It's a small world after all!

Last night Patrick and I had the opportunity to get together with a future co-worker at TCIS. What a blessing it was to meet someone you will be working with for the first time and already feel like family. Ellen Sligh, came over for dinner and we got to know each other. My parents came to meet her and so did Ed and Patty Blanchard. Ellen will actually be working in the Special Ed department with me so we will be close coworkers as well.

We had a great night talking about Korea. My favorite part was realizing how connected we were through mutual friends. Being in the Alliance is a wonderful thing because it makes this huge world so much smaller. When you have all of these connections, you really feel like you have known someone for a long time even though you only met 2 hours ago.

I am so excited about this new family that we will become a part of at TCIS. It's been so neat to see how God has brought TCIS to us and we haven't even had to leave our living room yet. Here is a picture of our fun evening. Even Zachary enjoyed having Ellen over. One day she might even be his pre-school teacher!

House for Rent

Anyone want to rent a house??? Please????

Twins??

I took Chase and Zachary to the store the other day in their matching Elmo shirts. The question I am asked all the time is if they are twins. Hmmmmmm I wonder....One is obviously older than the other and they really don't look that much alike, especially with Zachary's dark skin and Chase's pale white skin. Now I would say Zachary looks more like Chase's mom and Chase looks more like me when taking a quick glance but they are definitely not twins.

However, they are REALLY cute! They love to 'drive' the car at the grocery store. Whoever invented those carts should be highly rewarded. Now, if they could just be a little easier to manoeuvre that would be great. If Target and Walmart would just catch on we would be a happy family. That's why our favorite places to go are BJ's and Food Lion.

ALL BOY!

The sweet innocence of boys in the spring.

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Spring has sprung!

I am so excited that it is finally getting warm around here. The flowers are blooming and we get to spend most of the day playing outside. Chase and Zachary have a blast outside and can't stand it when we come in. (Chase is the little boy I keep during the week for those who don't know.) Here are some pics of the boys outside.

Chase likes to color (ok well eat the chalk). See how smart he is! He wrote his name! :) He is learning to walk so he pushes his walker everywhere and he can book it!

Zachary likes to play peek a boo around the trees. I have also been teaching him to smell the flowers. He likes to color too. We like to draw circles (and other shapes) and he jumps into them.

Of course he is all boy! He loves to follow ants, play with sweetgum balls and sticks, step on ANYTHING, and 'shoot' the ball at the neighbors basketball goal (ba-ball as Zachary calls it.)

Now Entering the Blogging World!

My first ever blog! It is finally time for us to join the ranks in this techonological world. I am actually kind of surprised I haven't done this sooner. I figured it was time to start since we will be moving very soon to the other side of the world. There might be a few people who are interested in what is going on in our lives. Currently our life seems to be normal except what is going on inside my head which is pretty much freakout zone! We have so much to do in the next 5 months.

For those of you who don't know (I don't really know if there are any of our friends left who don't know) but we are moving to Teajon, South Korea to work at Taejon Christian International School next fall. We are so excited about this opportunity that God has pretty much placed in our lap. I may be freaking out but at least I know we are in the middle of God's perfect plan. So many things are coming together without us even asking for it. It is just another confirmation to us the Korea is where we are supposed to be. We will be embarking on new positions. Patrick will be teaching Bible to middle schoolers and high schoolers. He will also have the opportunity to help develop a new Bible curriculum. I, Jennifer, will be the Special Needs Coordinator for the school; running SRT (student resource team) meetings, keeping track of IEP's (Individualized Education Plans) and working with mostly middle schoolers and high schoolers as well. Zachary will be in a new position as well. He will be in a daycare on campus called the Early Learning Center. This will be as big change for him since he has been with Mommy everyday since last summer. (I would really like to start a new paragraph now but I can't figure out how. I don't know how it worked last time so I will just finish the post now. I guess I have lots to learn)