Grabin Life By The Nads

A great, fantastic opportunity has come up for us.  We discovered that Tim can transfer to the DC in Pueblo, Colorado next year!  For those that don't know us...Colorado is our dream.  We have a lot of family in Loveland, but never could figure out how exactly we would move with only having his income here and needing to find jobs there with a much higher cost of living.  Pueblo is about 3 hours from Loveland.  Not ideal, but it's a start! We are so excited and can't wait! 

Down town Pueblo, Co.

What we know about Pueblo:

*They have one of the lowest costs of living in the US.

*The sun shines 300 days out of the year.

*The median age is 35.

*They do not get much snow.

*It is the hotest city in Colorado during the summer.  (But the humidity is nothing compared to Iowa)

*The public school system is not great. (We'd prefer private school anyways)

*It seems that people travel from elsewhere in Colorado to Pueblo in the winter because it's much warmer and the sun is shinning.'

*They have very small catfish on their top record catches. (Yes, this was important for Tim to look up.)

So what now? Well, we were supposed to go to Kirkwood in August for the Humane Officer program.  This program is two years long and in Cedar Rapids which is an hour drive.  After much thought, moving to CR is not an option to us because we want to be in Colorado so we wouldn't want to move Colton to CR and then to CO within a couple years.  We thought about commuting back and forth during the week but that's a lot of time on the road each day and what if there was an emergency with Colton at school here?  We can't risk that.  So, we have decided not to attend Kirkwood. 

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That being said, when Pueblo came up as an option I of course started searching online at the job market and such.  I found out that only 30% of the population over 25 there has a four year college degree. Of course this got me thinking..... Hmmmmmm Well, I just finished my 2 year in Criminal Justice...what's stopping me from getting my bachelor's?  I went in to talk to Kaplan today to see how long it would take and after a bunch of digging came up with pretty much exactly one year! So...it looks like I'll be starting my bachelor's next week.  Of course, I could not do just CJ I had to add on an emphasis in forensic science! w00t! I am so excited! All the classes are at night, which is also a good thing because then I can work at least part time during the day while Colton's in school.  Tim's also being moved to working Saturday thru Monday nights so he will be able to be home with Colton at night too. 

Feels like everything fits together just perfectly! If I've learned anything in the past year, it's that you can't sit and wait for the life you want to come to you...you have to go out and grab it by the nads! :p