From Heber Springs to Pineville

Well, family and friends, the time has come.  It is our last weekend in Arkansas.  We are about to become Louisianans.  Did I even spell that correctly?  HA!  It feels strange, since I've lived here my whole life.  We are in a unique situation.  We are so incredibly excited about this move, yet intensely sad about leaving our HSBC church family behind.  We've made so many lifelong friends here and it's hard to imagine not seeing them every week.

Today the movers came and packed up our stuff.  This was a new experience for us!  We've always had to do the packing and moving ourselves, with the help of church members.  We were extremely blessed that we were able to hire a moving company this time.  Our whole family got sick last week, which would have made packing next to impossible.  Today, all we had to do was sit back and watch!  Tomorrow they will load up the truck.  And we will meet them at our new house on Monday.

Cayson's pre-k class held a "Cayson party" today to say goodbye to him.  He was so excited.  He said they got 2 cookies...and no more!  When I picked him up, I asked him if he wanted to give his classmates a hug goodbye.  He said that they had already hugged him while he was in his seat.  But as he was leaving his best friend said bye and held out his arms for a hug.  Cayson ran to him and gave him a big hug.  That was a tearjerker moment!  I pray that he will find good, lasting friendships in Pineville.

I should have said this in the first paragraph, I suppose, but the purpose of this blog is simply to keep our family and friends up to date on what's going on in our lives.  And hopefully it will allow our new friends in Pineville to learn more about us.  I used to have a blog and just didn't keep up with it once we moved to Heber.  I'm feeling the urge to blog again, so hopefully I will do a better job keeping it up-to-date.

I always have a hard time wrapping up a blog post...so I'll just leave you with a picture!