The Big Move!!

Hello from Arizona!! We finally made it to our new home! You may be thinking, Wait?! Arizona? yes, we're livingin Arizona!  Nick got a job working in Blythe, California which happens to be right on the border of Cali and Arizona so we are living in a SMALL town called Ehrenberg on the Arizona side. Nick moved down three weeks before I did to do some training in Blythe and then Roxy and I got to go with him to Scottsdale for two weeks while he did training there! 

FedEx is an excellent company to work for and they took such great care of us while we were in Scottsdale! They paid for our hotel room andall of nicks food! So we got to go to lots of different restaurants!

One place we went was The Old Tortilla Factory During the meal they bring out that
days specialty tortillas. We got to try the potato tortillas with Cheddar cheese butter. They
were interesting but We liked them.

We also went to the Cheesecake Factory, Ztejas, Olive Garden, Chilis, and some other yummy places but my Favorite place we went to was... BUFFALO WILD WINGS!!!! I fell in love with this place when I lived in Texas so I was so excited to go there!! (we went there twice!)

It wasn't the funnest thing staying in a hotel for two weeks, but I was SO GLAD the hotel allowed dogs.  Otherwise I would have had to stay home by myself and that would have been bad!  The other great thing about the hotel... being in Scottsdale and all, we got to swim OUTSIDE in the awesome pool in the middle of December!! It was great!! This is the view from our room!

The hotel just happened to be like 5 MINS. from the Scottsdale Mall, which was AMAZING!! It is 3 stories high and like 5 miles long! (ok not really that long, but it sure seems like it) It was AMAZING!!  We got to get some Christmas shopping done while we were there!

Well it all had to come to an end and we headed on the long drive home..... This is our view just about the ENTIRE DRIVE to and from Pheonix.... Or should  I say, ANYWHERE we go!

A whole lot of NOTHINGNESS! 

So now we have settled in and life is pretty much back to normal.  Nick's new hours have been AWESOME and he is loving his new Job! I don't have a job yet, but I am looking.  I don't have my license in the State of California and in order for me to get it, I have to take California State Boards.  I REALLY don't want to go through that again, or pay to do it again so I have thought about getting a Job in Parker, Az which is 45 mins. from Ehrenberg.  Ya... 45 mins.  Wouldn't be so bad if there was actually something to look at while you took the drive, but as mentioned above..... WE LIVE OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF NO WHERE! So 45 of nothingness, all by yourself, everyday???? Ya not so fun. So I decided to look into some salons in a town called Quartzite, Az.  It is only 25 mins. from us, but its a REALLY SMALL TOWN and like Blythe, its a Snow bird town, so they are busy in the winter but everyone leaves in the Summer. Also, out here, every salon is booth rent.  Which means, that you have to pay a monthly fee to basically rent out your station to do hair.  Well when you don't have a clientele, this is not the ideal situation to be in because you also have to supply ALL of your product.  (Color, perms, rods, capes, foils, etc.) Which is crazy expensive, just starting out. So I would basically have to "Start my own Business" to even work in one of the salons.  So all that being said, I've decided to put doing hair and nails off for now, maybe do it on the side in my house for some people. So now I'm on the look out for basically anything to keep me occupied! There are VERY few places here to work so we'll see.