Astounded

Lately life has been so crazy!! We're here, there, everywhere. Spending time with lots of friends, family, the kids. It's been a whirlwind, I don't even know where the time has gone! But looking back so many good memories have already been made. I'm ready for more! This year will be good, better than the rest I like to think! I've started giving piano lessons again, and that makes me really excited. I've started playing the guitar which is SO much fun. I'm learning more and more about the teenagers in our youth group. Our junior high kids are AWESOME. Our seniors are AWESOME. ALL OF THE KIDS ARE JUST PLAIN AWESOME. I promise I'm going to take WAY more pictures and post them. :)

Sunday the kids did an AMAZING drama that gave me chills. I'll have to post it once I figure out how to get it from my phone. Technology these days...so complicated.

OH! I forgot to share! On March 4th, the people above our apartment were just moving in, when they accidentally started a fire when they set a box on their stove that was supposedly left on! Their sprinklers went off water began leaking through our ceiling! THEN the fire department went in with two hoses....lets just say it's was rainin' in our apartment after that! Luckily the fire department grabbed what looked important and threw it under tarps. That saved A LOT of our stuff from water damage!! We had a few things get ruined, but nothing that couldn't be replaced. SO thankful that they did that for us! Needless to say, we had to move into a new building....on the THIRD FLOOR. It has been quite an adjustment. But it's been good. I feel like we've started fresh...and it definitely forced me to do some spring cleaning. ;) Corey and I were both just SO thankful that nothing important was damaged and the whole building didn't burn down. Here are some pics!

There were 4 fire trucks and 2 EMT trucks. Our dogs were going NUTS.

This was our kitchen ceiling where the majority of the damage was. A pot rack used to hang there. This is the morning after.

Nasty water in our silverware drawer. The ENTIRE apartment smelled like a wet ashtray. It was disgusting.

Our bathroom. The firefighters threw all of our clothes in the closet into our tub and covered it with a tarp. Too bad they were already wet. I'm STILL doing laundry to get the smoke smell off of everything. I've never done more laundry in my LIFE. I need to consolidate my wardrove BIG TIME! Haha. And it thought it was pretty funny they pushed our dresser in the bathroom.

Our bedroom.

I'll catch up with more pics later! I have yet to put my desk together and hook up my computer!! Shame on me. Happy FRIDAY!!