May Update

I wanted to give a quick update on the move... Things are definitely moving along and we found out last week that Cisco is hired with Davey Tree Company in Denver!! Huge answer to prayer. We have officially started packing up and getting rid of stuff and it's definitely as overwhelming as I hoped it wouldn't be. Not to mention emotional. BUT, God is so faithful and is really speaking and ministering to us an incredible amount during this time. Currently we are fine combing Craigslist, Zillow, and every other rental website known to mankind, to find a place to live. It's been a little interesting and, at times, incredibly frustrating trying to do this from another state & on a low budget, but I know we're not alone in this and many have been successful. So in other words, not impossible (I keep having to remind myself of that one). A few fine details have yet to be figured out, but we are packing up and will be moving out of our house NEXT WEEKEND. I wrote that in all caps because I'm still trying to get it to sink in my own head! I really cannot believe it and it's all incredibly surreal. By this time next month we will be residing in Colorado and living life there. Ca-ra-zy!

Once we're moved out of our place we'll be heading up north to spend a week with my family and celebrate my niece Carly's graduation from high school! Then off to Denver and a whole new life. If there is one thing I can say about this whole process it is that when God moves, He MOVES. When I am able to take my eyes of the current circumstance and whatever faith building situation is right in front of us, and look back over the course of the past few months and even few years, I can see His hand so much in all of this. At times my faith has desperately wavered and I've wondered (way too many times) if He's going to come through, going to provide. And each time He has, at the 11th hour, and not only has done so, but in a way that only HE could do and that's completely blown my mind! It's been amazing. HE IS AMAZING. It's built up our confidence in this so much. I am finding as it comes down to the wire, and Satan is bombarding my mind with fears, that there is no possible way we could do this BUT for it being from Him. When you see Him blow open every door you're faced with and provide in ways you never knew you needed, that becomes so necessary during the times when everything seems impossible. I know it's needed now and will also be in the future when we're out there and things are difficult and we're faced with more faith building situations.

I want to thank you all so much for your prayers, they are so needed and appreciated! Please keep the housing situation in your prayers, that we will find something at the time we need it and for wisdom. It's amazing how many scams there are out there! This weekend we celebrate Elias turning 4 and will also be saying good-bye to many friends that have become like family. I will try to post another update before we leave, but I can't make any promises. ;) These days I'm either a bundle of emotions or running around like a chicken with my head cut off! Fun times! :)