Update on our progress

Hello to all! We are still patiently waiting for the arrival of our passports so that we can move but in the mean time I have set up the packers coming and taking our remaining belongings to storage so that once our passports do get here we can leave ASAP. In the mean time we will be staying with my Mom and Clint. They come Monday morning and will be all done by Monday evening. Then I will have some time to get our old house all cleaned up! Tim goes to Yongsan on Thursday to sign the lease on our new apartment and our stuff that I had shipped there is already there waiting to be delivered as soon as he signs our lease. The nice thing about this is the kids will leave a complete home here and go to a complete home there with all of their favorite toys that they have been missing for the past month. Tim will then be staying at Yongsan for school until the 9th of May. The kids and I went and applied for passports and visas about 6 weeks ago so hopefully they will be in very soon.

In the mean time we have been enjoying our wonderful summer like weather in NY. Here are some pics I took of the kids down at the lake this past weekend.

Strong Museum of Play

Well this week is Spring Break in the land of the arctic blast(aka. New York in April)! The sun has been shining but we have had this awful wind that takes all the warmth out of the sun. Anyways. Yesterday we went to the Strong Museum of Play in Rochester with our friends the Pool's and the Haley's! It was 3 moms with 9 kids! Yes we did discover that we don't really have eyes in the back of our heads...but the good thing is we went in with 9 kids and came back out with the same 9 kids!

The kids all had alot of fun and that was all that really mattered! Here are some pics of our adventure... The whole group together!

All the kids playing with the train table, we need to find one this big for our house!

The train ride!

Slow but steady progress

Well it has been almost a whole month since I started this and I somehow managed to not share this blog site with anyone...wonder how that could happen with all the insanity in our lives. Let me just share with you what has been going on and how God is working in this whole situation:-)
Tim went to his housing Orientation at Yongsan on March 31st, at the end of his meeting he was informed of how much our BAH(Basic Allowance for Housing) would be for us to get housing off post and it worked out to be about $2800 and the building which we had been looking into moving into the 3 units we found online were over $4000 a month. But instead of fretting about this I shared with Tim what the Lord had been telling me...which was to be still and wait. So after a bit of an argument he did as I said and started to pray about. On Friday, April 3rd he happened to be back down at Yongsan for something to do with work and as he was driving around post the Lord told him he needed to go to the housing office right then. So Tim did as the Lord led him and went into the office. The woman in the office informed him that some how we were never put on the waiting list for housing but that if he could come back on Tuesday, April 7th she would be able to show him a 3 bedroom unit which was available immediately. Tim of course said yes he would be there. Now we fast forward to Tuesday and Tim goes for his tour with the inspector...he was originally supposed to see a 12th floor unit and ended up seeing a 4th floor unit. Our patio looks out at the playground. He also found out on this day that there are 15 people on the waiting list before us for housing that we somehow got to the head of the list. He of course took the apartment knowing that this was God's work and he couldn't interfere. He will sign our lease officially on April 30th which is good because it looks like we will not be able to leave here until after the 1st of May because our passports are not back in yet. We are praying that they will come in sometime in the next 2 weeks so we can get there the first week in May.
Tim will be able to stay with us the first week of May because he has to take a class at Yongsan. The other good thing is since they came and packed up and shipped our stuff for Korea on March 30th hopefully it will get there before if not right when we get there:-)
The kids and I are getting very anxious to get there as you can imagine. Tim is also getting excited about us getting there also. We will be living in Hannam-Gu(aka. Hannam Village) which is in Souel. When Tim was there Tuesday he found out that there is a Pizza Hut and Kentucky Fried Chicken less than a block from our complex...so we will see! Well I guess this is it for now! To anyone that I haven't talked to lately...I am very sorry but it seems that our days come and go very quickly around here. You are all in our thoughts and prayers and we plan to keep in touch with everyone!
Love and prayers