Kyle’s official first day at his new position in Houston is set for the 19th of January.  We have scheduled the moving company to come and pack up our house in Midland on the 19th of December.  Yes, we realize that we do not yet have a house in Houston to move all of our belongings into.  However, we decided to put our things into storage for a few weeks.  This way, we can just drive to Indiana for the holidays and only drive back to Houston after the holidays.  It will save us about 5 hours or so in the car on the way back, but it is better than coming back to Midland and then turning around to go to Houston.  Kyle will probably have to come back to Midland for a few days in January to help transition the geologist who is taking over his job, but that is not too bad.  Now, if everything goes smoothly with our house hunt next week, we hope that we will be able to close on the new house quickly - hopefully by the first week of January - so that we can have some time to get settled before Kyle has to start up his new position in downtown Houston.  Of course, in the meantime, we hope that we can sell our house in Midland too.