Coming Soon... University of Tennessee!

Attention, attention, ladies & gentleman... our new home this fall will be Knoxville, Tennessee! It's been a whirlwind of joy over the past week and a half. Tuesday before last, Chris received a phone call that knocked our socks off. The professor of Univ of Tenn left a enthusiastic voicemail offering a graduate assistantship. This means full tuition plus a sizable stipend will be provided compliments of the university.

We were so incredibly overjoyed - as you all can imagine! Immediaely that week I started looking on craigslist for rental property. After emailing many people, I resulted to the fact that we would need to hold our horses and just wait a while since most landlords have properties availible asap and we're wanting something to start Aug 1st. Well, in a last attempt, I sent out a few batch of other emails and this little jewel was availible. Needless to say, the landlord said that the home goes quickly and so only 4 days after finding out the good news we jumped in the jeep and headed up to Knoxville. Chris and I had the best time chatting it up for 4 1/2 hours each way. The time we had really gave us an opportunity to reflect on our past 3 years and discuss our expectations for the furture.

This little home is such a dream! It is 2 bedrooms, 1 with walk-in closet, 1 bath, large living room, large formal dining room, large kitchen with eat in space, separate laundry room & storage space, beautiful front porch with swing, awesome covered back porch.... all hardwood floors, tall ceilings... just beautfiul. We didn't hesitate to put the deposit down and the days following while we were waiting for our background checks to clear, I gave courtesy calls to the landlord pleading that he would pick us and not the people that looked at the house after us.... the lease came in the mail on Friday - yay!

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all your thoughts and prayers! We are so looking forward to what purposes God has for us in Knoxville. Our plan is to move in the first weekend of August. I have taken that entire week off so we can "vacation" in our new home followed by the Coldplay concert at the end of the week on August 7th. After that, Chris and I will part ways for a few months - he'll start school and I'll stay in Columbia to finish up my 1 year dedication to my current job. We'll keep you posted!

To be continued...

Happy Easter!

It's been a great day and we're Tired. We started festivities out at a local church service.

Chris and I have been visiting a sweet little church down the road from us. I think we're going to let it stick. It's way more traditional than what we're accustomed to, but it's nice, and it fits. The music is really amazing. One of the pieces they played last week Chris identified as Dvorak and when looking at the bottom of the hymnal page, he was right! Those years of music history have paid off. Hehe.

After church, we went to Chris' parents house for a little family funzies. Did the typical grilling, afternoon stroll, & chatting. We had a chance to visit a little with his brother and family. They have some really sweet kids that were very kind to share some of their Easter candy with me. *Yeh, I know, but I don't get an Easter basket anymore!* Needless to say, I wanted to steal the little girls box of strawberry whoppers! WHAT!? YUM!

Our lives have been kinda uneventful lately. I'm still trying to get everything organized with home health therapy part-time. The process is taking FOREVER. Chris is still in pergatory with grad schools - we're anticipating knowing by 2 weeks or so - that's the deadlines for the schools to give $$ offers.

Sorry we haven't been online in a while - that has been a side effect from no longer being slaves to facebook. On the other hand, we have been slaves to old "The Office" episodes streaming on netflix. We're currently on season 3 and I believe we will try to squeeze an episode in before our nine o'clock guilty pleasure show that I will definitely not say what it is on here because it is waaaay too embarassing.

Goodnight!