Counting Down by Days

We're getting close enough that we're counting down by DAYS now, instead of weeks! YAY! We're also taking a photo a day of us with the number of days left.

18 days from today we'll be home!

We're also flying through a whole bunch of books! We're almost done with the Old Testament! This week we covered Esther, Ezra, and Nehemiah. 

Dear SallyJo, forgive me for this not being the most flattering picture of your face!

Next week we have two tiny more prophets (Haggai and Malachi) then on to Matthew, our very last book! AHHH! Hard to believe it's so close.

In other exciting news, we've entered a contest to win a free ipad and imac! Zagg.com is holding a "What would you do?" contest, and we got picked in the top 30 finalists. If we get picked as one of the top ten (we'll find out the day that we leave) we agreed to paint their logo on our cargo trailer that we're pulling home, and we'll document our trip which advertises their site. Click to vote for us! We're the first one on page 2! If they like our video of the whole event and they deem us worthy, we win the imac and ipad! (It's about a $1700 value)

We also dove into our 2-weeks-till-we-leave To Do List! This weekend we packed up all of our kitchen stuff and put back the stuff that belongs to the people who usually live in this house. We'll be using their stuff for the last couple of weeks. 

Only one more update from Montana after this one!

4 Weeks to Go!

With only 18 days left until SBS graduation, our schedule is looking crazier than ever with final homework assignments, last-minute social engagements, and cleaning and packing up the house. It's starting to feel real, yet still unbelievable that 8 months have gone by so fast.

This weekend we started tackling the cleaning and packing. We're planning to do a little bit each weekend, since we'll be driving out immediately after graduation and won't have the time to do it all at the last minute. We were really lucky this week to have some help!

 Jesse did the lawn work

Our good friend Graham is a window-washer when he's home, so he brought his fancy rags over to do our windows for us.

 Our friend Joel offered to help too, so we put him in charge of burning 8 months worth of cardboard that we'd been stockpiling in the garage. It may have been a little bit out of control at one point...

I stayed inside and did the usual cleaning stuff, then started packing up our least-used items. 

SO excited for being home in less than a month!