I passed!

I took my real estate exam yesterday, and I passed. I am so excited to get started, but that will probably wait until a few months after our newest sweetie pie is born.
Dave and I also looked at a ton of rent houses yesterday, and thought we found one we could live in, but it didn't end up working out, so we are back to the drawing board tomorrow. Hopefully we'll have a place soon!!!
Blessings, Amber

St. Patty's Day!

Dave proposed to me 11 years ago yesterday. We had to be out of the house for the buyers of our  home to have inspections done yesterday morning. So, to celebrate the day, we went to see a movie with the girls at Studio Movie Grill and let them play in the city center "yard".  (For the non-Houstonians: The yard is a turfed area with a beautiful water feature nearby and tempting eating establishments surrounding it. No matter what time of day or night you go there, there will be kids running in the yard, and people lounging around.-- It makes me feel like I'm in another country. A lot of times there will be torches on and bands playing in the evening.) The movie theater we went to has a pretty full menu of food and drinks. What's better than watching a movie with some yummy food to go with it? The girls had a good time. They laughed, they cried- it was an all around good time.

Afterwards, we townhouse/condo hunted and prayed about where we would live and send Julia to school next year. We still aren't decided on either, but at least we have some new information. It wasn't as good of a time, but hopefully it will all be decided soon. Finding a place to live is so stressful! It doesn't matter if you are single, married, or somewhere in between....at least the girls slept through a lot of it.

Green Roses Dave got me 11 green roses for St. Patrick's Day

Isn't Dave sweet?

Green Girls

After running in the yard, the girls decided that we could live in the city center, and they would be fine with that. It would be fun!!! But, we would need some extra dough to make that happen. So, Dave and I will keep on lookin'!

Thanks for reading! I hope you had a green and wonderful St. Patrick's Day with your family or friends! Humbly, Amber

House News

Our house went on the market Thursday, and sold on Monday! We celebrated by eating at a wonderful Mexican restaurant in Sugar Land. We are feeling very thankful and very blessed this week. -Amber

Anybody looking to buy?

I know about a great house that's on the market for a great price!!!

March Madness...cont.

Our house goes on the market tonight! Any second now, I should be able to get online and see our house listed with it's mls #. It is so bittersweet! I was telling a friend at church this evening that the girls emotions have been up and down about us selling our house. She mentioned that my emotions were probably a roller coaster as well. She was so right! I cried after our new flooring went in last week. It is so nice; but it is not for us to enjoy. It's just for us to clean until our house sells- boo hoo. I think that the girls and I will be in much higher spirits once we find our new digs, though. I hope so anyway.

A new crazy dilemma happened on Tuesday. A sweet neighbor of ours rear-ended our van while I was on my way to drop the girls off at school. The girls were in the car and cried quite a bit when it happened, but they were buckled in tight and I think they were more scared than anything. I went to an urgent care facility to get myself checked out and hear the baby's heart beat to make sure everything was okay. I considered taking the girls in too, but every time I asked them if anything hurt, they would tell me that they had no aches or pains. My neck is still soar today from some whiplash, but other than that, all is well with me and the baby. My boss and other co-workers encouraged me to go home after my urgent care visit on Tuesday and rest. I am glad to say that I took their advice. I feel terrible to miss work-- I still love my job, but I needed the rest. Moving, being pregnant, and adjusting to Dave's longer work hours has certainly taken it's toll on me. Plus, our regular Monday and Friday babysitter quit in January. So every week, we are concerned about finding a safe, well-adjusted place for the girls to be. We can't really commit to anything because we will be moving soon, but finding temporary, affordable, trustworthy child care is liking trying to find a needle in a haystack. All of those things with a car wreck on top of it adds up to just plain stressful. But, God continues to pull us through!



 Switching gears:

Something else I've been meaning to blog about lately is that about two weeks ago, I got to be a part of leading worship at Houston's First's Celebrate Recovery program. It was definitely an honor to get to hear several testimonies of how God delivered people of their "hurts, habits and hang-ups". --I also count it a privilege to get to serve beside the wonderful group of singing people that are in our group.

I was in the front row, at the very far left. (I'm not pictured here.)

(I was either cut-out, or singing my lead song. Either way, you get to see the group in the shot)


I got to lead a beautiful song: "In Christ Alone"


This pictures cracks me up because there is an optical illusion at play. When I first saw this picture, I thought, "I can't believe my shirt was so short! --I don't remember that." But my shirt actually isn't too short. That's just the music stand playing tricks on my eyes. Can you see what I mean?

Anyway, I guess I should end this rambling post. I need to go to sleep. I have to make sure the house is in tip top shape every morning until it sells. So extra work means getting up earlier. Yuck!

-Good night, world; sweet dreams! -Amber

Pregnante

Here is our third baby girl. This was taken last week when I was 30 weeks pregnant. With insomnia, back aches and pains and pregnancy weight gain, I am certianly ready to "lego my preggo'. However, I am so thankful that we have at least 9 more weeks before we get this show on the road. We have to find a new house, and move out of this one....so although I'm tired, I am not in too much of a rush. Things definitely won't be easier after our new sweet baby girl is here!! (She's moving like crazy. I think she knows I'm talking about her.)
-Amber