update

WOW...it's almost been a MONTH since I've blogged. WHOOPS! I've thought about it several times, and the more time passes, the more I get overwhelmed. Had I kept up with it....I wouldn't get overwhelmed, because I wouldn't have to be writing to update a whole months worth of life. It's the same as catching up with an old friend. The more time passes, the longer the conversation is going to be...but oftentimes no one has time for a 4 hour conversation, so you just keep pushing it off longer and longer. So needless to say, this will not be 4 hours worth of reading...I'll just be short and sweet and leave the unsaid things up for speculation.

- We wrapped things up with our job toward the beginning of May

- We had a 3 day babysitting gig for a sweet family on our staff team. It was SO exhausting and SUCH a good learning experience. My hope is that I'll get to start out the whole mom thing someday with just 1 kid at a time, not jumping into 3 :)

- We headed to Houston about a week after that to spend some time with our family. My niece is getting cuter and cuter by the minute. She is so fun now that she interacts with you and can talk. She said Brett's name twice and didn't say my name. I'm okay with it because at the end of the trip she said 'I love you' to me!

- We are currently back in Lubbock packing our apartment. It's an absolute wreck. Packing isn't a wreck...but the apartment is. I'll just have to get used to the fact that this will be life for the next week or so until we leave.

- We leave for our New Staff Training in Fort Collins, CO in about a week and a half. We are so excited/nervous. Excited to start this new adventure in life...nervous about the unknown (but that's pretty normal for me).

- We plan to have our apartment completely packed before we leave on June 13th.

- We also plan to sell Brett's car before we leave on June 13th. We've had lots of potential buyers and we are praying we can get it off our hands soon and feel good about who we sell it to and the money that we get for it! We'll only need one car for the next phase of our life...so we will save up $ over this next year and then buy one when we eventually move to our TBD location.

- When we get back from Colorado at the end of July we will move our apartment into a storage unit here in Lubbock and then move ourselves and our clothes to Houston to begin the journey of raising support for our ministry. Yup that's right...we're moving in with my parents :)

- While we are in CO this summer, we will find out our placement which will obviously determine where we will eventually move after we are fully funded. I promise, we're more eager to find out than you are....but we'll update the blog as soon as we know!

I think that is all. Not as overwhelming as I thought :) I hope to be better at updating while we are gone...but the unknown that I am anxious about might not leave me lots of spare time...we'll see.

And because posts are always better with pictures...I'll leave you with this.

Yes it's a dumpster, but the little yellow sign says cardboard only so it wasn't gross and it didn't smell. We were just using our resources to get some moving boxes!