Hurst Family News

My blog about our Epic Hike/Hunting trip won't be up until probably tomorrow.  Need to get the proof picture from Sean's phone- so you can see just how crazy we are.   Instead today you get my handsome little men.   These were taken before Church a few weeks ago.  For the record I have tried and tried and tried to get this boy to wear a bowtie.  Wouldn't do it unless it was his idea. Go figure.  And the suspenders are sweet: they belonged to his Great Grandpa Hurst and when we were sifting among his belongings after he died everyone got to choose something to remind them of Grandpa.  Ian choose the suspenders.  Couldn't have been better.  He loves them and I love him for loving his Great Grandpa.  My 3 stooges. Nyuck Nyuck Nyuck. 

"If you are willing to make the sacrifices it will be worth it."  That would be the answer I received when I prayed about buying our house.  About now I'm feeling like I should have asked for the term specifications on these sacrifices.  I'm worn out.  There's so much work to be done it feels like we'll never be DONE done.  At this point I can't even see the light at the end of the tunnel of done-enough-to-move-in.  I'm sick of paying for a storage unit and sick of having no idea where my things are in said storage unit.  When we packed up to move back in with my inlaws (who have been extremely gracious) I didn't bother to label much stuff because I didn't think it would be in storage long.  On the off chance that we were here when the weather changed I had the forethought to at least put all the warm clothes together.  Well- what I thought was all of them.  I got out the pile and sorted through it and there's a bu...