Hitting the Road!!

Wow! What a busy couple of weeks we have had.We have been shopping for a travel trailer, and let me tell you, it's tough work! We had a limited amount of cash and we weren't going to spend more than our limit so we have been really shopping hard to find the best deal. We drove about 5 hours north to buy our rv, it was in north central Florida. And the best news, we came in under budget and had money to spare! :)


The travel trailer is 31 feet long and has a super slide, which means the kitchen and living room area slide out. It has bunk beds in the back and a queen bed up front. The couch and the dinette also fold into beds. From the outside, it isn't that pretty, but on the inside, it is immaculate! We really feel like we got a good deal. ( sorry, not a good picture, but you get the idea )

So why I am telling you this you ask? Our family is planning a mission trip for 3 months to Liberia in March, so we plan to travel the US visiting churches and friends to try to raise the financial support we need. Crazy, right? 6 kids and a travel trailer, well, we can make it work, and the Lord will provide for all of our needs. 


We plan to hit the road as soon as TJ gets out of school, December 13th, I think. We will hitch up and head out ( that is rv talk ) that day and drive straight through to Texas!! First stop, San Antonio. TJ's little brother Montana is graduating from boot camp and we are going to be there to see him!


Then we will head to the Dallas/ Ft Worth area to visit family. We plan to spend Christmas with all of our family and hopefully be able to see everyone! Then, we head to East Texas! That is where our church family lives. We plan to be able to spend a lot of time with all of our FFBC friends! I think December and some of January is devoted to spending time with family and friends, but we hope to be able to speak at a few churches in that area. 


After Dallas and East Texas we plan to spend a few days visiting PaPa in Oklahoma. He is TJ's grandfather and we are all very close to him! He is a wonderful man!

This is Papa and his buddy, Ethan.

Next stop...... wherever the Lord leads us. We hope to make it as far west as California. As far north as, well we'll see. I'm not crazy about the snow :) As far south as Texas. And as far east as Florida. On our way back towards home we will be stopping in Pensacola to visit all of our dear friends from Mt Zion Bible Church. We will be driving many miles and we will get to see many people we have dearly missed!


So, if you have a church that you think we could speak at, we will jot it down in our scheduler and plan to be there. We will be traveling from mid December to mid February. We could really use the help to fill our schedule up, so please pray for us.

I am not sure if I mentioned this earlier, but we are packing up our entire house and putting it in a storage building for the next 6 months, so home will literally be where ever we are. We have so many plans, and our goal is to glorify and exalt the Lord, so our prayer is that he will bless us in this endeavor. 


We will be homeschooling on the road, so lets hope that goes well. We are going to put most of the boys school on the computer so they can work on it at each stop, but I know this part will be stressful. I have high energy boys that don't like to sit still on a good day, so I hope they don't get burnt out on school since they will be so limited. We will probably have lots of "hands on" learning opportunities, and that is always more fun anyways! 

I will keep you all updated as our travel schedule becomes more set in stone, we are still in the planning phase for a lot of it. Please continue praying for us, we appreciate it so much! And....We can't wait to see everyone!