Checking in...

Good afternoon to each of you! I hope this afternoon finds you all happy and healthy! If you're a MSU fan, I'm sure you're quite happy! :)

I wanted to touch base with everyone about what has been going on as of late. Most of you already know that Jacob had surgery Thursday. I want to THANK EACH OF YOU for the thoughts, prayers and well wishes that you have sent to us. It means more than you know. Tim and I are doing the best we can to not let fear creep into our thoughts but it's difficult. We should find out something late Monday afternoon or Tuesday. As soon as I know something, I'll let everyone else know too.

I also want to let you all know that in the event that you were not notified or if you feel that you haven't been kept "in the loop" it was not done with the intention of hurting your feelings. In order to keep our sanity and not having to repeat everything six hundred times, we have kept the updates and information coming via our face book page. If you are not a member of that page, send us a message and we will give you the information. I will do my best to keep this journal page updated as well.

Things have been quite busy and we feel like we are traveling in six directions at once. Not only has Tim been bounced from one shift to another, I'm still picking up shifts at the hospital, riding with the ambulance when I'm able, homeschooling the kids and working on my two college classes that I have this semester. On top of all of that, we have moved and had to have everything out of the rental house by the 1st of the month. Thankfully the owner has given us a few days extra to get the outside items out of there. Throw on everything that has gone on with Jacob this past week and the fact that my back has been out for a few weeks and you have one hefty mess!

So please, if you stop by the new house, BEWARE! There are boxes EVERYWHERE! We have the very basics put away but everything else is scattered through the house and stacked where ever there is room to put it. On a normal basis, we don't choose to live in such turmoil. Unfortunately, until things settle down some and I am able to lift, move and put things away, the house will be in turmoil. But hey, if you do stop by, the sofa and love seat are cleared off and after a year of dealing with "regular TV" we now have DirecTV! :) Our goal is to keep everything that is boxed up or not put away to be kept in the dining room. Slowly, we will get it all taken care of. I pray that by Thanksgiving, our house will feel like a HOME!

On a side note, we have two male beagles who are now a year old. If you or anyone you know would like them, PLEASE let me know. They are FREE. They were given to us and I just can't handle anything else on my plate. They NEED to go!

Have a great day and I will be in touch with you all soon!

As a side note, I'm not going to proof read this so forgive any medication induced typing or grammar errors. :)

-Becky

Breaking & Entering

Let me first assure you that each of us are perfectly fine. However, I do have a story to share with you!

Recently, we've been leaving the kitchen window open. A few different times, I had left and returned home to find that the screen was also opened. I was pretty sure that I had not left the screen open but thought to myself that perhaps I had just not remembered leaving it open.

Tim had suspicions on who was coming through the kitchen window when we were gone but I wasn't so sure his suspicions were correct. Afterall, nothing was missing or out of place anywhere with the exception of the screen being left open.

After I had everyone settled into bed tonight, I sat down to do some studying. I was startled by a noise coming from the kitchen. Seriously, who in their right mind would try coming through my kitchen window while I was sitting just fifteen feet away from it. I turned my head and caught the crook red handed.

Errrr....shall I say red clawed.

Look who decided that they wanted in. And it wasn't just him either! There was another one right behind him.

Tim's suspicions were right!

Sunset & the moon...

This is the view we had from our house this evening.









And from the deck tonight...










*These pictures are SOOC (straight out of the camera). I didn't tinker with them at all.

First week of July

This is when we go from where we are now to here:

We paid the deposit today and finished the paperwork. I was so relieved. With the exception of the amount of stuff we have to pack in the little bit of time we have to do it in.

Tim has the 28th through the 6th off so hopefully we can get things done in that week. If we're able to, we will be starting to move the items in around the 28th or 29th of June and continuing through the week. That is only a guess at this point though.

For now, our plan is to continue boxing everything we possibly can. The first trip over will be all the furniture. Then we will return for boxes. We're trying very hard to pack things and stack them according to the rooms they will be taken to. We've chosen the bottom right corner of each lid of each box to label what room it needs to go in. It should be helpful.

I know this falls on a holiday weekend and we apologize ahead of time to you. We realize some people won't be able to help with the move becaue of that. Don't worry, there will still be plenty of things we'll need help with after the initial move. It's highly unlikely that we will be able to move everything in one day anyways.

We started our moving sale today. Well, it officially started today. Between yesterday (someone stopped by unexpectedly) and today, we managed to make enough for our first rent payment! We were shocked!

It's nearly 1:00 am so I need to hit the sack. The sale opens at 9am tomorrow and I have to get up to do some modifying of the signs before hand.

Thanks for continuing to think of us. We appreciate it!
Have a great night.
-B