Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Well, the ball is rolling. We have found our new house!!!!! It is currently owned by the Phillips' and soon to be ours. The contract process started today. I'm nervous and excited at the same time. The house is all brick, tri-level with an inground pool! We'll have a living room, family room, sunroom, 3 current bedrooms, a garage that will be another bedroom, dining room, and kitchen. It has 2.5 baths and just a perfect home for our family. It is such a God thing! He's so good and I just feel like all our dreams are finally coming true. I hope this will be our home through retirement, a place the kids will always know as "home". I need to be packing, but want to journal all the details of buying our first home. Here are 2 pictures!

I am so excited! We spent an awesome weekend in Dunn, NC with the Spring Branch Baptist Church family. They treated us like royalty, I felt so blessed. When we arrived on Saturday, the Phillips' welcomed us to their home with a wonderful lunch. Then we went to the hotel where we had 2 connecting rooms and a large platter of goodies from Sherry's Bakery (Thanks Mr. Fred). After freshening up, we went to the church for a wonderful reception and met many nice people. I think I already got in trouble as Tammy W and I went to look at the youth room and ended up watching the teen guys rehearse in the sanctuary. On Sunday, we went to church. Allen preached an awesome message as usual and then we went to the Naylor's home for lunch (loved the chicken casserole). Allen, Sarah, and James went swimming for a little while back at the hotel. Then it was back to church for the youth led service and more from Allen. It was there that we found out that Pastor Greg (youth pastor) scratched his eye pretty badly, so he was unable to make it to church. After service, we had fellowship and pizza with the youth group and youth committee, it was great! I felt so overwhelmed at how perfectly we fit together. God is sooooo good! On Monday, we were treated to breakfast at Sherry's Bakery. We also were blessed to meet the members of the "Wisdom Table". That was so fun. The kids were spoiled. Afterward, we drove to Wrightsville Beach for a splash in the ocean. That brings us to waiting for the vote. On Wednesday, the church voted on whether or not to call Allen as their new pastor. At 7:45 Mr. Naylor called and extended the call and we accepted! So, Allen is now Senior Pastor for Spring Branch Baptist Church! We are so blessed! Today, Friday, we are going to look at some homes and change our phones. We received our pre-approval letter yesterday, and can't wait to find our 1st home!