As I was cleaning the house this afternoon, all three kids are sleeping and I had my thoughts to myself, I realized that five years ago today Cody was offered a job with Harely-Davidson Motor Co.
What an overwhelming and amazing blessing this has been in our life.
Rewind five years and 2 months, we were just coming up on our two month wedding anniversary. We had now known each other for 5 WHOLE entire months. Cody had just started his own business, All Terrain Repair and was doing quite well, he was also working at a Home Building Company blowing insulation. THE NASTIEST JOB on the planet. But they had lovely insurance. I worked in Pocatello 3 days a week doing hair and I worked at a chop shop in Idaho Falls the other 2 days. One day early in the morning Cody called and said, “Hey, do you want to move to Milwaukee?” My classic reply was, “Where is Milwaukee?” H.R. from Harely-Davidson had seen Cody’s resume on line and called to ask him to apply for a job in technical support. The interviewing process was interesting and stressful, but since we knew our luck did NOT run that way we were looking at this as a good opportunity to interview. Cody had 5 phone interviews, one of which was to test his language skill. He passed all five with flying colors. On Feb. 19 he flew to Milwaukee for a job interview getting home on the 20th just in time to kiss me good night on my birthday! This was followed by 2 more phone interviews and then the big phone call. Cody received the job offer first thing in the morning. He was instructed to talk it over with his family and that he had to start within the next six months. We talked it over, JD was getting married in May so we decided to move out the middle of June. Cody called and gave the company the information. Later that night we were at my parents house out in my Dad’s shop when Cody’s phone rang. It was HR and they asked if he could change his plans and be prepared to start work on April 2. April 2nd WHAT? He said ok. We both quit our jobs (me at the chop shop, him at the Insulation place) he wrapped up all the motorcycles, snowmobiles, jet skis, and whatever else was littering our yard and garage. The moving CO came in a few days to give an estimate. We bought a new car, sold our truck, moved what we could to Cody’s parents house. (It’s hard to go from a house to an apartment.) On March 24th we dropped a load of tools off at Cody’s parents house and his parents asked us our plans for leaving. Cody proceeded to tell them a plan we had never discussed. I kept my lips sealed but once in the car I started bawling. His plan was to drive out on Saturday and start work on Monday. I was in freak out mode. he was going to move me across the country and then leave me in a hotel while he went to work. I was scared and Nervous…and when we parked the car back at our house he said, “Why don’t you take a pregnancy test?” A WHAT??? I’m not pregnant, I’m scared to death of moving away from my Mom and Dad. Sure enough, the test was positive, and then, we started counting our blessings. There is NO way we would have been able to pay for a baby in Idaho. We packed our essentials in our car and bright and early Wednesday morning we headed to the MidWest. It was the scariest most exciting day of my life. The rest is history…
Whenever I think about our blessings, and whenever I talk about blessings, the first one that comes to mind is Cody serving a mission. Had he not, he never would have gotten a job at Harely. Don’t get me wrong, his motorcycle knowledge is top notch, but his language skill was the seller.
I’m grateful for Cody. He has done and does so many things for me and our children. I feel truly blessed to have met him, married him, and to have made the biggest scariest decision ever with him. I’m grateful for his calming, reassuring love. And, I’m grateful to be in Milwaukee. I know this is where the Lord wants us at this time. We’ve been blessed and we know it!!!!
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