Okie House Hunting

~Posted by Roma

 

Thank you all for your prayers ever since our family posted the Big Changes blog post. I’m excited to tell you that my Dad found a job in Pryor, Oklahoma, only a few hours from our home here in TX! Praise the Lord! He has already started his new job at American Castings and it’s going great. Please pray that our home in TX will sell quickly!

 

Recently, when church was over, our family piled into the minivan and drove up to OK for a few nights to do some house hunting. Dad drove us past the plant the night we got there. It was big, and really cool! We checked into the hotel and settled in for the night.

 

The next day was house hunting day. We toured through three houses, and drove past another one, and have kept tabs on realtor.com ever since the trip!J I try to look on the bright side of things, but I’ll admit it was draining for all 7 of us because we didn’t quite find what we were looking for. The first house, which we nicknamed “the Bob House”(because it reminds us of someone’s house back in Michigan) is a possibility, but we still want to look for more options. Dad will also be looking for a church, shopping, entertainment, activities, etc. There’s a lot to think about!

 

When we got back home, we had tons of funny “Okie stories” to share with our youth group. J There were a lot of funny things about Oklahoma—like a pizza place called: “Sam and Ella’s” pizza, which if you say it all together fast, sounds like the bacteria! “We are never eating there, kids.” My Mom was saying in the car. J A realtor from there told us, “Well, I heard someone died there--but it’s still good!” This is just one of the many crazy stories we have. Bianca even got to enjoy riding in the realtor’s Mid-Life-Crisis-bright-yellow-“ain’t misbeehavin’-jeep!!

 

I’m going to miss TX. badly, and still don’t really want to leave, but…I heard we won’t be too far from the Voice of the Martyrs headquarters! Yay! I can see future volunteering opportunities there. J

 

All for now!

 

P.S-After our house-hunting trip, we watched Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! We loved it! Haha! The movie even takes place right where we might live!