GOD PROVIDES IN AMAZING WAYS

This is our new ride.

and this is the kids enjoying a drive around the cul de sac in it. :)

We knew that as we added to our family, we would outgrow John's truck.

our camping trip a few weeks ago confirmed that. The 3 car seats barely fit in the crew cab and we had to leave our dog with my parents cuz there wasn't any room for her.

With us praying over the adoption of another kiddo or 2, we KNEW we'd need another vehicle to tow a camper or boat or whatever.

We've been looking at Yuk*n XL's and Subur*bans for a few months now on re-sell websites. There just wasn't much in our area for a great deal so John started looking in neighboring states..cuz with my flight benefits, we could fly anywhere for free and just drive the vehicle home.

John decided to put his truck up for sale a few weeks ago...fully expecting it to take awhile to sell.

2 days later we had a guy in Iowa interested in it, he paid for a mechanic to check it out and 2 days later it was sold to him. He flew in last Friday to officially buy it and drive it home.

only God could do that!

So Saturday John and I took the first flight out to a neighboring state to look at this Yuk*n XL. It was a smokin' deal so we had to at least take a look at it. It has a few minor cosmetic blemishes -a small dent, a few very small scratches, etc....but everything else seemed to be in top shape.

we had decided, even before flying out, that we would offer less than they were asking if we wanted to buy it. You gotta do that right?! :)

We had really hit it off with the family selling it -just nice, old fashioned, down to earth people.
After test driving it and looking it over, the man selling it told us "well, I don't know what you thought about pricing..but we'd like to offer it to you for X amount"...that was exactly what we were going to offer THEM.

isn't that so like God?!

between the sale of John's boat and truck, we BARELY had to pay any money for this Yuk*n. seriously.

What a provision from God.

so why do I continually doubt Him?

I look at our finances and have numerous times said "God, how are we going to buy another large vehicle AND adopt? We just don't have that kind of money right now!!"

and look how He provides.

we basically traded in 2 vehicles we've outgrown for 1 we can grow into.

ps-we still have the van :) so now we have 2 vehicles that fit 8. we are blessed.

and just cuz this is cute :)

we watched my sister's little chihuahua this past weekend and Andrew and Mia really hit it off.

Because Andrew was still running a fever, he was really low key and just laid around -so Mia loved laying around with him.