We Have a House!

After over a week or negotiation, the bank finally accepted our offer! Yay!! Now we can proceed with all the legal details and head toward the closing on November 3rd. It feels good to know that we will soon have a place to settle in.

Soccer and a Place to Stay

Once again the Lord has provided us with a place to stay. This weekend, we left Richmond and headed down to North Carolina to see our cousin, Laura, play for the Wake Forest women's soccer team. We were able to enjoy a men's soccer game Saturday, and the women's game Sunday. We went from the soccer games to stay with Mom's sister and her family in western North Carolina for this week, while Dad is staying with a coworker this week.
After this week, a family we know in Richmond offered us the use of their guesthouse for as long as we need it! This is amazing provision and we are going to stay there until we move into a house.



Laura with a save!

Eric, Anna, Isaac, Sarah (cousin), Isaac, and Timothy watching the game.

A Beach Trip

Some Friends of ours from DC, Tommy, Mary, Teddy, and Emily, invited us to come with them to their beach house in Duck, NC (the Outer Banks) this weekend. Since we don't have our own house to work on, nor other big projects going on, we, and a friend of mine, Mary, decided to go.



We have had a fun and relaxing time here together. The weather has been perfect, not too cool, not too hot. The water was cold at first, but we got use to it easily. Unfortunately, the water was very rough from Hurricane Kyle out in the Atlantic, so the "No Swimming" flags were out. We could go into the water about 10 feet. We got knocked over by huge waves, then suddenly the water would get sucked out for the next big wave, sometimes almost pulling us with it, or we were were uncomfortably sitting on the sand in about 8 inches of water until the next wave came. It was a very different ocean than I have ever swam in before. We had fun playing Ultimate Frisbee on the beach, too.



Tomorrow we are leaving early to go by Kitty Hawk and the Wright Brothers Museam, then heading home to make it to Eric's soccer game and my orchestra rehearsal.

It has been a great weekend, especially visiting with old friends.

Kids enjoying the beach.

A sand crab the boys found.

Everyone enjoying the water.

Luke enjoyed his first time on the skimboard. He took to it very well, but the waves overpowered him a few times. Note how small the wave is that the skim board is in compared with how high Luke went. Yeah, those waves were really strong.

Teddy and Timothy braving the seas together while Eric stands by and Luke is doing something, I'm not sure what.

Mom waiting for the sunrise.

Finally, what they were waiting for appeared.

Group shot.

House Photos

Here are pictures of the house we are making an offer on.


The house and yard.

The barn.

The backyard and fences.