August was an exciting and BUSY month for us! I mentioned in the last
post that on August 1st we closed on our home. This was such an
emotional day for me. I got way more sentimental that I thought I would but as
soon as we finished the paperwork and I saw the new owner and how excited she
was I felt complete easement over everything. We closed on a Wednesday and had
a contract on a rental house but wasn’t able to move in until that weekend so we
lived out of suitcases and moved in with my parents for a week. I have never
felt more disorganized and scattered but also so very grateful for this new
journey God has lead us on. Our stuff was and still is all over the place being
stored at different people’s houses. As we are getting settled in we are gradually
gathering our stuff and storing it in our little rental.
Right before we moved out of our house we moved Grady to a “big boy bed”
AKA a mattress on the floor. In the midst of the move and in the spirit of
making things as normal as possible for our babies Chad built Grady a “big boy”
bed for when we moved into the rental home. He loves his new bed, I’m not going
to decorate our rental house since we don’t plan on staying long but Grady’s excitement
over his room was icing on the cake. Also, in the hustle and bustle of
everything going on I completely forgot about Karl’s birthday (August 5th)
and on that day I hurried and ordered a cake from Amazon and we celebrated a
few days later, completely felt like an awful doggy mom.
Before we closed on our house we had a pretty good idea about what our
next steps were going to be. Well our plans got SH*T on and we were back to
square 1. We prayed so hard for God to lead us the way we needed to go. On
August 14th Chad got on the internet and found a piece of land that
had been posted just an hour before. After we picked the kids up we drove by
the land and made an offer just 3 hours after it was posted. The next day we
heard back from the seller and they accepted our offer! It was truly a blessing
that we got on when we did cause when we spoke with the agent they had sold all
parcels within 36 hours. I will go into more detail in later posts but we could
not be more excited to not only have a piece of property but to actually have a
permanent place to go!
August 16th marked Chad’s official last day at his job and
his first day of nursing school. I could not be prouder of his ambition and
determination. He has never given up on his dream and that is something I truly
admire about him. If this week wasn’t busy enough Chad and I worked on Audrey’s
birthday present and at the last moment we finally got it finished and it is
what dreams are made of.
We purchase an Ikea kitchen back in March when we went to Kansas City.
We had some left over grey paint that we used and I purchased so gold spray
paint and marble looking adhesive. It turned out way better than I expected and
we finished right on time. Actually while Chad was putting the finished touches
on the kitchen I was blowing up the balloons for her birthday. Since her actual
birthday fall on a Saturday and we had her party that night we used the morning
to celebrate her as a family. She woke up about 6:30 (normal Audrey time) and
after her bottle we brought her into the living room to her birthday present.
She loved every moment and sure does love being the center of attention. As
soon as bubba woke up we loaded up in the car and headed to our favorite donut
shop for birthday tradition donuts. Daddy got to hang out the rest of the
morning while I went to go set up for the party.
The rest of the month was pretty low key. We stayed home on the
weekends and got settled into our new normal. Chad and I did sneak out for a
date night to celebrate all the wonderful things going on in our lives.
We could not be more grateful for this opportunity and this beautiful
thing called life. We have really learned to trust in our Lord and boy it is
truly amazing to just sit back and look at his amazing work.
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