George Washingtons Childhood Home and Our New Crib

HIP HIP HOORAY - GOD IS GOOD! -  We've been in Virginia for exactly 7 days and he found us a home!. The second day we got to Virginia we started to look at houses.. we had been looking online whenever we had a chance, but the 2nd day in VA we actually got to see them in person.

not exactly sure what Virginia's slogan means

After several days of driving around lookin at other homes, we ended up filing out an application for the first house we visited.. Out of all of the homes we saw, the first house we checked out Marie and I knew it was the one.. carzy huh?

3 Days later of not knowing if we would even qualify.. we got the thumbs up on the house and picked up the keys!! Yeah!

In those 3 days of waiting... sweating it.. and praying, we took the opportunity to check out more of the neighborhood and Fredericksburg Virgina.. One of the many stops in-between eating and napping was right outside the housing track. Here's a little historic gem!

We also ended up stopping at Ferry Farm. What's the Ferry Farm you ask? well it's the childhood home of the father of our Country.. George Washington!

What a cool place this is! No wonder George hung out here til he was 20. It's awesome! The actual 'home site' wasn't actually discovered until last year.. so this place is very alive in history and discovery. Once we paid the small admission price, the gal at the front entrance gave us a quick history lesson and some maps and let us loose on the 80+ acres!

Boy oh boy did the kids think that was cool. They were on a discovery adventure to see what it looked, felt and smelled like at George Washingtons childhood home. We walked trails, played old tymey games and hung out at places that young GW would have.. other than the trails.. the kids loved the feather in the corncob, thrown through the wicker hoop game!. well.. not as much as super nintendo... but what do you expect for the 1700's

Again, the trails leading to the river and ferry were awesome. Sari did so good walking and keeping along with the boys just about the whole time. I suppose being strapped in a mini van for 8 days probably helped build their energy for the trails.

To distract us from the 'waiting for our house approval' we also ran into a nearby park.. It was so cool! This puplic park had a kiddy area, soccer field, basketball courts and a free skatepark!.. Troy, where were you!

After the park and Ferry Farm we GPS'd some thai place for some home cookin'. We're not thai, but it's the closest to indo food I can think of... It was a little pricey, but what are you gonna do..

photo by Steven

It was an action packed waiting period and had a blast..God is so good to us.. it's ridiculous. these last three days have been so neat and I have learned so much from my kids. They don't care if we have a home or not and they don't worry about anything. They are just obedient with what they know is true. They know that they'll be takin care of and all will be okay.

I believe it was a perfect illustration of how God wants my walk to be with him..