Quick update

Hi all!! Things have been crazy busy here, but I don't want to leave you all hanging. So I thought I would write a quick post to inform you all on our progress.
We have all of our stuff! Yipppeee!! Its all here! Now we are slowly getting everything unpacked and organized. This is quite the challenge when Carsten and I have never lived in a home together and we are in another country where the houses are different, obviously. We are realizing that our garage is going to be quite full because the rooms are just too small to keep much in. Living in another country poses many challenges, but the most frustrating one is that nothing fits up the tiny English stairways. Our queen box spring and our sleeper sofa would not fit up the stairs. We had to sleep on just our matress and the floor for a few nights, but then we were able to buy a divan base which is a whole different story that I will share in another post when I can get the picture uploaded. We are slowly buying different pieces to help us organize our stuff on English terms. Besides the few frustrations, it feels soooooooooo good to have our stuff here. It has definitely made us feel more and more like this is our home. I will post pictures once we get everything unpacked and organized. =) So get excited!! haha!

Sometimes I can hardly believe that the Air Force is a job. Don't get me wrong, they work very very very hard! But they also play very hard too! This past friday was Sports Day on base. Every squadron supplied athletes to participate in different events, anything from pushups, volleyball, tug-of-war, to football. There were tons of events. Carsten, being the athlete that he is was signed up to do basketball, volleyball, football, tug-of-war, and push ups. After his recent injury, I was kinda of worried about him doing so much. Yet, he was more than thrilled to get out there and compete. Carsten's squadron did such an amazing job all day long. It was head to head between them and the cops squadron all day long. As Carsten would say, the tug-of-war competition was the deciding factor in who one the entire Sports Day. To give you a picture: Carsten and Chris Wilson are two big guys compared to many others in the squadron. They showed up to the tug-of-war competition just in time to watch the expressions on their squadron's face turn from fear to pure confidence once they saw Carsten and Chris Wilson walk up. Of course the other squadrons were embraced with fear. They won the tug-of-war competition and were pretty confident that they won the whole sports day! Woohoo!! Well after all was said and done, the cops were awarded the sports day trophy. =( This did not settle well with Carsten and his men. Something had to be wrong! Carsten ended up reviewing the score board when he discovered that their team had been gypped 5 points. They brought this to the official's attention. He reviewed the results from each event and discovered that this was true. These 5 points meant that Carsten's squadron was the champions of the Sports Day! I feel bad for the cops who had to return the trophy after they just received it in front of everyone. But Carsten was ecstatic!
As for me, I am continuing to work out with my friend Darla everyday in the morning and I'm feeling more and more in shape. I have been trying my hardest to put this house in order, but I can only do so much by myself in such little time. It will get there eventually! Now with my mom's help we are making arrangements to send India, my dog, to England! Im so excited to get her here! She is gonna be the cutest English dog! Our project for this coming weekend is to make some sort of dog house/shelter for India to keep her out of the rain.
We are thoroughly enjoying the couples bible study that we are apart of. Each week we meet at a different couples house. That couple makes us all dinner and then we watch part of a video series on creation. It is such an awesome topic to study while here in England because Evolution is taught every where. Last week, after we watched the video, I couldn't help but observe how America is headed straight toward where England is. My friend here says that America is always just 5 years behind England in everything. This saddens me! England is such a dark place. At the market place, a man was playing worship songs on a guitar, my friends and I stopped to encourage him. We told him that we are believers too. He said that it was encouraging to hear because almost the entire country believes that there is nothing after death. It is a dark and hopeless country. In so many ways, I see America heading in the same direction because Americans always want "change". Some change is good, but America needs to realize that the grass is not greener on the other side. I have really realized this since we have been here. Our freedom and our beautiful nation will be no more one day soon, and it will be too far gone before the nation's eyes are opened to what they took for granted... FREEDOM through basing our nation on the true one and only God! Just some thoughts I wanted to share with yall. Think about it. You might not have the perspective like we have after living in another country, but just think and observe things around you. Do what you can to change the pattern! We are trying to do what we can here in England, to bring hope to a dark and hopeless country that sees no need for a God or Savior. We are starting this by having a harvest day food drive this sunday at our church. We are hoping to provide meals for those in need, spiritually and physically during this harvest time.

Well, thanks for reading our blog and for following us on this journey. I cannot express how much we truly miss our family and friends! There are days when we just want to wake up back in America, but we are trying to keep our eyes focused on where the Lord has placed us. Thank you for your prayers and support! Please keep praying! I will try to send some of this cold weather toward America. hahah!!

Cheers!