Welcome to Plymouth, NC!

[This is the front of our house]

Aaron here again on Sunday afternoon.   It is a beautiful day here and the sun is shining in North Carolina.  We got up today and went to April's home church, which was ultimately refreshing [that is, while we are still looking for a Church that seems biblical to us in all necessary respects (and are still deciding what those are) it was very encouraging nonetheless to worship with the family of God and to hear the Word preached].  After arriving home we went for a short walk (but returned very quickly due to the very high humidity!).  Since coming back from our walk we put Rylen down for a nap and have been resting and talking, which is something we realized we have not had much of a chance to do since arriving here.  I suppose this means that we are finally getting settled in.   Since we have been in NC we have been very busy on the weekends seeing family and getting ready to move in, and it has been really fun to see family but it is really nice to rest! :)

[In this picture is April, Rylen, April's mom, her mom's mom, and her mom's mom's dad.  5 generations!]

We have been living in our house for a week now.  Up until last Saturday from the day we arrived here we were staying with April's Mom and step-Father, which was nice and worked out well and I think was enjoyed by all, but ended up being a lot longer then either of us where originally expecting I think.  What happened is that the original loan we were applying for was a government loan (which typically take forever to get through underwriting, but took even longing for us because we had a crumby and incompetent loan possessor), and right when everything was supposed to finish being processed we were notified that even though we would probably qualify "soon" the government founding for this program had completely run out and "may" be re-founded soon.  At this point we had already moved the closing date once and we were not sure what to do at all.  So after much prayer and being refused for some other loans (which we could not have waited to go through anyway) the Lord provided that we received a private personal loan through April's great-grandfather.  After some discussion he just wrote us out a check for the whole some and said we would work out the loan agreement after we got settled in.  Needless to say we were shocked and blown away by his generosity and by God's provision for us.  We were at the point that in our hearts we had let go of owning the home and figured that things probably would not work out.  And as it turns out we now owe $0 in interest and will have even lower monthly payments as a result.  God has been very good to us!

So as I said we have been moved in for a week now and are just starting to get settled in.  Pray for us that God will provide the right church body and rejoice with us for the blessing of this home.  In other news, April has been feeling very well with the pregnancy and we are excitedly and nervously looking forward to the birth of our precious little girl in a in just over two months from now.  We intend to have a water-birth again and to have a home-birth (with midwife assistance) as well.  Last week April began working again (she is still doing transcription work from home) and I recently became a executive marketer for Melaleuca Inc., a company that has been making completely natural and Eco-friendly health, beauty, and house-hold products since 1985!  If you would like to learn more about the products you can go to my personalized website to request more information: http://www.livetotalwellness.com/adh86, or you can send me a personal e-mail and I can tell you more about it (but I warn you that I am still being trained so may not be able to answer all your questions about every product).  If you would like to learn more about the getting involved in this work from home business opportunity you can ask for more information from my other personalized website at: http://www.workathomeunited.com/adh86.  Something else which you may be interested in checking out to you if you would like to learn more about what April does is to check out her new website which she just launched a few weeks ago at: http://www.hbtuniverse.com/.  She (with my help) created the website so people know what she does, can learn how to get trained to do it, and to pull in some extra income through marketing products that are used in her line of work.  Please pray that God gives us wisdom and blesses our efforts as He sees fit. 

Hopefully we will have more pictures to put up soon.  But that is mostly what is going on with us right now.  To all those back in CA we love you and miss you very much!  Have a blessed Lord's Day evening and a wonderful week!

~ Aaron for the gang