A homeless summer...

As many of you may know we have spent the last month or so back and forth between Michigan and Pennsylvania visiting family, mooching off the parents and living out of suitcase. When it was almost time to leave PA for Michigan, David noticed our vehicle was acting funny and there was a problem with the steering. Unfortunately, this was discovered just before the weekend when no one is available to check out the problem and we had to wait until monday (the day we were supposed to leave for Michigan) to even see about getting it fixed. Thankfully my family knows a mechanic real well who is close to their house and was able to look at the car. He wasn't sure right off what the problem was but it didnt look good. I started to wonder if I would ever make it to Canada with our plans seeming to get set back. But, the Lord is faithful, and the mechanic fixed our car the next morning (a 3 hour job). We were so appreciative that he was able to fit us in and we were able to be on our way Tuesday afternoon. The bad news... it cost us 600 dollars for the fix and he also found another problem with our vehicle that needs to be fixed before the cold weather hits. Unexpected expenses are not fun! On a more exciting note... we have been very encouraged to see our support comming along well!! Throught our time with family and friends, many people began to tell us their desire to be a part of this ministry.. which was so neat to see and we are so thankful for each of you and so thankful to the Lord for His provision! Although it was great fun, we are excited that we have finally made it to Canada and are moving into our new place! I will update on life here.. once we get a bit more settled in and have some pictures to show, in the meantime... Here our some pictures of what we did while visiting family! Trying to give him a taste of my favorite restraunt, Chickfila!

Ekijah had many visitors

but, there was time to rest too
One of his first smiles at 5 weeks old....how exciting!!!Us at Shady Maple
We took him for his first swim... then he wanted to do some sunbathing
Camping with my family at Yogi Bear Campground
My Grandparents and Aunt Jenny got to visit
The family at cousin Chris and Sam's weddingMy Best friends Bridal Shower
Uncle Jason with Elijah

...AND BACK TO MICHIGAN...



We spent a day back in Jackson for some doctors appointments and visited friends while we were there!
Napping with GrandpaPlaying a wild game of DominoesTaking family pictures
Elijah in his adorable Sunday outfit.. with shoes!!
And off to Canada!!

MOVING ON...

The time has come for us to leave Jackson, Michigan. We spent our final week packing up and cleaning our apartment and headed out Sunday evening. We are so thankful to the Lord for bringing us here to study His word. It has truly been an awesome time. It was so weird leaving this place. It seemed like just yesterday that we pulled into the parking lot to get all signed up to start school. We cannot express enough how we have just loved this place.. the staff was amazing (they knew our names the moment we walked in the door)... the people were excited about the Lord... and the classes were incredible. This is the only place we have known as a married couple and now we will be headed to Canada excited to see what is in store for us there!
HERE ARE SOME PICTURES OF OUR LAST WEEKA few Staff and Students help David move our things downSomebody was slacking on the JobThe Amazing children's program that we had the priviledge of being a part of at the Church we attended during our time in Jackson... Another rough place to say goodbye to. We met some great people here and truly enjoyed being a part of their ministry!

So all that to say.. it was a pretty rough week of packing and lots of sad goodbye's. But, we are amazed to look back and see all the neat places the Lord has brought us and are anxious to move ahead to what He has for us next!

Our New Little Guy!!

After a crazy day and a half and finding out that I was going to be induced we finally got to meet our newest family member!!! On Wednesday June 25th I went in for my regular doctors appointment, not expecting anything exciting. The midwife checked my blood pressure which was really high. She told us she was sending us up to labor and delivery to get some tests done and said we probably wont be back without a baby! Wow, not what we were expecting to hear that day. We went up and got some tests done and my blood pressure finally calmed down, so they ended up sending me home that day on bed rest and scheduled me to be induced the next morning.
At 6:30 the next day we head in to labor and delivery. Everything thing went really smooth with the labor and the delivery until the baby finally came. We had some complications with too much bleeding at the end and they had to take me down to fix me up. It was about 4 hours until the 3 of us were finally together again. Praise the Lord though, everything ended well and we have a healthy baby! We loved our experience here at the hospital in Jackson and were able to have lots of visitors during our stay there with David's family living only an hour away and my family was able to be out there since we knew what day he would be born! We are excited to be home now though, and trying to adjust to our new little guy and hoping he will adjust to getting some sleep at night time!

Elijah David George
Born June 26th at 1:48 pm (one week early)
He weighed 7lbs 11ounces
20 and a 1/2 inches

Finally at Home!