We are excited, scared, ecstatic and pretty anxious all at once. It is so different moving away from friends and family when there are two (soon to be three) other lives to take into consideration. Who will my little social butterfly, Kead, have as friends? How will my not-so-big-on-talking little Sayla react to having another language thrown into the mix? WHAT will we do without Kids Day Out?! Will we be successful in business? Will our Arabic come back to us after a couple years of scarce usage? Will we have good Arab friends that encourage us in our language learning and share their lives and culture with us in our new town? LOTS of questions...
But one thing that makes the move a little less anxious and a LOT more exciting is that our dear friends, Chase and Brittany are coming with us! We are so thankful for them. They are wonderful with the girls and love them so much. Britt and I are great friends and Chase and Drew are great friends too. (If you are married you know how rare it is to find "couple" friends.) We love being together and even in hard times they are so gracious to us and show humility, forgiveness and a deep love for Christ in all things. We are so blessed to have them as friends even for this season of our lives so we are amazed that we get to have them in a whole new season of our lives as well! Chase and Britt leave kind of soon to start learning Arabic and we will miss them terribly for the next half year but are so excited to have a little built in "family" right when we get there!
ALL OF THAT to say that the other day we went to Texas Tech with the McGoughs to take some pictures of these two so that they could have some pics to give their families before they went. Here are a couple of my faves.
7 comments:
awwww, these are such great pics! we couldn't be more thankful for them or love them any more!!!
that was just me, btw. not kirstin&jordan- haha!
love
kirst
jord- thanks for this post. I have tears rolling down my face (I know that is not a shock... ha), but it is such a blessing to know that you guys (all 5 of you!) will be joining us in the near future. It warms my heart & makes me super excited about what the future holds. We also have a ton of questions and unknowns floating around... but are confident in where we are being lead and that we will be sustained. We love you guys so much. Thanks for who you are and for the GREAT pics!
britt
p.s. kirst, we love you and are thankful for you guys too... it will be so great to have you as visiting "family" one day as well!
I too, am so grateful that Brit and Chase will be with you guys! I know that all of you will be used mightly by HIM!!! It will be so good to see them when we come visit you!
it is so awesome that you guys have each other. i know yall are going to do amazing things for the Lord and we are so glad to know you guys. these pics are beautiful jordan!
great pics jord. we're so happy you are coming back!! i told h. and co the other day that you'll be back after ramadan next year. looking forward to getting to know chase & brit more too.
great friends! great pictures!
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