2013 Recap

Well, it's been over a year since I have posted so I decided to just to a recap of the year 2013.  This past year has been a VERY busy and life changing year for the Pesek family.  It has been full of closing and opening chapters of our lives, heartache, excitement, and has brought us so much closer to each other and to our Lord and Savior.

One year ago this month, Brad and I had interviews that would change our entire life. We were offered jobs at Diboll ISD and accepted the job offers. We turned in our resignation at Navarro ISD where Brad had spent his full 6 years teaching and I had spent 3 of my 5.  It was far from an easy decision but we knew God had a bigger plan and this was what he wanted us to do.  TONS of prayer went into this decision as we would be moving 282 miles from home.

In March, we celebrated Maddie's first birthday.  It is so neat to be able to share a birthday with her and I will always treasure it.  It is also pretty cool that Brad's birthday is just three days later.

In June we said our goodbyes to many friends and memories at Navarro ISD, the New Braunfels area, and our first house.  To say it was hard would be an understatement.  Brad and I began dating, graduated from college, lived in our very first apartment, got our first teaching jobs, bought our first house, had our first child, and made TONS of memories in this area.  It was a time that we had to really step out on faith and trust that God was leading us in the right direction.  We moved out of our beloved home on June 28th and a renter moved in July 1st.

We spent July adjusting the our new hometown of Diboll.  We moved in with my parents for a month and then in August moved into our own place. We wanted to buy, but decided to wait until we sell our home in New Braunfels.

August came with lots of stress and trials.  We began to get ready to start at our new schools - Brad at the high school teaching Algebra I and me at the junior high teaching 8th grade math and Algebra I.  It was a hard transition, but my co-workers and principal are awesome and I am loving my job and school, although, I still miss my Navarro coworkers.  The week before school began, Brad's popo Pekar was hospitalized for shortness of breath, coughing, and some other complications.  A few short weeks later he was diagnosed with cancer. On Thursday, October 10th he passed away.  We talk about him often and remember him daily.

The following week we got some awesome news!  We found out we were expecting our second child.  Brad and I were ecstatic.  Shortly after we shared the great news with our immediate family.  Unfortunately, two weeks after we got the positive pregnancy test, I went to the doctor and found out I was having a miscarriage.  At this point it seemed as though things were just piling up, struggling with the move, new jobs, death, and now tragedy.  It was a low point for both Brad and I.  We had many questions and struggled with why.  We spend lots of time in prayer and asking God to help us through all of the heartache.  As always, he did and gave us peace.

Just this month we had a HUGE prayer answered that we have been praying about for years.  Brad was offered a chance for a career change!!!!!  He was offered a job for a local company-a great company-owned by great people!!!!  It literally came out of no where and was complete divine intervention.  He put in his resignation to Diboll ISD and has agreed to stay until they find him a replacement.  Since the news, I have seen a spark in Brad that I haven't seen in a VERY long time.  He is spending this second week of Christmas break working and he is SO excited about it!

Once again, God's plan is always bigger and better than ours.  We had no idea that when God would move us out to Diboll it would lead to this great career opportunity for Brad.  We now have a GREAT church home, live within walking distance of my parents, and have made many life long friends here.  Maddie is doing WONDERFUL and is talking and making phrases.  We know God will bless us with another angel when the perfect time comes.  Until then, we feeling so humbly blessed.  God is good all the time.