Thanksgiving Day is definitely a favorite holiday for Dave and Jan, with so many reasons to be thankful.  This year Stephen and Meagan’s son Ryan participated in his first school celebration of the thanksgiving season as part of a choir of youngsters from Laurel Elementary School in turkey costumes.

Ryan and Erin also enjoyed dressing in Halloween costumes a few days earlier, as seen in the photo below with their parents, Stephen and Meagan.

A major reason for thankfulness in the Balsley family this year is the great new job Stephen began the last week of October as a cinema technical sales specialist with the German lens company, Zeiss, at their new cinema lens demo center in Sherman Oaks, CA.  It appears so far that his new position is ideally suited to Stephen’s interests and abilities in the field of digital cinema.  He is not working in a store front, but in an appointment-only demonstration center for movie directors and other technical people in the cinema industry.  His office is high in a fancy high-rise office building in Sherman Oaks.

The company has just released a new set of seven cinema camera lenses which can be purchased for around two hundred thousand dollars per set, so it is a rather limited clientele who will be coming in to see demonstrations of these and other products available from the Zeiss Lens Company!

The center features cinema cameras and testing equipment and a small but luxurious theater where people in the movie industry can see first-hand the capabilities of various cameras and lenses so they know what they want.

The next hurdle for Stephen and family will be to find a suitable place for the family to live in the Sherman Oaks area as Stephen takes on the role of bread-winner and Meagan adjusts to her new role as full-time Mom.  At this thanksgiving season we are grateful for the doors the Lord is opening up for Stephen’s family – even as we anticipate changes in our own lives in months ahead.