Movin' and Shakin'!

We found out a week ago that Kellen has been accepted into Southeastern! He'll start in Jan, 2010 for the spring semester. We're both relieved and glad to have that door open and have the date in mind so we can actually make plans, and arrangements for work, etc. We'd hoped to start this fall, but God knows best and His timing is perfect.

Starting a semester later than we'd planned gives us the summer & fall free for other things, like taking a trip to Brasil! Kellen's parents will "retire" from the Brasil mission field in December, and work at the South American Mission home office in South Carolina. We're SO thrilled to have them so near to us, but wanted to take advantage of them living in Brasil, which made for a kind of "now or never" trip planning.

God worked out all the details. My parents have welcomed us to stay with them so we can save our rent money to go towards the trip, a possible second car, as well as tuition for Southeastern. This has been a huge blessing, and we'll be moving out of our apartment July 15, putting our furniture, etc in storage for the months in the meantime. We were also blessed to find flights for nearly half of what we expected to pay. All in all the last week has basically shaped the way our next 6 months will unfold (as we perceive it...).

We'll be in Brasil for 3 weeks (Aug 12- Sep 4), so our jobs will terminate shortly before we leave. My last day is Aug 6, with the last couple weeks only working Tue/Thu so the kids can become accustomed to daycare. Kellen's pool job was supposed to wrap up by then anyway. By the time we get back, school will be in full swing, and we're planning on both substitute teaching, making a second car more of a necessity. If we can find other work for the 4 months we'd jump on it, but it's so difficult to find jobs, let alone temporary work... so we'll see.

As always we're appreciative of the prayers of our friends and family- especially during this transition.