Thank you to those of you who were praying for us! It has been crazy since we drove out of Denver just over a month ago. We have a home!! More on this further down...

While traveling back from Kelowna Lydia tried on this awesome hat. That grin means she likes the hat, right?

Wrong! It means she is having a code blue.

Monks, as we call her (also known as Monkey, Miss Monks, and Lydia), had a total blowout in the Vancouver airport on our way back to SFO last week. Backup clothes were in the checked luggage. Here is the resulting travel wardrobe. Only the finest on United.

More on the move. Two VRBOs, two hotels, one trip to Kelowna, and four rental applications later we can finally say that we have a home. We signed our lease Friday morning and then went to Target to get an air mattress to sleep on for a bit while we wait for our stuff from Denver to be moved into our place.

While air mattress shopping inside Target the PA spoke these words: "Would the owner of a white Volkswagen please report to guest services." To guest services I went. "Your car was broken into." What? It's 12:45 in the afternoon. Parking lot full. People everywhere. We downgraded to a much smaller vehicle before we moved here so we would at least have a chance on the crazy streets of San Francisco and perhaps even (once in a while) find a parking spot within a four hour drive of the city. So far we have been successful with the driving and had been somewhat successful with the parking. Before we left Denver we also moved Jaynie from a desktop computer to a laptop so we wouldn't use up as much space in our smaller place. While sitting in a Target cart Monks found this all to be very funny as we unloaded our car full of luggage to remove the glass pieces from her carseat.

Nothing a little cardboard and tape can't fix.

Just like new.

So the car was broken into and the laptop and some other stuff was stolen. Which is fine. If we are here to serve we expect a lot worse than this. It was a new MacBook and it has this feature where you can send a message to it. So when our friend opens up his or her new computer, this message will appear: Jesus loves you and forgives you for stealing our computer. So do we. So do we. Which is true. And why we are here.

Anyway, good stuff overall. Jaynie found the place we are in and it's near a relatively new church plant that we plan on serving at. And that's pretty much it. Except, of course, for more photos.