The first week in SC

Hey everyone!

Adam and I have been here in SC for a total of five days now; much has been accomplished, and we are very pleased with how it has all gone so far. The moving truck arrived on Wednesday with all of our stuff intact! (I was a bit worried...) With the wonderful help of our parents most everything found a home and was put away on that first day. Our home needed a little bit of tending to with some maintenance issues...it was very helpful to have Dad Ploeg and Dad VK here to tend to those things.

On Thursday the boys headed to Lowe's (unsupervised...always a risk) and the ladies headed to Food Lion to fill up our cupboards. (Maybe next week I will make my first and much anticipated visit to the nearby Piggly Wiggly...can't wait!! lol).

By Friday we had accomplished most of the home maintenance tasks, and decided to head to Myrtle Beach to explore and have lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe. (Come visit and I'll take you too!) We headed down to the beach and put our feet in the water and whetted Mom VK's desire to come back and spend a day lounging on the vast beach.

Friday afternoon brought our first Florence tears though...it came time to say goodbye to our dear parents and them say goodbye to us. Probably the least fun part of our week so far....Adam and I both realize that our parents support our decision to move here and are proud of courage to step out of our GR bubble, but it was hard to see their tears and sadness as they drove away. We will miss them dearly, and it will take some getting used to considering we won't be able to drive up for a day to go shopping or stop by for dinner or a round of golf. We can't thank them enough though for taking an entire week of vacation to drive 16 hours and help us transition and settle into our new home. We love you MOM(s) and DAD(s).

So everyone, I understand if reading our blog gets boring after awhile, but I hope it is informational and updates you on how Adam and I are doing. We will try to post as big milestones occur, or maybe even little things like buying my first sunshine-shaped fly swatter come up. Also I hope this will be an easy place to post prayer requests that Adam and I have along our journey. Thank you to those of you already praying!

Much love, til next time...