Life is a Rollercoster

Wow, what a year. So much has happened, so as my first official post for this site i thought i would bring you up to speed with what's happened so far...

it all started at the end of January when we moved to adelaide. sarah started temping and i began to study a bachelor of arts majoring in youth work from Tabor college. we stayed at sarah's parents house while we grounded ourselves and got familiar with our (well my) new living environment.

searching for a church was no easy task. after visiting 4 or 5 different churches over the past 8 months we have finally settled on marion church of christ. we feel completely at home there and we are already in the begining stages of joining the worship team there which is such a blessing as we have been out of participation in a worship team for 9 months now. marion is really alive and there are many different propects for us to be able to serve and use our gifts and talents for God. it's so exciting to be a part of a church family again.

after doing a few different temping jobs sarah had the opportunity to go for a fulltime contracted job as an event coordinator for Austraining International. austraining are a contracotr for the government branch of AusAid. their primary role is training and sending ambassadors overseas to developing countries where they participate in the development and implementation of community growth and training programmes. after applying it wasn't long before we found out that sarah had recieved the job. we were all very excited, along with a sunstantial pay rise and benifits, sarah was finally able to be working in a job that she loved and a job that suited her passions and training - event/project coordination.

after being in the job for abotu 4 weeks, we found out that sarah was pregnant!!! Yay!!! so exciting, although it was not a planned pregnancy it was still a huge blessing and we are so excited about the birth of our child in february or march next year. it has been so much fun going to the doctors with sarah and stuff. the doctor showed me how to feel sarah's tummy they other day so that I could feel the baby... that was cool :)

so now sarah is planning on working until just after christmas or januaryish and then she will come home and hopefully by then i will have fulltime (or as close to as possible) work so that sarah can stay home and look after bub while i work and study partime via correspondance.

oh and about 5 weeks ago, we moved into our new place. we are renting a 3 bedroom townhouse in ascot park... we absolutely love it and want to keep it forever and ever... but we will see what happens in the future...

all in all, it's been a crazy year, but God has belssed us so much and we have much to be thankful for.

So there you have it, you are now up to speed with me and what's been happening lately... more to come... stay tuned...

jeffros