Home on the Range

WOW~March is a blurrrrrrr :D Since my last post was over a month ago, let me recap what has happened in the last 45 days and I'll do it like my husband would do it~

Here we go...sold the house, finished seminary, No Limits conference (that was just the first week), looked for a place to move, found a place, packed, got keys, moved a little bit, went on a camping/dirtbike riding vacation, move a little more, had Carlos' brother and his wife out from Florida, received full endorsement for chaplaincy, moved more, cleaned old house, and closed escrow ~ all in a matter of 30 days :D Was that fast enough! Now it's figuring out what to do with all our "stuff".

We sold our beautiful 2800 sq. ft. 5 bedroom 3 bath 3 car garage home and are renting a cozy 1200 sq ft 2 bedroom, 2 bath farm house that sits on the corner of 40 ACRES (yes I said 40) We technically rent only 2 but since the owners don't live around here and don't do anything with the other it will soon become our dirtbike track :D The house is smack dab in the middle of farm land. No sooner than we moved in did the kids want chickens, so we got them 12 baby chicks. They are the cutest little girls around (yes, they are supposed to be all hens). In about a month they will move their little selves out to the hen coup that is already set up for them.
Carlos bought himself his dream toy the very first week, a riding lawn mower. Since we have been married he has wanted a lawn to mow with a riding lawn mower and now he has one.

Bo is in doggy heaven. Every day I see his hind end up in the air as he is digging away at some unknown creature that lives underground. He has already helped us dispose of one very lowly mouse outside and if he could catch the snakes before they run away they would be in trouble too. He has all the open space to dig and run and act like a free dog. We already bought him a plastic pool and I will see him run back to it, drink a little and step in and cool off. Not quite the same as the old pool but it will do for this summer.
The kids, well what can I say. It was the kids we rented this house for in the first place. Monday they got up, did school, played with the chicks, put on their gear and rode their dirtbikes. What a wonderful life. Not sure they will want to live on post housing when the time comes.

The million dollar question is still the same. What's next? Well, As we enjoy a bit of breathing room before we finish up the process of accessioning to Active Duty, we are enjoying each other. It's been a long time since we spent a Saturday doing not much at all, or a Thursday night playing games and laughing together. We need this for now. Carlos will finish his process fully within the next couple of months and sometime in the fall we should know where we are headed. We're not in a hurry to push God. He has impeccable timing. He knows what we need at every turn. We can look back now and see his fingerprints on every aspect of our lives. Makes me excited about our future!