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Calvary Longview

Things have gotten so crazy, that I have not even thought about posting as of late.

Johnny did his first funeral, and the Lord blessed, praise God...and he has his first wedding on Saturday. The two of us have been blessed to walk through a season with the couple he is marrying, and Lord willing He will bless the ceremony.

We are both doing well, we can't believe that time has gone as fast as it has. The Lord has been good to us, and He is continuing to prepare us, and the people that are part of our body.

I hope all of you are well...

the new addition to our family...

Here is Sarah, the new addition to our family. She ran up and greeted Johnny and I one morning when I dropped him off at work in April. We couldn't bear to not keep her. I will put up a new picture of her soon...so you see how much better and healthier she looks - she was in this condition when we brought her home - I promise! Sarah and Rebecca get along famously.

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We have lived here 3 months and I am finally putting the pictures up on the web. I did wait until we got our new furniture into take the pictures. Maybe one of these days I will start posting more regularly - it will be one of my goals. We really like the kitchen - it is a lot nicer to cook when you have the space to do it - and we were blessed with a brand new stove when we moved in. (Johnny likes the fact that we have carpet - and it is on foundation rather than pier and beam).

For those of you that don't know, I am not going to be teaching next year. I will be using my master's and doing Instructional Design/Content Development for a company called EdWay Online. I am blessed and I am able to work from home (most days). Johnny was ordained on June 1st...one more step on the path the Lord has placed us on. We had our first Sunday morning last week (June 15th) and it was a blessing. We know the Lord has plans, we are just not sure what they are yet.

605 E. 3rd Street...

For those of you that were not aware, Johnny and I moved to Longview. This was the last picture that I took of the outside of our house in Mt. Pleasant. You can see the shutters on the house. I'm glad I remembered to take it!

Our New House...

For those of you that don't know, Johnny and I are moving to Longview (sooner than we planned) to plant a Calvary Chapel. We found a house this weekend - which is exciting as the people buying our house sold theirs much quicker than we anticipated (in a week --- and they did it FSBO), we think it was the Lord's way of keeping our focus on what He has planned for us, rather than our own.

The house is completely redone inside. It was built in 1962, but has new flooring, new a/c, new hot water heater, new stove, dishwasher. We are excited. If everything works out, we should be moving down there March 21. When we get there, I'll put a picture of the house up - we won't be doing near the work that we did on this past house (which I am sad we don't get to see completed!)

Finally...

Over the last two years most of our vacation time has been spent fixing up our house. These are just a few of the pictures we have - and many times we didn't take a good before picture. Most of our pictures that we have taken are during the process of redoing the rooms. Eventually I will get around to putting up a picture of our house with the shutters that were put on 2 weeks ago, but that requires me to go outside and take it first! I have had many people ask me for pictures over the last few months, and I've been promising to get them up, so I hope you enjoy them!

Outside of House

The rest of the inside of house

Transformation of Kitchen

Refinishing Wood Floors