Getting Settled at Home

We've been staying at our new rented home since Saturday and are SO grateful and love it. It took a long time to clean and I even got Bryon to do some vacuuming. He said he'll do that because you don't have to touch anything. It was awesome to have several friends help us move our things, clean and unpack. Rylee has had fun watching and chasing squirrels and has two big windows to look out into the front yard. The inside is still in the works-it takes forever to unpack and get settled but we wanted to show you the house from the outside. We'll post inside pics later. Thanks for joining us on the journey!

For real now, we signed a lease and have a home!

Phew! Praise God. Now for real, we've signed the lease, painted our bedroom, cleaned A LOT, and emptied our storage unit into the house. And we love it! It's a great little house with two bedrooms, a huge yard for our dog, a garage for storage and a pretty big kitchen. The best part for me (Sam) is the dishwasher!!!!! We didn't have one in our old house, so this is quite the luxury for the Scharenberg home. The landlords seem great, so that's a blessing.

Bryon saw the add on Craigslist on Tuesday an hour after it was posted, we met them and saw the house and said we wanted to rent it that night. We're hoping to stay the night tomorrow after we get some painting and arranging done. We have an extra room for you when you come visit, so let us know when you'll come out :) Thanks again so much for all your prayers, we were so encouraged through your support.

Here are a couple pics of Bryon painting our bedroom at midnight last night and our dog sleeping, as it was past her bedtime. We'll post more soon.

Praying for a Home

We wanted to give you a quick update as to what's going on. We left Idaho on Wednesday and have been staying with our friends Pamela and Ryan in Seattle, with our dog and both our cars. We came out here hoping to move into the house we wrote about before understanding it was going to be ready for us this weekend. However, the owner was a little too optimistic and it won't be ready until next weekend.

This has caused us to really consider if it's the right place for us and we don't think it is for a number of reasons. So, we've begun our housing search again and are praying for God to lead us. It's been pretty disappointing and discouraging as we are really wanting to find a place to live and settle down for awhile. But we are remembering all God has done in the past and are fighting to believe Him now. We'll keep you posted, thanks for the prayers.

Still Waiting . . .

We're still in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho waiting to move back to Seattle. We had planned to move back yesterday but it has been postponed again, so the new plan is to head back on Wednesday, stay with friends and then move in this weekend. We'll keep you posted!!

We are feeling pretty squirmish in wanting to leave and finally having a place to live for awhile, it's been a long haul. So these last minute postponing details have been hard on us. Luckily we have a great place to stay while we are here, but we are really wanting to get back to Seattle and have our own home.

We have been trying to find fun things to do while we're here so it's been fun to celebrate Fall!!

Moving Day Postponed

Our hope was to move back to Seattle today, but the renovations on the home aren't complete yet. So we're staying in Idaho for another week and are planning to move back next Monday. Yay!

Fishin'

Here are some pictures from Bryon's short trip fishing. He went with his college friends Chris and Zach. Chris is the one holding the Steelhead. It was the only one they caught :( But they had a good time.

Rylee Our Pumpkin

I wanted to try a sewing project and decided to make Rylee a Halloween costume! It took a lot of time and was pretty confusing but I finally finished last night. We probably won't go Trick-or-Treating but hopefully kids will come to our new home in Seattle for candy and they can enjoy her :) We give her lots of treats as a reward for keeping it on!

Sick All Week and a Brief Update

We got back to Idaho almost a week ago and both ended up sick :( We really didn't do much of anything all week except rest, nap and take medicine. As of this weekend, we're both feeling a lot better and are looking forward to meeting with some more folks in Idaho and preparing to move in just over a week!

Since feeling better, Bryon has been with friends in Washington fishing over the past day and a half and I've been working on my first sewing project. I'm making our dog Rylee a Halloween costume-she's going to be a pumpkin! It's a bit ridiculous, I know, but I wanted to try a sewing project. I'll be sure to post pictures with the finished masterpiece.

Pictures:

-We have been seeing moose almost every day hanging around Bryon's parent's house!! A mom and her calf came right up to the side of the house!

-Also, while we've been sick and not able to do much, Rylee has been helping Don (my father in law) in the yard ;)

We found a place to live in Seattle!!

Thank you SOO much for your prayers with us as we searched for a place to live in Seattle. We haven't lived there since mid-July and are eager to get back. We were there this past week and spent a lot of time on craigslist, driving around looking for 'For Rent' signs and everything else you can think of!

The man who leads our community group through church connected us with his boss who began renovating one of his properties a few weeks ago. The house matches exactly what we wanted in a home. Rylee will have a fenced yard to run crazy in, we can have you come visit and stay with us in our spare bedroom and it's within our budget. It's not as close to the university as we thought we'd like to be, but we're trusting that God has a reason for putting us there. However, it's not too far and we can get to the University of Washington in about 15-20 minutes by car, bus or bike. Also, it's 5 minutes from our office.

They're finishing up renovations and we're planning on moving in before Halloween! We hope to finish up our support raising in Seatte by the end of the year. We'll post more pictures after we move in. Thanks again!

My husband, the man!

This morning, just south of Seattle about an hour Bryon participated in his first sprint triathlon. He did awesome!!! It consisted of a .5 mile swim, 11 mile bike and a 2.8 mile run. He was most nervous about the swim, but spent the past month and a half training and learning and it ended up being his best 'leg' of his race.

My friend Lauren and I cheered him on at multiple points and he was mostly all smiles as he LOVES to be active. I think he may have caught the bug and will pursue future races next summer. He's trying to convince me that I also want to do triathlons but I'm not quite there ;) Enjoy the pictures!