I will back track back to last year after General Conference we felt like something needed to change; my husband was working over 80 hours a week and we were not seeing the compensation for his efforts; the golf course that he was the head pro at was on target to make over $50,000 or more in revenue in 2013 than they had in 2012; the company promised him a raise after the new year and we were holding out until we knew what the would be. After the beginning of the year, the numbers came in and they had indeed reached their projected goal for 2013 and surpassed it but after careful planning the company came back and offered him a .03 cent raise...A BIG SLAP IN THE FACE; and we knew we needed to get away from CGM...the first thought was to go back to school; it was something that we had talked about earlier and something we wished we would have done when we first got married 5 years ago. We decided that BYU Idaho was the place we needed to be. So in the end of January with only a week away from the deadline for the spring and fall terms, we got everything submitted and waited. We felt very strongly that this was the course we were suppose to take. Well, guess it was not...my husband did not get in; his GPA was just under what it needed to be to be admitted; it was the next blow...so we went back to the drawing board; there was gentleman in our ward that had a son in law that worked for a construction company and were looking at hiring a salesman; we submitted our information but did not hear back from them and then another opportunity came; my husband has really wanted to get into the sales rep side of the golf industry; he had been on the pro shop/course side for 5 years. He had applied to a position with Wilson Staff in 2013 and it came down to him and another guy and he was beat out; he always told me that you had to know someone to get into the industry and it was difficulty. He found an opening with a company called Oxford Golf and submitted his resume. He was called by one of the sales reps in Orlando and he told him that he was applying to his brothers company; my husband told me this was his in and he really wanted to take it. I was and am still very nervous about the whole thing but it made him very happy. So he accepted the position with Oxford Golf; to be the representative of the Rocky Mountain Territory (Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and Colorado)
So, he left April 3rd and headed to Atlanta for a training and then headed our west to Utah!!! My moms sister Wendy offered to have him stay at their house and we took them up on the offer. The kids and I were going to stay back in Florida until he got his footing and we got everything wrapped up at home. We decided that we were going to sell our house we were living in but keep our little house because we had a good tenant in there. We discussed probably heading out to Utah in June!!!.
Skyping for the first time...Teddy was so sad when it was done; when thinking about my husband leaving before us for a little while, I kept thinking that it would be okay but I never thought about the kids and their feelings, only that I felt we could do it...in the end it was okay!!!
AND SO THE CRAZINESS BEGINS
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