{Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end}

2 years ago on July 10 we got married. 3 weeks later we moved (in the heat of the Louisiana summer) to our duplex in Baton Rouge. It is very hard to believe that a lot of beginning's are ending.

 We packed up our first home. 

 {Our duplex}

 {Austin eating watermelon after working hard to load our pod.}

{Much thanks to the guys who helped him!!}

We ended our first jobs- Austin with Reformed University Fellowship (RUF) 

and Anna Caroline at the hospital. 

We said goodbye to our first post-college friends and our first church as a married couple.

We say goodbye for the first time in 6 years for me and 4 for Austin to our direct involvement in RUF. We love RUF! God has grown us tremendously through RUF, both as undergrads and through Austin's time as an intern with RUF.

--- It is definitely bittersweet.---

We are excited about our new beginnings in Philadelphia. We are confident that the Lord will bless, provide, and challenge us in new and different ways. I know we will grow in faith, hope, and love as he calls us to trust him in these new/different ways. I pray we will grow in grace, mercy, and knowledge as we experience a different culture and have the opportunity to learn both from that different culture and through seminary.

 ---He will take care of us!---

God always keeps his promises

 {the most beautiful full rainbow (it was so big! couldn't get a shot with the whole thing in there)
 and partial double rainbow...in Nashville}

{"I trace the rainbow through the rain, and feel the promise is not vain..."}
from: O Love That Will Not Let Me Go