Happy Holidays from the Wu's

Merry Christmas and happy holidays! After receiving holiday photo cards and annual family updates from friends, I felt compelled to share some photos and share about this past year's highlights.

In the homestretch...

Gordon just completed his 7th semester of seminary classes at Dallas Theological Seminary (Houston extension location) and only has 1 more semester left!! We are both looking forward to life after school because he's been in seminary for as long as we've been married! He's definitely experiencing "senioritis" and it's harder and harder to write those 10 paged papers after writing a zillion 10+ paged papers over the past 3.5 years. Gordon is not sure what lies ahead after seminary, but is prayerfully considering a part time position at our church, Access.

Gordon only has a couple of classes during his last semester. So he will be able to fly to Denver with Yvonne almost every week (see Yvonne's update below) and perfect his snowboarding skills.

Sew busy...

Yvonne is still working for Quorum Business Solutions (after 7.5 years...whew!) and is currently managing a project in Denver, CO. She has had to travel to Denver every week since August '09 and will continue traveling to Denver until the project is over (August '10). She really enjoys the client and team she is working with. She is even renting a loft in downtown Denver, which allows her to retain some sense of normalcy (not having to live out of a suitcase, getting to bake and sew). She enjoys the urban life of public transportation and walking to get to places, but there's always no place like home when she goes home to Houston on the weekends. She is still trying to get used to the constant dry skin and chapped lips, but it's nothing that a big bottle of lotion and constantly carrying around chapstick won't solve! So far, she has had a couple visitors to Denver...Suemy and Carolyn in October, Gordon's mom and sister in November, and Yvonne's entire family will be coming in January! Gordo's Austin and Houston church buddies will also be visiting Denver for a conference at the end of January!

Earlier this year, Yvonne learned how to sew and has fallen in love with sewing. In her spare time in Denver and on weekends in Houston, she spends most of her free time sewing and baking. See her sewing creations (and baking and paper crafting creations) at her new blog. She hopes to open her own business in the future where people can make crafts and eat yummy baked goods.

Our jet-setting shih-tzu...

Trinity continues to be a joy in daddy and mommy's life. She is 2.5 years old now and has definitely matured. She loves belly rubs and face massages. She also loves snuggling up next to mommy or daddy when napping. Trinity experienced her first plane flight a few months ago when she accompanied mommy to Denver to keep her company. Since then, she has flown back and forth to Denver 5 times! Trinity also got to experience snow for the first time in Denver...she's not too fond of snow and the cold weather. She has enjoyed exploring Colorado with mommy and daddy.

What's to come in 2010?

We will be spending the majority of our time in Denver until Yvonne's project is over. We hope to become proficient at snowboarding and look forward to exploring more of what Colorado has to offer. Please pray that we don't hurt ourselves while snowboarding or driving on icy/snowy roads!

Hopefully God will reveal His plan for Gordon in terms of what to do after graduating in the spring. We are open to wherever God leads us. Please pray that Gordon will have a clear vision of how God wants to use him after graduating and pray for our decision making process...that we would put aside our own selfishness and be able to communicate openly and honestly since this could potentially be a big step in our marriage...and that our decision would be glorifying to God.

We are also trying for our first child. We've been trying for a while, but unfortunately, it has not happened yet. We are hopeful that God will bless us with a child, but it definitely has not been easy to wait on God's timing. Next month, we are planning on starting the process of getting tested to see if there are any fertility issues with either of us. Please pray that we'll continue to trust in God's timing and provision, no matter what we discover through this process.

Thank you, faithful readers of our blog, for reading this far. We do not take your friendship for granted and thank God for the friends He has placed in our lives. We hope you and your families experience a merry holiday season and blessed New Year!!