New Job!

The time has come and we are officially, temporarily, graduating from student life! We never imagined that we would be living in Idaho long-term, but here we are! Melaleuca - The Wellness Company, has their global headquarters in Idaho Falls, and they offered us a position.

                                                  

(this is their fancy headquarters building)

We definitely weren't expecting it, because we had already tried twice to apply for an internship there and it didn't work out either time. Then, out of the blue last semester, they called Davis wanting to interview him for a full-time position. Next thing you know we are looking for housing closer to Idaho Falls/Shelley!

This is not the road we thought we would be taking, but we feel good about it, so we're off to the next great adventure!

In the meantime, yesterday marks 6 months since Aubrey's passing. I am really missing her today.

We've started seeing a grief and trauma counselor in Idaho Falls to help us prepare ourselves for the anxieties of trying for another pregnancy; while I'm sure we will learn many great things from him, the thing that stuck out to me in our first meeting was the difference between his expectation of where we would be emotionally, and the reality of where we are. He started going through the stages of grieving, asking us questions about each stage to determine where we were at. As he progressed through the stages, we realized the we had actually gone through each step as we should have, and really didn't have any complaints about the grieving process.

I have realized once again that the Lord has been holding our hands and guiding us through this grieving process even more than I had thought. We knew He had been guiding us, and healing us, and helping us to face and work through all of the difficult emotions of the situation, but until that meeting with the counselor, I had not realized just how far He had carried us. My eyes were opened to His hand in the past few months and so many things stood out to me in my memory that I had not noticed before.

We will never stop missing Aubrey, and there will never be a day that we do not think of her. But we can keep moving. We can keep hoping, keep dreaming. We can, to quote a new favorite movie, "Keep moving forward!" (if you haven't seen "Meet the Robinsons" in a while, I think it's still on Netflix!)

Also, we made homemade peanut butter today!

(P.S. - Caspian is still being her mischievous, cuddly self :)