Changes

I've tried to think of a witty way to say this, but witty isn't really my thing so here's our big news: we're moving to Texas. Brian and I are partnering with our former pastor and friend to help start a church in the North Dallas area. We feel confident that this is God's plan for us even though it will be difficult to leave Tennessee where we've spent most of our adult lives. (I am, however, quite excited to live in the city again.) We were really hoping this move wouldn't be too tough on Camden and that he'd be young enough to be flexible, but he's already quite hesitant about moving away from Uncle Michael, Aunt Liz, Gram and Gramps and his friends at school. Hopefully, he'll adjust to the idea and feel good about it soon. If anyone has suggestions on how to help him, please send them my way. Rory is just excited that she'll get to sit next to Leah and Rebekah (our friend's daughters) - doesn't take much to make her happy!

In case you're new to the blog, here's a little history. Brian's first degree is in Bible/Ministry and he spent the first 7-8 years of our marriage as a youth and children's pastor. About 5 years ago, he decided to go back to school and got a second degree in education and has since been bi-vocational: teaching 4th grade full-time and a children's pastor part-time. He's planning to continue those two careers in Texas. We will finish out this school year in Tennessee and move to Texas in June 2011. That's the tentative plan anyway.

We did spend 2 days in Texas a couple of weeks ago (which I conveniently "forgot" to blog about). They were a crazy 48 hours spent mostly in the car researching neighborhoods and schools, but here are a few pictures from the trip.

A longhorn in a little field beside the road just in front of some multi-million dollar homes.
The whole crew: Joshua, Rory, Rebekah, Leah, Camden
And us :)
Camden in front of one of the massive schools. Everything really is bigger in Texas.
They were happy to be finished taking pics - this was the last one I snapped.
McKinney (not necessarily the town we've chosen, but we're considering it) has the cutest little historic downtown area (if you're local, it's similar to Franklin, TN).
Rory and Leah. Rory LOVED being carried everywhere by Leah.
Inside the cutest little candy store in downtown McKinney.