“We are not leaving this adventure but continuing on to the next one.” –My husband Ethan Smith
Sorry for not getting a blog post up last week. I tried but it was not happening with all the packing. As many of you know my husband and I recently moved from Colorado to Arizona just this week. I am very excited about this new adventure we are taking but it was very emotional as well.
I moved from New Mexico to Colorado in 2007 with my friend Erin right after we graduated from New Mexico State University. I felt like I really grew up in Colorado because I learned more about myself during my 7 years here than I ever had before. I learned what type of friend I wanted to be and what kind of friends I wanted to surround myself with. I also learned what I wanted out of a career for myself and trust me I tested these waters like no one I have ever met before. After five and a half years after getting my undergrad I finally fell in love with a Master’s program that felt like it was made just for me. I learned how to be more patient, forgiving, and grateful with not only myself but with others.
Here in Colorado I met my husband and we got married here in 2011. We even bought our first home together! I met the most amazing group of friends I could ever ask for and they inspire me every day. I joined a mentorship program to help me build my business with Jill Coleman and met even more amazing women and I now have friends from all over the world!
I also came to realize that success to me was not actually measured by my bank account but how truly happy I was and if I spent real quality time with the people I love. Success to me is being able to live my life rather than going through the motions of it. I began to realize how important it is for me to wake up overjoyed to see what the day might bring and what I may have to offer back.
When my husband and I signed papers to sell our home to another family I felt so many emotions running though my body. Yes, I was excited to be on a new adventure with my man and together not fully knowing what will happen next. However, a part of me felt very sad to leave all the people and memories that have made me who I am today. In a weird way it almost felt like I was saying goodbye to whom I was before Colorado and who I had become at the very same time.
Of course I know that I am the same girl in Arizona as I was in Colorado but it was saying goodbye to the “Colorado Chapter” of my life that made me this very girl going to Arizona. In all honesty I am much clearer and focused in the direction I will be moving in while I am here in Arizona. I am surer of who I am and what lines in the sand I will draw whenever needed. I have always been a happy person but this time around I am joyful. I am already off to a wonderful start with this new adventure and carrying all my lessons learned from my time in Colorado.
So what exactly will happen next? I can’t exactly tell you because I don’t fully know. All I can say is this year will be one of the best ones yet! Why? Because if my life in Colorado was that life changing just imagine what will happen while I am in Arizona! Imprinted Legacy is my career focus from here on out, my husband is on his career journey in Cyber Forensics and most of all we have each other.
In any new chapter of life there will be ups and downs and the occasional spinning and side stepping….just like a dance! All of these events are meant to make life that much more exciting. Hopefully they make us stronger, wiser, happier, more loving, and grow in our sense of humor.
Raised in New Mexico grew up in Colorado…..let’s see what happens in Arizona 🙂