We've moved, we're settling, and slowly adjusting PART 1

This is the view of the ocean near our new house. You can't see the ocean from our house but this is the street by our house, we live 5 blocks from the ocean! It's incredible...

It's been a long time (once again) since I've written. So much has happened and I've procrastinated in writing, just because it has seemed like such a daunting task and I've not had too much time to sit and write. My oldest boy only takes one afternoon nap now so I 'm trying to be more organized with my time so that when he does nap I will have finished all my chores and tended to other responsibilities so then I can sit down and write knowing I have taken care of priorities first.

First of all, God has brought us to Hawaii and in such a way that it has been so obviously his hand. There were many things that had to happen that we had no control over, we simply prayed and then waited to see how he would answer. So to briefly recap and summarize our life these past few months here is a short tale:

Back in February we put up 2 for sale signs for our house. One was right in front of our house and the other was in front of our mobile home park. We also made flyers advertising our house but we only put these up inside our park as well on the community bulletin board by the mail boxes. So that was the extent of our advertising. Well, sometime in early March my husband noticed one day that our for sale sign was no longer in front of our park, somebody must of stolen it because it was no where around the surrounding area. So, it was one of those things where we thought, well, we ought to buy another sign and put it up. And we considered other advertising ideas but we just didn't do anything else. So how were we supposed to sell our home one might wonder? God in his wonderful ways likes to bring glory to himself, so to make a long story short...after much prayer, poor advertising and struggling in our faith and trust in God, a young couple calls on the evening of March 22 to inquire about our home. They were driving around our town that day going to all the mobile home parks looking for a place for sale and our park was the last one that they went to that day. They saw our little flyer inside our park and called us up. They drove by that evening and came inside, my husband gave them a tour and we all talked for quite awhile and they really wanted to buy it. They just so happened to need a place that they could move into ASAP, which worked out great for us as we were hoping to be in Hawaii for Easter, which is when the church had it's first service. So in a matter of about a week, we moved out and the details were squared away and they bought our place and started to move in. So, it was a matter of two weeks from the time the couple came to look at our place to the day we arrived in Hawaii. It was incredible to see God at work. Needless to say we packed up our house so quickly and had to get rid of so much stuff! It was like nothing I'd ever have to do in my entire life. We sold almost all of our possessions and moved out here with basically our clothes and a few necessities. We packed away 4-6 totes that Ryan's parent's are storing for us, but we really just cleaned ourselves out and are starting our lives from scratch out here. It's been hard, but good too. There have been so many changes and adjustments, I am still processing it all.

Okay, well I need to stop writing for now and attent to my boys! Moses just came in from the outside and is pretty dirty from helping Papa with the yard work:) I will write more soon!