God Did It!

We've already been in Iowa for 8 months. That just seems unreal to me. I've been wanting to do a post about how different this move has been but I just keep putting it off again and again. Honestly, the longer I've put it off the more things change. I still laugh when I think about how I thought this move would be easy because we are used to moving. Most days I still wonder how we ended up in Iowa and why. I know that God has a plan. He's the reason we are here and even though I question him often, I'm so glad he's in charge instead of me. He's taught me so much in the last 8 months about family, marriage, and him.

As most of you know, we had Austin in December. At that time we'd only been here for about 5 months. I still felt like we hardly knew anyone except a few neighbors and some people I'd met at some church things we attend. I was extremely worried about how I was going to make it past the first few months of Austin being with us without any help. Well I shouldn't be surprised that our families stepped up and were more than willing to be here as much as they could. Then the love just continued. Neighbors, mops friends, church members were all kind enough to make meals, bring gifts, or just offer to help. Some of these people we hardly knew and a few we had never even met before they showed up at our house with a meal. I'm still amazed by this but know that I shouldn't be because God did it. Well Austin's about 3 months old and things are still moving along. Yes, I'm tired but I also feel like I have a few people to call if I need help.

Lance and I had been desperately needing a date night. So what happens? The in laws make a trip to Iowa. I don't think they knew how much we needed that. Then a friend from church offers to watch the boys. We took her up on this offer for my birthday and hope to do it again soon. Once again, I don't think she has any idea how much that means to us. Now the opportunity for going on a date seems possible again. We feel like we have options and people we can trust. And obviously when it comes to our boys, we want to leave them with people we trust. It's just great to have that again and I know who I have to thank for that.