macdonald update!

WOW! it's been quite a while since we updated! between email, facebook, twitter, skype, and all the different means of communicating through technology, it gets hard to keep up!  so the people who read this blog have probably been updated on our lives in some other way already, but i will post on!

ricky and i are homeowners!! here are a few pics of the house...minus any of our stuff (the furniture/accessories in the pics were staged)

we never thought we'd be able to buy a house so soon, but among the housing market, some really good timing, and God clearly showing up, it happened!  we placed an offer right when i got back from the spring break middle school choir mission trip and closed on the house right after we got back from libby's graduation (and engagement...so exciting!  now ricky and i have all our siblings engaged/married within two years!)  then we moved in right before i went to student life camp with our middle school students.  busy times!  we love our house and are starting to feel more at home and hunter loves his new yard.  we also now have an endless list of projects, but it's been so fun!  and it's such a good feeling to know that we'll be staying put for a few years...we're ready to slow down on the big life changes for a while and just enjoy where we are.  this summer we'll get to go to the ozarks with the bram fam, see ricky's best bud josh get married, i'll go to dallas for a mission trip with our students, visit libs in raleigh, and hopefully we'll get to sneak away to a beach for a few days!  a fun summer ahead, but we'll always miss serving at lost canyon, especially this time of year!  we definitely have lived & continue to live blessed lives!