General Update

Okay, wow, it's been a while since I've written. Sorry about that, mom. :)

In the last few weeks we have made some big decisions around the Chase household. We stopped swimming with the Shelby Sharks at the end of January. Things were just a little difficult with swimming every day, meets, and my stress level. Joe misses Coach Jeremiah so much, but we still get to see him when we go swim for fun at the FAC which we don't get to do enough.

The biggest decision we made was we are finally moving to Louisville. I have resisted this for a long time even though the city has been growing on me. It honestly just makes good financial sense. We have found an apartment that is larger than our current place and less money per month (no-brainer, right?), and Tim will now be able to get to work for free (a HUGE savings). This does mean we will be leaving our church, The Point Community Church, but we will be back there every now and then. This will be a slow transition and will have us commuting back there for a few months until we find a church that fits us as well as TPCC. I'm tearing up just thinking about it. It will be the hardest part of this whole thing.

School has been going well for us. Both kids are progressing in their work and I have been amazed at their accomplishments. Terefech has quite the vocabulary now (which also means she has more ways to sass me, but, whatever), and Joe has a true knack for Geometry. Handwriting for both of them is significantly better and attitudes all around are good. Joe still loves talking Christian theology with Tim and has included me in a few conversations lately. It's such a blessing to see him mature as a Christian.

This last weekend we went through our garage and started to organize and throw away stuff. Wow! It's amazing how much crap two people can accumulate in 16 years. We did decide to finally get rid of all the old phone books we have been carrying around. Actually, we didn't know we still had them so it wasn't a big loss.

I recently ran into a friend from high school who told me that a friend of ours had died in the Haiti earthquake. This was shocking to me (as you can imagine). David Hames was there filming for Compassion International and was in the Hotel Montana when the earthquake hit and the hotel collapsed. He was a great guy and we had reconnected on Facebook. He was talented in film and TV production and had created/produced Cranium's Ark, a kids Christian, educational video. Joe and Terefech watched it yesterday and they both loved it. It's a cliff-hanger episode and Joe is very concerned about finding out what happens. I had to tell him that I'm not sure if we will get to see it since David has passed away. This peeked his interest in Haiti and the earthquake so we spent half an hour looking at video and learning more about what happened. Joe was very excited to learn that David was a Christian and that he will be in heaven. He told me that if we don't get to see the next episode of Cranium's Ark then he is going to ask David about it when he sees him. How cute is that? :) If you have little kids you can help support Renee (David's wife) and the kids by purchasing the video at http://www.craniumsark.com/Craniums_Ark/home.html. Trust me your kids will love it!