Another year, another adventure...

Well, the doomsdayers were wrong...apparently the Mayans weren't predicting the end of the world on 12/21/12.  We've made it to 2013!

Much has happened in the last few days.  But we'll get to that in a moment!

Summer successfully completed her first semester of Greek.  As long as we are in Longview, she will continue to attend Greek classes, volunteer at the Child Advocacy Center of Gregg & Harrison Counties, cater with Jon, and run her Premier Designs jewelry business.

Jon has been chugging away at his current job for LeTourneau custodial, as well as his second job catering with Summer.  He has not been idle, though!  He put in several applications with Gulfstream, an aviation company located in several places around the nation, including (but not limited to) Wisconsin, Massachusetts, California, and Georgia.

We spent Thanksgiving Day with part of Summer's immediate family in the Longview/Kilgore area, and then traveled down to Houston to visit more of her relatives the day after Thanksgiving.  After celebrating our anniversary on the 17th, we flew to NY on the 19th to visit Jon's family for Christmas and New Year's.

It has been wonderful being here in New York - we have been able to see family we haven't had time to really see in a while (and that Summer hasn't really been able to get to know), re-connect with friends, and shovel snow - lots and lots of snow!  (Apparently we brought the snow with us - when we arrived, there was NONE on the ground, but it has snowed almost every day that we have been here!)

Our original plan was to arrive on the 19th and head back to TX on the 3rd.  Seeing as how this is being written from NY...that didn't quite work out.

Last week, Jon received a phone call from Gulfstream - they wanted to interview him over the phone.  It was scheduled for yesterday (the 2nd).  After the interview, they told Jon that they would get back to him next week; after they had called other candidates and knocked some people off of their list, they would call everyone and let them know where things stood.  During the interview, Jon was informed that it was the branch in Westfield, MA that was interviewing him.  It came up in the interview that we were currently in upstate NY, and would be going back down to TX today.  Less than two hours after the interview, they called back and asked Jon if he could drive out to MA today and interview in person.  So we changed our flights and drove 10 hours round-trip today so that he could do the interview!  While he was busy doing that, Summer visited several apartment complexes in the area and gathered information, just in case.  We ended up finding an apartment complex that we are very interested in, and explained our situation to the leasing agent and manager.  All that to say, if he gets the job, we have a place to move to!  They said that they would get back to us next week.

Please pray that Jon gets this job, if it is God's will.  Also, please continue to pray for God's provision - our God is a God who is faithful (as He has proven time and time again), and we have but to ask and it will be given!  Please pray for strength and wisdom for us, that we may be careful about gathering all of the information and that we may make wise decisions with the resources available to us.  And, as always, thank you, friends and family, for standing beside us in solidarity and behind us in prayer!