I thought we moved away from Portland??

It has been raining non-stop for the last few days (I honestly don't remember when it started). Life has been good. Calmer now that we only have one teenage girl (still have a house full of girls but only one teenager). It has been such a blessing to have a more relaxed house. I am hoping we will have this group of kids for a while. The younger girls are loud and crazy (and EXTREMELY giggly) but I don't get as much attitude which is a HUGE blessing. When we started this job, my thought was that I could deal better with the teens because I had worked with the youth group for so long...I was way off!! I love all of our kids but the younger ones are a little more obedient and don't fight as much. Michael and I are constantly reminded of how thankful we are to have this experience before having our own kids. Not that we are experts by any stretch of the imagination but we have a better idea of how we want to raise our own and different tools we can use (or throw out). Lately the little one has been moving all over the place!! He is SO active and now that he is getting bigger, so are his movements. I read that around 28 weeks the baby begins sleeping only about 20-30 minutes at a time. I can definitely tell that he is awake more often or at least more frequently. It has been amazing to watch him move across my belly. Michael has been enjoying it, A LOT! We can't wait to see him. I keep thinking of all the things we still have to do (especially cleaning out all of the boxes from the nursery). We are making small progress at a time (at least all of the dirty laundry from that room is done...actually almost done). Michael has been moving out some of the boxes. The difficulty will be looking through all of the boxes still in there and sorting and reorganizing them. I can picture what I want that room to look like but at the moment this is what it looks like:






To be honest, it doesn't look NEARLY this bad now. We have made a lot of progress but I haven't taken any pictures for the last month or two. When we moved here it seemed like there was a lot more room than I thought it was. I feel like I am babbling at this point and don't have much to say. Life is good, the kids are good, the baby is great, Michael is active, and I'm in my last trimester. Praise the Lord for all He is doing in our lives. I know we would not have made it this long without Him.