Thursday, January 8, 2009

North Carolina or Bust

I have a confession to make. I have been an awful blogger. I am constantly taking pictures with the sincere intent of posting them for all of you to see how we’re doing, but it simply doesn’t happen. Now that the busy holidays are over, I am hoping this new year will bring more posting time (how likely is that really?) But here is a quick update.

All Matt’s PT school applications have been out for about a month and a half now, so he has been anxiously waiting to hear back from schools. Only certain schools require interviews (which is fortunate for us, because all those that do require them also only do in-person interviews on assigned dates, so Matt would be a cross-country traveler by the time he graduates if that were the case!) About a week after the applications were sent we began to see a little bit of the reward for all his hard work and time put into these applications. Matt got an interview at Duke!! As he’s been looking at Duke for a while now, we quickly bought him a (very cheap I might add) Southwest (like my plug?) :) ticket to North Carolina for this coming Sunday (January 11th-13th.) Soon after, he got invited to interview at UOP in Stockton and Regis in Denver. Unfortunately they were for the same weekend and chances of him making both would be very unlikely, so it was time to make a decision. Since UOP is really our only local option we didn’t want to turn down, so Matt decided it would be best to pass on Denver. It was a little frustrating at first after working so hard on an application, but we knew God is opening (and closing) doors for a reason.

So the past few weeks we have been preparing Matt for these two interviews. My favorite part has been dressing him up! He borrowed a blazer from his friend Kyle and we got him some nice slacks and a tie to match. He's dressed to impress that's for sure!

All this to say I know Matt would really appreciate all the prayers he can get this Monday. On top off all the interview and campus tour, it's his first trip to the east coast so I know he is looking forward to experience a few days of life out there. He is on strict orders to take as many pictures as possible since I can't go with.. so hopefully we'll have an update post (with pictures) once he returns! Good luck babe!

5 comments:

Learning to Love said...

Congrats on all the responses! We'll be praying that God opens the right doors for you. Can't wait to hear where this next season of your life will take you two.

jen........ said...

hi sweet girl...i'm always happy to click on your blog and see a new post!! i'm as confident as you, that he will do awesome...how could he not with such a "cute" suit!!!! i don't know if you remember, but that's how you described his suit the other night when we went to dinner??!! those interviewers don't stand a chance against that!! i will be excited to see the "pictures he's supposed to take" when you get them posted! love you........mom too!!

Tim, Casey, Landon, and Claire said...

Good luck Matt!

Loren and Kathy said...

I just missed a chance today to pick-up a trip that would have given me a free pass for you to fly with Matt!!! I was so frustrated! I'm an example of what can happen when family and friends pray for you! We're excited for you both and am enjoying the journey with you! God has great things ahead! Praying for you!
Love you both!
Mom

Brian and Angela said...

Congratulations guys! I can't wait to hear all about the interviews. Your hard work is starting to pay off. I am so proud of you both!
Angela