I received a phone call Wednesday around 8:30 am from my best friend Tessa. She was upset and delivered the horrible news that one of our childhood friends, Charity Worley, was found dead in her drive way around 6 am. Charity has a little boy that is 16 months old. She is married to Jake Worley who is serving in Iraq. Jake and I also went to school together. Charity used to come over to my house and we would get ready for dances together (we did this often:). We would exchange clothes and do each others makeup. Not too many clothes thought bc she was very tiny. I remember when I got my license Tessa, Charity, and I drove to Hendersonville to see Tom Cruise in the first Mission Impossible. It was my first time driving myself and my friends to a movie. I felt so grown up that night. Charity had a rough life, and I regret not spending more time with her since she moved back to Brevard. Her and Jake visited our church several times. I hope that the police find whoever did this to her (foul play is suspected). Please continue to pray for her husband Jake and son Jayden. 

Give the kid a marker and poster board.....you'll be friends for life.

Our Little Stinker

Housing Woes

So, as most of you know we will not be buying the house in Williamson Creek. Things just didn't work out. We are hoping that they are still interested in our house, but if not we are just going to go ahead and list it. The funny thing is that our friends The Snipes, The Burgess, and The Walinski's are all hunting for houses in the same price range. Since I have already lived in a house with built in book shelves (the guys are making fun of us for loving them) I will gladly give up those houses to Laura. I don't care about an open floor plan, so I will give all those houses to Brooke. I just want a house that has a place for a dishwasher:) Buying and selling houses can be a whirlwind of emotions. I just want to make sure that our friends know that they come first and I would pass up any house for them! My prayer is that all of us are faithful with our finances and that we would be joyful no matter where God asks us to lay our heads. I also think that Brooke, Laura, and myself should go on a house hunting date. Let's just map out this little town and find houses and buyers for all of us:)

Well, I got a very disappointing call from the doctor's office today. They said that the hospital is booked up because of Christmas, and that they will induce on the 29th of December. I'm a little annoyed bc the docs keep saying that I need to go a week early, but I just need to stop worrying about what happened before and trust that this is best.  Any way I am a little nervous so say a prayer for me and for Brent bc he has to put up with me:)

Hey Brad! Just wanted to see if you were reading:)

Christmas Parade

I have a little obsession since I have had Marley. It is my goal to make sure she has a crazy amount of life experiences, especially things my parents didn't do with me. With that said, they never really took me to Christmas Parades. Of course that meant that on Saturday Marley had to experience her first Brevard Christmas Parade. We bundled up in the flipping cold weather and waited hours to see this thing. As we watched we saw old cars, skateboarders, fire trucks, rednecks on their tractors, sweet wrinkled old veterans, the BHS band, and Santa poking his head out of a chimney. As we sat there I wondered why I would put my pregnant self through this torture, but after we came home I was reminded. Marley has had a gleam in her eye about seeing the trumpets, tubas, horses, santa, and the candy canes that were chucked at us:) She has talked all about it. I love her. She is worth every freezing minute. Her eyes and expressions are the reason I do all of this crap:)

So, I posted a little joke about selling our house to get out of debt, right?

Well, guess what? The past week has been a surprise and we had someone approach us about buying our house!  Weird! Even better, they are selling a brand spanking new house that is in our price range and has way more square footage! So, we should have a show called House Swap. I'm not hanging the drapes in the new house yet, because our house has to appraise for a certain amount before the deal is done. This move, if it happens, will be incredibly sad and happy. Sad, because East French Broad Street is home to us. We love this house, yard, neighborhood, and especially the memories. Summers are the best at this house. We walk to town, run around in the huge yard and catch lightening bugs with Marley, and swing on the front porch (these are the things lacking at the other house:). It would be a happy time because we would save money every month not having to pay city taxes, it has a big kitchen, and huge basement! We'll see what God brings our way this week. It may happen, it may not (the process of buying a house is always up in the air). All I know is that having a baby and moving at the same time will bring joyful chaos to the Metcalf household. So say a little prayer for us:)