Gidget Goes CRAZY!

I'd like to scream.  There are many many reasons I do not like to move.  Like reasons beyond the driving and packing and well, all that stuff.  For example, I can't find anything.  We finally found our stoneware plates so we got to eat on REAL plates.  However, the flatware is somewhere else.  Who knows where that box is.  Well, it's in the garage, but, really, do YOU want to look through all those boxes?

I didn't think you did.  Tomorrow my unpacking/getting settled goal is to move all the boxes into a more orderly fashion.  Each room will have a section in the garage for boxes and we'll put boxes with a mixture of stuff on the shelves.  My second goal is to set up beds.  We're sleeping on mattresses on the floor right now.  Blah.

So, there's the getting settled update.  It's driving me CRAZY!

Gidget Goes to Indiana---We're here!

It's been a long journey but we're here.  We got here Friday night (12/2) around 7:45.  On our way we stopped at the visitor center/rest area when entered Indiana.

We're happy to be in IN!

Map of Indiana

 Oliver's first time in Indiana

Noah and Copper's first time in Indiana

Pastor Husband reading some information on our new state.

After fighting traffic between that rest stop and home, we finally made it here.  We were tired but we had to unload some things.  Praise God our new pastor had some young fellas in our church lined up to help.  Our helpers were wonderful.  Before they got here, we were greeted by our pastor, his wife, the piano player, and the piano player's wife.  Brother and Sister Piano player brought us a little welcome gift...a lovely Christmas decoration that I have on top of the piano.

Pastor gave us a tour of our new house.  Here's your tour.

 Oliver standing in the door of Noah's room.

Noah's room.



The closet at the end of the hall 

Full bathroom.  Notice the wonderful curved curtain rod. 

 laundry room/entrance to half bath

laundry room:  washer and dryer hookups 

half bath 

Mine and Pastor Husband's bedroom

"The fondest memories are made when gathered around the table"

On the wall of our dining room

Formal living/dining room.  Pardon the fuzz from my coat in the lower right corner.

 

Kitchen sink area

Fridge with groceries from our church family.

Freezer with chicken and pork chops from our church family.

fridge

kitchen:  dishwasher

Kitchen:  built in china/curio cabinet

kitchen:  groceries and paper goods from our new church families.

"Family one of God's masterpieces"

on the wall in our den

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Our den.

So there ya have it.  Our beautiful new home.  I'm working on getting it all set up and I'll take pictures of that when it's all done.

We're very very excited to be here!  God is great and we can't wait to find out what He is going to do through us here.  For now, I need to get back to unpacking.  Be blessed, my friends!

Gidget Goes to Indiana--Days 2-4

I've been having some issues getting my blog to work.  It could very well have been an IOE (idiot operator error).  Everything seems to be working great now so I'll just catch up.  :)

Day 2
We were in Clovis, NM getting our stuff out of storage.  Lemme tell ya, the day didn't start off all that great.  We got up too late to have a leisurely breakfast; anyone who knows me well knows I like to have a big, leisurely breakfast.  Ok, so that didn't go that great.  It's all right. 

Next we went to the home of some friends/former church members.  Everything went fine there.  We got our stuff they had been borrowing and headed to the storage unit.  Oh. my. goodness.  We got straight to work and I was near tears.  I told Pastor Husband, "If I knew who to hire, I'd hire someone to help us."  Well, Pastor's parents were there and had gone to breakfast.  When they came back, they brought help!  Pastor Mother-in-law (MIL) told Pastor FIL that he and hubby couldn't do much because of heart conditions and disability.  She said there was no way I could do everything; "we have to get some help."  She asked the waitress if she knew someone!  I LOVE my MIL!! 

With the help of the two young men Pastor FIL hired, we got it emptied and completely loaded into the truck in two hours.  Really, the only downside was that we had to pay a whole month's storage rent because we were two days into the new month.  My advice to avoid that:  Don't rent from Uhaul.

After we finished loading, we had to check into some personal financial business.  We had been praying about it for several months.  God completely worked a miracle!  Praising Him still for this!  We are now free of some bondage that has been on us since July!

We had lunch with Pastors MIL & FIL at Juanito's in Clovis.  It's our fave mexican place there.  All the employees wanted to know where we've been.  We were thrilled to tell them we're moving to Indiana.  :)

After a few tears, we said goodbye to hubby's parents.  I have a feeling Pastor MIL cried on their drive home.  Here's a pic of them.

My in-laws:  Don and Wenona Pettey

Finally, we drove and drove and drove some more.  We made it to Abilene, TX.  We were happy to stay in our usual motel, the Whitten Inn.  If you're ever in Abilene, it's a great place to stay!

Day 3

After a wonderful breakfast at the Whitten Inn, we headed out to my parents house.  First we had to fill up our gas tanks.  Here's another pic for ya!

 Pastor Husband putting diesel into the moving truck.

Our moving truck.

If you haven't been through Dallas, TX in a while (or ever), people there have driving issues.  Like many of them apparently don't know how to drive.  Ugh.  All in all, it wasn't too bad.  It was worth a treat though.  :D

My salted carmel hot chocolate from Starbucks.

We finally got home and loaded more stuff into the truck and packed and packed and packed.  My friend, Josh Miles, was kind enough to come out and help load our piano onto the moving truck.  Wasn't that sweet?!  He's a great guy!

Day 4

We started our day today by finishing loading the moving truck.  We ended up leaving 3 hours later than what we wanted to.  That's ok.  We just stopped in Texarkana, AR and filled up our gas tanks again.  Went inside and picked up lunch (thank you, mom and dad for lunch!).  We didn't have to stop again until we got to North Little Rock, AR.  That was just to stretch and go to the restroom.  Of course we waled the dogs.  Last pic...

Pastor Husband, the pastoral children, and pastoral doggies

Finally tonight we made it to West Memphis, AR.  I am NOT impressed.  I find it creepy.  I don't know why so don't ask.  I just don't suggest staying here if you don't have to.  If any of you are from West Memphis, well, I'm sorry.

So, that catches us up.  Tomorrow we'll drive and drive some more then end up at our new home.  I'll try to update tomorrow with some pics of the rest of our trip and our new house.  However, I might not be able to.  Please just bear with me.  Goodnight, friends!

Gidget Goes to Indiana...day 1

This is the first day of our new big adventure.  Pastor Husband and I got a staff position at a church in Indiana.  We've never even been to Indiana!  We'll be starting up ministry to children and youth.  Pastor Husband will be leading praise and worship.  To say we're excited is an understatement.

Today we left my parents' house and left the kiddos with them so we could get our stuff out of storage in NM.  We drove over 600 miles today.  I'm exhausted.  We picked up our Penske truck in Lubbock, TX and drove on in to Clovis.  In the morning we will go load our belongings in our truck and head out.

I had big plans to take lots of pictures and post them every day but that didn't happen today.  Maybe tomorrow?  Maybe.  Maybe not.  I'm not stressing either way.  I have too much to do to stress.

I'm off to bed.  I'll update again tomorrow night.  :)