OUR NEW HOME !!

Here is our beautiful new home! We are super excited and thankful for all your prayers and support. We will keep you posted with pictures - ideas - renovations and PLEASE come see it.

Be Praying!

Hey all - we're still set to close on Wednesday but there is still a lot of scrambling to do for the financing to come through in time. It doesn't help that this is a holiday weekend.
We appreciate your thoughts and prayers.
I have learned to wait- pray and know that God's Will is perfect and His timing is NEVER mine. :)

The Latest News

Well - Life has been pretty busy and I never knew how much a bank would need to get your financing squared away. Jeez Louise! I thought you just signed a paper and then you owned a house. :) Not exactly! the way it is! However, other than the bank needing the appraisal(which they should get tomorrow) they have all they need. I guess they had a hard time finding 3 comparable buildings - I mean really how often do you see gorgeous brick churches built in 1912 sold?!?!? So....we should find out about our financing within the next day or two and we have a closing date! It is May 31st at 3:00pm. So we are very excited but not overly excited. Trying to wait until we actually sign the papers and own a home/church. Thanks for your prayers. We will let you know AS SOON AS WE HEAR SOMETHING.

Such a busy weekend!

We left on friday afternoon to head to WI for TJ's graduation. We picked up Brandy in Chicago - due to the rain that will NEVER end and windy conditions - her flight was delayed by a couple of hours so Troy and I found ways to keep ourselves busy by visiting IKEA and eating at this wonderful restaurant called Sweet Tomatoes - it is your kind of place if you love SALAD and BUFFETS.
We got to WI quite late but we were safe and had comfy beds to sleep in. Thank you Chaney's and Scott's. Saturday involved TJ's grad - lots of food and open houses. The open house we held for TJ was very enjoyable and wonderful to see old friends and some new ones.
Sunday we were able to spend a relaxing morning as a family - celebrating Mother's Day! We headed out around noon to take Brandy back to the airport and to get home in time to spend time with Mom and Dad Cole - and of course see the Survivor finale ( a bit disapointed I might add). So we slept well on sunday pm and I wanted to keep sleeping on monday am. Monday afternoon we went to the bank to fill and sign paperwork for our loan. Be praying about this - this is not a normal loan - we have had a really hard time finding a bank that is interested in financing a church/house. It is a high risk for them - and me being canadian and not a US citizen just adds to the risk. FUN FUN! But we know that God will work it all out if it is His will. Our Loan officer has been wonderful and he is (if the bank accepts to finance us) hoping to close by the end of MAY! YAHOO! Keep praying !!

ALMOST THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well we heard that the Church board accepted our offer and the church/house should be ours. :)
The only thing we are waiting for is approval of financing. We had been preapproved for a loan months ago but since this is a church not a house we can't use a normal house loan for it. SO.....the drama continues - we should know within the next few days if a bank here in town is going to go ahead and give us a loan. So - keep praying! Things can never be easy can they. We are excited and are thankful for all your thoughts - prayers and kind words. We will keep you posted.

FUN in the SUN

Troy and I were able to go to Florida for a couple of days - it was nice to meet some new family and see some again. We just relaxed on the beach and got some sun. Nothing sounds more appealing (especially right now as I sit at my desk with my goosebumps.)

We haven't heard anything new on the house yet. Hopefully we will know something soon - we are getting excited and have so many ideas in our heads.