November 26, 2013
Hello again friends! It has been 3 months since my last post which is hard to believe. Many of you wether you read my previous post or know me personally know I had a lot of anxiety about where life was taking us. Well lets just say a lot has changed since then and life is certainly taking us in new directions. Let me summarize by saying God has surprised us for many reasons but he has been so faithful and good to us!
Let me start off by saying our little Owen is not so little anymore. He is going to be 5 months old in December. He is also about to experience his first Thanksgiving and Christmas (not that he will remember them) but it will be fun for all of us. Owen has been such a good baby and he is so fun to interact with a lot of facial expressions, contagious giggles, and loud squeals. Peyton loves being around him as well and is such a great helper! I am excited to see how their relationship grows as they get older and can start to relate to each other. Nichole and I are blessed with great kids!
Now for the even bigger news! We are officially homeless... Thats right we sold our first home which was very bittersweet for us! It was hard to sell the place where we started our marriage and our family. We loved that house, but felt it was time to see if we could find one with a little more space. Well to be honest all we really wanted was another bedroom for Owen. The selling of our house was a long journey of which I had basically given up on. We listed our house last December and I knew it was going to be a tough sell with basically no wiggle room on price and it was only a two bedroom.
Well time passed and we went to September with many showings, but no real offers. We decided to pull the for sale sign and figure out how to make the house work for our needs. It was about a month later after trying to refinance the house and not being able to that I got a phone call. My cousin had someone who was looking for a house in Zeeland and would like to go through ours. I agreed with thoughts in my head of well one more person who will go through and not want it for yet another reason. We had been down this road many times so my hopes were not real high. However, God answered our prayers yet again and not only did she want the house but all the financials added up perfectly. No we didn't make a bunch of money on our house, but we were blessed with a new opportunity to find a new home.
Thankfully Nichole's parents let us move back to their house in the basement! Peyton of course was super excited to go live at Grandpa and Grandmas house. I can say I always knew family was important to me, but with all the changes recently for our family it really has hit me hard the last couple weeks. We are blessed with great family and friends who were willing to help us out when we needed them most! I am thankful for each and every one of you and can not express my thanks enough. God truly works in mysterious ways and although we didn't expect it we are excited to see where he leads us! We would really like to stay in the Zeeland area, but Nichole and I have both said we will go wherever God wants us to be and right now all we can do is take it step at a time. Please keep us in your prayers as there are still a lot of unknowns for us and a lot more changes to come. We love you all and are thankful for your support as we take on this new journey!
No comments:
Post a Comment