This is the strangest autumn Stephen and I have had yet. We’re still wearing short sleeves and enjoying weather in the 80s and 90s, and for the first time since preschool, neither of us have to go to school this year! This life of unemployment and perpetual summer is definitely throwing off our internal clocks.… Read More Corn Maze
October 17th is the Sweetest Day this year. Really, it is! I didn’t know the Sweetest Day was a holiday until one of my high school teachers chose to get married on the Sweetest Day many Octobers ago. In honor of this day, I decided to put together a list of some of the things… Read More Today is the Sweetest…
If WV is the Mountain State, and people from WV are called Mountaineers, and if Indiana is the Hoosier State, and people from Indiana are called Hoosiers, does that make us Grand Canyons since Arizona is the Grand Canyon State? Cool! I’ve always wanted to be as big as the Grand Canyon! 🙂 Actually, I… Read More Now We Are Grand Canyons?
Last night we had the privilege of participating in Crossroad’s first youth group meeting ever. We are excited to be youth sponsors and work closely with the teens of our church. We had 3 girls and 2 guys, along with parents and sponsors. The youth group will be meeting every other Monday night and having… Read More First CBC Youth Group…Ever!
I’ve been drooling over these aprons for several months now. Heavenly Hostess makes some amazing aprons that actually flatter your figure and are super cute! It’s so hard to choose a favorite from these gorgeous choices, but here’s one I love, the Ginger. This month Apronista is giving away a Heavenly Hostess apron of the… Read More Aprons Have Never Been So Cute!
Our car was the one reliable possession in our time of transition–or so we thought. Although we’ve not yet been in Arizona for a full month, we’ve already had two car repairs. The first was the dysfunctional radiator fan which caused the car to overheat. Thankfully we were with Pastor Ryan, and he let us… Read More Another Car Repair
Day 23 in Phoenix. Still searching for a job. Stephen had his third job interview today, and he has a fourth set up for October 7th. Since we didn’t hear back from the first two interviews, we’re assuming he didn’t get those jobs. We won’t know anything about this third job until about two weeks… Read More Still Searching
While driving to visit our new friends, we were listening to the radio. (Driving is a new part of our lives since we lived on church/school property back in Indiana. I love spending this extra time with Stephen as we commute everywhere!) On the radio, we heard an announcement for a free ballet performing in… Read More Ballet Under the Stars
At first we felt dazed (mostly from the long hours on the bumpy seat of a moving truck) and overwhelmed at the thought that we were in Phoenix…to stay! We are no longer visitors, but residents. (However, we are still living out of suitcases in someone else’s home, so we still feel like visitors in… Read More Life in the Desert
Compared to those of you who are marathon movers, I’m merely in the training stages. Our friends, Kevin and Kimberly, are two such marathon movers considering they’ve moved about 9 or 10 times in the past 10 years. They graciously donated all of their boxes and packing materials to us. What a blessing and what… Read More Moving 101