James Journey: House #3 or House #5

Hi there,

Wow. I guess that says it all. We moved into our new house 3 weeks ago, and we cannot be more happy.

I finished this semester last Friday (July 13), and I never before wished to be done with school this much. It was the hardest semester so far, and I was/am ready for a break. : )

For my Astronomy class, I had to look through a good telescope. Uncle Kevin was kind enough to let me use his awesome 8" telescope. I took quite a few pictures through his telescope, if anyone is interested, you can click here to save the folder to your computer. I love Saturn, but the Moon that night was truly amazing. Thank you again, Kevin, for letting me use your telescope!

So back to the house. We love it! The moving didn't take us longer than 3-4 hours (including loading the truck and unloading it). A friend of Chris' from the TV channel, Matt, helped us move. I unpacked everything the same day except the clothes. Those needed to wait until the next day.

Chris has his own office (in the basement), Amy her own room and new bed, and she has a whole big "playroom" as well. We are so grateful for this house!

This is our 3rd house we live in by ourselves (we rented 2 in Hungary and now we bought this one), but it is the 5th house we had to unpack our stuff in and pack our stuff again when we left (we lived at my parents house for a little bit before we left for the States, and we lived at Chris' parents' house before we moved into this house). So we are not doing bad!

In 2 years, we got married, had a baby, lived in 3 or 5 (whichever you want to count) houses, bought a car and a house. Chris also got a job meanwhile. Yep, life is happening. : )

This year was the first time Amy or I had the chance to celebrate July 4th. We went to Dave's and Karen's place and had a great meal with Ken (Karen's brother) and Becky. It was a privilege to be able to celebrate July 4th with my family. Thank you, Karen, for inviting us and for the awesome food!

We also had the chance to go pick up Monca, a dear missionary friend from Word of Life Hungary, in Indy and she stayed with us for a week. We were very happy to have her at our place (she was our very first guest). Amy thought they were best friends, so she followed Monca wherever she went (and I mean WHEREVER...). Since both Monca and I had school work to do, we both studied most of the time she was here, so we didn't get to hang out that much, but I was just so glad that she is here. You know you are poor when a missionary is feeding you... Well, as it turned out, Monca came to feed us : ). She brought a lot of food with her and never took it, she also bought several things while she was here that she never took with herself when she left. So now we have plenty of food : ). Thank you Monca!

She also spent almost all her nights at our church's VBS. She loved it, and each night when she came home at around 11pm, she would tell me how awesome it was. She is on furlough now, if you are interested in supporting her or you just want to see more of what she is doing, click here to see her blog. You will find pictures of Amy and Chris in one of her blog post.

Amy knows over 20 words (she loves to learn new ones and would repeat almost anything I say). She knows 10 animal sounds (dog, cat, mouse, lion, bird, duck, sheep, owl, cow, fish), and she knows more than 15 signs!

She is truly an amazing baby! We are so happy to have her. She cracks me up so many times. Her favorite thing is to hide now, so she honestly can hide behind objects and stay quiet for so long that I am worried. She is a good hider : ). I think I couldn't find her 3 times so far. But then she has the hiccups and all is solved : ).

Here are some pictures of the house: