Well, it's official! Dustin is a Dallas Cowboy!! The draft happened May 8, 9, and 10 and was filled with 3 non-stop days of emotional highs and lows. Prior to the draft, Dustin received phone calls had three private work outs. Before the draft, I was nervous, excited, anxious but overall ready to face the adventure ahead while doing it together. Drew was 100% amazing and we are so thankful for a man who believes his best quality is his ability to give good advice. Now trust me when I say Drew did some SERIOUS advice giving those three days... especially once free agency opened up. With five minutes to make a decision, Dustin and I had to step outside and quickly pray and talk about the situation at hand to figure out which direction we were going. Once we made a decision, there were definitely some major tears shed by me at this point because the decision we made was not the one I had necessarily selfishly hoped for. But it was the one Drew said would be best and we trusted his advice because we know he wants nothing but the best for us. In an insane turn of events and about six phone calls and one unanswered phone call later, we get the news that we are going to Dallas.. the team I had selfishly so wanted to at least start our NFL journey with. Tears and tears and laughter and smiles filled the room! What a day to remember with some of the people we love and who love us the most! Sunday morning, the day after we found out we were going to Dallas, Dustin gets a phone call while we are at church from someone within the Cowboys organization that said they put Dustin on a flight to Dallas at 7 pm THAT night, and oh yeah, he'll be in Dallas for seven weeks. Thank goodness we had been in Corpus for a week so he had quite a few clothes with him since we had been planning on going back to Canyon before he left for training. After frantically doing laundry and packing his bags, I dropped him off at the airport with a huge lump in my throat. MY HUSBAND WAS LIVING HIS CHILDHOOD DREAM OF BECOMING AN NFL QUARTERBACK! Right now, Dustin will be at rookie camp for seven weeks and will have weekends off. My mom, Dustin's mom, and I are going to pack our house in Canyon and move it all into a storage unit in Dallas. A dear family friend, Darian, set us up with an amazing living situation while we are in Dallas. We are going to live in one of her church friend's backhouses for a little while until we can figure out what our next step will be. With the first few days of workouts completed, I am so amazed by Dustin's confidence, humility, and patience with this entire process and being thrown into the "professional athlete" category.




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