An update!

Ok. There's been a lot rolling around in my head. Lots of different ideas for blogs, I mean. But as a result of thinking through some, I haven't actually put pen to paper.... fingers to keys, I should say.

Time is passing relatively quickly here. Its almost August! Unbelievable. We've been in Dallas now for nearly 2 months. Also unbelievable. We have found a church.... that was our biggest concern coming into the area. But God works in mysterious ways.. through a chance meeting at my cousin's church in Katy, we found out about Bent Tree Bible Fellowship here in Dallas. Its an amazing church. We've been going for 3 weeks now, and we absolutely love it! This past Sunday, as we left the service, Frank and I looked at each other and almost simultaneously comments how much it felt like we were back at Momentum. We met with the children's director right after the service and are going to start volunteering in the children's area. We're looking into Life Groups to join, and hopefully when they start up at the end of August we'll be able to get in one.

Frank is at the tail end of this first contract. They have given him his first extension (yay!), and its actually longer than the initial contract was... we're guaranteed to be here at least 13 more weeks.  And chances are really good that this hospital will re-up his contract again, so we'll likely be here until the end of the year, at least. Good news is we won't be on night-shift the whole time we're here. He's been given a day shift slot for the majority of the new contract. He has to work the first two weeks of the new contract on nights, but then after that he'll be on day shift (praise Jesus!).

We moved hotel rooms last week. Knowing that we were going to be here for at least a while longer, we had begun looking into furnished short-term apartments/living facilities, but the problem is that the ones that are in our budget are full, and the ones that are empty are waaaay more than we want to spend. Could we afford it? Yeah. Could we afford it and still save money? Heck no. So we chose to upgrade our room. We moved onto the second floor, which has health benefits. We're nowhere near the one hotel elevator, so we walk the stairs every day. Not that many, I'll grant you. But more than we WERE walking. And this new room has so many advantages. An a/c unit that can REALLY cool the room (provided I don't flub up and shut it off for too long), a "living room" area with a couch (with a bed in it, should anyone wanna come visit!), TV and coffee table, a "dining room" area with a table big enough that it comes with TWO chairs, a separate bedroom that has a door we can shut, a fridge that doesn't leak, a shower head with great water pressure, and a dishwasher that actually WORKS! I feel like we've hit the jackpot here, haha.

Basically that's all for now. We're headed over to Katy to visit with some family and friends in a couple weeks.. Looking forward to that. I'll update again later!