Our House

As of 5:00 pm today, Dana and I officially own a house! It is a HUGE blessing to get a house and to get a great deal like we did. The house is more than we ever imagined being able to have, and we are so thankful that God gave us this opportunity.

We're excited about the basement in the house because it has a living room, bedroom, and bathroom. It's perfect for out of town guests, so everyone feel free to come and visit! (Just give us a little bit of warning) Here are a few "before" pictures of the house:

House Pictures

We started this weekend with some of the renovation projects. We are painting the entire house and replacing/repairing a few items. So on Friday, we started painting the upstairs (kitchen/dining, living room, 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms!) We haven't started the undertaking that is the basement. My (matt) parents are coming to help this weekend, so I think we'll let them tackle that dirty job! Here is our progress so far. We even let the dogs help a little! We'll keep posting as we work so that everyone will know when the Hotel Morgan is open for business!

Updates on the House Hunt

It's been a while since the last post, and A LOT has happened. We were excited about seeing the house in our last post. We were working with our agent to make an offer on the house, but things just didn't work out. We were bummed out to say the least. Long story short, our agent couldn't move forward with us on the house, so we decided to go back and search the market for something else. We found another great house and made an offer, but we were immediately out of the running. The house was so nice and so cheap that it created a bidding war. It went for well over what we could even over. So we went back to searching the market for another house. We looked and looked, but we were still thinking about the house in our last post and another one in the same neighborhood. We decided to give the house one last try. We had to go through the offer process all on our own, since our agent couldn't be involved. It was stressful, but we made an offer and got it accepted. We are now under contract with the house, and things are moving forward smoothly. We are very excited. We're hoping to close on the house the first week of March, and then move in after doing a little painting and repairs. God has definitely been taking care of us. We'll keep trusting in whatever He's doing.














In other parts of life, things at church are going well. We are moved into the new worship facility and already back the 3 services. We are seeing a lot of people come to Fellowship to experience what God is doing. It's really exciting. We converted the old Video Venue to the KidsLIFE Theater. This is where the elementary small groups meet for worship. The kids were very excited to be in the new room.

Dana and I have joined a small group that meets on Sunday nights. We are really enjoying the fellowship and the Bible study. We are working through the book of Galatians the next few weeks. The small group also volunteered to help us move into the new house in March. They are great people, and it's nice to get connected and involved.

That's life as it is right now. Tomorrow is Valentine's Day...better go plan something! I think I gave the best gift ever...I sold my motorcycle! It was sad to let it go, but the profit made it a little easier!

Keep Praying

Things are moving along on the sell of our house in Cabot. They are doing all the inspections, surveys, appraisals, etc. If all continues to go well, we will close in 2 weeks. We're VERY excited about that. It is definitely an answer to prayers.

The greatest part of the whole process has been watching God do some amazing things and take care of us. We blogged about the contract on the house and had some fun with people on Facebook, but that actually led a great family in our church to tell us about a house next door to them that was for sale. The house turned out to be a short sale/foreclosure, which means a GREAT deal. We were going to look at another house in the same neighborhood on Friday of last week, and late Thursday night is when we were told about this house. It has everything we wanted in a house and it is in the neighborhood that we wanted. Needless to say, we got really excited. We would have some awesome neighbors and a house large enough for family and friends to come and visit.

Nothing solid has happened with the home yet, but we are going after it with everything we've got. It's amazing to think that we might be able to gain back the money we lost on our home in Cabot and then some! We're confident that God is moving in this, even if it doesn't work the way we want. We're gonna keep praying and we hope everyone will say a prayer for what God is doing. We're just along for the ride!

BONUS--God blessed us with an extra $1300 on Dana's paycheck. Talk about a BIG surprise. He just keeps showering us with grace and taking great care of us!

Exciting News!

For those of you coming from Facebook...GOTCHA! We knew that 99% of you would think that our exciting news would have to do with babies! For those of you that did, you just need to hold your horses!

Our exciting news is that our house in Cabot is now under contract. The transaction was not pretty and very stressful. We're taking a pretty big hit, but we know that God is going to use it somehow. We're just happy that we're going to be able to move forward with finding a house here and trying to get a little more settled in. Be praying for us as we look and as we try to get as good of a deal as the folks that bought our house.

In other news, Dana started work this week at Ozark East Elementary. Be praying for her as she adjusts to working with elementary aged kids, adjusts to the new environment, and tries to put up with me on the two days a week that she has off!