Moving On Up!
13 years ago
Monday, April 13, 2009
If you're in Austin...
Next Saturday at the Galaxy Highland movie theater, you can catch a showing of Malatya, a film about the 3 modern Turkish martyrs. Two guys from Austin Stone made this happen; Dave & I are really looking forward to seeing it (and neither of us are the deep, intellectual type that loves foreign films or art movies). Click here for more info.
Amazing Video
This amazing video was made by a very talented guy at our church. It was SO powerful!
Cardboard Stories from The Austin Stone on Vimeo.
Cardboard Stories from The Austin Stone on Vimeo.
Saturday, April 11, 2009
We are still alive!
Sorry for the lack of blogging! My main lame excuse is that I changed computers. But I've also tried to cut back my time on the computer.
Instead of catch you up on EVERYthing, thought I'd take a small bite and show you a project we worked on today.
For Easter, we opted out of colored eggs (not for religious reasons - we just didn't get around to it and nobody seemed to care). We made a play-do tomb scene to help tell the Easter story. Of course, I am including cute pics of the kids in the process:
Daniel & Anna helped get the dough made
Making the mountain around the tomb
Making people - Jesus, soldiers, Mary, angels
The dough had to cook for several hours. Later, after Grammie and Papa Ray came, Ellie joined us for some painting and decorating.
Anna and Ellie enjoyed acting out the story
He's ALIVE!
Instead of catch you up on EVERYthing, thought I'd take a small bite and show you a project we worked on today.
For Easter, we opted out of colored eggs (not for religious reasons - we just didn't get around to it and nobody seemed to care). We made a play-do tomb scene to help tell the Easter story. Of course, I am including cute pics of the kids in the process:
Daniel & Anna helped get the dough made
Making the mountain around the tomb
Making people - Jesus, soldiers, Mary, angels
The dough had to cook for several hours. Later, after Grammie and Papa Ray came, Ellie joined us for some painting and decorating.
Anna and Ellie enjoyed acting out the story
He's ALIVE!
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
The fat lady is warming up!
Dave & I went on a date yesterday to Independence Bank in Manor, Texas to sign our closing document - in the presence of their notary. Everything is signed, stamped, initialled, dated, and stapled. We put everything in the overnight mail, so hopefully it should be at the Title Company in Acton by now. There were no big surprizes on any of the documents, so that was a very good thing! By Monday, our mortgage should be paid off and there will be a little left over that will go into our bank account! THEN we will hear the fat lady sing - and we will likely join in!
We did get a call from our realtor yesterday, telling us the buyers were upset that the curtain rod and curtains from the dining room were missing. They wanted money - $200 -to replace them. Earlier in the house selling process, the buyers wanted $600 for caulking and replacement screws that were on the inspection report. We decided to tell them they could find their own curtains. :) We "leased" the house to them for $0 so they could move in and paint before the loan funded. We think that was a pretty nice deal, don't you?!
In hindsight, we should have left the curtains, since they were in the house when they buyers wrote the contract. But come ON - they got a GREAT deal on the house! I spent maybe $80 on the "window treatment". Geesh.
All in all, we are so thankful that God provided a buyer and especially that we were able to close before Christmas! God has been SO faithful to provide for us, in so many ways. He has used so many of our friends and family to encourage us and provide for us during our transition to Austin. It's definitely been challenging, but amazing to see God's hand in everything as we do our best to follow Him.
Looking forward to Christmas - and even to finishing Christmas shopping!!
We did get a call from our realtor yesterday, telling us the buyers were upset that the curtain rod and curtains from the dining room were missing. They wanted money - $200 -to replace them. Earlier in the house selling process, the buyers wanted $600 for caulking and replacement screws that were on the inspection report. We decided to tell them they could find their own curtains. :) We "leased" the house to them for $0 so they could move in and paint before the loan funded. We think that was a pretty nice deal, don't you?!
In hindsight, we should have left the curtains, since they were in the house when they buyers wrote the contract. But come ON - they got a GREAT deal on the house! I spent maybe $80 on the "window treatment". Geesh.
All in all, we are so thankful that God provided a buyer and especially that we were able to close before Christmas! God has been SO faithful to provide for us, in so many ways. He has used so many of our friends and family to encourage us and provide for us during our transition to Austin. It's definitely been challenging, but amazing to see God's hand in everything as we do our best to follow Him.
Looking forward to Christmas - and even to finishing Christmas shopping!!
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
it's almost official
I'm holding my breath for the next week plus a day. We're set to close on the sale of our beautiful home in Granbury next week. Bittersweet to say the least. I'm thankful for the time God had us there and thankful that He has a plan that is bigger than we can imagine...
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