Our new house

So we are building a home here... which was supposed to be completed by the end of February. They dug our basement on Feb 5 so I guess we are slightly behind schedule :) Our house is going to be beautiful with plenty of room for visitors, which is why we added the basement. The upstairs is fairly small (or smaller than we are used to) with about 1480 square feet. It has 2 bedrooms upstairs, which works out fine since we have 2 boys who enjoy sharing a room. It has been fun to watch them work and we are getting more and more excited about it.

I often take the boys to play at the park in the neighborhood and the other day I noticed something. I think one of the houses behind where we are building has some sort of wild animal reserve. There are definitely roosters and many other birds. I can't be to sure, but I may have heard a monkey. Luckily it isn't the house directly behind us, but next door to that... so we probably won't hear them, right?

We have been very blessed by the rental house we are staying in now. It is in a wonderful neighborhood and we have gotten to know a few of our neighbors. I think God had the delay in his plans. Part of me is sad to leave this neighborhood... but the good news is that we are only walking distance away. It has been fun to almost outgrow our house already. We have 5 families now that meet on Sunday nights and a total of 7 children. The oldest child is 5. It is funny to hear all the noise coming from upstairs during our Bible Study. With 5 boys... it sounds like chaos upstairs (but it is controlled). It will be much nicer when we can watch the kids in the basement and they will have a lot more to do. God has been so faithful! One of the families found our website the first day Loren put it up. Another family met Amanda at Carl's Jr. It is truly exciting to see God adding to our numbers those who will come along side us to help reach this community for Christ! We have been building relationships with many people in the community and are so excited to see what the Lord will do. He is so faithful!!!