He Passed!!! (And Other Exciting News)

I am happy to announce that Garrett PASSED the BAR exam!  It took for stinkin ever to get the results but today they finally came!!!  Though Garrett had several anxiety attacks in the last few days, I never doubted him for a second.  Congratulations, honey!  We are so proud of you!

Now for the really, really exciting news!  Garrett is opening his own law firm on November 2nd!  He has been planning and preparing since early in September.  We realized in September that we had been pushing this idea off over and over again hoping that a job would come along and then we thought maybe there is a reason that this idea keeps coming up over and over again.  So we just decided to go for it!  From that point on miracles have been happening left and right.  We feel so blessed and know that this is the path that the Lord has set out for us from the beginning, it just took us awhile to figure out His plan and forget ours.  Among many other miracles, we found a great building in Liberty Lake and got a fabulous deal on the lease.  The inside was just a vanilla shell so we got to design the layout and we have been able to watch them build it out step-by-step.  Here are some pictures of the office...

This is the waiting room/reception area.  The window in the wall looks into the conference room.

This is the hallway from the back of the office looking towards the lobby.  There is a conference room, an office for Garrett, and then a second office/copy room.  Then in the back there is a kitchen area and bathroom.

This is Garrett's office.

Obviously there is still a bit of work to do, but everyday they get closer.  We get to pick out the paint and carpet this week.  We are getting so excited!!  There is currently no lawyer in all of Liberty Lake which has a population of about 17,000 people so the client to lawyer ratio is amazing.  We just feel so blessed to see how every door has been opened to us.  It seems like every person we come in contact with after learning that Garrett is opening this office tells him that they have some legal work that they would love for him to do.  We will keep you all posted as the progress continues but for now you can check out his website here.  Thank you ALL for the support and prayers during the Bar, it definitely paid off!  Now we're off to celebrate!

UPDATE:

The Bar Association provides for a formal swearing-in ceremony for all the new lawyers, but you have to wait a few weeks.  As Garrett hates formal ceremonies and is in a hurry to get started, he drove to the courthouse after getting his results and managed to get a judge to swear him in as a lawyer on the same day he received his results.  Here are some pictures:

This is Garrett taking the oath.

This is Garrett shaking hands with Superior Court Judge Harold D. Clarke.

He is an official lawyer now and we are so proud of him!