Another Rainy Day

We had plans to unpack and get the rest of the house organized this morning, naptime for the boys, then spend the afternoon at the pool. The older two never went to sleep so after a bit they were able to Getty up and read books. Unfortunately before Carden woke up a thunderstorm rolled in, so the pool was out.

  We let the boys pick out a movie, Shark Tale, and I popped some popcorn.

  After the movie it was back to work. We hot a lot done today, both unpacking and organizing as well as more deep cleaning plus regular cleaning. Our room is the only room left not done. We got a little bit done in there today, but still have quite a bit more to do. The problem is we don't have enough space!

Tonight at prayer time on the steps (Carden goes down first and all three of them are in one room), avin paired and then interrupted Matt asking to pray again because he didn't get to pray long enough the first time! He definitely loves to pray and can be rather long winded! It melts my heart and is one of my favorite times of the day...watching a daddy pray with his boys, teaching them how to pray as they both repeat parts of his prayers. I am blessed, blessed indeed!

Matt and I also celebrated our 10 year anniversary yesterday! We spent most of the day with the boys, checking out the huge Triad Farmer's Market...I got some great deals on yummy produce! Next up was a special treat: Planes. We take the boys about once a year, and e have been wanting to do some fun things after our crazy summer before school starts. We rounded out the day doing the boys off at the senior associate ministers house, he and his wife had graciously offered to watch them for us. We heed into Greensboro for dinner, wanting to enjoy the beautiful night we looked for a place to sit outside and stumbled upon an Italian restaurant with great outdoor seating. We enjoyed adult only conversation with no interruptions and reminiscing about the last 10 years. Although its hard to believe it has already been10 years! As we looked back we saw God's handprints throughout our marriage and story together. We are blessed indeed...I am blessed, with an amazing husband and daddy, who I love more each passing day.

Moving

Last week early Tuesday morning we embarked on out almost 14 hour journey to our new home in Kernersville, North Carolina. We left at 4am so the boys would have less awake time in the car. I slept some while Matt done and when he was tired I drive while he slept. I do think he got more sleep than I as Matt is fond of finding the rumble strips on the side of the road! We drove until about 10 before we stopped for breakfast in Indiana at a local breakfast restaurant.

Then we were back on the road. We had planned on stopping in Cincinnati for the night, but Matt thought we shouldn't reserve a hotel in advance not knowing how the boys would do. I disagreed but we didn't have a reservation therefore no place to stay in Cincinnati. Traveling with our cat Gideon definitely made it more difficult to find a hotel last minute.

There want much on the other side of Cincinnati so we ended up making it all the way to Huntington, West Virginia for the night about 5pm.

We got checked in, Gideon settled and changed into or swim stuff. We grabbed some dinner at the hotel and were off to the pool. The boys had fun swimming and spent most of their time jumping in.

It was late to bed for all of us so we decided to take it easy and leave later in the morning. We got away about 9 in search of coffee, coke and breakfast! Once all of the above was located we were on the road. This part of the drive was beautiful, driving through the Blue Ridge Mountains. I am glad Matt did all of the driving! I tried multiple times to get a picture, but none did the beauty of God's creation any justice.

We stopped at Bojangles for lunch, a place we had heard about. We weren't that impressed.

We stopped at the North Carolina state line for a picture of the boys with the sign. Carden slept while Cavin did the cutest little celebratory dance. We made it into Kernersville about 3.

It was a long drive, but the boys were awesome so all went well!!