Gravel!!

We just got our final load of gravel and I can't tell you how excited I am to have that!!! We are expecting to get a big rain storm tonight, so the gravel came at just the right time, so hopefully we won't have a huge lake in the driveway, just the yard! :)

We are making major progress on getting ready to sell the house, Chris has been great in packing up stuff and taking it out the back storage building, it is getting really full, and it makes such a difference in the house. We just have to clean up the kitchen and paint the cabinets, and tile the counter-top! I think it will make all the difference in the kitchen to have a new counter.

We are busy busy busy, but it is fun to feel like we are making a difference and have a goal to work towards! We keep praying that someone will fall in love with our old farm house and buy it quick!

We found the perfect spot for the rose garden, it gets lots of sun and it was already clear of grass!! We still have work to do on it, but if we sell right away, I will just take them with us and replant them at our new home! :)

Beth was given money to purchase rose bushes for her rose garden this year!! It was so wonderful to go and buy just the ones she wanted!! Here they are planted and ready!! We can't wait to see them grow and bloom!

Spring!!

We have been so blessed this spring!!! It has been wonderful to watch things start to grow and see all the beautiful flowers we have on our property. Chris has loved mowing the yard already.

We have spent as much time outside as possible! We planted a small strawberry patch and a small pea patch. Everything is growing and coming up so well! We are excited to taste those first few berries! The cats are doing their job at keeping the rabbits away! Julia and Ethan are loving exploring and finding new flowers and games to play outside. They both have mastered swinging themselves on the swingset and love to play on the slide by making it wet and creating a waterslide. They ask constantly when are we going to get a swimming pool!

We were very blessed to be able to sell Chris' Pontiac Vibe in 1 day!!! That was wonderful and the college kid that bought it, is just the right kind of person to buy it! He will enjoy it! We have continued to work on the house and yard. We finally were able to clean up the last of the debris from the ice storm!!! What a great day it was to burn up the last of those branches!!! I am still working on the forsythia in the front, but only have about 30 ft left to prune!!! That feels good too!

Beth finished her first job for Cutting Edge Glass, Inc. That was fun!! Hopefully she will get some more work soon!

Beth's Aunt and Uncle came for a visit and we loved chatting and sharing with them. Then Beth and the kids went up to Springfield for a day to visit with her family. We loved visiting with everyone! Ethan especially loved playing the Wii with Julie.

Beth, Julia and Ethan had fun going to visit Beth's family in Springfield for a day.
We had a wonderful Easter with the Easter bunny coming!






We went to church and then had a nice dinner with Grandma Candy where the Easter bunny magically came to her house too! :) The kids loved playing with the bubbles.

We have spent the last week discussing our house and it's situation and problems and have decided that we are going to get it ready to sell. We hope to have it on the market by the beginning of May. We have several projects to finish and pray for no more rain so that we can get trucks and machinery where they need to be and not sink into the ground. Please pray that we will be one of the blessed families that get to sell their house in this market.

We are sad to leave this little piece of heaven, we sure love the peace and quiet that is here and the way our yard feels like a park. We are sure that there is another home for us that will feel just as nice and will be more structurally sound plus a little bit bigger!!

Chris was given a promotion at work!!!! He is now an Engineer Level 2. This is a huge blessing for us and we are so grateful!! He deserves it!! He is such a hard worker and gives his all. It is nice to see that he is being recognized for that!!

We are busy, busy, busy! We have so much to do and so little time to do it! Beth is working on the yard and packing up the non-essentials to go out to storage so that the house looks as nice as possible. Chris is working on getting gravel, top soil and the pond drained. Then we will work on the kitchen counters and take out the wood burning stove and level the floor in the living room. We are praying that it all comes together quickly!!