Vacation

So, the house is pretty much packed up and tomorrow and Monday we start our vacation with my parents and Meg and Chris before we leave for IN. We'll be heading to Lake Wales to go fishing on Mon/Tues and then Tues night we'll go to the Rays vs Cubs game, Wed we go to Wet-n-Wild and Thurs. we'll be at the condo in Regal Palms relaxing and swimming and just having fun. Friday, we'll head back home and load the UHaul and head out on Sat. morning. What a jammed pack week before the long drive!!!! So, the next time I blog may be when we're in our new house!!!! I'm ready for a little fun family time!!!!

We got a contract!!

Yesterday we got the call from our realtor. We got another offer and it was a good one! So, now we're under contract!!! This is just another confirmation that we're doing the right thing and God has His hand in this! I have felt a peace about the whole house situation in the bad market from the beginning, but I did not expect it to go this fast. I thought we'd be leaving here with a house still up for sale. Why do we always expect so little from God? So, we're working towards closing and now everything in IN can close too! This whole thing has been unbelieveable! God is so good!

So, the past few days all I've been doing in getting car, home and medical insurance quotes. I think I'm about done with all that, but it's sure not fun! The only good thing about it is all of it will be MUCH cheaper in IN than in FL!

And last night we had our farwell party in youth. We had pizza, salad and cake and a lot of the youth wrote really nice cards to us and we got a few gifts too, so that was very nice. So, this coming Monday my parents and my sister and her husband come in and we spend 5 days with them before we go! I'm so excited for what God has ahead for us!

Thank You Jesus!

God has answered one HUGE prayer!!! Our counter offer on the house in Indiana got accepted last night, so we have a house!!!! I'm soooooooooo excited! They're allowing us to rent it until our house sells, so we don't have to move twice! This will defintely be the nicest house we've ever had and the biggest, but it's not majorly expensive, so it's perfect! Ronnie's just concerned about all the decor I'll want to buy!

We've had 4 clients come to look at our house so far and it's only been on the market for a week and a half, so I feel like we're getting some good traffic coming through! We just need that right one!

Thank You Lord for answering this prayer!!!!

Update

Still have the sinus infection...ugh! Last night I started the coughing and my chest was hurting sooooooo bad! So, I added some Mucinex to the Zyrtec. Today, I hardly have a voice at all!

Anyway, we're going back and forth counter-offering with the house in IN. We should hear back on the final counter today. It seems like everything is going to go through.

The offer on our house did not accept our counter offer, so we're waiting for another offer. We have another showing tonight, so we're hoping they like it!

And I'm packing some today. The real heavy duty packing will come in this weekend, but I don't want to pack up too much while we're showing our house. So, that's about it!

Zyrtec and housing....

I've discovered that Zyrtec D is a great medicine for sinus infections! It took away my scratchy throat and now I don't sound like a man anymore and I can breathe and I'm not blowing my nose every 3 min.! So, if you haven't found something over the counter that works, this does!

I put an offer on a house today with a contingency of our house selling in 90 days with an added request to rent the home until our house sells. They were actually going to start looking for renters soon, so let's pray they accept our offer! We also had an offer on our house and we're waiting to hear back from our counter offer! Things are moving, so I pray it all goes through! It would be two HUGE miracles and I think I would start crying if just one of them were answered!

Moving back home

Well, some of you know this already, but we are moving AGAIN! But, this time we're going to IN where I'm orginally from. I've wanted to make this move for a long time! About a month ago we interviewed at Ellettsville First Assembly and were offered the youth position there. It's only an hour from my parents and my brother's family. We're so excited!!! I love the area of Ellettsville. It's a beautiful small town right next to Bloomington, a much larger college town where Indiana University is.

I'm leaving today for Ellettsville to finalize our living plans. We had already looked at some houses and I'll do something final this weekend. Our house here is up for sale and yes I know it's a bad time to sell, but we believe it will work out. We've already had two showings and it's just been on the market for 5 days. So, I'm encouraged by that. And the church there has offered to help us with rent while our house is on the market - what a blessing! So, God is providing and once again He's taking care of us. Just pray that our house sells quickly!

Now, if I can just get over another sinus infection, I'll be happy!

Aquatica

Sea World has a new water park called Aquatica. We took the boys there yesterday and it was soooooooo hot! You could barely walk on the concrete to go anywhere b/c it burned your feet! Eventually they had people spraying the concrete so you could just walk across it. We had to carry the boys b/c it was too hot for them. So if you weren't in the water you were getting toasted! Of course we all put sunscreen on but guess who forgot to put any on their back? ME! So, today my back doens't feel too great! The boys had fun that's all that matters! I still like Wet-n-Wild better....it's easier to keep track of your kids and it's not as chaotic! Aquatica is new this year so it was pretty crowded too!

And today I went to see my cousin's baby who was just born yesterday morning. I loved holding him....he is so precious! I was thinking that maybe I try again for a girl??? Ronnie saw the look on my face when I got home and said, "Oh no!" But then I keep thinking of Josh pouncing on the baby like an animal!