We made it!

We were tired but we made it safe and sound! We got everything out of our cars by 4:45pm. (Phoenix time) Now Walt has a three day weekend before he starts work on Monday! Grissom has already explored everything in our apartment. He did great on the trip. He only meowed about 1.5 hours before we got to our new place. He's having fun exploring all the new windows.

We will be in our corporate apartment until November 30th. The VA gives us money for temporary housing and it will cover this beautiful 2 bedroom apartment that is in a normal apartment complex that opened last summer. We are on the second floor and have a view of the pool! Will write more later!

Almost there!

This morning we got everything packed into our cars and on the road by 9am! We drove 10.5 hours to Las Cruces, NM, to stop for the night. We wanted to get to a new state and it took 650 miles and 10 hours to do it! Everything went so smoothly. Grissom did great in the car. Praise the Lord!

We'll be at our new place tomorrow! Wohoo!

It looks so pretty!

We got up early today to keep cleaning and get the bathrooms sparkly! Walt did a great job on them! I was in charge of the blinds and touch-up painting while he put in a lot of elbow grease!

The carpet cleaners came toward the end of their promised window of time and we were so grateful to the have that extra time. We got everything cleaned by the time they got there at 12:30pm and when they left, we took our recycled cans in, dropped off our donations, and mailed 3 media mail boxes to our corporate apartment so we could have a little more room in the cars!

The carpet looks fantastic and the owner couldn't believe the house was almost 4 years old!

We packed up one of the cars and then took the empty one to the hotel where we are now! We got here by 4:30pm and have a relaxing evening planned! We pray for a good night's sleep before we go back to the house one last time to get our kitty and a few electronics and things to pack in the last car!

Please pray for safe travels and we are so thankful for all of your friendships!!!!

One step closer to getting to Phoneix!

The packers/movers came today at 9am and were gone by 4:30pm! They did such a great job. There were three main packers and the driver packed a couple rooms too. We spent the night cleaning and touching up paint until we couldn't keep our eyes open anymore! We slept on air mattresses in our living room and it was a fun last night in our house!

Work in progress

Today the emergency A/C repair man called in sick and they were behind the schedule. We stayed at the hotel until 11am. They were supposed to be here by noon and when they didn't show up or call, Walt walked down to see if our neighbor who works for the company could call in and find out what the deal was. The neighbor asked why we didn't come earlier and Walt told him he stopped by on Saturday night. Our neighbor came down and fixed it in less than 10 minutes! The inside of our house got up to 92 degrees and it took 12 hours for it to cool down. The forecast was 104 today.

We finished sorting what we wanted to take to temporary housing. Packers and movers will be here tomorrow!

Now I really need to get busy!

As much as I've learned to not make many plans lately, I planned our preparation for the next few days around the confirmation that the packers would be here on Monday and movers would come on Tuesday. (We leave on Wednesday.) Tonight, Walt comes home grinning ear to ear to tell me that after they surveyed the house, they're going to pack and move everything on Monday. He gave them the go ahead. Okay...new plan. :) (Unfortunately that was not my original reaction but after a good night's sleep, I realize it could work out better for us while we do stuff on Tuesday.)

For those of you who are sweet enough to send me/us emails, I'm sorry we haven't been as good at replying or emailing lately! I am grateful for this blog where I can put small updates here and there and keep you in the loop!

We got our apartment reserved last night and we'll be there for three months while looking for a house. YAY!

SIX DAYS!

Today, we got our moving date! We will be leaving the Lone Star state on Wednesday- this Wednesday, August 13th! (I better get busy!)

What do you mean I look stressed????

O Happy Day!

Huge Praise: We just found out this morning from D.C. that the VA will buy our house and this means our relocation package details are complete! We can move to the next step and by this Friday, we should have dates for when the packers and movers are coming!

Praise the Lord!

Thank you for all of your prayers!

Does anyone else ever try to pretend they don't have to say goodbye?

I feel like I've been posting on our blog regularly but then see it's been awhile!

Tonight, we had our going away party with our Bible Fellowship class. (or as I always will call it... Sunday School) McAlisters Deli, friends, adorable kids, and delicious chocolate cake...can it get any better?

It was bittersweet and while we had a great time, we were sad that after finding these great friends a year ago, we are leaving! We wish we found them sooner in our stay in Texas but then it probably would have been three times harder than it already is.

We ponder a few things everyday...will we find a great church in AZ with friends like these ??? I mean how often do you go to SS on the first day and find out everyone else has a blog too and before you know it, a week later, you have blogs for more than half the class!

It's more than that though...we tried other classes and churches but the Truth class is amazing...warm, open, and genuine.

Thank you for your friendship and throwing a great going away party! I know it seems silly but I am grateful to have blogs, Facebook, and even archaic email to keep in touch!!!! (It makes it less hard to say goodbye...or at least in my mind for now!)

Since the government is being pokey, we HOPE we can come for 4th of July!

I hope to post some pics soon that are sitting in my inbox...courtesy of Amy! :)

Take a load off, Sally!

I don't know why that popped in my head but today I took so many donations to the little outreach place, it wasn't funny! I forgot to weigh the rest of the clothes...the last batch was 61 pounds! These donations filled the back seat and the complete back area of our SUV. It feels so good to get rid of this needless stuff and not being taking it to AZ...we should have never brought it to TX!!