Home sweet (new) home!



At our first event with Dan's unit - Lake Ontario in the background!

Back in the promised land, flowing with Mets games and four seasons!  We're New Yorkers again, praise the Lord!  After a weekend of driving along the east coast, we arrived at our townhouse to be greeted by Dan's parents and brother who had adorned our new home with air mattresses and food while we awaited the arrival of all our belongings a few days later :).  Our first two weeks were filled with unpacking and settling in with much help from both our parents who made the 6 hour trip to visit us.  It's been wonderful to see so many familiar faces since coming back to NY, between both our parents and good friends from our former church in Fishkill.

Out to dinner, happy to sit with Daddy, after a long work week.

Dan has pretty much jumped right into his unit and is very busy meeting/counseling soldiers and families.  It's awesome and humbling to see the opportunity Dan has to speak truth into peoples' lives and hard situations.  PT (physical training) is still every weekday morning, but now he's up at 5:45am instead of 4:30am... what a wonderful difference that hour+ makes!  He uses that time to train with various groups of soldiers in order to be seen by and meet different soldiers in his unit.  As a family, we're plugging into a Saturday night on post contemporary chapel service called "The Crossing."  Dan will go on a preaching rotation with the lead chaplain there.  We're excited about what God has in store for this unique service and are also trying to figure out the later bedtime for Daniella on those nights.
 
Meanwhile, lil D and I are working out our own groove (and friends)!  Our week is basically filled with library storytime, an on post women's Bible study (PWOC - which is Daniella's only time away from me and in nursery... it's been hit or miss with her so far), playgroup and neighborhood walks.  We would have loved to live on post to be closer to Dan and the army community but housing is incredibly tight.  Our neighborhood is just over 10 minutes from post (closer to 25 min from Dan's actual office) and is also filled with army families.  

Thanks for checking in on us via our blog!  I'll try to update a bit more now that we're settled in.  We sincerely appreciate your interest and your prayers for our family as we all adjust to army life as well as for God's loving work to be done here!

Below is a silly little video of Daniella dancing around while I try to fold our laundry ;)...enjoy!