Hello! The Ward family is back online! I hadn't been to stop posting for so long but obviously 2020 was an unusual year and then life became even busier than ever. But recently Brinnly has been looking through the earlier blog posts and enjoyed seeing the pictures especially. She asked me to start blogging again so the twins could have documentation of this stage of their life just like the older girls do.
So what have we been up to? A lot! Namely, we moved! (Yes, again!) Not too far this time--literally a mile away into a different city, county, and school district. Mali had been asking for this move for quite some time which would allow her to go to high school with the friends she had made when she transferred schools in 7th grade. At first we thought there was no way it could happen--but Covid clarified a lot of things for us and one day while we were on a walk during the shutdown we came up with the idea of moving into this city while renting out the house we had been living in.
House hunting was tricky during Covid but God answered our prayers. We had specifically prayed for a move into this school district but high on my wish list too was a swimming pool, and a neighborhood friend for Grant. We had two offers declined on houses (not with pools!) and then found a house in my favorite neighborhood, and literally while we we were walking through the yard during the showing and admiring the in-ground pool--I heard the laughter of a dad and a son Grant's age playing nerf guns next door. A few days later we were on vacation with Grandma Deni and we received the news that our bid was accepted for that house. We moved in the week before school started for the younger kids and while there has been a ton of work involved to make the house into our home, it has been a wonderful move. (Spoiler alert--the boy next door is now a dear friend of both Grant and Everly!)
Here's a video of the kids' first jump into our pool--less than an hour after we signed the closing paperwork:
I'll post more individual updates on everyone soon but we're doing very well and grateful to look back to see all of the blessings God has provided over the past two years.
