April Showers and May Flowers

We have been really busy this past week. For starters, we are rapidly moving ahead on the purchase of our house. We can hardly wait to get in the place and begin to make it our home. We feel like we have been on a very long vacation and are eager to settle in to life.

As you can tell I have updated the site a bit. The picture at the top was one of the first ones I took here in KC. Now that I know how to change it, I will probably do so every few weeks. I am by no means a web expert, but the template html is pretty straight forward.

Two days ago we went to this place. We were told by Winnie that it is Disneyland for household goods. She was not kidding. We spent 5+ hours browsing through 80 acres of items for houses. They have everything! Extreme Makeover Home Edition could easily get everything they need for a house in this place. It was really fun to look around and imagine what our new house is going to look like. For starters take a look at this:

We found this rug at a local store and fell in love with it. The great room as we call it in the house (the one with a fireplace) is rather plain and this rug will have a lot of the colors that we are going to bring into the house. If you click on it you can see a bigger image. I especially like the medieval look to it.

Yesterday we bought a chair, but not just any chair, this one is made out of bamboo and is shaped sorta like a bowl. It sits on a bamboo stand and has a circular cusion inside of it. Here is a picture:

Ours doesnt look like this, but the style of chair is the same. The kids absolutely love it. It is hard to get them out of the chair and do anything now. Understand too that we havent had any furniture in our house since we got here except for one very old and smelly recliner that is not all that comfortable and 4 wood chairs for a table that came with the place.

So there ya go, an update that should at least give you a sense of what we are up to. The weather is finally drying up a little bit and I am told I must say goodbye to by blogger peeps and lend a hand claening the house. We have a fellow Alaskan and her roomie coming to play games and chat for a while. Keep in touch everyone and KEEP PRAYING!