Welcome to our first home!

...or rather our first place with our own stuff in it ;)

Here marks the beginning of another chapter in our life together, so we thought we’d write an update on our blog.

First of all we’d like to say thank you Thank You THANK YOU!! To our friends and family for all the awesome functional and fabulous furniture hand-me-downs. Everything fits and looks great in our apartment! We are also thankful for all the moving advice & help, and anniversary well-wishes.

It has been so much fun getting settled in this week. We are finally able to enjoy our dishes and wedding gifts, so thanks again everyone for these generous and thoughtful gifts we’ve been given. It feels almost strange looking around and realizing that this is ours for a while and we get to stay! Moving in, we were relieved to discover that I (Kait) had remembered our space much smaller from my short tour in June. We have a coat closet and a linen cupboard that I didn’t notice the first time and the rooms are generally larger than I remembered. We were afraid storage was going to be a problem, but some of our dorm room solutions and extra closet space make a place for everything we need for now. Although, I am still mourning the temporary separation from most of our photo albums which we left in Iowa for now. We’ve been grocery shopping, thrift furniture hunting and welcoming fellow NWC friends to campus.


In other news Cody has already begun work at Christ Memorial Church helping to overhaul the 20’s & 30’s ministry. I accompanied him to a meeting with some of the leadership to discuss improvement needs and goals. I’ve been welcomed to join since most of the leadership team is comprised of young couples. We’ve already been welcomed to join a small group for Bible study with one of the couples from this team. We are quickly realizing that we will become acquainted with many, MANY people very soon through this ministry at church/work as well as through the seminary. This is pretty intimidating and could use some attention in prayer, as we are very comfortable with the friends we already have and it is difficult to know how to open your heart to so many new people. We have discussed that “friendships” and “ministry” doesn’t necessarily look the same.

I have been employed a few days here and there to babysit for my cousins. We took a walk downtown last Friday and stepped into a few interesting art galleries and a cool clothing store to inquire about job availability. I would like to be able to matte and frame for a studio as a side job and one lady seemed interested. I’ve been printing off resumes and filling out applications for a couple graphic design and receptionist job postings found online. Not many leads yet. The question has been raised whether I might consider subbing as an art teacher, I think that would be fun, but don’t I need some sort of education endorsement?? It is very easy to start getting freaked about the job hunt as we buy our first couple round of groceries, sign our lease, pay deposits and switch insurance! bah! Real life! Other than this one uncertainty, we could not be more pleased with our new circumstance. We are very thankful that we had the time to spend with family over these past months and the opportunity to save up for now. Please pray that we trust in God to provide and that I can be confident in myself and skills to land a job that will support us & be somewhat fulfilling at the same time. Tall order!

Love Always,
~Kait & Cody

check out the pics on facebook!
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