A small, intimate church

Our view from the top at Calvary Church.



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Catching our breath

So, we made the move the Charlotte, and we have now been here right around 2 months exactly. Who knew that moving would be such an ordeal for these oh, so experienced, TRAVELERS?! Let me tell you, traveling with the minimal amount of stuff we had for the past 5 years, and packing up and unpacking all of the stuff we had not only accumulated in 5 years, but also that stuff we left behind - 2 totally different stories there. Our move took us to 4 locales: northern Virginia, where we were living at the time; Chesapeake, VA, where we had our main storage room; Sean's parents' home in southern VA, who had been storing various and sundry things for us; and my parents' home in northeast GA, where I still had all of my childhood things stored. Whew! Honestly, this was a lot more stuff than 2 thirty-somethings should have. It took us a couple solid weeks of cutting open hundreds of boxes to finally get those out of the house, and then there was the "putting away" phase that lasted too long, and now we've managed to enter into the "ignore the rest of the work" phase that we are going to try to exit out of this weekend, hopefully. We'd love to finally hang a picture or 2 on the wall and make a massive trip to the Salvation Army to donate the pile of stuff we decided we not only can live without, but that we want to live without.

So, even though we probably have missed out on some good stories to relay through our voice here over the past 2 months, we are just now catching our breath and beginning to see somewhat of a life being established in our new city. We really have loved the neighborhood we chose, and we are excited to start feeling more like locals than visitors, which is such a foreign concept to us at this point. We began the process by finally getting our new NC drivers licenses' (that was a pain), new license plates (pretty cool pictures of the Smokies and Appalachian trail), and have even secured a dentist and a doctor to deliver this new baby. Just like locals.

I am even beginning to venture out without turning on my GPS every time I get in the car. Progress!

July 4 fireworks in Charleston, SC

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