On the second Sunday we were here, the 15th, we started our search for a church home. We did a super judgmental drive by of a church close to the apartment, but didn't even go in. Then we looked up the list The Village had given us of Acts 29 churches (I think that's the network) and found the closest one which met at 4pm. That's not a great time for us, but wanted to check it out anyway. The kids didn't want to go to their classes, but we walked by the kids part just so they could see it and then headed around to the front. We weren't even all the way to the top of the steps before someone had come out to greet us. It's a small church plant so I think they have a pretty easy time telling who's new. As soon as they heard we were from Texas they said we had to meet Matt and Faith which we did about 3 minutes later. They transplanted from Austin 3 years ago, although Matt is Cali born. We stayed after the service to have a picnic on the front lawn with everyone. By Tuesday I was at the beach with Faith and three other girls (I use the term girl very lightly, they're all grown women) from the church. By Wednesday we were at our new home group, at Matt and Faith's house, where most of the faces were familiar which is crazy cause we have been here 3 weeks!
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Garden City
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Saturday, July 14, 2012
Hello
For the past 10 days we haven't been doing much of anything. We've been finding a place for everything in the apartment. Gone to the beach a couple days. The last time there was a giant dead seal washed up on the beach. As you might imagine it wasn't a great smell so I think this week we'll be trying out a new beach. I'm trying to find a decent salsa at the grocery store. Also, I have learned that Blue Bell isn't sold in California, meaning, there are dark days ahead, my friends. Caleb is working really hard now that he's in the office all day. I think he had forgotten what it was like to have to go to work every day. We're all adjusting. I actually really like the apartment. As soon as I get things hung on the wall I'll take some pictures. The last room is the guest room which ended up being where we put everything that didn't immediately have a place to go. So hopefully this week I'll get it ready for an actual guest bed because we've got our first visitor coming August 1st! We're extremely excited to have Mama J come see us. We still need to get dining room chairs and another bed and we'll pretty much be ready for company!
I have officially commandeered the new car we bought to replace Caleb's truck. They delivered it the first Monday that we were here and that night we put the baby seats in it to take a family test drive. That ended up being a dire mistake on Caleb's part as the baby seats have never been taken back out of it. It's cute and smallish and white, much like me, and I'm pretty sure he's not getting it back.
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Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Not Much News
It's our last day in the hotel, and I think I speak for all of us when I say we are extremely excited to move into our new apartment and get settled. The kids and I have gotten into a little bit of routine over the past couple days. We've been checking out parks in the morning, grabbing some lunch, taking naps, and then swimming until Caleb gets back from work.
We did go check out a school for Blythe which wasn't anything spectacular, but it's the only place I can find that has a 2 day a week option. The people were friendly and sweet, just no one seemed very excited to be there. I don't think we'll really know how it is until she's actually going there, so we're gonna go with it and we can always change our minds later.
Our apartment looks out over the complex playground and the kids mostly just want to play there. Yesterday we met a mom and daughter who don't live in the apartments, but her son is being tutored by a teacher who lives there. The little girl was about Blythe's age, and the woman and I talked for almost an hour pretty easily so that's exciting. They said they are there twice a week for the rest of the summer and they would come knock on our door the next time they were out there.
That's about all we've been doing. Hopefully, once we actually move in I'll have more to report.
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Sunday, July 1, 2012
We're Heeeeere!
We rode back down and stopped in town to pick up some lunch for the road when along came this guy...
We are all very glad to be done with the driving portion of our adventure. Today we are heading over to the apartment to see our new home for the first time. We've got some errands to run to get a little more settled before Caleb goes to work in the morning. Now on to the actual living in California part!!
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