Welcome To Our Trip Blog!

We are eight days and counting... We launch our monumental road trip Monday, November 5th, heading to Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee. The plan is to spend two days there, then slip over to the smokey mountains for a few days of fun, then head on over to Texas for about six weeks. We plan on flying out of Texas to Portland, Or. where we'll spend Christmas with our families there. We'll fly back to Texas to complete another week or so there, and then probably head to over to Arizona, then Colorado, and back toward Michigan, hitting Mississippi, Kansas, Oklahoma, Alabama and Louisiana on the way, with a possible detour in Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina before walking back through our front door sometime in January - hopefully.

As we head into this week we're feeling a bit overwhelmed at the immensity of what has to be accomplished before we leave - not to mention the great adventure we are taking on! I am learning yet again how to let go of the controls and allow God to stir a bit of chaos into my life. One of these days I'll meet uncertainty with grace and ease... until that day, I guess I'm just happy to have the happy-go-lucky husband who takes it all in stride with ease, and hope that this underlining feeling of free falling fades, like when you fall in a dream and realize you are actually safe in bed...

Prayer Requests:
1. That this trip and the planning of it brings us closer together as a family, that the kids don't get left out or pushed aside, and that we learn just how incredibly involved God is in the details.

2. For health as we push to get things done, for protection as we take off and drive across the country.

3. For lots of laughter!