Updates!

Sorry no pictures this time, but I thought I would finally give an update as to what is going on with the Martinsons! Erik starts his new job on Wednesday. He actually leaves tomorrow night and takes a bus down to Pheonix, AZ...he will be gone for 2 weeks, home for a day or two and then gone for another 2 weeks.
Here is the story of how we came to decide on trucking.... Erik was able to get into the training program at Deseret Industries and through them they give him the opportunity to get a technical degree or certificate or some kind to help get a "real" job. Well, after much thought and prayer he opted to get his Commerical Drivers License...it was the best option with the best possibility for a job after training. Let me just tell you, I wasn't so keen on long-haul trucking where he would be gone for 2 weeks and home for a day and then gone again... only seeing my husband for 2 days of the months just wasn't what I had invisioned....and I really really don't want to be a single mom most of the time. But it was where my husband felt like he could do the best and get into a solid job.
So he gets his CDL, he applies for long haul trucking companies because there are no local positions available here, and what ever ones he did look at required a couple years of over the road trucking. He gets hired on with Werner Trucking, but they assured him that they do have local routes where he could be home everynight...or at least a couple nights a week. BUT he has to go through the 4 weeks of over-the-road training. I honestly don't know why this is the "path" that has opened up for us, it certainly wasn't what we had expected...but when the Lord gives you hand, you certainly don't slap it away and tell him it's not good enough or not what I wanted. So here we are, getting ready for him to be gone, and really really praying that a local route opens up as soon as possible. We are hopeful that the right opportunties will continue to open up for us....POSSIBLY even jobs back up in Washington (please please please we are asking for your prayers that the right position will open up for us, so we can be where the Lord wants us) (is it bad to say that I hope the Lord doesn't want us in Orem, UT??)
That is the latest news with us....for now. I promise to update more often then I have been doing.
I also wanted to say how much I miss my friends and family up there in Ferndale WA, I know that most of you don't even read this blog, but I have been feeling more and more sad about leaving and missing all of you so much. I remember 4 years ago, when we moved up there....lets just say my attitude sucked about moving up to tim-buk-too...It was one of those I know thats where the Lord wanted and needed us to be, but I certainly did NOT want to be there. Let me tell you, I felt so much love and acceptance from all of you. The friendships that were formed up there are life-time friendships. I miss you guys terribly. I miss the ward terribly....its true what they say....The gospel is more true in the Ferndale First Ward!!! I miss you guys and love you so much!