Enjoying the Comfy life

well, since we're here.. we'll enjoy it! I haven't done laundry or dishes in 2 days. But we have done this. Kirby hung up our Hammock, which he had bought years ago in Honduras. The hammocks in Cancun were awesome, so now we are enjoying our own. This particular evening , the kids seemed so happy to each being doing their own thing in the yard, I had to document it. We spend ALOT of time in this yard and even though it is small we love it. Kirby has made it soo pretty with all the flowers . Our favorite tree has just begun to bloom, and it smells sooo good. It's called a Plumeria. I always say if a sunset had a smell, it would smell like this flower. Sometimes when it's not too windy you can hear the ocean back here too. Even though we live a mile or so away.
If you look closely at the bigger pic of Gwen swinging you can get a glimpse of Skip, our tortouise, making his way across the yard.

Roller Coaster Ride

is what it seems our family has been on for about 6 weeks. Emotionally, at least. To make a 6 week story in a few sentences will be hard, but here goes. We were asked to move to Cancun, Mexico and plant a church similar to ours. We were psyched, to say the least. We spent last week there in fact, in Cancun scouting it out for a church plant and enjoying the gorgeous beaches with our family. (we took my parents along so they could watch kids while we did church work). After returning with both excited and overwhelming feelings of the task at hand we were told the church isn't in a good place to send us right now. No hard feelings of course, we are all new to this. Just ready to get off the roller coaster of different emotions I have felt regarding leaving my house, my friends, beginning a new and exciting chapter, coming to grips with the opportunity to really do our dream much earlier than we had ever imagined, elated feelings of being in another country and seeing my children interact with another culture so well, coming home and being sad to leave Corpus, getting my myself psyched up again by thinking of doing ministry with Kirby, and then coming to grips with the fact that this won't really happen right now. Not in the way we were planning for anyway. I think we all feel like " Now what........................?"

I know God is in control and still very much wants us to do His work. I am so grateful for Him in confusing times. Our family has grown much stronger through all this. Kirby and I have become a much stronger cord and we feel as though we passed a test of " Would you be willing to leave your comfy life for other things" with flying colors. Our " Yes" is still on the table God. What can we do for you?

I really am gonna catch up...........but not tonight. Here is our Good Bye Mariah Party pics.
We hung out at On the Border, laughed loud and alot, said nice stuff to M and made friends with our waitress names Reallie, really or name was Reallie!