New Vase

I got this beautiful vase from a wonderful friend of mine!  I thought it looked perfect next to my Tarcil books.  :)

Pretty Curtains

We have such pretty curtains in our new house!  They are white with yellow and grey flowers!  Tarcil thought he could blend in with them.  Hahaha  :)

Window Sill

Tarcil loves our big window sills that he can sit in!  I don't think he likes them quite as much as our cat Penny, but he does enjoy the new view.  :)  Just look at the smile on that little furry face!!!  :)

Last Night in Old House

Hey Everyone!  I hope you didn't mind me taking a little break while we moved!  I didn't actually intend to take a break, but we haven't had internet at our new house.  These are pictures I took of our last night at our old house!  Tarcil said his goodbyes, and he enjoyed sleeping in the new house these past two nights!  Tomorrow I will have pictures of him exploring our new house!!!  :)

Home Owners!

We are officially home owners!!!  :)

I will resume with pictures of Tarcil tomorrow, but I was just too excited so I had to share the news with you all.  :)

Packing

Most of our house is in boxes now!  We close tomorrow on the new house!  I am excited to get all these boxes unpacked!!  We're so thankful for the help we have already gotten!  We are excited to celebrate and show our appreciation of you all when we are settled in!  Hopefully we can host a cook-out for 4th of July.  :)

Boxes

Moving means that we need lots of good, sturdy boxes!  I talked to some former co-workers of mine to get some fry boxes from Chick-fil-A.  These boxes have been great!  We have already used most of the boxes!  We are closing on our new house on Wednesday!!!!  We have more packing and cleaning to do, but we are making a lot of progress!  I can't wait to move and get settled in at our new house!!!  We are gonna start moving our boxes right away, and we are moving our furniture on Saturday!!  We are soooooo excited!!  

Happy Father's Day!

I know this is a day early, but I plan on spending tomorrow relaxing with my Dad!  So, Happy Father's Day to my Dad and my Father-in-law!  I know that there is a chance that neither of you will actually see this, but I love you both!  :)  And to all the other fathers out there, I hope you all have a wonderful, fun, relaxing day with your families!!  :)

Also, Happy Birthday to my Father-in-law!  I can't wait to celebrate with you later today!  :)

Vision Youth Conference

Vision Youth Conference is today in just a few hours!!  I can't wait!!  I love the t-shirts that we got made!!  They look SO good!  Tarcil wishes he could get one in his size, but I don't think that is gonna happen.  Hahaha!  :)

Packing Supplies!

Okay so I know that so far this week has been focused on Vision Youth Conference which is TOMORROW!!  But I have to interrupt with this update to our progress with buying a house.  For the last couple weeks we have been buying and gathering packing supplies and are slowly, but steadily moving our belongings into boxes.  Some days we get about 20 boxes packed with our stuff and other days we are lucky to even get one.  I think we must be insane to be doing so many big events right now for the youth ministry at church while also attempting to buy a house, pack, and move all our stuff.  Did I mention that we have SO much stuff??!!?  This process has involved quite a bit of sorting through our stuff to decide what we actually want to keep, and then making numerous trips to donate our unwanted stuff at The Rescue Mission.  I am fairly certain that Tarcil doesn't have a clue what is going on.  He will figure it out when we get moved into our new house though.  :)

Epic

Every good conference not only has prizes that can be won for completing a certain task or winning a game, but also has great freebies for everyone!!  This little book called Epic by John Eldredge is a great book and so easy to read all at once!  Of course I won't tell you all of the freebies in advance.  You'll just have to wait to see them later!  Vision Youth Conference is now only a couple days away!!!  We are all so excited!!  :)  

CDs

So these CDs are some more of the awesome prizes we have for the students to win at our Vision Youth Conference this weekend!  We are getting even more excited!!  It is coming up soon!!  And of course we also have plenty of candy for everyone too.   I don't trust Tarcil around candy though, so no pictures of that!  :)

Books

My husband and I are putting on a conference for the youth and their parents at our church this weekend.  We have named it Vision Youth Conference.  This conference is going to be so awesome and represents a lot of planning, preparations, and prayers over many months!  We are so excited!  Every youth conference needs to have good games and great prizes!  We bought a nice collection of wonderful books by Eric and Leslie Ludy and John and Stasi Eldredge!  I hope the students read them and enjoy them as much as I have!  We also have other awesome prizes that you can find out about tomorrow.  :)  Tarcil is wishing he knew how to read so he could enjoy these books too!  :)

Did You See That??!?

These are my lovely, adorable, amazing pets, Penny and Tarcil!  I love my furry family!  And I love that they love each other!  They are so sweet together!  I think it is cute that they both got distracted by something they saw.  I have no idea what they were looking at.  But they are SO cute!  :)

Banana

Tarcil goes to his happy place whenever he gets a banana!  He LOVES bananas!  I love watching him eat bananas.  :)

Glorious Waves

I love Tarcil's glorious waves!  His hair is so soft and nice!!  :)

Water Park!!!

So this post was supposed to be all happy that we were going to Deep River Water Park for the day, but the park is closed because it is too cold.  That's right.  It's June in Indiana and a water park closed for the cold.  What is this world coming to???!?!?!!  Haha just kidding.  I am just disappointed, along with the students in our youth group, and probably the parents too, who thought they could get rid of their kids for the day.  Hahaha.  We are going to reschedule the trip for July.  :)

JAG

My husband and I borrowed the first four seasons of JAG, and we recently finished watching them all!  We have really been enjoying them!  Tarcil likes them too!  :)

Apple

Tarcil thought it would be good to start this week off with a juicy apple.  Isn't he just the cutest??!??!!

Home Inspection!

House inspections are a big part of buying a house and you want to make sure that you get a honest and complete inspection!  My husband and I are working with Rob McPherson from Phoenix Home Group, which has been great!  We are excited that we are almost done with this part of the process!  After this, we are basically just waiting for closing!  :)

Mortgage!

My husband and I are getting our mortgage through Hallmark.  We have been working with Tracy White, and she has been so incredibly helpful!  We are so excited to be going through this process and to have such excellent help!  :)

Realtors!

My husband and I are going through the process of buying a house!  We hope to be able to close on the house either before or on June 30th!  This process is completely new to us and felt very daunting at first.  But with the help of our realtors, Bill and Jayne Shady, this process has been fairly easy and relatively stress free!  :)

Black Top Hat

Well, this is probably one of my favorite props now!  I don't remember where I found the pattern, and I didn't actually follow the pattern, so I don't have a link for you.  Maybe if I try to make more of these, I will write my own pattern.  :)  Anyways, I just love how cute this hat looks on newborn babies!  Tarcil is envious of the cute things I make that aren't for him.  :)