Blessings

First off, I've been on a roll with the blogging, so if you missed Connor's B-day and our trip to upstate NY, scroll down.

Now..............................

We found a place to live in Alabama!

This is a complete miracle.  We are overwhelmed with the giant blessing that fell from the sky and smacked us right on the head.  As Jeremy said, "Usually blessings are a little more subtle.  This one just plopped into our hands".

So here's the story.  First of all, I keep finding people with random connections to Troy (where we're going).  This couple that my parents have been friends with for years have a daughter that I played with a few times as a kid who just moved there last summer.  I've been emailing her and it has been super helpful.  And random.  Then I found out that this girl at church knows someone here who grew up there.  Weird.

THEN...yesterday morning I checked my email and saw that I had gotten a comment on my Palmyra post from another girl I knew as a kid.  She had found my blog somehow and had been reading if for a little while and saw that we were going to Alabama.  She asked where and if it was near Troy because she served her mission there and just learned on Facebook of a lady who had a house available for rent!  Wow.

So I emailed her, she called me, I called the lady, and within a few hours we got a house!  This is absolutely amazing.  Our other options before yesterday were: a tent, a single student apartment (wouldn't that have been fun!), or an apartment 40 miles away that was way more expensive.  Our prospects certainly brightened!  We got a 3 bedroom, 2 bath house with a washer and dryer, in a cute quiet neighborhood, a porch, yard, etc, etc.  We are blessed.

I truly feel like the Lord watches out for all of us and knows our needs.  We'd been searching every possibility for months now and finally I started praying more regularly a week or so ago specifically that we would find somewhere to live, if at all possible in Troy :).  I feel such a huge relief.  I'm actually excited to move now!  No noisy upstairs neighbors!  Haha.  And it's 2 blocks away from the other girl I know there...who has a boy close to Eli's age.  Amazing.  The only thing left that makes it really interesting is that we are only bringing what will fit in our car, so that will be another adventure.  No furniture, no nothin'.  But we don't have to live in a tent!  Whew.  I'm excited.  We're always up for a challenge and this sounds like a great one. LA, here we come!!

(That's "Lower Alabama", in case you were not aware.... :D)