my work saturday- and I'm set up to transfer as soon as we know exactly where (easy enough). As tomorrow I'm to 'speed date' four Greenville realtors to figure out who's most motivated/ equipped/ and best suited to sell our house... yesterday. haha 

Tornado Humor
 

As the house hunting goes, luckily enough for us the Oklahoma City housing market is reasonably priced and we should get plenty of house and storm shelter for our money. Oh, yeah were moving to the heart of tornado ally where you are strongly suggested to purchase a 'bomb shelter' (as eddie calls it) or buy a house new enough to have one already installed. I'm not gonna lie it's a little worrying but I guess it could always be worse? Now that I think about it; raining all the time in Seattle would of been depressing and the east coast always have threats of hurricanes... The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.

I also learned about our new NBA team, Go thunder?

Blog 29: Finally!

So we finally have found out where we're headed to for the next few years, we will be living in or around Oklahoma City, Oklahoma!  Now the adventure begins of sailing selling our house and trying to find a new residence in OKC. More to come!

-Eddie (& Heather)

Blog 28: Eddie/Moving ETA

Hello All. Ed is still in Seattle, Washington tonight until his plane leaves 10 pm his time (1am eastern standard time) and is on the red-eye arriving at GSP just after 9am our time. So I ask that everyone please keep him in your prayers.

Trying to keep the blog updated because we're really coming down to the wire and the word on the streets is we're supposed to hear some news as soon as  tomorrow night! I'm betting we'll hear late tomorrow OR early next week because if I've learned anything from all this it's; expect the worst and hope for the best.  It's really all 'hear say' right now until we hear the final word as RUMORS have been swirling that we could be anywhere from Seattle, Pensacola, and now the north east. Any who the game plan is once we find out we'll call family then post the news as soon as we can. Next time I blog it should be the news we've been waiting what feels like years months for!! 

Blows my mind... you are getting sleepyyy

Blog 27: Merely Rumors

Good Sunday afternoon all, hope everyone has had a great weekend! Eddie has  spent the end of last week in Tacoma, Washington and ended the weekend Portland, Oregon. Just a few more days till he finally gets to come home, which means we are getting closer to finding out where were going.

Seattle, WA to Portland, OR

Eddie's only heard rumors about where Michelin's sending us, and all I can say is it's some where in the Continental United States (Alaska's out). With only forty eight states to narrow it down to it could be anywhere from 'rainy hipsters' to 'historical landmarks', to 'old peeps'. The more I hear the more i'll narrow it down. Stay tuned!!

Take a minute and enjoy the United States, haha

Blog 26: High-5 Day

Today's kind of a big deal here at "DBHF" as today is National High Five Day, as we as April National Stress Awareness Month! And while the holiday of National High Five Day may sound silly, it was actually started to support a good cause. Several people have signed up to give out 55 high-fives throughout the day for the National High-5-A-Thon for Cancer Research. If the organizers meet their goal, more than $15,000 will go to a variety of cancer-related organizations. If you want to help as well, give a virtual high-five (aka a donation) at www.stayclassy.org. 

Additionally April is National Stress Awareness Month, which is is a national, cooperative effort to inform people about the dangers of stress, successful coping strategies, and harmful misconceptions about stress that are prevalent in our society. So take a few extra minutes to think about your daily stress, and what you can do to reduce it- as well as hand out a few high fives to even just  brighten someones day. 

Blog 25: Half Way

It is officially the half way point for Ed's trip which means nine days down, nine to go. I have the next three days off from work and thinking about starting the packing process of organizing keep or donate piles. Feeling a yard sale in our future? It's crazy how much two people can collect in what feels like a small amount of time, wish me luck as I take on organizing the house! 

One day twenty hours - 2,770 miles

Blog 24: Ducks and Dresses

Sorry it's been a little while since I've updated the blog, I haven't forgot you all but to be honest not too much has been going on. As far as our current status goes, no news is NOT good news. This waiting around to find out where the wind will take us has become progressively harder, especially without Eddie around. I keep reminding myself its 'a leap of faith', but the leap feels like we've been in free fall for months. It's becoming more of a reality of how much needs to be done (did I mention our house as yet to be appraised just to be put on the market?), yet with no destination nothing is achievable. 

I guess you could say were like little ducks-
on the surface we appear calm and collected
 when underwater were kicking just to stay afloat. 
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Blog 23: I Hate Goodbye's

So I did it, I dropped Eddie off at the airport this morning. I considered flexing my 'fashionable late' muscles to keep him in Greenville a few more hours to myself, but the early morning hours and rush to work kept me from delaying him like I would of wished. 

I wanted to capture Ed and his luggage, and I have to admit he's such a good sport to put up with me. Anyway for those who know Eddie you can only image the struggles we endured to pack him up for three weeks into ONLY three bags (yep- he's gonna kill me for this post, haha). The photo appears rather conservative but the scales don't lie at just under two hundred pounds! Bless his heart, he made my morning when he figured out he had to wear his running shoes to Washington due to he forgot to pack them last night and really had no room in any of his suitcases to include them. 

Blog 22: My Favorites

First off; hope everyone is having a great Easter Sunday!

Got to share a fabulous weekend with Eddie and my favorites in Charleston. We did way too much for photos and here's a few slides I did get of the weekend. It was a busy yet much needed weekend as I hope to visit again in the up coming weeks. Getting better about taking pictures but the list of un-pictured are Hayley, Maggie, Adam, Bayr, Kathryn, Michele and Ally "friend". Now off to help Ed pack for Seattle, Washington! 

Blog 21: Wonderful 25th

This year I was honestly not as excited to celebrate my birthday, though after today I was glad everyone went out of their way to make my day special. Days like today remind me how truly blessed I am, and make the other days in between well worth it. Here's a few moments from the day although I feel like I failed because I forgot to take some with the fam!

Stole this photo from Paige- It's condoned on one's birthday right?

Blog 20: Nifty App

Good evening, hope everyone made it through Monday. For all those observing Good Friday, only three more days of the work week to go! I recently found another new App that I thought was nifty enough to pass on, it's called Snapguide. It's a "simple, beautiful way to share and view step-by-step how to guides", or as I see it the Pintrest for how-to's. It allows a user to add their own guides as well as view various other step-by-step task others have mastered and thought well enough to pass on to others.