Moving across the Country

We are all packed up and ready to roll tomorrow morning to the airport. Our wonderful friend Melissa is driving us and we will arrive on the East Coast tomorrow night. God has been so amazing through this whole process, and it has been obvious that his hand has been at work in every detail on both ends. We are so grateful to all of our Brookside family for all of their love and support over the years that we've been in Redlands. We are going to miss everyone terribly, but are looking forward to the new opportunity, and super excited to finally have a job! Thanks again for all of your prayers!

He's Back!

Mat returned from the east coast last night after a whirlwind trip of 6 meetings and meeting the team. Abby was especially glad to have him home. She had been looking for him every morning and waving goodnight to him at night. She was even looking for him in his pillow case. We will find out sometime today if he got the job, then we just have to figure out all the little details. Thanks for all your prayers and support!

East Coast

Ahhhhh, it's actually a possibility, Mat is flying out tomorrow for an interview. His flight leaves in the a.m. and returns Wed. p.m. He's going to miss youth group :( Makes me sad. So many questions, and so little answers, hopefully we'll know some more concrete details on Wed. Please pray.

Many Changes

It's been a long, long time since we've published anything and that is largely because of all the changes happening in our lives. To start with, new pictures of Abby have been posted.

To start with, the six of us, Mat, Joy, Abby, Squirt, Garfy, and Skeetsy, moved in with my parents at the beginning of June. We thought it was a little ridiculous to keep renting an apartment when neither of us had a job. Well, actually, Mat had just started his club coaching job, but that wasn't bringing in any income, as the team was brand spankin' new.

To keep it brief, Mat has now applied for well over 100 jobs, had 1 interview, soon to be 2, and has had 0 job offers. Mat is coaching a U-19 Titans club team, which he is now getting paid for, and has his final exam for his first class for his master's in Coaching and Athletic Administration this week. He has gotten a 100% on all of his assignments so far, keep your fingers crossed. He will be starting two more classes next quarter. He is still the wonderful youth pastor at Brookside Church and a wonderful father and husband.

Joy has started working with Kari, the associate pastor at our church, for three days a week. She loves spending time with Kari and is able to bring Abby with her. Joy also helped start a women's bible study at Church and is loving that. She also helps with all of the office type work for the youth and is thinking about starting discipleship groups for the youth. Joy still loves being a mommy and watching Abby girl grow and change.

Abby is keeping busy, as usual. She has learned to walk, wave, blow her nose, blow kisses, now has eight teeth, and still loves grapes and berries. Abby loves her baby doll, ducky, dirt, sand, mud, bubbles, playing with her two best friends, Jacob and Elijah, anything shiny, especially jewelry, or "Bling" as my mom says. She can say Mama, dada, and a few other words. Rick and Diane have been a huge help with Abby and she loves being able to see grandma and grandpa everyday.

Thanks for all your prayers and support!