Not much going on

There has not been going on as mama is sick and that always seem to put a halt to things. The last week keeping up with daily stuff has been difficult no way I could do anything else. We did manage to buy a few things we will need yet, hoses and such. The hitch should be put in next week and we pull out soon now. We'll back to bed with me now.

First night in rv lessons

1. Bedding explodes everywhere
2. Bedtime is none existent
3. Back jacks are very important
4. Footie jammies are awesome
5. Kids still whine about cleaning up
6. Organization will be the make or break of this adventure.

First truck problem

Well we made it to the other side of the first truck problem. The truck decided not to start less than a week after we got it. Oh yea fun. It only took an air filter, fuel filter, fuel bowl heater, a new tool and lots of online forum reading on F350 trucks. Lol. It drives like a whole new truck now and we were able to do all the work ourselves, well the boys did it. Will keep praying that the truck treats us well and we will baby her (both of us feel the truck is definitely a her).
The next thing will be installing the hitch, we have it just need the rails installed.

Clothes clothes clothes

The never ending cycle of clothes is overwhelming in a stick and brick house and it is my one concern with the move. I hate laundry. With limited space we have to downsize and have decided on 12 hangers plus pj's. I am about 1/2 way done with this adventure. Although I am loving the wardrobe cart I got from a not so quick trip to a fun to store. The laundry adventure continues tomorrow.

Tags & Hitch

Well the adventures continued today as we got tags for the truck, it's legal!!!! We are so excited by this and although there have been a few naysayers they will not be joy stealers. We also got the hitch ordered and should have it installed by next week. Things are moving rather fast now and I am beyond excited, just a few more weeks. We are hoping to have a mini adventure sometime this month after we get the trailer tagged and hitch installed.

Lighting adventure

With no time to waste we have begun our first adventure and so far it has not been fun. So we bought a used truck and it has a few things that we need to fix, no surprise. Well so far we can't figure out how to fix this. It is the license plate light, very important to night driving to be legal. We thought it was a bulb, oh no not that simple. The entire housing was all rusted out so we changed those out, rewiring in new ones. Nope. So we have ended day one of adventure one with no fix yet. I am researching some fixes that don't require rewiring anything, just yet. Oh and the puzzling thing of the day was the light we found mounted under the bed of the truck that has no apparent purpose. Hopefully we can figure it out tomorrow after talking with a few friends that are more mechanically smart than we are.
Oh and I also got to go to lunch with my oldest today, just us two. It was the first time we have done sure a thing and loved it. She has grown into a sweet young lady and I hope this was just the start of a long tradition. Have a blessed day as I am off to crochet.

Big things have happened.

Well I have not posted in a bit because I have been busy with cleaning, sorting and nothing of much adventure has happened. Well that has changed as of this week and God has sent us a huge blessing to start the new year. Lets start by explaining where this week started, hubs is laidoff and the bills don't stop coming in during these time. On Monday we were unsure of how the bills were to get paid and groceries were going to get bought. We have always believed the God provides for all of our needs, not wants, so something would happen and it did. God provided in a huge way. We have been looking for a truck, a truck with 6 doors that seats 7, not so easy to find. I found one on craigslist and was praying for God to provide it knowing we have no way to pay for it but still I prayed daily for this one specific truck. Well an amazing gift let us have the money to get a truck but it was less than they were asking for this truck. We took a chance and called anyways an boldly asked if they would meet our price point, without hesitation she did. So a quick recap Monday unsure of how to buy groceries and Friday owners of a new 6 door truck to pull our home around, my goodness is God big.

So everything was arranged we were off to look at the truck 4 hour drive one way with 5 kids in the minivan, lol. I was not thrilled with this because it would mean I was driving back 4 hours and I am not a fan of driving, night driving, long trip driving, hence the reason we wanted a 6 door truck.

 We had a great time the kids didn't fight at all. The family had some laughs along the way and it was a rather uneventful trip with some great memories made. We did have someone ask to take pictures of our new truck on the way home when we stopped for snacks. I am left in awe of how amazing our God is and how He blesses us.