a decision has been made.

and that decision is...texas for the hagerman's.

jon found out last week that he got accepted at UTSA. we have been going back and forth between moving to utah and moving to texas. we officially decided to move to san antonio, texas. it was a difficult decision, but we both feel pretty confident. we will be there for a few years while jon goes to school to get his bachelor's degree, then back to utah we'll go! after i finish my spring semester at SDSU, i'll have three more classes to take for my degree. i'm going to take three art history courses at UTSA in the fall (2013) and send them to SDSU and graduate from there in dec 2013.  

 i don't know when we will ever live in the same state as the OG hagerman's again, so we are really excited to make some memories there! (Melissa lives in sacramento) ideally we would live halfway between UTSA and jon's parents. I want it to be convenient for him to get to his school everyday, but also be able to spur of the moment go to his dads house whenever we want. 

i have to admit that i'm pretty nervous: change frightens me. i am getting quite comfortable here in san diego. i have my school situation down pat-leave thirty minutes before class starts, park at the institute building, ride my bike to class. i'm enjoying my calling at church. i teach the beehives and its difficult for me to open up. i finally feel like we are able to talk to each other comfortably, and they're so open and honest in class. i have made some genuinely good friends at church as well, specifically gherine. i love my riding instructor and lovelove the horse i ride. i think those three goodbyes will be some of the hardest. i will be sad to leave our first little house. its the perfect size for us and the design is finally coming together! just in time for us to pack it all up. and coming with all of these goodbyes also comes with telling the marine corps goodbye. i'm not ready to talk about that one yet. 

the good news is, with all of the goodbyes comes a lot of hellos!

 hello to living by the cutest downtown ever! 

 hello to some true country livin'!

hello to two of the cutest grandparents. i miss my grandma's all the time. i am lucky that jon still has grandparents on both sides that are very sweet and have welcomed me into their family. 

like i said: c-UNTRY!

hello to spending lots of quality time with these two!

we are planning on making the move sometime in the spring. jon gets out of the military on may 3rd, but i won't finish school until mid may. we need to be out of our house by may 3rd, and i don't want to be moving during my finals, so we will be leaving our house sooner than that. we're planning on packing everything up and sending it out to texas to put in storage, then we will spend the last few weeks in SD with a family from church. we will leave as soon as i'm done with school and make a significant stop in utah until jon starts summer school in texas. hopefully we will be in utah for at least two weeks at that time. 

i got a job at panera bread so that i could have something on my resume by the time jon gets out and we have to find jobs out in the real world. i worked at provide commerce seasonally in april/may and they just called me back. i'm starting on wednesday and working for them for their christmas season while only working at panera one day a week. hopefully they hire me back for valentine's day and mother's day so that i can put them on my resume and say i worked there throughout 2012-13. we are doing what we can to prepare for getting out of the military. its a scary and very big step for us! the past 2.5 years has flown by so fast, i can't believe we are already preparing for a big move. i am excited for our future and can't wait to explore a new city with my main man!