Hot Shot or Delta Job...

I can't even begin to do separate posts on what happened in January... and February for that matter. It started with coming back from Utah determined to start J.D.'s Hot shot business. Now for those who don't know what hotshotting is.... It's a really good looking guy who goes around driving a super sexy truck....
JK! It's has to do with hauling oil field tools to different rigs and drilling wells. :-) J.D. is good looking on a side note.
OKAY! We had bought the trailers in Utah, and we hauled them up to Glendive. Within a week we had business cards, business stickers, contracts started, and we were about to invest a few thousand dollars one day to finish up getting everything for the business...... I called JD and just said I couldn't finish doing all the work because I wasn't truck savvy enough to understand all the lingo. SO, J.D. said he would help me when he got home.

Twenty minutes later, J.D. got a phone call from Lucas. There was a job opening in Delta, UT for Magnum Gas.
(Just a little history, J.D. turned in a resume there over a year in a half ago even though there was no positions available. In fact, they didn't hire a single person last year. This year they sold the company to a different company called NGL Energy Operations, in which they plan to expand and grow from here. Expand HUGE! One of their workers had gotten fired, and they called J.D.'s brother because they remembered J.D. turning in a resume. They had 55 applicants and only interviewed 5. )

I'm getting ahead of myself, so J.D. called me and we had 2 days to decide. We prayed and prayed and fasted all of Friday. Saturday evening came and we said a prayer and then began to talk about it. Before beginning, I went to the filing cabinet and pulled out our secret 5 year wish list.

(Side note: I had written a wish list 5 years prior and J.D. and I never looked at it, but we accomplished everything or got everything that was on that list except Dental School) April of 2014, I wrote up a new one with J.D. for the next 5 years.)

J.D. said, "This is exactly what I needed." We made 2 columns and decided to put a plus or negative on each item determining if the delta job would help us accomplish our goals or if the Hot Shot business would help us accomplish our goals. We were happy in Glendive, and we were excited to start the business. BOTH were great opportunities, so we could make this decision with an open mind. We decided the Delta job would help us accomplish more goals in the next 5 years.

SO, J.D. applied that night.

We waited 2 1/2 weeks to hear about the job. We just kept working with our current job and waited. In the mean time, we decided to put an offer on the little red brick house that we walked through during Christmas break, with a contingency that we get the job. Things went into motion with the house and we continued to move forward with it.

We finally got a call January 16th from Magnum and they set up an interview with J.D. for January 21st. It had to be in person, so J.D. planned to drive himself through the night and drive home Wednesday after the interview. He wasn't sure how he would get work off, but he didn't really worry about it.

To help pass the time, the next day we had planned to go sledding with a few families. One being the Fuquay's (the dad is a member of the church but inactive. The mom has taken the discussions, but hadn't received a confirmation yet. Dawson is in love with 1 of the twins, Raina. He says he is going to marry her. Both the girls are in Dawson's kindergarten class.) The other family is one of my best friends, the Jacobson's. We met at 1 to go sledding at Whipkey park which has perfect sledding hills.

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