Still moving...

The title says it all, we are still in the process of moving. The house is FINALLY done being painted thanks to so many wonderful volunteers. It took many more coats of paint than we thought that it would to cover all of the walls, but our faithful painters finished it! Steve has been MIA in our current household for the past week, while he works all day and paints all night. He has been working very hard! The plan is to move on Thursday night. I can't wait to start the unpacking!

I have been busy with Isaiah and getting ready to move. With all of the paint colors picked, it is time to start picking accessories for the house. It has been fun, but challenging with only 1 car. I have also been involved with the women's group that is starting to form at our church. It is so exciting to see women of all ages excited to get involved in anything at church. Right now we are just at the planning stage and the beginning of the implementation stage.


Isaiah is growing up so fast! He is still a great eater, with the exception of breakfast. So I am trying to become more clever with nutritious foods to serve. I think that it will help our whole families eating routine to be in our new house. Isaiah is repeating everything, and putting together 2-3 word sentences. He is starting to show that he has an opinion, and we are trying to give choices when appropriate. This morning he chose to try on his new shoes, and refused to take them off. I tried to reason with him, but what the heck he might as well break them in now!

Steve as I mentioned is busy with meetings, ministry, sermons, and the new house. He even gets a little time in there to golf or watch football, but not much!

I can't wait to post pictures of the house once it's full!

Quick update

Here is the quick version of our life in the past week. We drove to MN to retrieve our belongings that have been in storage for the past 4 years. We loaded a U-Haul and brought it all back to the garage in our new house. I think that my parents were overjoyed to get a garage stall and a bedroom back!

We spent the remainder of the week picking paint colors and getting the house ready for the painting party that began today. We had a great crew that began the painting today and they have two rooms done. I feel worthless not being able to help at all, but when we stop by we are more work than help.

They will continue to paint until it's done, and we hope to be able to move in completely this weekend.

Our New House

I know....two blogs in one week. Please don't keel over! I promised pictures of the new house, and here they are.

I consider these the before pictures. Stay tuned for the "after" pictures!

promises

I promised myself that I would update the blog more often, and it hasn't worked out so well for me. So here are the happenings of the Vera family in the past few weeks.

Steve has a couple of weeks and two sermons under his belt. He is connecting with the youth groups and planning for the year. He has also kept busy with shut in visits. He has also attended many meetings.

I, Calie, have been busy planning the paint colors for our new house, as well as decor. I have also kept busy trying to keep up with Isaiah, find new doctors, transfer records, and all of the fun that comes with moving! I have accomplished one of my goals, which was to finish Isaiah's scrapbook before September.

Isaiah has by far been the busiest out of all of us. His favorite things include running, jumping, talking and being cute. He is already saying three word sentences, and repeats everything that we say. He recently started singing and doing the actions to songs. He is so smart too. We were painting and he chose the blue paint and said blue. He constantly amazes me. He also likes to say cheese and then see the picture. Here are some of the pictures from our photo session tonight.

We also went to Sun Prairie's big festival, called Cornfest. There was a parade followed by a weekend of corn eating. Isaiah sat in his stroller for an hour and a half watching, waving and clapping for the floats. We enjoyed the sweet corn and bounce houses at the festival grounds. Here are some pictures.

The other big news we need to share is that tomorrow morning we will become first time home owners. I promise there will be pictures this weekend. We will need to paint the whole house and make other minor repairs, but other than that it is move in ready. We do not have a date that we will actually be living there, since we plan to paint, clean and take our time moving in. We will let everyone know our new address soon.