A Great Day

Okay, I am feeling so extremely blessed by God! The moving truck showed up this morning, no problems, and the workers even brought furniture upstairs for us for free. (apparently they charge for that) :)....Right as the movers were getting ready to leave I received a call that the cable and Internet guys were coming to set up everything. They were not expected to come until next week. WOW. It just seems like everything is working out great! God is really taking care of us!
So, back to the moving truck, there were no problems for us...but they locked their truck keys in the trailer! So for the next 20-30 minutes after all our furniture was in and ready, Jason and the movers proceeded to try and "break open" the ever-strong lock. It wouldn't budge, no saw, no sledge hammer, no nothing was getting into that lock! They ended up having to saw another piece of the lock part to get through, never actually even denting the lock! Amazing! :)
Anyway! Hope you understood all that! LOL
Hope you all have a great weekend!

Remember God is good. All the time! :)

This Week

Hello World!
It is Wednesday and we are doing great! We ended up not liking the house we were living in so we decided to leave. We had a nice talk with the land lords and got out of it with very little problem. We now are moving into a gorgeous home across the street from a golf course! It's two stories and has appliances included! Pictures to come soon.
Jason had a job interview yesterday at Dean Snyder Construction and got the call this morning that he got the job!!! Everything is working out...God is great!
Now just waiting on the moving truck, and then hopefully getting some compensation for their retarded-ness. Ugh!
Hope all is well with everyone. I am at work right now so I better get going, have to write a strength and conditioning program!!
Love you all!

Skype

I have downloaded AIM and SKYPE for my computer, I can instant message and video chat. I invite you all to get a web cam (some laptops already have it), download SKYPE, and have a video chat with us. Our screen name for both is mcmillan1101.

PLEASE JOIN US!!! I AM ON SKYPE TODAY FOR A WHILE

Saturday Morning

So, here is a picture of a piece of the property. The house is to the right, the barn to the left, and the tractor right in front. More pictures are on facebook.

I trust all is well with you. I pray the Lord is blessing you greatly, giving you peace, and loving on you. He has given me a great peace, and I feel His love daily.

I am beginning my Masters program today, and work Monday. This program can be anywhere from 9 months to 2 years. I am planning on finishing fast, then we'll see what happens after that.

We don't have our things yet, but hope for them next week. If I haven't said so already, we found an amazing little coffee shop right here in Forest City, 2 miles from our house!!! I just had an amazing white mocha...pretty close to "Kristin status"! :)

I will blog next week. I am so glad you are all enjoying this, I have had some great feedback, leave me comments!!!

May the Lord bless you and keep you, may His face shine bright upon you!!!

Hello World

WE HAVE ARRIVED!!!
We arrived in Forest City yesterday about 5:00pm. Immediately we were in a storm, I can't remember the last time I saw rain in California!! It's refreshing. We drove up to our new home and were greeted by the owners. It's a cute little three bedroom with a HUGE basement. There is a garden in the front and a creek in the back. The house sits on probably 2 acres! Needless to say the dogs love it!! There is a cornfield to our left, a corn field out in front and a cornfield to our right! My mom laughed at me when I told her that. The sun rises in our front yard and sets in our backyard.
This town is small, very small. 4500 people and not very much to do. Mason City and Clear Lake are both 30 minutes away, but they have Kholes, Wal Mart, Super Target, and Petco. So that's good.
The coach came over to our house and introduced himself and his wife, and then invited us over for dinner!! We accepted, went over to their beautiful home, and ate burgers, CORN, bbq beans, and pistachio fluff stuff. :)
It's now Friday morning, Jason and I are at the local roastery, I'm drinking coffee, he is drinking chocolate milk, and we're just relaxing as the storm rolls in. I cannot wait to get busy and start work on Monday!!!
We are going to work on getting Internet, phone and cable today. Stay tuned for more updates. Sorry I don't have pics, I'll try and post some tomorrow! Love you and miss you all. Keep praying for us.

Overalls (you'll never know why) :)

"Windows down because of doggie gas.

Jasmine's tongue flapping in the wind.

Mile High Stadium we went past.

Too long in the car without a bend.

Just another road trip task.

I love this trip with my best friend."

-day 3

Today was another BEAUTIFUL day! We continued through the Rocky Mountains and needed to stop for the doggies to play. We found a dirt road, came across a meadow and let the pups just run and jump...at times the grass was so tall we couldn't see them until they leaped up and down!

Heading into Denver we stopped and ate lunch at Wahoos. As we drove back onto the freeway we soon saw the ever famous Mile High Stadium, home of the Denver Broncos!! Just before we past the stadium we both noticed a familiar smell...we both immediately pin-pointed it as roasting coffee, and there to our right sure enough was a coffee roastery!!!

We finally hit Nebraska, and there was a whole lot of CORN and then NOTHING!!! Nothing but beautiful, wide open land, and gorgeous skies!!!! Picture Below!!!

We will be entering Iowa tomorrow. The coach has invited us over for dinner Friday night, and has offered to help us in any way he can!! Work begins Monday!

Love you all! Thanks for your prayers!

Thru the Rockies Tuesday

Yes! I found my coffee roasting shop!!! Got an iced mocha and enjoyed it!!!

Today was a beautiful drive. We started in northern AZ which was hot and full of wonderful desert, but ended up driving through beautiful Colorado and the Rocky Mountains! Driving into Colorado we glanced to our right and saw this amazing river, so we stopped! It was so amazing! (pics on facebook)

Backtracking a bit, as we drove out of AZ we came to the Four Corners were we stood in four states at once...Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah! I was boring, but a must do! :)

Back to Colorado Highlights:

People don't have to wear helmets when on motorcycles!!! It's scary!

The log cabins are amazingly beautiful! I can't even really explain it!

An old couple in passed us on the Rockies in a station wagon!!!

Cutest little towns you ever did see!

Puppies ran/jumped through tall meadow grass like deer!! So cute!!

We saw a drive in movie theater!!! How cool is that! WE really wanted to stop, but it was late.

Stopped in a small town in Colorado, had to sneak dogs in....sorry Lord....and now blogging!

Good Day!!

Keep praying!

WE NEED IT!!!

LOVE YOU ALL!!!!

Out of Gas??

So...I finally cried yesterday morning. It was hard leaving Temecula, it was hard leaving everyone. I pray the Lord gives me more and more peace, and gives me love for my job. I want so much just to go there with my hubby and my puppies, have fun, get my Masters, and come home. I don't want to be sad AT ALL. Lord, please help me with this.

Yesterday was pretty amazing. God is amazing. We started driving about 8am. We passed Cabozon and began looking for a place to stop. Jason saw a sign for service in 20 miles....Come to find out, this was not true. As the line got closer and closer to "E" we both got more and more quite. Soon the line was well below "E" and we were pretty scared. We saw a sign for Blyth, but it was still 23 miles away. We both prayed silently, asking God to push us, or make a gas station appear.

We kept on moving, soon passing the giant sign stating, "State Prison, DO NOT PICK UP HITCHHIKERS." Needless to say, we did not want to break down there for many, many reasons.
So did we make it??
Yes, yes we did. God pushed us, AT LEAST 17 miles, and there was a 76 station. The light had been on for 25 miles, and the needle was pegged out on the bottom. WOW. God is so good!!

We then continued down into Blyth, had lunch and took a few back roads. We decided to make a stop at the RIVER. We stopped at my aunt and uncles place, left a note, took some pics, and let the dogs play in the water. The note read this: "We came, we saw, we peed on your tree. We took a dip, we took some pics, we missed you!"
We continued following the river, went through Parker and Havasu, and headed into AZ.
As we headed into the Grand Canyon area, we began to see TREES and GREEN, lots of them. The GC National Forest is amazing. We arrived just in time for sunset. Driving through the National Park we saw at least 10 Elk...they were beautiful, and were so tame. We pulled off the road and got some pics.
God's creation is so amazing!
Thank you Jesus for that amazing day!!!

Last Night

I now sit in an empty house. Jason is packing up the truck, and we are heading out tomorrow. Today was tough. The morning began with a severe headache and stomach ache for me. I thought is was nerves, then I thought it was the flu, now I am not really sure. The truck was almost 4 hours late, and then we found out the moving company underestimated the cubic feet and we had to pay an extra 500.
The blessing was that it could have been much worse. The movers were super nice guys, and it was almost as if God showed the movers that we needed a favor...and he did do us a favor, he really helped us out. Thank you LORD!
My parents and Mike came over and spent the day with us. We got presents!! It's really great to have great parents!! LOVE YOU GUYS!!!
Emily and her mom showed up about 4-o'clock. We got more presents!! he he. I love my bear sister! He shall be my cuddle buddy!! Love you guys!

Now I sit on the blow up mattress, awaiting the sadness, and excitement of tomorrow morning. Jason and I are truly excited to go, but I personally am a bit scared. I have no idea what to expect, and Cali is all I know. I think the only thing that will get me through, besides the Lord and all His goodness, is knowing I get to see my family at Thanksgiving, and Em is coming for New Years!

Please be praying for us. We love you all!

Thanks for reading.
May the Lord bless you and keep you!!!

Pre-Iowa

Welcome to our BLOG! We hope to keep you involved with our new adventure with the stories, pictures, and words of this blog. Please read, and comment. We love you and will miss you all.

It's August 13th, and we are almost finished packing. We leave in 4 days for our new adventure. Each day that passes I get more excited and more nervous, such a bitter-sweet feeling. Just when I think I don't want to go anymore God reaffirms our decision. This morning on the way home from taking Emily to school the Lord gave me a song, reached inside me, grabbed my heart and said "You are called there!" Here is a verse of the song "Your will above all else, my purpose remains. The art of losing myself in bringing you praise. Everlasting, Your light will shine when all else fades. Never ending, Your glory goes beyond all fame. My heart and my soul, I give you control, Consume me from the inside out Lord."

---Hillsong United, From The Inside Out.

What confirmation, again. :) The Lord has confirmed in so many ways, but for some reason this song brought me to my knees and reminded me that this is our new adventure, this is where we are supposed to be.

I will miss all of you so much, and so many of you have expressed how sad you are that we are leaving. But please remember, God's ways are not our ways, His thoughts are not our thoughts, and His way is always perfect! ALWAYS!!!!! He is God Almighty!!!

I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!

Stay tuned for new adventures!