I should probably explain...

So.
We have had a little bit of change in the past several months.
Ok...we have had A. LOT. of change in the past several months.
We live in Washington State now.
Hopefully, through Facebook that does not come as a huge shock to most of you...but to some of you I am sure it will. Sorry about that.  There doesn't seem to be a very seamless way to put that out there... but I will try to share some of the story here.

It all started back in July when we came out to WA for our annual summer vacation that we had thought we were going to skip. Money was tight...we had decided not to...and then we were really sad.  (especially the kids..."what do you MEAN we aren't going to Boppi and GrandBob's?!?!" Followed by super sad faces, batting eyelashes and sniffs.)  We remembered we had some sky miles that we had been hoarding  saving and we decided to go for it.

Once we arrived, all was per the usual...waking up, sitting around in sweatshirts until it gets warm enough to put on a swimsuit and then heading out to the beach for low tide. On our first Sunday, Kevin's parents wanted us to visit the church that they had started attending...he went, I stayed home with a sick Chloe. As he was leaving, Kevin kissed me on the forehead and told me that he planned to talk to the Head Pastor after church to see if he was hiring.  After the year and a half that we had had job wise, this did not surprise or concern me.  I literally thought, "what harm can that do?"

Harm was probably not the right word...but because of that conversation, and a lot of God sized situations later, Kevin is now on staff at that very. church.

It is a wonderful place.  We are blessed to be working with a very gifted leader and pastor.  We are part of a talented team. We are being loved on and embraced by a wonderful church family and seeing the hand of God in our lives in a very refreshing way.

We miss our people back in Georgia, but are very certain that we are where we are supposed to be.

2013 seems full of promise. Full of new.