Thoughts from Dad..

We have been on the road now for over 2 months and living in our trailer for 4 months.  It has been a huge change in some ways but not so big of a change in another.

The changes that have been different are:

-My work, I still haven't started full time work, although I'm being paid for it :p .
-Constantly shopping at a new grocery store, had steady Costco and Fred Meyer before.
-Learning the rules of each RV park. Kids and Pets.
-Cooking, working, cleaning, and hanging out in an approx. 20x20 main living space.
-Driving a huge diesel truck everywhere, used to have the Element and Yukon.
-Changing how we treat our home, it isn't built as solid as a normal home.
-Doing laundry and showering in the RV park facilities.
-Sleeping: Jenn and I are in a mini queen RV bed (had a Cal King), Boys are in mini twins in the same room.
-In most parks we have access to Cable TV so we occasionally watch a show, didn't watch much before.
-Every week or two we are in a different town with a different feel.
-Farley doesn't have a yard to hang out in, we have to purposely take him out for potty time :).
-No yard to take care of, no lawn to mow, no snow to shovel :).

Thing that hasn't changed too much:

AVERY - Although he is using sticks to walk instead of his walker and is riding his bike now, he still refuses to use his legs fully and remove the sunglasses when there is any light.  It is obvious to us he has been capable to do these things all along but he continues to believe the lie that he can't do certain things.
Please pray that God would rescue him from his sin and deceit and that he would start seeing truth for what it is.

The truck and trailer have been holding up so far which has been relieving to me, however there are a couple things broken with the trailer now.  While still in CDA I broke our stabilizer jacks because I tried to use them as hoists and put too much weight on them.  Now they squeak and one of them has to be manually raised and lowered.  One of our beautiful children forgets to be gentle with the trailer and has  accidentally broken a couple things.  We have a broken cabinet and a crack in our kitchen faucet which need to be fixed.  Over all those are very minor though.  Amazingly, we are still using our initial propane that we left with from the dealer.  We have learned that not only do we need to treat the black tank (#1 and #2) with anti smell chemicals, but we also need to treat the grey 2 tank (kitchen sink) because it gets awfully smelly if stuff sits in there too long in the heat.  Our bikes were drug behind the trailer which totalled a couple of them.  Fortunately the only expensive bike we had only took minor damage.  We started with 4 bikes, now we have two :).  

We have traveled from Idaho to Oregon to California to Arizona so far and Jenn and my favorite places have been Pacific City, Florence, Roseburg and Pismo.  Our favorite churches have been in Pacific City and Castroville/Watsonville/Salinas. Devin's favorite fun spots have been Pacific City, Winchester Bay, Santa Cruz, Pismo, Venice, Grand Canyon, and Santa Monica.  We'll see how we like Texas, Florida, and any other places at which we plan to stop.

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-Rick