FedEx is on their way-take 2 & more!

hey all! i can't believe it but it's already been almost a month since FedEx came to collect our belongings and this is the first real opportunity i've had to follow up. Mr. FedEx did come and willing took and approved the photo below for our blog. :) since July 29 we moved out of our Boston apartment, spent a week in the DR on a missions trip (LOTS more to come on this!!!), moved away from Boston, flew to California where we had a family wedding (CONGRATS COCO & ALEX!), spent an afternoon at Laguna Beach with the Aguilar family, opened a new POBox in Whittier, my hubby surprised me Wednesday morning with breakfast in bed (waffles with vanilla bean ice cream and fresh peaches! thanks Love for remembering a fond childhood memory and blessing me so much!) and took me to DISNEYLAND!, then we were off to Denver, CO, where we spent a few great days with more of Torre's family and now we are finishing up our family visit to Lake Havasu and heading back to Cali tomorrow. Our departure day is quickly approaching!!! ONLY 3 DAYS LEFT!!! We have been so busy enjoying our time with family we haven't had much time to think about New Zealand, but as it is becoming more of a reality we are getting more and more excited about what God has in mind and what it will all look like once we get there!

Goodbye Boston...we'll miss you. *hugs*

T-46 days and counting!

since i last wrote, i kind feel like i did when i was about to get married. as soon as my beau proposed i was off like a flash of lighting doing everything i possibly could to get things rolling for the big day! then...i waited. there was a period of a few months between the big stuff and waiting to take care of the little stuff...which seemed like forever...where there just didn't seem to be much i could do. then of course it came down to the last few weeks when it felt like there wasn't enough time to do it all! *(cue final weeks till the move) after we submitted the paperwork for our visas and spent a weekend or two continuing to organize the apartment into "keep", "store", "give away", "good-will", "sold" and "i have no idea" piles, there just hasn't been much to talk about. probably the biggest news since is that torre was approved by the medical board of new zealand! yeah...i think that does constitute something to say. my bad. well now you know! we are still waiting for our visas to go through though. and while we wait we have a very busy few weeks ahead of us! only 19 days until we leave for the Dominican Republic to serve with G.O. Ministries for a week! We are so excited to see friends from last year and to be able to bring much needed medical supplies, love and encouragement to the Vargas family and all the nationals we have the opportunity to serve!!! that also means that we only have 19 days left in Boston. :( it's always sad to be moving away from a place and people you've come to love and share life with, but it's pretty exciting to be moving in a new direction anticipating all that God has in store. :) we will be traveling for the entire month of august so please keep us in your prayers as we go. we will be visiting family in several locations, celebrating a family wedding and wrapping it all up with the grand finale...our exit of the Americas! how am i feeling at this point? tired, eager, like i can't wait till every things packed and shipped to storage, praying that i don't rush through and miss one second of the time we have left in Boston with friends and my sister, and extremely exited for what's ahead. what's next? laundry. :)