We have a plan!!!

We officially have a plan and have even started taking the steps to make it happen. I am so excited! Bj is going to go to school! There is a technical college in St. George that has a diesel mechanic program and he is  going to go full-time so it will only take him a year to get it done. We met with the admissions lady today and he took his accuplacer test. He had to have certain minimum scores in math, reading comprehension, and English to be able to enter the program without taking any extra courses first and he did great on all three! The next step is to meet with the guy who will process his financial aid, but that's going to have to wait until next week at least since he's in Hawaii right now (oh the jealousy I feel!). Thankfully the next quarter doesn't start until January 7th so we have plenty of time to get everything done as long as the college staff is helpful. Of course, living in Beryl would make going to school in St. George very expensive since it's over 100 miles round trip every day so we are going to be moving to St. George at the beginning of the year! We'll be able to get rid of one of our vehicles so that will help the finances. We won't have to drive to town for every little thing, including doctor's appointments, so that will save a lot of money for sure! And living close to grocery stores, banks, other people, etc. will help my sanity! I loved the country/secluded life when we first moved out here but now I'm sick of it. I have to drive 15 miles just to get to a gas station! We are going to have to break our lease which I absolutely hate because our landlord is great and has been wonderful to us. I am going to do everything I can to try to help find someone to take our place and we certainly wouldn't do it if we didn't have to so I am hoping she will understand and this won't cause her too many issues.

At first, I was scared to death when I found out we were having another baby but now I'm super excited! Bj and I are pretty resourceful and we are great parents with 4 awesome, well-behaved, happy, crazy kids already and one more will just be that much more fun! I really think this jump started our motivation to truly figure out what our next step in life should be and here we are, Bj's going to school! Yay!! Life is absolutely wonderful and going just as it should for us I believe!