A New Season

Of course its been a while since I last updated. I always have good intentions and just never follow through with committing time to our blog. Well its that time of year again, some it means summer vacation, relaxing, enjoying soakin in the sunshine--for us it means moving. But this time were going home, back to our old stomping grounds. My family will be 15 miles one direction and Jeremy's will be 15 miles the other direction. (With the exception of our parents but we will be 3 hours closer to them, too!)

Right before we left for Coaches Outreach, where we had a fantastic time meeting some great new friends we got some big news and had to make some BIG decisions!

We are moving to Haskell, Texas, another rural town with the typical small town vibe, county seat, good ole' rodeos and packed stadium for Friday night lights. This move has been a bit different than the others, in a sense that we were NOT looking to leave Deleon. We are so happy here in the smallest friendliest town in the world, but the Lord has other plans. Plans to prosper us, He says! We have prayed and cried and prayed some more and we know without a shadow of a doubt the Lord is moving us from Deleon. At this point in my life I have learned that being a peace in my soul doesn't always mean we will be "happy" about it. Peace is a feeling of contentment, of reassurance that the Lord is right beside you and is guiding every step off the way, He is the light to our path. I am not saying you cant be at peace and happy at the same time because that's what I have always been before, but I think I'll just call this phase growing pains. It hurts, mentally, spiritually, even physically moving boxes hurts. The pain will go away and we will be stronger, happier (again), and we will be with our family. I haven't lived this close to my family, most importantly my sister, since I left for college 8 years ago! I do often think about running to town to have lunch with her, sister mani pedis. Visiting my great grandma in the nursing home, doing her nails and hair, taking her treats. Meeting my grandparents for lunch. Having family birthday parties. Did I mention our gorgeous house, that really just fell in our lap!? As our time in Deleon comes to an end and this chapter closes, its hard to put down the book, I am ready to turn the page to see what else God has for us! Patience is not my strong suit. We will be leaving Deleon July 18th ish and getting our new house on August 15th, so in the meantime we will be floating around semi-homeless. So prayers for patience is appreciated! I have had a lovely group of girl friends that have encouraged me over the last few weeks and has held my hand as I dove into God's word seeking guidance! Thanks Debbie, Jennifer, Caitlin, Christine and Amy!!!

Health is usually the thing I always blog about so it wouldn't feel complete unless I updated you on Jaxon! He will be having some swallow studies and scopes done to figure out if he has acid reflux and/or asthma.. right now its looking like both. We spent some time in the hospital this month for a few very scary days but he is doing much better now! The test will hopefully be completed before we move to Haskell since the hospital is about 4 hours away from our new home!

And the last most exciting news is we are going to be gaining another team member from.....get ready, GERMANY!!!! We are going to be hosting a foreign exchange student. His name is Finn Gotte. He will be 16 when he gets here and hes hoping to be classified as a senior but were not sure on that yet! He is an awesome soccer player and has played against other countries all over the world, unfortunately Haskell does not have soccer at the high school level but he is anxious to play other sports. We got to meet him via Skype yesterday and he is so polite and seems like a great kid. We met one of his brothers and his mom too, they are so sweet and we were all smiles meeting and talking about what we all expect, the weather, different places in US, school, sports he may play and the list goes on. He is anxious about coming to Texas. He wants to better his English and experience America, TEXAS style, maybe even ride a horse! We can't wait to meet Finn in real life, hopefully you will get to meet him too! We're am thinking "Welcome to America" party at the new house!?!?

In the meantime we are headed for vacation with my dad, step mom, brothers and grandparents. I am looking forward to spending a few days just with my boys and my main squeeze. I love being on vacation with them! We leave tomorrow for Ruidoso, NM for some much needed relaxation!

For now that's the big news on the Kirk team (who will be changing their colors and mascot out soon!).