Catching up week 1.....

Since we are so behind on our blog posts, and so much has happened, I am going to have to condense into weekly recap posts.  Then maybe everyone can get an idea of what we have been through these last few weeks!

Week of June 25

This was the last week of work for me.  I worked really hard to try to get everything finished--but didn't.  But that is to be expected!

Monday- I worked, Emme and Leyton went to school, and later in the afternoon, Leyton had a dr.'s appointment.

Tuesday- I took off work to take Leyton to the dentist to have his front tooth pulled.  He fell last summer and it was starting to die, so the dentist thought it would be best to pull it before we left the country.  He did awesome! hardly any bleeding and no complaints AT ALL from him! And if you ask him what happened to his tooth, he comes up with all kinds of interesting responses-it fell out, his daddy pulled it, the tooth fairy pulled it--and he loves to show you this:

Wednesday- We drove to Frankfort to sign paperwork to close on the house.  We were planning on having to write a check for our share of the closing--which would have wiped out our checking account, until we received our check from selling the house, but when we got there, signed our name thirty thousand times, we actually didn't have to write a check and walked away with our own! God is good!  After we walked out to the parking lot, we both got really emotional.  We asked the new owners when they wanted to take possession of the house (we assumed July 1st, but we were going to try to ask if we could have another week because we were planning to go to Indiana and that would give us more time for packing, moving and cleaning.  But they wanted July 1st ...so that meant we had exactly Thursday, Friday and Saturday to pack, move and clean before we gave possession on Sunday and then drive to Indiana on Monday. WHEW!

Obviously, we did all of that--barely, but we pulled it off!

Also during that week, we started all of our official student visa/residency paperwork.  So for that, Bruce drove to Indianapolis and back--TWICE and to Frankfort and back TWICE, and then found out he had to order our birth certificates on -line and wait for them to come by mail.  Once that happened, that was a trip back to both Indianapolis and Frankfort to get the official apostille seal (which means official business).

Thursday and Friday-I worked and my co-workers threw me a "just in case" going a w we packed and cleaned and started to move out of our house to Pappy's basement.  Pappy is a guy from our church, who is an amazing, selfless, Christ-like man who, without him, we would be no where and have nothing in this time between selling the house and leaving for Costa Rica.

Saturday- we had our yard sale and sold or got rid of everything we owned.  It was well worth it as we did not take anything back into the house and made a really good profit!

It was quite a busy week, but we survived and onto the next two weeks--the condensed version!