In a few short hours, Jess and I, along with 30-teens and 4-adults will embark on the 3+ hour trip to Grand Rapids, Michigan where our area Wesleyan Youth Convention will be taking place. Nearly 2,000 teens will gather at the Amway Grand Plaza for the next 4-days for an amazing time of spiritual renewal and challenge!

I will do my best to borrow some wireless internet while we are away to update the faithful as to what takes place between tomorrow morning and Saturday afternoon!

Stay tuned. . .

Photo Sets:
theBOX Christmas Party
Early Morning Move-in
New House Visitors
Christmas Eve Service
Christmas in Bluffton

As I type this, Jess and I are about ready to turn in after another full day of “new-house-living”!

We didn’t get a LOT done today as we decided to sleep in and then embark on an attempt at “shopping” at Wal-Mart for some bathroom decorations. (new shower curtain, rugs, shower caddie, etc.) Wal-Mart is obviously the ONLY place people go when they are off of work and looking for something to do! :)

After we came home we had visitors! Jeremy Freeman, CJ Carr and his girlfriend, Tara all came over for a lengthy visit and tour of our new place. It was a great time visiting with each of them. Tara is expecting her baby 3-days after ours!

Tonight’s Christmas Eve service was GREAT! It was a packed house tonight for the hour-long communion service.

Tomorrow’s service is at 10:30 (not 10 like I mentioned yesterday!)

Jess and I enjoyed McDonald’s double cheeseburgers, fries, and eggnog shakes tonight for our celebratory Christmas Eve dinner! Even though our home is not “in place” and decorated for Christmas, we are VERY excited again this year to be celebrating it together!

Merry Christmas to all stevansheets.com visitors!

Sheesh. It’s been two days since I last posted and my body feels at least 2-years older.

The back aches, the feet ache, and my eyes are as tired as ever.

We have EVERYTHING we own inside of our house now! We finally finished getting the rest of the kitchen-stuff over this evening with the help of Mom Garrett. She was SUCH a great help today – ALL DAY!

Our house is quickly becoming more-and-more comfortable. Jess actually has her teapots on display in the kitchen, too!

We bought a new washer last night after the one we were given for free sprung a leak and surprised us with a nice puddle in the laundry room. We were pretty nervous to have to go out and buy a new appliance – but we’re glad we were able to – once again we thank God for the finances at the right time to take care of our washer-need!

Tomorrow we will enjoy sleeping in! We’ll enjoy our Christmas Eve service tomorrow at 8PM and then enjoy one service on Sunday at 10AM. After church we’ll head to Bluffton for the afternoon and then head back here Sunday night.

We’ll work Monday and Tuesday at getting the house more home-y and then early Wednesday morning we’ll head to Grand Rapids, Michigan for LOGOS5!

What a crazy couple of weeks!

What a day!

We started early this morning with meeting up with two of my teens – Mark & Adam. They arrived at the church at 9:30 and we were off to pick up the washer and dryer that had been given to us. We found the house we were to pick it up from and eventually got them out and back over to the new place. A couple trips to Ace Hardware later, and we were washing and drying our first load of dirty rags! I hooked up my first-ever gas-dryer! Woo hoo!

A couple more trips after the washer and dryer install and the appliance guys arrived with a brand-new fridge and used stove (owned by our landlords). By now it was 4 in the afternoon and we still had some Wal-Mart shopping for tonight’s BOX Christmas party to do.

theBOX Christmas party was a blast tonight with 44 coming out tonight to celebrate together! We gave out some great gifts and had a good time fellowshipping together!

After theBOX, it was off to get some dinner @ Taco Bell. We made a quick stop at Wal-Mart tonight AGAIN to get some more plastic bins to get the rest of our belongings packed into. We’re now home and I’m about to turn off the computer and it won’t be turned on again until tomorrow sometime when Comcast comes by to hook us up.

Tomorrow should prove to be a pretty incredible adventure.

7AM will be here WAY to early!