Friday, March 30, 2007

WE GOT THE HOUSE!!!!!!

thank you so much for your prayers. this is just the cherry on top. we knew before that God wanted us to move, but this house pulling through really helps to solidify the decision. we are so excited about what God has for us in this new place. so here are some pics of our new house. this is the front of it. it is located on a very quiet cul de sac
this is the living room with my very favorite hard wood floors.
this is the master bedroom (yeah the people were still living there so you have to use your imaginations). nice and big with a walk in closet!!!
this is the kitchen. i would rather that the cupboards didn't have this weird pink tinge to it, but oh well - it will be fun things to change
this is the backyard - it goes a bit the other way to and the deeper way.
so anyway - thank you again for praying!!! it is so cool when God answers prayer!!! :)

Monday, March 26, 2007

Florida or Bust - AGAIN!!! :)

well - some of you have heard the news, but for those of you that haven't - we're moving to florida once again. but this time not to a thriving metropolis - this time its a small town in northern florida about an hour from orlando and tampa. we weren't looking to move, but our former administrator called us and offered us both positions. so we went down to look and loved it. its a perfect small town to raise a family in and settle down. we're really hoping that this is our niche. :) the school is inverness christian academy (that's the town its in) and the church is fort cooper baptist church. the school is small but growing and so is the church. the other benefit is that we could buy a house and afford it. the houses that we were looking at up here were 200,000 and the ones down there we were looking at were 140,000 to give you some perspective. anyway we're really excited about it. and it looks like we're moving right after school is out at the beginning of june. (yes - before my birthday which i'm not too happy about.) we have to get down there so that we can start working for the summer. so i thought that i would post some pics of the school and church and our favorite house that we looked at.

this is inverness christian academy - the facilities are really nice!!!
this is the entrance to the church - fort cooper baptist church
and this is our favorite house - its on a cul de sac with no other houses around it. its got hard wood floors and 3 bedrooms and 2 baths. and its only 141,000. so if you think of it you could be praying for us as we go about telling the people here at concord and as we make plans to move down there this summer. also be praying that the Lord works out our housing situation so that we have a place to move into when we get down there!

so that's our exciting news - florida or bust! once again (and this time with an overactive hyperenergetic dog. if you have suggestions please feel free to share :) )


Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Long Time No Write!!!

Well - here i am...its been awhile and i wanted to post some new pics, but i just keep forgetting.

so here is our christmas pic with our ridiculous small tree in the background.

well some interesting news is that mark and i have been offered a new job in florida - our administrator from our old school moved to a different school and is offering us a position there. mark and i had decided that if God brought something to us we would be open to it and look into it. so that's what we're doing. tomorrow we fly down to orlando, florida - to take a look at the church and school. we would definitely appreciate your prayers as we look into this new place of employment.

i hope that all of you are having a fabulous day. today in pennsylvania it is going to be a whopping 72 degrees and i am going to enjoy it to the fullest!!! :) i hope that you get to enjoy your day as much as i am going to enjoy mine. (what also helps is that my troublemaker student is on vacation and i'm taking the dog to my parents tonight which means - FREEDOM!!!) :)