I'm dreaming of a white....white....white...WHITE..Christmas!!!

Ok...over 1000 miles and 72 hours later....we are finally settled in here in Albany, NY. To be precise, we are in Averill Park, NY just east of Albany. We made it safely, but I'm positive your prayers and the power of God got us here that way. Leaving Dallas, as most of you know, the streets were covered in ice. Actually, we spent the next 12 hours on a solid sheet of ice!!! The roads didn't clear until after Little Rock. It was only then that we started making better time.....well sort of. Pilot (Jon's company), gave us an extra 24 hours to get to NY so we decided to stop over in Lexington, KY at the Kentucky Horse Park over Night. The park was beautiful and doubled as the towns Christmas light show. We could see some of it from our lot. This is what it looked like when we backed in:

"The Big Fish"

Playground behind us

Light show

More of Light show

The next morning we let the kids play for a while while I cooked breakfast (hard to do when you run out of propane!!).

Charis making a snow angel

Charis Sledding down the hill on a card board box

Eythan Sledding

So at this point we were 36 hours into our 28 hour drive, with 13 hours left. Hmmmm....how's that possible? Three kids, two adults, and one dog equals 6 bladders and 14 antsy legs. Anyway, the roads were clear and we drove like mad people and arrived in Albany this morning at 5:30 am. So now is the interesting part. Unbeknownst to us, RV parks close for the winter around here!!! We did find one that was open thanks to Jon's manager who was already there. The hard part is that unless you have a 4 wheel drive you might not be getting in or out at various times. The entrance is on a straight up grade!!! The other fun part is freezing water pipes.....we're not always guaranteed a water supply......needless to say...I haven't showered since Monday and I'm feeling a little blue...or greasy....same thing. The kids are looking a little greasy too. Anyway, tomorrow it's supposed to snow. Saturday it's supposed to snow. Sunday it's supposed to snow. Are you getting the picture? Looks like snow everyday until Christmas with up to 12 inches of accumulation in the next two days!!!! We are really enjoying being here and experiences new places and things (New York Style Pizza!! YUMMMMMM!!!!). This is turning out to be a grand adventure.

So why am I having a hard time trusting God? There are a couple of negative (seeming) things with this particular job that make it seem that financially it might not be worth it. It is making me really nervous. Jehovah, God Provider, has come through for us over, and over, and over, AND OVER again! We've made a marathon trip with not so much as an incident, and there is so much favor on Jon and his job right now it's ridiculous. But one little word, one little inkling of a thought swept through and it's really messing with me. WHY CAN'T I TRUST!!!! Looks like schools in session. Time to learn something new from The Teacher!!!

Blessings All,

Emily

I'll try and take some more pics tomorrow!