Hello Seattle.

Yesterday on our 4 year anniversary, la familia Barnes picked up and moved to Seattle. That's right. 5.5 weeks before Miss Rose makes her debut, we moved across the country to start a new adventure. Towards the end of May, Mike got an email from a Microsoft recruiter saying that she had found his profile on Linkedin and was interested in talking with him about a job. Mike hadn't updated his profile in two years so he was a bit surprised but figured it wouldn't hurt to talk to her. He had his first phone interview in the beginning of June, and two more phone interviews followed quickly. We took a trip out here on June 19 for another interview and had a job offer a few days later! We really can't believe that this all happened and soooo fast.

We had a lot of fun hanging out with friends the past few weeks. It was so hard to say goodbye and I don't think it has really hit me yet. They have all been there for me during my pregnancy and I just up and leave them before she even comes! Sorry guys, I love you!

We are currently living in Redmond in temporary housing and will be going apartment hunting over the next couple of days in order to get settled for Rosey. We hope to buy a house in a few months. We are happy to be back in the West and I still have not gotten over all of the Coug memorabilia.

This was last night when we got to the airport. On a side note- yes we are a committed Apple family. After seeing our two computers, our mover let us in on a secret that most Microsoft people he moves have Macs.

Happy Anniversary to us! We had a lovely anniversary lunch with Janae, Wyatt, and Owen at Cheesecake Factory. Janae had us tell the story of our wedding day and it was fun to think back. We think its pretty funny that our last anniversary without kids was spent on an airplane.