Our Ship has Come In!!!

Our ship has come in!!! We have been applying for jobs in Arizona since April of this year, with the economy as it is jobs have been hard to come by and there are so many people interviewing for them it has been a very long and unproductive process. A few weeks ago my mom sent us an email for a job at SUU in Cedar City. She has sent us other job openings at SUU but most of them the salary was just not worth even applying for, however this one was different, so Steve applied for the job. A couple weeks later he had an email from some company which I thought was SUU that said they had chosen some people so if you had been contacted then they would still be in contact with you otherwise you were out of the running. We hadn't heard anything so I thought it was a no go for the job. A few days later Steve calls and tells me he has an interview with SUU a couple days later and he told me it was a different company that had sent the letter.
Steve went to the interview and felt like it went well. It is for an Accountant that works with grants. He does the same sort of thing right now only on a smaller scale. We waited out the weekend and tried not to get our hopes up, on Monday Steve talked to one of his references that had been called but didn't hear anything back. Tuesday he talked to another reference that had been contacted that day and we thought for sure we would get a call back but five o'clock came and no phone call so we decided that either they hadn't decided or it wasn't meant to be.
Steve was doing the dishes after dinner and I thought I heard his phone ring, by the time I got his attention he had missed the call. He didn't recognize the number but he called them back. It was SUU with an unofficial job offer which meant that the president of the college still needed to sign the actual offer. We had been warned that the process could take a while but by the time the end of the week was arriving and we hadn't heard back we were getting a little worried that maybe they had changed their minds. We knew if they hadn't we needed to get a move on quickly looking for a house and such with the holidays coming and everything we wouldn't have much time before he would have to go to work if it worked out. Friday afternoon he finally heard back with the official offer. He signed and sent it back and we were on our way to Cedar City yesterday to look at some houses. We found one we really like and hope it works out for us. We are so excited for this new adventure in our life. What a great Christmas present for our family. The Lord really does answer our prayers just not always on our time schedule. We will miss all of our good friends here but know we will make more friends as well. When we get settled we hope some of you will stop by for a visit, we love company and your welcome to stay with us. We will keep you updated on our house search.