And now part three of the good news. I saved the best for last. (Kelli - this is the news you were thinking of!)
You may, or may not, have noticed that I haven't posted a lot since early November except to say hi! I have been too stressed. The elections on November 7th had a big impact on our family. The sheriff (who DH worked for) was not re-elected. It was an unbelievably close finish, only 98 votes seperated the winner and the loser. So then we had to wait for all the provisional ballots to be counted and certified and that took until the 17th. Then a recount was requested and we didn't get the results of that until 5:00 the night before Thanksgiving! No one ever thought our then-sheriff would lose but he did! Which means that everyone had to reapply for their jobs. Because of all the delays it's been super stressful because the new sheriff could not interview anyone or even take applications until the whole voting process was over.
Announcements were made at 5:00 p.m Friday night as to who was being kept on and who wasn't and DH STILL HAS A JOB!
The new sheriff, however, is doing some restructuring. Instead of having a major as second in command he is going to have four captains that will each have their own section and then together those four will share the rank of second in command. There is a Patrol Captain, an Investigations Captain, an Administration Captain and a Captain of Narcotics and Special Investigations. DH has been promoted to Captain of Narcotics and Special Investigations!
He will be sworn in at 9 this morning! (The new sheriff has to swear everyone in.) He is soooooo excited about this! He's waited a long time to move up like this. And he is thrilled with the other three captains. They've all known each other for many years, they all respect each other and they all get along great together.
So now you have all my good news and you can see why I was really hoping someone would be here!
this is the one that I was thinking of. Little did I know you had 3 big things to tell us. 
