I am starting to get to that "overwhelming" place where I find it hard to really accomplish anything. I think that it doesn't help to have two children undoing things I've already done. I'm not freaking out, or stressing, so don't worry about that. I think I am kinda doing the opposite though. I feel like there's so much to be done that I don't even know where to start so I just give up after a while. I kind of just float from room to room, I'll work in my bedroom for a while then Jakob will come in and fuss and I'll have to spend time with him. I'll work in the kitchen for a while, then something else happens and I have to leave what I am doing. I know we'll get packed eventually. Jeremy is on his last day of work today, then he'll be around to help either pack or entertain Jakob while I pack. Lexi's last day here is tomorrow, and that will be a big help too. One week from today we will be on the road to Labelle...hard to believe

The adventures of Jakey...

Since I had such a long post yesterday I didn't write about my wild child and his antics on this trip. Let me tell you that my child has a lot of energy (as most one year olds do) and it might even be a good thing that our planes were delayed, because he'd been riding in a car for a couple hours before each flight and needed to get some running around time. On the train over to our airport terminal (in Atlanta) Jakob was riding in his stroller. There was an old lady (I mean like in her 70's) standing in front of Jeremy and Jakob. All the sudden Jakob just reached up and grabbed the lady's leg right underneath her butt cheek. He got a whole handful. The lady jumped and I said "I am so sorry" but I was laughing. The lady said I'd better watch out for that one, he's a ladies man :) In the boarding area we were sitting waiting for our stewardesses, and feeding Jakob french fries. Food does wonders when trying to keep this child happy. He was walking back and forth in our row of seats. He walks past this very nice leather laptop case (it looked very expensive) and attempts to shove a french fry down in it. We stopped him before he succeeded. On the plane this big black guy (with a shaved head) was sitting in front of Jeremy. Jakob was sitting on Jeremy's lap. The guy leaned his chair back to rest and Jakob didn't really like that because he was sort of squished on Jeremy's lap with the seat back. Jakey was standing up on daddy's lap and just reaches forward and grabbed the guy head. (I think it looked cool to him because it was bald and shiny) The guy must have been sleeping because he jumped about 2 feet in the air. Jeremy could not stop chuckling about that. Thankfully the guy didn't get mad, and we kept Jakob's hands to himself after that. All in all I have a lot of good stories for Jakob about his first plane trip

Well, we have the office mostly packed up (except for the computer and printer) and we got the whole living room packed up on Tuesday night. Thankfully we knew that we'd be moving again eventually, so we didn't unpack every little thing we own. Only the things that I absolutely wanted to have (which included most decorations and pictures :) That has made packing a lot faster. We have a couple scheduled to look at our house on Friday. We are praying and hoping that they will want to rent the house. The guy will be working right up the road from our house at L3, so maybe they will be interested. I've still got to throw a little bag together for our trip tomorrow. We are just taking one carry on bag. I need to call the rental car company and see if they have car seats. I don't think so, but it's worth asking. If not then we will have to check Jakob's car seat. That is cheaper than paying for another seat though. I will take some pictures of our first flight and the town that we will be moving to. Hope you all have a great weekend. <3.

We are flying out on Friday night to S. Florida to meet with a realtor and look at some homes/apartments (please pray we will find the right place for the right price). We fly home on Sunday night. Jakob and mommy will be taking their first plane ride. Yep, I've never been on an airplane before. So many new experiences this year. This afternoon we were invited to a couple from church's home for lunch. They are a very sweet elderly couple named the Iversons. We ate some good ol' country cooking (roast pork, mashed potatoes, corn bread, green bean casserole and more!) and it was so nice to eat someone else's cooking for a change :) Mr. Iverson is going to get a crew of guys together to come on the 5th and help Jeremy pack up the truck. One guy from church (the guy whose wife just had triplets) told us if we want to pack everything before the fifth we are welcome to come and stay at their house. I am just overwhelmed by the thought that these people were strangers to me 7 months ago. Our salvation through Christ has made us family. In other totally unrelated news my cycle is here! I am actually *so happy about that. I know that some girls would like to get a shot and have a cycle only every 4 months. They obviously have never had a problem and skipped 3 or 4 months...that is a miserable feeling in my opinion!!! Anyways, that is the latest going on around here. Hope that you all have a great week <3.

We have been having missions conference at church this week. It has been tiring. You have to rush around once your hubby gets home to make it to church on time, you get out kinda late and then go home to do it all again the next day. It has been so worth it though. Last night we had a missionary from Mongolia speak. He told a story of an apartment building that blew up right next to their home. He heard the explosion and went outside and saw flames and smoke pouring out of the building. He told his wife to get the first aid kit and ran to the building. He found the owner of the building inside and both men escaped just before another explosion rocked the building. The owner of the apartment building was pretty badly burned. The Mongolian people do not get involved in their neighbors business, it is their culture. They would have just watched as the man lay in the street hurting and possibly dying. The missionary and his wife began to clean the mans wounds and apply medicine to them. He heard the people around them say in Mongolian "that man is a Jesus man." The people knew because of his actions that he was a follower of Jesus. I have been challenged this week about my own witness. The great commission tells us to "go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature" that is not a commandment only for preachers, it's for all of us. I may not be called to go to Mongolia, but Cartersville Ga. or Ft. Meyers Fl. are places where I'm to be a witness for Jesus Christ. I can also support missionaries who are led to go to other places in the world that I may never be called to go to. Being a witness for Christ takes thought. You have to think about how your actions (no matter how small) reflect on the Lord. That means when I'm in the grocery store and a woman wants to argue about the price of something I cannot get irritated and lose my testimony (if you can't tell I was in Wal-mart the other day and a woman brought in someone else's sale papers and wanted all the stuff she bought at the price of the other company's sale paper...and it was a little irritating :). I have also been challenged that even though money is tight in our household right now God's economy has not run out of funds. The preacher last night said it's really an issue of how big do we believe our God is? My God owns the cattle on a thousand hills. He is able to supply all my needs, I just need to give, God will provide. He quoted this verse:

2 Chronicles 16:9-

For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.

God wants to show himself strong in our lives for his own glory. He is just looking for someone who will be willing to let him work

I thought I posted when we had to be down in S. Florida, but I guess I've just had to tell so many people that I thought I told y'all too :) We are leaving around the 3rd of October. Jeremy's reporting date is October 10th and he starts work on the 12th (the 11th is a holiday). We have a lot to do and only about 2 weeks to do it. Still waiting on the bonus money that they're supposed to be getting us. The whole move is kind of dependent on that

More Pictures...

Stargazing...

just discovered the lights in the sky

can't take my eyes off them

daddy telling about the stars

it's really hard to take a pic in the dark without somebody's eyes being shut (lol) because of the flash!

I love this picture <3

Last night was a beautiful night. The weather was cooler, but not too cool. We sat out on the back deck after church and Jakob ran around and me and Jeremy just talked and enjoyed the fresh air. After a while we turned off the back light and showed Jakob the stars. At first I don't think he really noticed them, but after a while...the top pictures happened. He just stopped in his tracks and looked up. Then every few minutes he'd stop and look up at the stars. He laid down with daddy and looked at the stars. It is so neat to re-discover things that we're so used to through the eyes of a child. We love our baby boy. (Aunt Amber, those pj's are from you :) and he looked so grown up in them) 


Oh, and this morning it was 55 degrees when I woke up. This is why I will miss NW Georgia!!!

Well, I was trying to post some pictures but it keeps saying the upload failed. I will wait till later today and try again. I've never had that happen before. In other news...we still have no idea when our reporting date is for leaving. We're hoping that they will let Jeremy know today. We have a lot of things that we need to plan for (packing, finding a new place to live, etc.) that depend on when we are supposed to be down there. On Friday I told the girl I'm babysitting for that we are for sure leaving and she broke down crying. I felt soooo bad. She said she knew it wasn't my fault but she had a lot on her plate right now and a hard time finding a babysitter in the first place. I still feel kind of bad, but people don't really know our situation personally so they can't understand why it's a good thing that we're moving. We (me and Lexi's mom) haven't gotten to talk since Friday, so I'm hoping that this afternoon when she picks her up she'll be feeling better about our move. Lexi has to have surgery on her eye (to tighten the muscle) the end of September, so I know she's worried about that and just having Lexi adjust to a new babysitter. Jeremy was telling me last night how in high school he didn't know what he wanted to do after he graduated (for work) he thought maybe sports medicine (the man looooves football!!!) but once he quit playing football and got further and further away from sports he lost the desire to have that job. Then he took a science class (some kind of biology) and was just so interested in it. He took more and more science classes a few at the University of Arizona and decided that he really wanted to be in wildlife management/forestry. To hear him tell the story you cannot miss his passion for what he does. Even though I do not!!! want to live in south florida (mostly because of the heat, and it is farther away from our family) I am very happy that Jeremy is getting back to "his" work. I will try to post the pics again :)