Texas? Why?

Hi! I'm Sarah, and this is my love, Travis. I would follow him anywhere, and it just so happened that the "where" for us this year was San Antonio, Texas.

I’m pretty sure people thought we were crazy. “You’re moving to Texas?! …Why?” Crazy story, really, but here we are. More on life in Texas later…let me just catch you up on what the past few months have looked like for us as God prepared our hearts for this move.

January – Travis and I both felt like this was the “year of adventure” for us. We had no idea what that looked like, of course, but we started to play around with the idea of living in a different part of the country. At the very least, we planned to sell our house, which was too small for us to expand our family in the future. We looked at various opportunities as they came up for Travis to transfer, but nothing struck us as a real option, until…
 

June – …the opportunity for a job in San Antonio, Texas, became available. It was the first one that we seriously considered.  Why? First, I knew it was a great place, having been there several times with my family growing up. I actually have an essay that I wrote back in school in which I said that I wanted to one day live in San Antonio. I’m pretty sure Travis would be willing to consider any city in the great state of Texas, so after several days of praying and talking it through, we decided to apply for the transfer. Two weeks later, we were accepted.

July – We accepted an offer on our house within 30 days of its being on the market. Seriously—30 days. And the offer was for more than we had listed the house. Then things got a little crazy.

Thursday, August 14 – 10 days before our move date, Travis received word that his company had experienced a breach of security, and all personnel were told to stop working until further notice. (Remember, this is the company with whom we were supposed to transfer!)

Tuesday, August 19 – Travis was contacted by a coworker and advised to apply with a competing company, who was prepared for an influx of employees from the company that had been shut down. This would mean that Travis would become an independent contractor, losing the company car, benefits, etc. It was a lot to figure out, but we decided it was a wise move. Within an hour of applying, Travis received a call from the new company and was entered into their system.

Thursday, August 20 – We found out the closing of our house, which was scheduled for September 4^th, had been delayed until further notice (probably the end of September).

Friday, August  21 – Travis resigned from the first company and handed over the car. He signed up for MediShare (great company, by the way) and prepared for a test that would give him a position in the new company (which he passed with flying colors).

Then it was a week of training before Travis started his new job. Three days into that new job, we were told that our closing was scheduled in NINE DAYS. So, we had that much time to get the house packed and say goodbye to everyone. And just so you know, nine days is not enough time for all of that. But somehow, we got all the packing done and squeezed in some precious time with some of our dear ones. We closed on the house on Friday, September 19^th, and on the morning of September 20^th, we started the trek to Texas.