Yep, I'm still alive!

You know that you are behind in life when no one has socks, underwear, or lunch for tomorrow. That's where I was this morning, hence the break in blogging. We have been so incredibly busy here, that I can't even keep up with the necessities, let alone my blog!

But I am getting caught up. As we speak, a load of laundry is being washed, I went grocery shopping and have food for tomorrow, and I have a few minutes to sit down and give you all an update:)

Moving is a huge task. We have not actually started to pack boxes yet, but we are almost there and getting to that point has been just as busy. We've had moving company estimates, school registrations, spending hours trying to figure out where we are going to live! And this is all from the west coast. By the time I'm up, the people on the east coast are ready for lunch! That makes it hard to make plans, especially with me working in the mornings.

Friday was my official last day of work and so now I am focusing on our transition. Packing has not been a good thing for our marriage in our past moves:) Nate and I don't usually agree on how to pack and arguments surrounding packing up our stuff usually transpire. But so far, so good. We are still married and hope to come out unscathed come October 27th when we shove off.

So we leave on Oct. 27th. We are going to take a short vacation in Southern California--which includes Disneyland and San Diego! Yay! Please don't mention this to Jenna and Abby though, they don't know the Disney part yet, and I don't feel like hearing "when do we go to Disneyland for 22 more days." We'll tell them closer to our departure date:) Then we make the long trek from San Diego to Orchard Park, NY. Fun:) Actually, Nate and I love car trips. I don't know if we'll love car trips after this one, but we've planned enough time so that we aren't driving too long each day and we can get out and let the girls have some fun along the way.

Another huge piece to this move is housing--both here and there. I am incredibly relieved to know that we have a place to go to once we leave here:) We will be renting a two bedroom apt., temporarily while things with our house here in CA get figured out. I am very excited about less cleaning and no yard work--particularly no snow removal this winter.

We own approximately half of our house here in CA. Our church owns the other half. That makes this situation very difficult when our house has lost so much money in the downturn. We still don't know what will happen with our house. We are still figuring it out with the church. We are all trying to do what is in the best interest of all of us, and that is hard. Really hard. So living in an apt. gives us some time to figure it out, and I am more than okay with that.

So that's the general update . . . we have had some of our dearest friends, the Woltemaths, in town for the past few days and we've had a few adventures that I'll share later. For now, I have a washer to unload, some underwear and socks to wash, and some peanut butter and jelly to make for lunch:)