We've been here a week already!

Denver has been "Home Sweet Home" for a week now! I can't believe we've been here that long. It's been a blur of unpacking & feeling out of sorts for the most part.

We love our apartment! We didn't get to see it until we were moving in (RIS-KEEE!) but it's great. The location works great & the layout seems really roomy. It's pretty quiet too. We don't ever hear the neighbors, but sometimes the noise outside echos in the courtyard at night, but I'm the only one who hears it. The hallways in the building are an interesting cornucopia of smells. Multiple people's dinners with undertones of cigarette smoke and pot. Such is apartment living I suppose.

I can get to the grocery store by myself now! Although, I did go the wrong way down a one way street today. There was only one other car on the road, but he sure did honk at me alot! I'm like, "Dude, I know. I'm workin on it." Sheesh people! Have you never had a car coming head on at you before or something? Eeek, ok it was a little bad.

Brent has put out some resumes and has a couple pretty good leads. Pray some doors for interviews will open!

All in all, we're settling in pretty well. Today is the first day I felt kind of homesick and the reality of not knowing anyone here yet felt pretty heavy. In my head I know time will take care of that, but the feeling part is a little harder to deal with. I'll be curious to see when it finally feels like we're actually living here now...

Gold Medal Procrastinator

I've had many years of practice. I've fined tuned the art of waiting until the last second to do everything, and the bad thing is -  it does always get done. I'm stressed, cranky, and tired but it does get done. So, that fact doesn't really spur me to change.

At the moment what I'm avoiding is packing. Brent has done most of the packing so far. I wouldn't say he likes it neccesarily, but he does sort of get this overly-focused thing going and sort of HAS to accomplish whatever he's working on. (Most normal people would probably just call that thinking ahead and being efficient, but to the procrastinator by nature like me, it's "overly focused" ha!)

Maybe I'm avoiding for deeper reasons...I don't know. I have this knot in my stomach, and I'm not sure if it's from Los Compadres for dinner or if the thought of leaving is starting to sink in. Not sure, but it's making me not want to do anything. It would probably drive Brent crazy that I'm typing while there's still packing to do, but he's on a box run so I'll wait until he gets back to go to work lol! :0)

Someday when Denver feels like home, I'll come back and read about how unsure the future seemed & the thought of being in a new city was a little daunting and I'm sure I'll have to smile.

Have Not Fallen Off the Face of the Planet...fyi

Yikes. It's been a while since I put much effort into posting here. We're in the home stretch of this crazy moving business. In fact, in less than a week we'll be starting our new....everything in Denver. Double Yikes!

So here I am just to say, I have not fallen off the face of the planet. Nor am I trapped in a ball of packing tape and bubble wrap. (Which reminds me I H.A.T.E. our tape gun. Or it hates me. Either way...) Just busy trying to keep up with school work, remaining committments at church, spend time with friends, (and friend's new babies!) and of course pack.

But soon enough this page will be flooded with posts about adjusting to our new normal, and I'm sure many many many posts about me getting lost downtown. So hang in there, it's about to get interesting!

Chaos & Mixed Emotions

I'm resigning myself to the fact that until the move (which is in like a week..ahhhh!!!) we'll be living in various stages of chaos.

Not that I'm a neat freak by any means, but visual chaos makes me feel chaotic. We've packed quite a bit, and got rid of a TON at our garage sale last weekend, but it still feels like there is so much.

Between church stuff, Parker, and my school stuff - there's not a ton of time to really dig into an area and get it sorted and packed, but we're making progress a little bit at a time.

The reality that we're leaving is maybe just starting to sink in for the first time for me. I mean, I've known we're leaving, but it never felt real. Tomorrow is our last night of Youth Group with the teens...that's gonna be rough.

As excited as I am to go & start this new phase of our life, mostly it's just hard to say goodbye. These last few days should be interesting...and I don't quite know what to expect, but we are just taking it day by day and looking forward to the future!

We Have An Apartment!!!

So as of now we got the apartment! (woo-hoo!!!)

I'm a little skeptical that it will all work out perfectly, but for now we for sure have an apartment waiting. I'll feel better once we're actually moved in, but we are SO beyond thrilled that this has worked out!

Yay for building managers willing to work with our less than typical situation! :)

Thanks to everyone who's been praying for us. I guess the next big thing to pray for is that Brent will be able to find a part time job to supplement the support quickly & easily!

Moving Update

When we made the decision a few months ago to move to Denver & serve in downtown with Providence Bible Church, we decided to start journaling all the ways God provided for us. It started with printing our support letters. We unexpectedly got a HUGE discount at the printer & only had to pay for the paper, envelopes, and postage and were able to have them printed for free.


It's been difficult to find somewhere to live from out of state. But we couldn't justify the cost to travel down to look, so we've been working on that from here using what we could find online. Couple the distance with not having a set income when we're there, and most landlords weren't too excited to give us a second look. We don't have a place 100% nailed down quite yet, but we're in the process of working towards an apartment that's cheaper than anything we've seen & in the most practical location of anything we've seen. It looks really promising & we're hoping to find out for sure on Monday. There were times I wondered if we'd have to settle for something farther away from downtown that we had hoped to be, just because it was all we could afford, but God had something just right waiting for us all along.



And already we have had people let us know that they'll be helping with the monthly support & we are just blown away by not only their generosity, but also the amazing ways God is already meeting our needs! Not only is God blessing our step of faith, but I truly believe He will bless those who have committed to give financial support in their step of faith as well.


Getting out of the comfort zone & taking that leap of faith is a little scary and we sure don't know everything the future holds. I know there will be times of joy and times of discouragement, but it's only when we open ourselves up to what God has for our future and trust in Him to take care of the details that we can truly experience God's provision. That doesn't always mean moving to a new city or undertaking a new ministry - but it does mean moving forward and growing in the Christian life! Whether it's befriending someone you don't know well or committing more time to spend in prayer, God will provide His strength & guidance if you ask Him to.


I hope you'll keep praying for us as we spend our last few weeks in Gillette and prepare for the move. (Please pray we get that apartment I mentioned!) We're already amazed at the ways God has provided and blessed & I can't wait to see what else He has in store!

Spring Fling

Last week we went to the "Spring Fling" put on by the school district's HR department (where Brent's mom works) for all the district employees & families. It was a really cool thing they do for their employees & employees' families! They had a raffle for awesome gift baskets, live band, food, and tons of stuff for the kids.

Parker can always count on Papa's pocket for 3x5 cards & a pen to entertain him!

Parker did the hula hoop to win a basketball (which we thought he wanted) but it turned out he mostly wanted the hula hoop & kept trying to steal it the rest of the night.

Papa even climbed up the air bounce slide with Parker.

(We were really hoping he didn't fall backwards going up the steps & take out those 2 kids!)

Nana did the cake walk with the little man.

(There wasn't any cake, it was fruit & other prizes but I still called it a cake walk.)

Parker loves his Nana & Papa!

By far the highlight of the night was watching Parker enjoy the music! He LOVED the band & danced everytime they played. I have a little bit of video I'll have to get on here at some point. He was a riot!