we've moved!

I haven't posted in about four weeks! We've been busy. We moved, set up house, garage and yard, painted and had a youth group trip to Wyoming. And it's VBS this week.

So yeah. On Friday July 27, 2012, we closed on our new house.

Here we all are the night before on our walk-through the house.

Closing on July 27 went smoothly. The only hard part was getting the keys from our realtor and Terry's cousin, Jamie.

Okay, it wasn't so hard. As soon as we had those keys, Terry headed over to our new (gasp!) house and began tearing out 1976 original carpet from the bedrooms so the new stuff could be installed the next day. Good thing he did because there were lots of pet stains. Ew. Terry then proceeded to begin painting those same bedrooms. Thank goodness he had his uncle and our realtor's, Jim's help, as well as his dad's and our friend Marcus. The rest of the house carpet was cleaned that day also.

The next day was Saturday and since we were more than ready to move into our new/own place, we began moving stuff over. It took for.ev.er. But thank goodness for the help we did have - our dads Steve and Jerry, our brother-in-law Jesse, Marcus, a youth group student, Rob and a college student, Matt. They made like 3 or 4 trips with the Uhaul and both trailers filled up. I am getting rid of stuff I swear.

Jesse and Terry exhausting themselves.

So yeah. We're in! It feels very much like home already. It's a great house and it works fantastic for us with the multi-level floor plan. Plus we have just about everything painted and set up. My friend Jackie, Marcus' wife, remarked how fortunate we are that this process went so fast - moved in in just over 3 months arriving. It didn't seem like it at the time, but God has provided for us in a perfect way. We are so thankful.