Oklahoma

We are going to be residents of Oklahoma!! Robbie got a job for a national company that has an office in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We've actually had the offer for about a month now, but now the official paperwork has been signed, we are getting an ABF moving trailer (we pack the truck, they drive it) delivered to Rob's parents this Thursday, and we are also getting a U-Haul this Thursday to move what few things we have here at my parents down to Rob's parents to be packed in the moving truck. We're spending Easter in Rutland, and will be starting our moving journey early Monday morning to a town on the outskirts of Tulsa!! We are really excited and grateful for this job opportunity. We will have to rent instead of buy a house, as the job will only last for about 2 years and then we will be transfered somewhere else in the US, but we are so excited to use all of our stuff again!! The girls are excited to move, but only because Gwen is excited for kindergarten, and Grace is excited because we promised her we would find a preschool for her because she so badly wants to go to school. Georgia doesn't care...she doesn't even realize what's going on. We are also sad because this has been our home for the last 20 months and we're going to miss all our friends and especially our families. It's been so nice to be around both my parents and Rob's parents after living away from them for 4 years, and to be close to our siblings and extended families. It will be hard to leave everything but we know without a doubt that this is what the Lord has had in mind for us since we moved here. There has been a reason and a lesson that's been learned from everything that's happened in the last 20 months (including the almost 8 months that we lived apart as Robbie worked in New Hampshire). We feel so blessed to have had the trials and the joy that we have had living here in Vermont, and we are looking forward to all we are going to experience and learn in Oklahoma (and I've had this song stuck in my head since we started considering and praying about this job...)!!

"Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain

And the wavin' wheat can sure smell sweet

When the wind comes right behind the rain.

Oklahoma, Ev'ry night my honey lamb and I

Sit alone and talk and watch a hawk

Makin' lazy circles in the sky.

We know we belong to the land

And the land we belong to is grand!!

And when we say

Yeeow! Ayipioeeay!

We're only sayin'

You're doin' fine, Oklahoma!

Oklahoma O.K."

Sesame Street Live-Elmo's Green Thumb

Last Tuesday we took the girls to see their first live show-Sesame Street Live presents Elmo's Green thumb. The girls were super excited to go see it and kept asking when they were going to go see Elmo for about a week after we told them we were going. Before we left I thought I'd take a few pictures...they didn't turn out too good because they were jumping around they were so excited and I'm so glad they were.

I was silly and didn't realize that I could bring my camera with and take some pictures of the show, so these are all from the internet, but they're all pictures of what we saw. We had pretty decent seats, and the girls were so excited when all the characters came out and sang and danced and talked about the alphabet. After that the show got started and they did lots of neat songs and dances to go along with the story line of Elmo needing to find a new place to plant his Sunflower friend Sunny. This is after they shrunk-they were using flowers as umbrellas to protect themselves from the water that Big Bird was sprinkling on his garden. Don't know if this is right after they shrunk, or right before they get tall again, but the girls liked watching them shrink and grow.

There were a lot of fun songs that the girls danced along to, including Rosita's Cha Cha and the Bettle Bug Trash Rap, and it was so fun to watch their faces light up and see huge smiles and hear so much laughter and giggling. It was defiantely worth the price, and I'm so glad we took them. We will definately take them to something like this again.