Funny Kids...

 
 
 
This is how I found my children this morning. They like their "wellies" and always wear them around. Even in their pjs! Cory had some juice and there is still some on his face. Sarah wanted Cory's hat on and Cory insisted that he wear Sarah's Easter hat with the bow in the front. You never know what you are going to get with these two!

Easter 2009

I want to show you all of our Easter festivities. We wanted to take the kids to an Easter egg hunt (our stuff was not here yet to do our own) and we found out that the museum here in Burwell was having one. We decided that it would be fun to check out the local museum that is literally in our back yard. Unfortunately, it was not the kind of egg hunt for a two and three year old but we had fun anyway. Our new friends, Rob & Mandi and their daughter Makayla joined us. We only have a set of dishes and a few pots and pans. Cooking is a bit of a challenge but I made a ham and potatoes. I did not have tin foil yet so the ham got a little over done. The carrots that I put in with it were burned and the jello just wasnn't right but it was Easter. We will never forget our first holiday in the UK on a card table!

 
 
 
 

From the Hands of the Creator

God moved the placenta! Bethany is sitting with her head down ready to go in a few weeks. I am no longer high risk and we can just let God finish the work He has started. He created this child in me, He will walk me through the rest. When I left Montana my placenta was 1.2cm from my cervix. Now it is 3.5cm. It needed to be above 2cm. Thank you so much for your prayers. We have so much to be thankful for!

When it rains it pours...

As if this move to the other side of the world isn't enough there are always things that happen back on the home front. The week that we left for England my dad was in the ER for kidney stones, my grandparents were in a car accident (not injured just minor damage to their car), my grandma's (who has a mechanical heart valve)went out of rhythm and they had to jump her heart back into rhythm.
This week has been another story. Of course with my ultrasounds and Dr appointment we all are on our knees asking God for a miracle. Now my brother has taken an emergency trip to Montana to be with some friends who lost their mother tragic situation. Now I get an email from Mike's mom (Linda) and they have had a horrible fire in their shop on their property. Linda's husband, Wayne, restores old cars. Mostly Packard vehicles. He does this for a living. Now this shop had 4 Packards (including their coupe and a fire engine), a 77 Camero, and a Lexus. The shop is gone and some of these cars were just being stored by other people in this shop.

Our status is that we still do not have any of our shipments. We have been told that our small shipment is in country waiting to go through customs and they will call us when they can deliver it. We are looking for a right drive car for Mike to drive back and forth to work. I am SO ready for our household goods to be here. I am ready to cook with my pans and put things on the walls and make it home.

 

 

 

 

Life....

What more can I say... this is life. This is the life that God has placed me into. I wanted to give you a few snipets of life here. Since I cannot "nest" in my home I have done a little nesting with flowers. For those of you who know me very well, know, that I love hydrengeas. Here is the plant that I found here. It needs to be repotted but it loves my very humid laundry room because it does not vent outside it goes into the room and then there is a small fan to vent it out. This beautiful plant loves this humidity. Here are the couple planters that I found and planted a few flowers in my front 'garden'.

The bugs here are really big, thankfully not dangerous. I had to share this lovely spider that I found on my kitchen wall.

Each village here has its own sign. Here is the Burwell sign. I will be sharing more of these as we travel around. They are very cool how they show their heritage.

Belly pictures!!
I really need a lot of prayer. In Montana I had a few ultrasounds and they found placenta previa. When I left Montana the placenta had moved and so I just have a low lying placenta but the doctors here are still saying that I cannot deliver naturally that I would have to have a c-section unless it moves more. I am at 33 weeks this week and we still have time but I really need a miracle. I am praying in faith that this will happen. I have an ultrasound again on Tuesday and will see a doctor on Thursday. Please pray with me!

 
 
 
 

Our home in Burwell, UK!

So we signed the lease on our house today! How exciting! We are ready to stay there and get out of your tiny little TLF. We have really seen God's hand in it all and we are very excited to see how He is going to use us in Burwell. It is about 20 to 30 minutes from RAF Mildenhall which seems to be the only downfall about the home. We really like the location. The town of Burwell we have fallen in love with. I have not had a chance to take a picture of the roads around here but they are very narrow with no shoulders. There are trees or brick walls on the side of the road. When we first got here and were driving around I was sure that we were going to either hit a tree or someone in the other lane. Ok so about the house. It is a 4 bedroom. Typically the washer is where your dishwasher would be in your kitchen. This one fortunately has a laundry area. It also has a fridge and a dishwasher (I am so blessed)! It has two large rooms downstairs one to be the dining room (which we are going to use as a play room) and the living room. There is also a half bath. There is also a tiny room right as you come in the door of the house that Mike says gets to be my scrapbooking room. YEA! A Hide-a-way for me! The bedrooms are small by American standards but for homes around here they are quite nice. We are going to use one as a closet, Sarah & Cory's room, Bethany's nursery, and our bedroom. There are two bathrooms on that floor with one only have a bathtub and one only having a shower. Here are a few pictures. Also, check out my "Life in Pictures" on the right for further pictures and details. Mike even gets a garage! Check out our HUGE yard!

Love you all!!

BTW! - no complaining if your refrigerator is too small. The ones in the UK are TINY!