There is no right or wrong in life, just the consequences of our actions...

During this past year, we noticed that things were starting to change. But before that, the last 4 years in Dallas have been memorable.

For me, work was awesome!! I loved everyone I worked with. Who can complain when you get to work in the same place as your best friend, Arseli Ramirez!! Being hired as a “package deal” is awesome. I became reconnected with our old college friend, Stephanie Kief. It was like nothing had changed, except that our friendship grew even stronger! My assistant TL, Kristin Ransom, became one of our closest friends! It’s great to have a partner to work with that you admire and respect. She motivated me to go above and beyond! Those were only a few of many close friendships I developed. Recently, things started to change. My best friend, “sista from another mista”, Arseli got married and moved to England. Stephanie and her husband Phil moved to Houston. Many of the girls that started at the same school as me had also moved on. It just wasn’t the same. Even though I had Kristin, for me, school started feeling different. The atmosphere just wasn’t the same. I wanted a change but didn’t know exactly what I wanted to do.

As for Brian, he had found several things he loved about Dallas, which was a feat in itself. He was not a fan of DFW when we first moved to the metroplex, but he found his own nuances to the area that he grew fond of. He became a waterski and wakeboard instructor at DFW Ski School and also slowly established group of friends he could go wakeboarding with on almost any day he wanted. He was interested in work and was soaking up everything he could about the world of investing. He started to make friends at work and came out of his shell a little more. Then we got the house and the dog. He finally got comfortable in Dallas.

That’s when Brian’s manager started talking to him about career planning and the next steps he could take in the company. The choice to get off the phones and into a branch was easy but the branches in Dallas were very competitive because nobody wanted to move out of Dallas to make the switch. We found out that it was much easier to get promoted if we were willing to move, and we could move just about anywhere! We decided that we weren’t that interested in California because it’s too expensive and slowly falling into the ocean. We didn’t want to move to the northeast also because of the cost of living. Florida wouldn’t be good with the compensation model at Brian’s job. After we ruled out all of that, we thought it would be nice to live in either Salt Lake City or Denver to be close to snow skiing and mountains but would also consider anywhere else that we had not eliminated. It came down to Denver or Atlanta and Denver won!!!

We did not come to this decision lightly. It takes a lot of courage to leave your family and friends and say, “why not?!?!” I’ve come to realize that life is short and I’ve come to realize that you have to take a chance. A great teacher passed away this year, rest in peace Becky Moffet, and it was a real eye opener for me. She past away at 50. It made me think, you need to LIVE your life. We sometimes get stuck in our monotonous life that we sometimes forget there’s a whole other world out there. We decided that a change for us could be a great opportunity for our careers and just in our day to day life!!

So, I’ve decided to start this blog to keep our friends and family updated on just how we are LIVING our life!!