Weeeeee're heeeeere!

We made it to ..uh...sunny(?) Florida. Ahem.

Sorry. It really was sunny when we got here but the tropical storm Alberto came roaring through here and it is kinda wet right now.

We made it, though. We had a rough start with our furniture not arriving the day it was scheduled to but it all turned out well. I have found 2 HUGE spiders already in the house and I really hate spiders. Our dog got out of the house today and when I went to look for her I got some help from an older man that thought he saw her in one of the water canals. He warned me of the gators you will find in them and that made us look for dog even harder as he thought he spotted her in one of the canals. I realized too that we have on right behind the house we are in now. (this is why the kids do not play in the back yard) We found dog in, of all places, at a house where some people from Keene, NH just moved in. I was so excited to meet them and thought it neat that they live 1 minute walking distance away from us. They had their Patriots shirts on like we did the day we arrived here too. Way too funny! dog is now home and drying off in the lanai because she got wet in the canal.

The house we are building is coming along fine. The block is up and the concrete poured through the block today. A friend from NH will be flying down here on Thursday to stay with us for a couple Weeks to help sr. monkey with the trusses. He will also get help from Jared, one of cousin and Matt's boys.

I found a doctor and will get my ultrasound done soon. I also found out my grandfather may have a gallbladder problem too. Hope he is well.

Enough for now. I have errands to run and it has stopped raining for a bit.

Until next time...

Almost...

It is almost time to move. We are slowly packing. it is the little things that seem to take the longest. I am a bit sad to leave my froends and family but excited baout what God has in store for us. We really believe that this is God's will for us and if I am happy here in NH then I know that if we move to where God wants us then we will be happy and the blessings will be greater than we know. I will visit with my weekend plane tickets my husband gave to me and we will be up in the summer and holidays. We will not be strangers. Who knows, maybe fmaily will be more inclined to come visit us in FL now that we are no longer "just down the road".

I found this cute Hawiian name thing.

Your Hawaiian Name is:

Haimi Haleigha

What's your Hawaiian Name?

Anyway, until next time...

oogle bop!

I can't believe how time flies sometimes....

The family is finally getting better after a long bought of illness. We thank the Lord that is over. Now, we need to concentrate on packing and moving. I can't believe we have less than four weeks left until we move. I am starting to get nervous about it. I am also getting a little excited about the new adventure we will be embarking on. Since I know in my heart that this is God's will then I know it will be good. This is helping me to move on with this. Things at home are a little scary with my grandparents. My grammy has cancer, B-cell lymphoma and my grandfather finds it harder and harder to breath. I want to be here for them but God knows and they are saved and I know that God will take care of them. God is sending us to Florida so I have to trust that my grandparents know that I want to be there and since I can't I will be praying for them everyday.

We head for NC soon for Jenny's graduation and that will be fun for us and the kids. We can't wait. When we get back we will have little time left to pack so we are getting a lot of the little things done now that always seem to take the longest while packing.

It is a beautiful day today and I think I may take the kids to the park after Caleb gets out of school.

"But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee"
Psalms 5:11

Health update:

Well, the pneumonia is gone and I have been finished the antibiotics for a few days now, so why can't I breath and why am I in so much pain?

I went to the docs on Tuesday to get these questions answered and they did x-rays and blood work. They got the results back today. They found I now have (and have probably had for a month now) inflammation from a virus on my chest wall. That is the reason I feel like I am having a heart attack with the squeezing of the heart feeling and the radiating left arm pain. Taking a breath is a huge chore and very painful. It is good to know what is wrong and know that I am not crazy but I can't wait for this to go away.

A couple ladies at church were very sweet and made a meal for me and I appreciate that so much! What a blessing. It is hard sometimes to stand for a long period and try to make dinner. Other chores can wait but you have to feed the family.

I am taking a low dose pain killer. It ok but doe not take all the pain away. It is still very hard to lie down, especially on my left side.

Anyway that is my update for anyone who wants to know. :)

Caleb had a fever last night and stayed home from school today but seems to be feeling better tonight. I can not wait to be rid of all this sickness in the family. It is driving me crazy!! :)

Ken has reminded me that we have 49 days until we head out for FL. Not a lot of time. We start packing in 2 weeks. We found a good moving company that will pack, load and unload our stuff for us for a good price. That is one less thing to worry about. Although, we should not worry about anything, right? :)

We have seen some samples of our new website design and we are very pleased with it. Can't wait for everyone to see it.

My cell phone now has a FL phone number so anyone that has my old number, it doesn't work anymore.

Have a great Easter everyone! JESUS is risen!

ugh, pneumonia!

I have been unable to breath well for about a month now. I have also had some chest pain and just felt awful. My doctor assumed it was anxiety without even seeing me and prescribed meds for that purpose and said to see her soon. The meds never worked and I know a panic attack and this just did not feel like one. I finally went to a walk-in clinic a couple days ago to see what they would say as they do not know me and have no preconceived notions as to what this could be. They found that I have bacterial pneumonia. Finally! I have a diagnosis. I am now on antibiotics and starting to feel a bit better but it is still hard to breath while lying down and doing too much (even loading the dishwasher) takes a lot out of me. But I do what I have to do.
My daughter broke out in hives on Saturday. The docs on Sunday said that it was systemic and it does not appear to be anything she ate. ( we were at a leadership conference at church on Saturday from 8am until 3:30pm and Kelly was in a "construction camp" all that day with other kids. We brought her lunch but I hear the kids shared food so we were concerned she ate something and reacted badly) The doc said it could have also been caused by a cold virus which Kelly had a couple weeks prior. I am hoping it is the latter as we still can not figure out what she would have eaten that would cause her to break out in hives. She was so swollen. That is a scary thought because if we do not know what she is allergic to then we can not keep her away from it. The doc put her on some allergy meds and Benedryl and that helped her to stop itching and he hives are clearing up.

Caleb is nearing the end of school and his first graduation. That is exciting and sad at the same time. He will be leaving a great Christian school only to move on to another but we are prayerful that the new school in FL will be just as good.

We just reserved our room for the hotel in Spartanburg, SC for Kelli's wedding. That will be a lot of fun. UC and AJ will be staying in the same hotel. This will be Caleb and Kelly's 3rd wedding. They love it and are so well behaved.

We have a new website provider and designer. When we move to FL we will have Karolyn (Dunhom designs www.dunhom.com) redesign the krbrobstbuilder website and make it really great. We will be sure to let everyone know when this happens.

Until next time..

Sold the house!!

It took 5 whole days to sell the house! WOW! We thought it might take a couple months so we started earlier than we planned. It went onto the www.jacksonteamre.com site on a Saturday and by the following Wednesday it was under agreement! It is funny too, I have been unsure of whether this was God's will for us to make such a huge move and I have been praying for this for a long time. I prayed that morning on Wednesday, "Lord, if it is your will for us to move to FL then sell our house tonight for what we are asking." That night after dinner at church, we got a call from our realtor that there were some buyers that wanted our house real bad and are offering what we want for the house. They wanted to know if we would accept the offer. Ken said "YES!" I guess I got my answer. God works fast sometimes!
We close on May, 26. That is the last day of school for Caleb and his graduation. So many things are happening at once. We have a rental house we saw that we like a lot and when Ken goes to FL soon, he will see if we can sign the agreement for it now. We will have a PO Box set up soon and in about 8.5 weeks we will be all moved out of here.

It is very sad. This was our first home. We made it what it is. It was a dump when we bought it and now it is a beautiful house. We had our children while living here. There are a lot of memories here. We are leaving friends and family. That will be hard. We will also be leaving one the the best churches we have ever been to, with some of the most caring pastors and church family.

We will, of course, be here for at least one holiday a year and we will be at the beach house every summer. In fact we will be there this summer soon after we have moved. *hint, hint to anyone who wants to see us!*

We also have gotten ourselves a new web host as our old one was wayyyyy too expensive! My friend Karolyn who runs and owns Dunhom designs with her husband will be doing it. It is so affordable and includes all the web design and other good stuff. They are really good and anyone who reads this should check our their site. I have it here in my links under Karolyn's website. Or, you can just go to www.dunhom.com Be on the lookout for a much more improved www.krbrobstbuilder.com soon! :)

What a night!

There were category 4 hurricane winds recorded n MT Washington last night! We had a rough night too. My grandparents had no power for 13 hours and we lost power for about 6 hours before we were able to leave here. We live in a lake community and there is only one way in or out of here. A huge tree took a couple power lines down and the fire department blocked the road out of here off so no one could leave or get in unless they left their car at the block and snuck through the woods to get home or out of here. We were getting really cold and were afraid our pipes would freeze as well as freeze ourselves so we wanted to leave here. We reserved a room at a local hotel but we soon found out that the fire department would not let us out of here. I called my dad at the Sheriffs department and he called everyone he could to try to get us out of here. (It was not only us but everyone who lives here were trapped. I hope there were no emergencies last night needing medical attention STAT)Anyway, my dad was able to find out that the fire department was leaving the scene at around 11:00pm and if we wanted to risk crossing the block then we could try. Ken went to the block and saw where some lines were down about a 1/4 mile up from the block and he also saw cars going through the block. (Theses were people that did not know what had happened) so Ken came back to the house and said we were going through the block. When we got to the beginning of the block and were almost out of here we saw a whole bunch of cars and trucks lined up and people and their dogs walking around with no clue how to get home as they saw the block as they came into the area. It was just an insane scene. I never saw anything like it. People were panicky and cold. We had called the electric company to see how long it would be before they could shut power to the live lines down around here and they said it would be 24-48 hours before anyone would come out to do that as there were 30,000 people without power in just their company. The other company had approx. 39,000 out.Ken told them this was an emergency as we not only have no power but we were trapped here with no way out. We could deal with the power loss. We thank God that he provided us a way out of here when He did.
We got to the hotel and snuck our dog in. We later found out that dogs were allowed. Good thing as katana barked at someone walking past our door at 6am and we were afraid they would kick us out of the hotel.
We called our house and got our answering machine at 7am so we were happy that the power was back on.
All is well and this is just reassuring my husband that moving to FL is the best thing. Although I do not know why as FL deals with these hurricane force winds on a much more regular basis. I do have to say that they are more prepared for such a thing though. We have way too many trees hugging the power lines, it is no wonder the lines come down all the time.