#HomeSweetRaglands

So, first to report on the mobile home, we actually ended up being able to sell it to family members! God always works things out the way they were meant to be! 

Second, the kids and I decided to embark on some school clothes shopping on Friday. Our trip was very successful. We got up early to beat some of the crazies out on the Texas State Tax Free holiday.

Kullen tested for his yellow belt. He did an awesome job! I am one very proud MOM!

The new house is finally starting to look like a house and not a chicken coop :) lol

I know we have a long way to go, but we are a lot closer to being finished than if we would have never started right? 

Here is some progress:  #HomeSweetRaglands

I am really nervous at the thought of the kids starting back to school while living in a camper. :/ I know we will adapt and I keep praying for the lord to give me strength and patience. 

The best new of all, is that Adam moved his letter back to our home church, and I am going to be baptized to become a member. (I was previously baptized but not in a Baptist church) My family and I went on a church adventure but everything and all Prayers led us back to this church. We feel like it is where we belong and where the lord wants us. 

God has been very good to me, my marriage, my children.....We are feeling very blessed! 

Please pray for us as we have never lived in a camper before!! :)

{five} years

Today, I'm blessed to be celebrating five years since I started officially dating my darling husband. And what an amazing crazy five years it has been!

My heart swells when I reflect back over the years. I can remember just like yesterday how my heart felt. I knew without a doubt that he was the one for me. He was the answer to my prayers.

He gave me butterflies. 
It was the can't eat, can't sleep, over the ballpark type of love.
He was so handsome.
I turned into a big pile of mush with his every smile and the way his baby blue eyes danced as he talked. 

It was a hook, line & sinker type deal as I got to know him. I fell in love with his kindness, honesty and humor. Anyone who knows my husband knows that he's a comedian, always the one to hold court wherever he goes. But, behind the dry and hilarious extrovert lies a man with a heart of gold. 

We fell hard and fast and it was no denying that only God himself had orchestrated the details. But, isn't that way the best things always happen? When we least expect them?  


To Adam:

Thank you for loving me so wholly and unconditionally. Thank you for accepting me for all my faults and shortcomings, and for giving me the grace to be my best self.

Thank you for your faithfulness and for your commitment to "us". 

I cam not wait to see what the future holds. I am so excited we are getting to build a house together. 

I love you.

Always
Mandi