Happy New Year!

I hope each of you had a wonderful Christmas - we enjoyed a week of Christmas, celebrating with Jason's mom, stepdad and his sister's family, then Jason's dad, then Becca's family in turn. Oh and we did celebrate Katie's birthday too! It was a weeklong party. :-) It was especially sweet to get shored up on this family time before we head off on our new adventure across the Atlantic!

We feel like we still have more questions than we have answers, but some things are starting to come together:

-- Jason was officially official last week as ALL the approvals needed were finished and he is fully accepted by IBM (and who knows who else :-) ) to work (and get paid :-) ) in Spain.

-- All the paperwork needed for the immigration company to file for the work permit is in their hands (thanks to some serious hustle on Jason's part!), and they will file it all on Wednesday this coming week.

-- The immigration lady we are working with continues to tell us that that process will take 30-45 days, and then another week for the work visa. Only after receiving that work visa will we be able to move our stuff over to Spain. So it looks like we will be completely moved no sooner than mid February, and probably closer to the end of February. But this has changed several times already so we'll keep you posted :-).

-- We continue to hear from several places that things are coming together in an amazing fashion, that someone within IBM is really helping this paperwork along, that things never come through this fast, etc. We feel like it is continued confirmation that God is working out these details and that this is where He wants us to be. (and all this in spite of the last couple of weeks being smack in the middle of the holidays!)

-- Jason has some tentative January plans: He will go to Spain on Jan 7 to meet all his collegues in Madrid (including his new boss) and then will fly to Paris with his new boss to meet the reps in Paris (oo la la!). Since relationships are especially important in Europe, it is great that he will have this chance to meet everyone before jumping into the work. Then Jason will be home on the 12th for the next week. There is a conference in Orlando the week of the 21st, then he will be home again. After that it will just depend on the progress of the work visa as to when he heads back to Spain for good.

Again - we still have more questions than answers, but at least we can see some outlines of the details ahead :-)

Thank you again for following along with us on our adventure! We so appreciate the love and support we have felt from all of you!

Happy 2008!!

Becca for us 3.