so we live in north carolina

kev and i officially live in north carolina...it has been a crazy week of traveling, moving, cleaning, cleaning and more cleaning...

traveling...
if you didn't know we took our cat on the plane with us for a 6 hour flight...it was a mess!!! we bought some children's benadryl for her to knock her out for the ride...so at 5 am on thursday nancy and i gave it to her...and oh man did she hate it...on the way to the airport she cried...and when i say cry i mean howled...and she peed all in her carrier...then we discovered that the only way to keep her from crying was to pet her non stop for endless hours while she was lovingly placed under the seat in front of us...oh yeah because the benadryl didn't work...in fact it totally buzzed her and got her all crazy...so after a really long day of flying donnie picked us up at the airport...on the way to his house the stupid cat poooped in her case...so the windows were down in 40 degree weather so we wouldn't suffocate from cat pee/poo smells......so word to the wise..don't fly..or even travel..with cats!!!

moving...
we stayed with the peter's for the first few nights as we adjusted to the new area and waited for our stuff to arrive...on saturday morning our big ol' semi backed down our gigantic drive way and it took a few hours to unload our stuff with some of our new friends..the move went really well...unlike the house

cleaning, cleaning and more cleaning...
so we are renting a 4 bedroom house on 11 acres..it is in a neighborhood but everyone is pretty far from us...it is pretty creepy here because there are no coverings on any of the windows..and there are a ton of them...so when it's dark anyone can see everything that we are doing..where we are..what we are watching or cooking..anything...oh yeah and there are a few doors and windows that people have tried to break into...creepy...so we hung up all of my massage curtains and bought a few drapes to make it feel a bit safer here...and not only is it scary here but it is also incredibly filthy...the floors, the bathrooms, the showers, the kitchen the windows...everything is completely covered in dirt, dead bugs, cobwebs and musty old house smell...so needless to say we have been cleaning a ton to make it feel like home and be sanitary...and it isn't really getting clean..so candles are in a constant state of being burned and windows are open...and floors are being scrubbed and bathroons disinfected..so hopefully it will soon smell like home and not death...

but as far as being in north carolina and feeling like this is what God was preparing us for...we are so excited!!!!...the church is amazing...kev loves his job and started the other day..we are meeting amazing people and God is doing a ton of amazing things here...we are so excited about the future and the present here...we love the area and are having so much fun exploring...we love it here!!!
so as soon as we find the camera we will take some pictures of our place and the area to share with y'all!!!!