The Taylor Spot

Over the week of July 4th our family took a road trip to Nebraska and had a great time with family there. The trip started with a bang, or rather a loud crack, as the window on the passenger-side door shattered into fragments that thoroughly showered Melissa and much of our densely packed road trip baggage. That was a prodigious startlement, I guarantee.

We had only traveled a couple of hours and were somewhere near Calhoun, Georgia. It was after 5:00 on a Friday, and there were no options to repair and roll on before Monday or Tuesday. Plastic and duct tape? We thought about it, but knew we had a deluge ahead of us in Missouri. Thankfully, Uncle Victor and family live nearby in Cartersville and prevailed on us to swap vans with them. We returned it to them as we drove back through the following Saturday, with 2,500 miles more on the odometer and lots of partially eaten food everywhere else. They are always so good to us! They even came out to meet us both times and helped move our daunting stack of stuff between vehicles.

Matt fell in love with fireworks on this trip. He and Drew never tired of them. Alex likes the pretty ones that don’t make noise. Tori is always startled by the reports, but after a brief moment of terror she giggles and asks to see another.

We have pictures, but I am not sure where the camera is right now. Check back later!

We have a contract on our previous house!

I know many have prayed for us. Thank you, and praise God. The contract is a lease-purchase, so the house will be under contract for a year before closing. Hey, we’ll take it! We had talked about renting, and now we’ll get to see how that works for a year.

We had a moving service move the last truckload of stuff over on Monday, so we are finally completely here in the new house. The lease starts late next week, so we’ll be cleaning up for that next.