i'm going home.

6 days and counting. i haven't felt quite so much desire to go home in a long time. i'm ready. :) just a little more shopping, working and preparing.

i usually don't like to say things like "the enemy is against us" but this time around something is certainly not for us. :) micah realized last night that her visa had expired just a few days earlier and will be going to houston first thing monday morning to try to renew it. please pray that they have huge amounts of grace on her situation. she's a little stressed out about it all. also i am not able to go with her to houston where the embassy is so we're hoping to find another (rather argumentative) person to go and stand her ground for her when she speaks with the consulate general. please pray!

wonderful wonderful week

micah and i just returned from a lovely weekend (week for micah) in dothan. i drove to jackson with mia on wednesday and sonny (without really knowing what he was getting himself into :) drove me to dothan on thursday to appease the parents who were refusing to allow me to drive the remaining six hours after the ten mia and i had driven through the previous night. he's a very sweet man.

we all worked a whole lot to pull the wedding off. it was quite an accomplishment and i was super blessed to be a part of it all. i still hate so much that i missed sarah's. :( but sticking with the brighter side, seeing family and old old friends was amazing. micah and i had a really hard time coming back to san antonio after being with family. we're both so ready to go home!!

we left dothan at 7 am and arrived back at our new temporary home around 11:30 that night. such a long drive!!! like to osaka and back and back again! it blows my mind that we are only part of the way into texas. it's just so big. wow.

this morning as we sat at our new "mother's" table micah kept saying, "it's just ten days, it's going to fly by." and we both laughed at her pep talk to herself. our drive back together was really fun when we were both awake. :) our arrival last night signaled the release of all the pent up riding-in-the-car emotions and we couldn't stop laughing. our ridiculous jokes were intermittent with "shhhhs!" and "you're so mean, deders!" i love micah. :)

in typical deder fashion i completely forgot that my camera existed. i will try to steal some pix from other people and post before too long.

for now, here's one. :)