Finally Back Home!!!........in Florida!

I had posted in an earlier post that we were planning on wrapping up language school and heading back to Florida.  After talking with our Pastor, Don Strange, we came to the conclusion that we had a good foundation in French and that we needed to raise some more support.  I began to schedule some meetings in Florida and started filling in my calendar as we made plans to pack up our household and head back to Florida.  However, we decided to make it a surprise for Kami's family!

It wasn't easy preparing to go and keeping coming home a secret.  We technically left last Saturday (September 17th) and headed to Trois Rivieres to teach Sunday school and preach.  We loaded our U-Haul trailer and headed out for our week-long drive.  After the morning services on Sunday, I asked Kami if we had the passports, to which she replied, yes they are in the van.  I found them and counted 6 passports.  Great!  We were ready to go........except we forgot there are 7 in our family.  Poor little Callie Grace left her passport packed in our U-Haul trailer. 

Yes, we did....we had to unload almost half the trailer before we reached the box with her passport.  We then reloaded the trailer and then tried to head out on the road.....to which we realized that we had lost our car keys........ughhhhhh!   We found them after 15 minutes and finally hit the road.  

We traveled all week long and arrived yesterday (Friday) to my mom's house.  We unloaded our trailer and ate lunch.  Then we headed to Kami's dad's car-lot.  What a great surprise!  We then loaded our three older kids into his car as he went home.  He called Kami's mom to come out to the car when he pulled into the driveway, he said he had a surprise for her.  As she was looking in the trunk of the car for her surprise, the kids jumped out from the back seat.  She began to scream and we all enjoyed the surprise!

It is good to be back in the U.S. and back home in Florida.  The last time I was here was for my dad's funeral.  We are staying with my mom at her new home.  It is sad to not be at the house I grew up in, but excited for this next chapter in the life of our family and of my mom.

We are excited about being at our home church tomorrow and excited about the upcoming meetings that we have scheduled.  Keep praying for our family and the next stage in our life which brings us closer to our mission field!