Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind?

Does Fort Worth ever cross YOUR mind?  It sure has been crossing ours lately.  Why, you ask?  Well, I'll give a couple of hints.
First of all, we are going to be becoming very familiar with this sky line in the next several years:

Second, this company logo will likely be all around our home on various freebies, papers, and business cards: 

So, what does this all mean?  We've accepted a job in Fort Worth ladies and gentlemen!  The search is over!  It was a hard decision to make, but we think it's the right one for us.  Goodbye snow, hello humidity!  We'll be moving after Mark graduates in May, so we still have several months to get ready,  but I'm sure it will go by fast.  Right now, we're thinking of living west of Fort Worth in a small town called Aledo.  Does anyone know someone who lives in the Fort Worth area??  I've never been there before, but Mark was impressed with what he saw while he was there.  It's exciting and unknown at the same time.  We don't know how long we'll be there, just that it's where we'll be starting out.

In other news, there are only three weeks left in the semester plus finals week.  I am going to be extremely busy finishing/catching up on everything!  Mark has finished his field work and will be defending his proposal very soon before he starts officially writing his thesis! 

I have decided to send out a Christmas card this year.  I realized that we have actually had a not-so-boring year, and I think I can actually write up a letter that I'll be excited to share with everyone!  We're going to take a picture to add to it too, and I'm excited about that because we haven't had any real pictures taken of just the two of us since our engagement pictures.

I am so ready for Thanksgiving and seeing family!  We had our first snow here last week, and even though there's  not much left on the ground, it has put me in a  holiday mood!