Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving this year Josh & I went to Chico to be with our family. We had a great time hanging out with our siblings and doing fun things. We went on a hike, played games, had hot tub nights, and had a crazy karaoke night! Josh & his brothers are quite the entertainers!

We took our annual family pics with the Carr family and I realized how much the family had grown!

And as tradition would have it we dressed up as pilgrims & indians and at our yummy dinner!

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Around Spring time Josh started applying for jobs to begin after college graduation. Summer came and we were getting more & more nervous because we hadn't heard back from anyone. In June Josh had applied with the NGA but not really thinking of it, just assuming that we wouldn't hear anything back like the others. I remember him telling me about the position and that he would really love it! The end of October Josh got a call from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (one of the jobs he applied for back in June) They said they would like him to come out for an interview. Two weeks later he was on a plane to Washington D.C. where the agency is headquartered. He flew across the country, was there less than 24 hours, for a 10 minute interview!!! We were so nervous and anxious to hear back from them! They said that we would hear back in 2-4 weeks by letter or phone. Almost 3 weeks later Josh went in to work and he had an e-mail from the company asking him to call them as soon as possible. Josh called the recruiter and she congratulated him as she offered him the position of Nautical Cartographic Analyst. The position is located in St. Louis, Missouri and we are soooo excited! I have a sister that lives there and another one that lives in Iowa which is only about 6 hours away! So we are really happy that we will have them to be close to. The only down side is that because this agency is a branch of the CIA the job requires a top security clearance it will probably take about 6 months to process that. We will hopefully hear from them soon to find out when we can move out and start our new lives!!