I'm sure anyone who's following the recent posts may be wondering to themselves, "Are the titles to her posts going to be anymore creative?"...my answer ~ "Maybe..after I'm done stressing out over here!" :DThis past week we went to Elko. We took the kids with us so they could get a feel for their new home not knowing how stressful the trip was going to be. Thank goodness Elko has a McDonald's because the kids got to play in Playland, oblivious to anything that was going wrong on this trip.
So the purpose of this trip was to find us a place to rent. We had an idea that there was a rental shortage in Elko but figured we'd have more luck if we actually went out there to look. Every call we made to apartment complexes and every neighborhood street we drove down that had NO For Rent signs, told us we were wrong. Needless to say the end of Day 1 had us frustrated and a little confused as to whether Aaron had made the right choice in signing on with Barrick.
The next morning, we went into Barrick's offices and explained our situation to them, telling them that without housing, we may just have to look elsewhere for work. We found out that temporary housing would actually be in an apartment unit that they held a contract on so that eased our minds a bit knowing that we wouldn't have to live in a hotel for 60 days (although that might have been fun the first few weeks, after a while, I'm sure we would've been sick of living in such small quarters). We went back to the hotel still a little concerned about what we'd do after the 60 days when Barrick called us back and told us that they actually had a little house that they had a contract on also. We went to go look at this cute little house and decided that this is where we wanted to be! It is seriously tiny (well, maybe about 10 sq.ft. bigger than our student housing apartment we lived in at USU), BUT it's in a great looking neighborhood, AND allows for our kids to run around like crazy without us worrying about making noise for neighbors downstairs. WOOOT! The most important thing though is that we all get to be together. No more commuting back and forth for Aaron (which is what he was doing with his job in Idaho Falls) and we get to drive Aaron crazy everyday instead of just on the weekends!
Looking forward to New Adventures!!!!!
3 comments:
Yippeee! Now tell me, how far is that from Vegas? I'm thinking of coming out again in April to visit Chelsea and Vegas is hopefully my landing destination before driving to SLC. Can't wait to see pics of this teeny tiny house in Elko. Glad everything worked out!
You are so luck we had a family in our ward move just outside of Elco and it took them three months to find housing
I just cried reading this. Ardis, continue to be the faithful person that you are and Heavenly Father will continue to bless your little family. I am sooo happy you will all get to be together!
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