We're in!

What a week! I knew it would be busy- but wow! VBS was fantastic (I'll have to blog separately about it)! We closed on our house on Tuesday and spent our free time over here fixing things, cleaning, and shampooing carpets. We brought our air mattress and the kids tent and spent the night Wednesday night "camping out" at the house! The kids had a great time doing that. We spent Jarod's day off on Thursday cleaning here. Our friend and family member, Gayla, came over and helped out. Her husband is Jarod's first cousin once removed. :-) They go to Northside, so it's fun to say we have family at church! She was such a blessing! She cleaned the whole kitchen, top to bottom for me and also the bathrooms. Then after a quick lunch she helped me paint the boys' bedroom. Friday was busy with getting the other house we had been staying in ready for the move and all cleaned up. All this was with us being at church by 6:00 every evening for VBS. So needless to say we were pretty tired by each evening.

Saturday we had about 11 people help us move. We started around 9 and were all done by 1:00. Our connection group (small group) was very helpful in the move. Our friend Michelle, who lives a block from us now, watched our kids for us while we moved which was soo nice. We are so thankful for all the help and for our church family! We had a homemade dinner delivered to us that evening, and we spent the rest of the day starting to move things around and put away. Ugh. So many boxes!

I can't tell you how nice it is to be in a place of our own again! We have all our stuff in one place; Ali is back with us; we have internet again!; we have tivo again!; and we have 3 bedrooms again! Kaitlyn is enjoying having her own room again, and I think the boys are enjoying Kaitlyn having her own room too! We are just so thankful for this place and pray it can be used for ministry. As we get rooms done I will take pictures of them and post them later. Thanks for all the prayers in this whole process! We really appreciate it!