Update on our new life

So as many of you know, Grant, me, and the kids moved to Florida.  After about 8 months of praying and feeling like we were supposed to move, we finally were able to.  It was one of the hardest things I have ever done.  Packing up my whole life and leaving.  I have lived in Washington my whole life.  I have never been away from my family before.  It has been very tough, but I feel like it was a good move. 
We get to be near Grant's brother, sister in law, and our beautiful niece!  We are all settled into our new home.  We were in a tiny 1,000 sq ft house with three girls who have tons of toys.  now we have 2200 sq ft and I love it.  I find myself wondering how we ever lived in such a small house.  And now we have more than one bathroom!  Yay, 4 girls and one bathroom was going to get harder and harder to do. 
 Brooklyn is all registered for her new school and starts in three and a half weeks.  I am not sure how I feel about not being the only one raising her :( but I know it will be great for her. 
There are so many kids in our neighborhood!  My girls have already made quite a few friends and there are so many more to meet. 
We have tried out quite a few churches.  man we are great at going to churches on weeks that there is a guest speaker or a not normal service.  We have one more church to try out then we are going to go back and try the churches again.  We have only seen one normal service and we ruled that church out.  We are enjoy this time to find a church and see how different one church can be from the other, but I am so ready to find a church! 
Normalcy for us has not been set yet but we are having so much time to just be with eachother.  In Washington I felt like we never had time together with Grant and the girls.  It has been a great time to grow stronger in my already great marriage and to spend time just having fun with my girls and Grant.  We have been to Disney World twice.  We want to go one or two more times before out annual passes expire.  Ironic how now that we live an hour away from Disney, we can no longer afford an annual pass :(  But I am glad that we had them for these first 2 months.  We also went to the beach which was so beautiful and the water was so warm!  I did jump our quick when we started to see jelly fish though!  Kinsley has no fear of water.  She giggles when she goes under.  She scares me and makes me smile all at once.  And Malia has turned out to be shy.  I never saw that one coming!  She is the one at home who is "singing" (screaming) at the top of her lungs all day. 
I am looking forward to what God has in store for us!
I am missing my family so so much.  I am so thankful that my sister is flying down here in 13 days!  That will help with my homesick feelings.
I miss you all back home!

Faith

I have been thinking a lot lately about faith.  My faith is the most important thing in my life.  Jesus died for me and saved me.  As a Christian it should be my job to show Jesus' love to people.  We recently moved across the country to Florida and we have been trying out churches.  The first church we went to we were sitting in service and behind us was a women who seemed to have some brain damage or was on some drugs, not sure but something was off with her.  She was talking loud and being disruptive.  Pretty quickly a few people in the service swarmed her and said she needed to leave.  She needed to go out in the lobby because she was being disruptive.  Her response was tears.  She started crying and saying "I just want to listen to what the Pastor is saying, I want to listen to the beautiful music.  Why are you being mean?  Why are you making me leave?"  I was instantly moved to tears.  I wanted to stand up and fight for her.  Yes she was loud and yes she was disruptive, but what was it harming?  She was searching for God and wanting to learn more.  And Christians response to a hurting soul was to kick her out.  She was asking it so the people that already know and love God couldn't learn more.  To me it seems like if we have a chance to reach an unsaved soul we should take it.  What was it going to do, oh man I wasn't gonna get my weekly teaching in one time because some lady was loud.  I felt so bad for her and it made me think about how that is true too many times.  We talk about reaching the lost and teaching people about God's love, but if it makes us uncomfortable or is an inconvenience then we second guess it.  My goal in life is to show people God's love by loving them and accepting them.  When God gives me a chance to teach someone about him I hope I don't ignore it and move on because I like my comfortable life.