It was TIME!!

During our trip to park city in Oct. we had many discussions about Travis' job and we realized that it was no longer working for our family. The cons out weighed the pros pretty heavily. But he did not want to leave the company hanging, as it was just starting their busiest season. So we decided he would tough out the holidays and start applying for new jobs in Jan. And let me tell you this holiday season was BRUTAL the weather was awful! We spent all of winter break at home stuck inside, he worked his usual crazy hours, we were all sick, but we survived ..... barely!
 In Jan He completed and perfected his resume. We sat down figured out our finances and decided on a lowest hourly wage he could accept. Then the time came to start submitting his resume and let me tell you i have never been so Excited and Terrified at the same time!! He has been with his current company for just over 9 years. He has been with them our whole married life and in that time we have bought a home, 2 cars and added 3 mouths to feed and take care of. We were scared it may not work out that he would have tough it out for another year and a half till Korbyn was old enough to go to school so i could work with out paying a sitter. We were scared no one would want him because he had no degree or because he isn't very experienced. We feared no-one would be able to pay him what we needed. Or that i  would have to go back to work at night to help make up the difference. But we prayed and felt good moving on and that we would be blessed.
 Almost immediately he got a phone interview with a really good company he was excited the interview went great..... until They talked about pay. The pay was about $8 less then the lowest acceptable pay we decided we could take and even if i went to back to work part time at night it wouldn't make up for it. We were discouraged, would this be how all the interviews would go?
 Then he got a lead for a company called Cintas the pay was great right where we needed and so were the hours. He went to an interview the next week that turned into 3 interviews that same day. They wanted him to go on a ride along the next week then interview after to see what he thought. When he got back from the ride along the guy that was supposed to do the interview was gone. So he went back the next week for that interview then again the next for another. He went in again to talk to them he was discouraged that there was no formal job offer, they told him that he needed 3 references and they had to be people that were above him at any of his jobs. Since he has been with big 5 so long and moved up so quick he didn't have many people that he could use. And because of company policy some of them refused to let him use them as references. We couldn't get a hold of others that we could use.  We were again discouraged... Was this a sign that it wasn't the right time?  Wrong company? Why was it taking so long? What? Why? We both prayed and still felt good about everything... at the last possible second everything worked out with the references, and he went in for one last interview. They sent him to get a physical, a drug test and got his permission to do a background check.
 Then we waited and waited 5 long days passed and FINALLY after 6 long weeks on Monday Feb. 11 he got an official offer!! He accepted and starts on Feb. 25th! He will be working 4 days a week 10 hours a day.  (around 6am-4pm)
For the first time since we started dating will have weekends off!! He wont miss at least 2 Sundays of church a month. I wont have to do church by my self with 3 kids any more. We can work on having a more Christ centered home. He will also not have to close the store a few times a week and have to go days with not seeing the kids or really me. I wont have to do bed time by myself most nights. He will have more then an hour with the kids when he gets home from work before they have to go to bed. We can finally have a date night more then once every couple months. He wont have to miss performances, sports games and practices. He can help coach the kids sports teams.  He wont come home in a bad mood because some one didn't show up for their shift or he is short staffed. He wont have to drive an hour each day to/from work. We wont have as much wear and tare on the car. We wont have to buy new tires for the car every year around Christmas time. Our gas bill for the car will be more then half what it is now. He wont get calls on his days off.  He wont be called in to work at the last min. ruining plans. Erilyns  birthday wont be a mandatory work day. Holidays and holiday weekends wont be mandatory, in fact he will have them off. We can spend holidays together. His job will supply and wash his uniform. But MOST importantly we will get TIME! Time we haven't had before, time to bond as a family and as a couple. Time to make memories with our kids, time to make memories with extended family, time to make our own memories as a couple, Just time! We are BEYOND EXCITED and cant wait to see where this new chapter in life takes us.