Stuck in neutral

Tuesday, March 28, we received the unfortunate news that the owners of the home in Liberty we put an offer on, received a "non-contingent" offer to purchase from another perspective buyer . . . and took it. Looks like it's back to square one again, nothing new. That sucks, although we're sure it's just not the house God wanted for us. No biggie.

Congratulations to Matt and Jennifer Brunk. Their third daughter, Mia Grace, arrived March 28, healthy, happy and beautiful.

Marc took some vacation time from March 29-31 to have an extended birthday celebration. Marc's birthday was rather eventful consisting of sleeping in, haircut (Mmmm. . just like buying a new car!), lunch at Qdoba and screening of "The Hill's Have Eyes" with his father, followed by going with mom, dad and Kim to Kona Grill on the Plaza for sushi, swordfish, seabass and . . . uh, chicken.

Saturday, while moving things to the Brunk home we ran into the Morrison's as they moved to their new home and John and Angie Sidden whom we haven't seen in a long time. Great time. That night, Marc went to see good friend Josh and Durbo in Raytown to ride mini (and we mean MINI) bikes and hang out for a little impromptu after birthday celebration.

We've decided to still go ahead and put our house on the market to see what comes up, and together Marc and Kim (mostly through Kim's motivation) are finally ready. We've now got a new stained front deck, painted inside door, clean (no, spotless!) house and a lot less stuff (which currently is in storage in the Brunk basement).

With everything that's been going on we've really been trying to make sense of the adoption process and get remotivated. We received the application from Christian Family Services and will be completing it tomorrow to send in to get things moving again. We feel a little stuck in neutral as we look for a new place to live in Liberty and a church home as well as wondering what God will bring our way in the form of a little one for us. We continue to pray, but no answers have come yet.

Marc goes in for a gastrointestinal procedure Tuesday and hopefully will have some pictures (from "within") to share shortly after on his website.

Kim continues to be a rock through all of this and is ready to get out of neutral, and on into drive.

If you get a chance, check out "Passion 06: Everything Glorious" on CD now. Thanks Bondo, it rocks.

Thank you for your support and prayer. We love you guys.

Moving forward.