It's official!

We're moving!  I just booked our tickets online.  We'll be leaving Townsville on the 23rd of September and heading to Salt Lake for a few months (we're still unsure where we will end up after that).  I have mixed emotions.  We will have lived in Australia for 4 years and 9 months (10 months for John).  Townsville will always be a special place for us.  We celebrated our first wedding anniversary here, Alexis was born here, John got his PhD here.  We've had so many wonderful (and a few not so wonderful) experiences here and have made so many friends.  This really has become our home.  It's weird to think about going to the States permanently and not just for a visit.  It will be sad to leave our life here behind, but we're really looking forward to being closer to our families.  John is working hard on his grant applications and hopefully we'll be starting our next big adventure in early 2012!