We're home from Virginia Beach. Well we actually got home Wednesday but haven't had the motivation to blog until now. We were originally scheduled to come back on Tuesday but since Matt's work hours are later in the day we decided to come back on Wednesday. Matt got permission to come in a little late that day. We had a great time as I said before with his aunt and uncle from australia. They were just so nice and funny!
Let me revert back to recap though. On Saturday we lazied around until Lily got up from her morning nap. Then Matt and I headed to Babies'R'Us with Lily and Aaron (our nephew) in tow. We got to experience having two kids for awhile. It was a strange feeling having TWO car seats in the back of our car. We took them both to McDonald's for lunch - Lily can definitely out eat Aaron - haha. She's such a good eater and loves her veggies! Then that afternoon Lily and I headed over to see grandma and grandpa for a bit before going to visit my friend from high school, Heather. Heather and I use to be really good friends back in the day. She has a little girl, Summer who is adorable!! So Lily got to meet both of them and even though our stay was short we had a great time. That evening Matt's Aunt and Uncle arrived.
Sunday was church, a visit to Missy and Jake's new apartment, and then a big dinner with the whole family. Monday we went to Home-a-Rama. WOW! Those are some sweet huge expensive houses! It's fun and depressing at the same time. Then we had a dinner out with everyone at Gordon Biersch. Lily stayed out later than normal that evening and did great. She's been staying up until almost 8 now - much more content in the evenings. Tuesday we had lunch with my parents and then visited Matt's mom at work so she could show Lily off to everyone.
I already commented on a few "australianisms" in my last post but I had to share this funny story. Matt's mom was out of milk one morning and she came in and saw Uncle Ron eating cereal for breakfast. She asked him how he got milk. He said there was some in there - the half and half. HAHA! He didn't realize it was creamer - he thought it was just like a milk percentage (like 1%, 2%, etc.). They apparently don't have/use creamer in australia - just milk. So he didn't know what half and half was.
They brought Matt some ketchup from their stop in England. Background story - when we were on our honeymoon in Canada their Heinz ketchup was amazing. It was similar to ours but sweeter. Matt LOVED it! We brought back a bunch of packets from Wendy's - haha. So Matt's aunt and uncle picked some up in England to see if it would be similar and it was! They also brought Lily this really cute stuffed koala bear from Australia.
Next subject - finances. Let's just say not so good right now. We've had a bunch of larger unexpected bills that came up this past month and it's took a beating on us. The amount we really need for our necessities budget just isn't coming in on Matt's salary. So please pray that God will provide. We're trying to think of options - cutbacks, extra work, etc. that we can do to make ends meet.
Two good pieces of news about Matt's work situation. One - Matt will officially be switched to the day program at the agency as of not this Monday but the next!! Yeah!!! He's been working the 11 to 6:30 shift for the after school program and it's just been really hard now with Lily's schedule. She can really eat dinners now with us but obviously that's not possible since he's been getting home around 7. Plus he doesn't get to spend much time with Lily because even though he's home in the morning - she's taking her nap. So this will be GREAT for us as a family!!!
And the second piece of good news - Matt got the call this evening to schedule his interview for the youth pastor position at Suburban (the church we attended growing up in Virginia Beach). We've been praying about this for a long time now and we finally have a next step to look towards. Yeah!!! Continue to pray for this possibility for us and that God will be ever present. His interview weekend is scheduled for November 8-9. This could potentially be a huge answer to prayer in several ways! If this isn't what God has for us, then I'm praying that God would open up a door soon for Matt to finally get in to full time church ministry.
So it's been a good week!!! And this weekend should continue the trend. I'm having a baby shower here for my bf and rommie from college, Tara. Her baby girl (Bailey) is due December 21st. Even though she only lives an hour and half away it's been several months since I've seen her last. I'm SO excited for her to come visit!!! Plus we'll have all our girl friends together from college here for the shower.
Well... gotta get off of here and hit the sack! I have several pictures I want to post but I'll do that maybe tomorrow since I need to go to bed!
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