12. happy one month to us!

                  

Today, we've been Pennsylvanian's and more specifically Lebanonites (is that even a word?) for one month already and oh how the time has flown by!

I wanted to do a little post to commemorate our first month here in PA. So here's a quick recap. I hope you enjoy! 

1. GraceLife Church

GraceLife Church

Might as well start with the whole reason we moved to PA in the first place, right? Well, after much prayer and a few visits to PA, Kasey accepted a position at GraceLife Church as the Director of Student Ministries. What an honor it's been to serve here over the past month. We absolutely love our church family and have had the pleasure of getting to know many families within the church in the short time that we've been here already. Everyone here has been so welcoming and we truly have been overwhelmed by God's grace and goodness through this. There are still many families that we haven't had the opportunity to connect with yet, but we are looking forward to more dinners and coffee dates in the months ahead. :) We are soo incredibly excited about our future here and we cannot wait to see how the Lord is going to use this for our good and His glory!

2. Our home. 

(No pictures of the inside yet - it's still a work in progress and I'm a bit of a perfectionist so you'll be lucky if you see any, any time soon.) What a tremendous blessing it's been to make this house into a home. After living in a fifth-wheel (RV) for 6 1/2 months and then staying with friends and family

for 5 months, we were soo beyond ready to settle down in a place of our own. The Lord used that time to teach us that His timing is perfect and we're so thankful for that. And so we have the privilege of renting from a really sweet family who is on the mission field for a year! It's truly amazing to see how God orchestrates every detail of our lives. We couldn't have picked a better renting/living situation if we tried. 

3. Country Livin'
Technically we live in the 'city' of Lebanon, but to get anywhere, we have to drive through the beautiful (and sometimes adventourous) countryside. 

We've been soaking up this grand view of God's incredible creation (and no it's not been 'instagramed') as much as we can when we drive outside of Lebanon in the evenings.
It really makes us stop and ponder how great our God truly is that He would create something so magnificent and allow us to take in the beauty of it.

Although the drive is often beautiful, it sometimes becomes adventurous when our GPS leads us to a dirt road in the middle of a corn field and instructs us to "turn right, now."

Yes, this really happened. And if we had turned right, it would have led us to our destination, but I knew that when the hubby got nervous just driving on a gravel road to get here, there ain't no way he was going down a dirt road through a cornfield! So we turned around and did a little rerouting to get to where we were going. 

Not only has it been adventurous at times, it's also been interesting. I found the sign below along the road one day on my way home from Target. Driving by, I could only read the part that said, 'Yard Sale,' but when I pulled over, I just had to snap a pic because no one would believe me otherwise. 

 4. The Lebanon Area Fair
I probably could have (should have) squeezed this in under 'Country Livin,' but it really deserves a section all of its own. 

This week Kasey and I (more times I than he) have had the opportunity (almost said privilege but that's not the right word at all) of going to the Lebanon Area Fair. 

Although I grew up in PA (in the country) I haven't been to the fair since I was just a little girl, so I really don't remember anything from it other than my daddy winning a goldfish for me to take home. Kasey, on the other hand, has frequented the New Jersey State fair, but apparently it's nothing like the Lebanon one. (smirk)

I could talk about our experiences all day but I thought some pictures might just be the way to go. However, I do want to leave you with this, 'You always have to be watchin out for yourself because there are farm animals everywhere and getting run over by a pig, is not out of the question.' 

We are headed back to the fair tonight for dinner and again on Saturday for the grand Demolition Derby (bring on the adventure!), so there may be a follow up post, but we'll see just how adventurous it gets. 

By His Grace,
Katie