LOL–some interesting stories coming out of Germany these days… 🙂
Click on the title above for a good laugh…

Click here to view pictures of our house! There are only a few, because not every room is ready to have pictures taken. These are the “presentable” parts of the house, LOL. 🙂 More to come as we get settled…

Well, we’re still getting settled…I’ll post pictures as soon as I can find my camera cord! LOL! I haven’t unpacked anything, really…except the kitchen, because I’d like to cook tonight 🙂

Had my MRI yesterday–that was a piece of cake compared to the other tests I’ve undergone over the past ten years for my nerve damage (i.e. Electromyogram and Nerve Conduction Study, of which I’ve had four, and they were the most painful thing I have ever experienced)! I was SO relaxed! It took about 30 minutes, and it was SO peaceful…

My management mentor actually just told me that he thinks that’s the only way I can relax–if someone forces me to. Yeah, that’s sadly true. My best-friend has always told me that I need to learn to relax!

Anyway, should have the results tomorrow or Friday…I’ll keep you posted…

Other than that, life is great…I feel like I have stability again!

It’s been a long, exhausting weekend…but we have almost everything in the house from the apartment…I am still SOOO excited that we are in this beautiful house!!

Lots left to do…pictures to come soon! 🙂

Check out this news story…no one realized that this poor man had been missing for seven years…that is so sad! 😦

Can you imagine not having anyone that cared about you, that would wonder where you’ve been?

Oh, the Lord is SOOO good!

I just signed the lease…after nine weeks of searching, worrying, trusting the Lord, and watching Him provide in miraculous ways…over and over again…we have a beautiful, wonderful place to live…and it is in Glendora–where we wanted to live, it has the amount of bedrooms we need, and it is beautiful and quiet…

Praise the Lord…for He is good!

Here’s my life in a nutshell:

Life is good!

I am supposed to sign the lease tomorrow for our house (yay!), and we plan to move in next week. So exciting! I have lived in three places over the past 2 months, and I’m ready to be settled in…and knowing that I’ll be at this house for at least a year brings such comfort to me! It’s been quite the journey to get this house, but the Lord has provided for us–as always!

I’ve had to really surrender a certain area of my life to the Lord this week, and it’s quite possibly the hardest thing I’ve had to let go of thus far…but I know that I’m doing the right thing, and I know that the Lord will honor this…after all, it’s been said, “If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, it’s yours forever. If it doesn’t, then it was never meant to be.” (Yeah, it’s not a biblical quote, but it’s still true!)…

Work is going well…I’ve been at this job for a year now! So crazy! I also have now been out of college for two years, and that is hard to believe sometimes. I look back on the past two years, and while I know that I have grown tremendously, and I have accomplished quite a bit, I still wonder what’s truly in store for my life. I have learned to not measure success or accomplishments by the world’s standards, but by the Lord’s standards, and that has given me a new perspective entirely. I am very excited for the time when the Lord reveals to me His calling on my life, but I am also content where I am (Philippians 4:11), waiting and serving Him in the meantime.

I’m going to be scheduling my MRI this week, as a continuation of the 10 year investigation into my arm/nerve damage. I’m not all that excited–because it’s going to cost some money, though I don’t know how much yet–but if it can bring an ultimate solution, then I will do it.

This summer is going to be awesome–but busy, as usual…mission trip, family reunion, youth group events, normal activities…it’s still so strange to me to not have a “summer vacation” like we did in college…LOL…being an adult isn’t always that great, I’m discovering 🙂

My family is doing well…my friends are doing well…my best-friend and his wife are going to be parents in about 6-7 weeks! So crazy! 🙂 I’m very excited to be an “aunt”…LOL…

God is doing amazing things in my life, and I am doing my best to just rest in Him and His love during these times of stress and busyness. He is so faithful and so loving…

Until next time…

Wow, I have really neglected this blog…I’ve been running around like crazy (which is so usual!), and I haven’t really been keeping up on Internet stuff in general…

Update to come, soon! 🙂

I think I set a record for the least amount of pictures I’ve taken in a weekend… 🙂

 

Leslie, Ananda, Lesa

 

Stuart, Leslie, Tyler, Ananda, Lesa

 

This weekend was so awesome!! Great friends, great food…

Great games…we played this game at least 10 times this weekend, and I’m hooked. I can’t wait to purchase it! 🙂

More later, along with pictures…