Our New Home...

....will arrive here shortly, not today though. It will arrive soon, but I can't tell you the actual day because we are surprising the Girl's, so they don't even know what day its actually going to be sitting in our driveway...As soon as they know, I'll share pics of our new home!

Well, I'm sure you've worked out our new home isn't a house, since it'll be sitting in our driveway and since we will be travelling in it, Haha.

I'll show you a sneak peek of Our Home. I took these pics at the dealership! 
Here's Just a sneak peek...

Home Sweet Home...

See that wonderfully large awning, I'm picturing sitting under that, in my comfy camp chair, drinking my icy cold ice coffee, after just returning from a very looong day at the beach, I can smell the beautiful ocean, can you?  Haha!

My Spunky Hubby with Peter the Roma Salesman...

We purchased our caravan from Melbourne Roma Caravans in Campbellfield, Victoria. 
Peter is one of the salesmen at Roma and he is GREAT to deal with, he is very friendly and super helpful and he gave us a tonne of advice!

Thanks peter for your friendly customer service and advice!

Oh and I'll be back soon ( not today ) to walk you through our Humble Abode :-)

Take care,
Dimi xoxox
 

Our Girls Are UNBELIEVABLE...

Don't you just LOVE Kids? They are the BEST.......

Our girls are just so kind, smart and sooooo beautiful ( I can brag can't I? Haha ).
They decided they wanted to help raise some money for our journey, in particular, they wanted to raise some ice cream money for along the way. We intend on finding and eating some of the BEST ice cream in Australia, its one of our favourite sweet treats, YUMMY!

The girls decided to have a car wash in our front yard and at the some time they would sell some of our churches fundraiser chocolates, such clever cookies they are :-)

Well, they planned it and they did it, and they did a BRILLIANT job of it too ( Yes, I'm bragging again :-) )
They sold some chocolates for the church fundraiser and they also made $15 washing cars, they even had a few people ask if they would have another car wash in a few weeks because they couldn't make it to the car wash that day! 

Oh, and then they attacked Shane.....Haha!

 
We are Sooooo proud of them, they Love being helpful and serving God... 

Take Care,
Dimi xoxox
 

FUN times ahead...

Then the fun times began, well maybe not FUN...Haha!
I mean the packing began. Its been "FUN" to go through old photos, the girls art work and old baby clothes and toys, its been a GREAT trip down memory lane.

Its funny how many "things" you accumulate over the years and we are the type of people who have a clean home and often have a good clean out every so often, yet we still have quite a lot of possessions!

So we've been sorting through our possessions and we have given away and donated many of our things and the rest of it, we are slowly sorting through and packing.
Shane's dad has been kind enough to allow us to store a lot of our belongs in his unused rumpus room and we also are leaving a few extra items at my mums house. Thank God we can do this, storage expenses would be a big chunk out of our budget.

So the sorting and packing continues until its time to say GOODBYE to our home and move on to our next home, our caravan!


A HUGE THANK YOU to Greg and Mum for helping us out xoxox


Take Care,
Dimi xoxox





 

The 1st Inspection.....

......So as I said in my earlier post, we had our very exciting 1st inspection on a Saturday. This inspection came about very, very quickly, it was really not long after we had decided and committed to making this wonderful journey of ours happen. Our Journey of Ministry time and Family time as we Travel around our BEAUTIFUL country, Australia!

 

Our 1st inspection...

 

 

 

 

Well, this happened on the Monday, just 2 short days after our very 1st Inspection...Proof to us that God has HIS very hand on this Journey.......

Just 2 days later, our home was under contract...

A few days after that, our beautiful home of nearly 8 years was.......

SOLD!

SOLD! SOLD! SOLD! It was both EXTREMELY exciting and also a bit sad. Our home of 8 years was now SOLD and no longer belonged to us. It was VERY Exciting because our journey had begun, and we knew with every part of ourselves that GODS beautiful hand was on our lives.
God was letting us know that " Everything is going to work out ."
This verse comes to mind.....
                             Romans 8...
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love HIM, who have been called according to HIS purpose. 

I LOVE it, God is SOOOOOOO Good!! 

 Take Care,
 Dimi xoxox


 

And So We JUMPED.......

We Jumped straight into God's hands...We took a huge Leap of FAITH and as soon as we did, we knew we had made the right decision for the 4 of us, we knew we were doing exactly what God wanted us to do.

These are only some of the scriptures GOD put on our hearts regarding this Journey...They remain on our fridge to remind us that HE is leading "Our Faith Led Journey"...

Once we made our decision, everything fell into place VERY quickly. 
We first spoke with Our 2 Gorgeous girls about our decision ( Our Girl's had known for a while that this Journey was something we were praying about and they prayed with us many times ) Our Girls were SUPER EXCITED!
We then worked hard to get our home SUPER clean, so we could put it up for sale!
We cleaned and organized for 1 or 2 weeks ( it's a bit of a blur, Haha ) and then we made an appointment with one of our local real estate agents and then this happened VERY, VERY quickly...

Our home went up for sale on a Thursday and the first Inspection was that Saturday, It was VERY Exciting for us.....To Be Continued!

So, I Need to go Back, Before I can Move Forward...Continued.....

Continued...

...And so we prayed, we prayed some more and again we prayed!

My GORGEOUS Hubby liked the thought of travelling Australia with our GORGEOUS girl's, and he could see how AWESOME it would be to have that quality time together, BUT he wanted to KNOW that God was leading us into doing this. 
We would have to leave our jobs, we would have to sell our home and leave an area we had lived in and LOVED for 8 years. 
We would have to say goodbye to a church family that we have been a part of and served in for more than 5 years and of course leave our loved ones behind, both family and friends...it was a tough decision...Shane had to know it was from GOD and that GOD wanted this for the 4 of us.

So he prayed and prayed and prayed. I knew in my heart God was leading us to do this. I was SOLD! I wanted to do this for the travelling, for the family time that I longed for and for the AMAZING journey God wanted us to go on, I knew GOD wanted to use us on this journey.

I left Shane to God ( for the most part ).
Months went by and we kept praying, we finally decided on a date that we had to make our 100%, no turning back, decision. 
We would go away for 1 night at a conference that we LOVE and decide that weekend.
We prayed that God would clearly show us, that the journey we were about to embark on, He was actually leading.

These are pics of us at the FANTASTIC Conference at Stairway Church...

At this conference, God VERY CLEARLY spoke to us. If we weren't convinced before, we were convinced now. He spoke to our hearts, He spoke through the preaching, He spoke through the worship, WoooHooooo, HE spoke to us.

So we went out for dinner, we had a chat, we prayed and we made our final decision.....
God was saying to us " FOLLOW me." 

So that night after months of praying, talking, seeking God, our final decision was to take a HUGE leap of Faith...And so, Our Awesome, Wonderful, Faith Led JOURNEY begins :-)

BRING IT ON!

Take Care,
Dimi xoxox 

So, I Need to go Back, Before I can Move Forward...

2015

Spent many hours speaking to GOD at this GORGEOUS spot.....

This year we had everything figured out, we knew EXACTLY what this year was going to bring for the 4 of us.....Okay, maybe we didn't know EXACTLY what 2015 was going to bring, I'm slightly exaggerating, Haha....But we had plans and we were determined to see them through, we were determined to make them happen.
You see, I'm the type of person that has an idea and makes it happen, BUT, not this time, Nope!

2015 started on a bit of a HIGH for myself and Shane ( My GORGEOUS Hubby ) but we soon realised that what we had thought 2015 would bring, it did not, ARRGGGHHHHH.

It was difficult to have some of our dreams not become a reality, seeing as I worked hard to make them happen, BUT I can plan whatever I want for my life , at the end of the day, GOD'S plans are Soooooooooo much better, WAHOOOOOOO!!

So... you won't really know what I'm talking about because I won't share details, But I will say though, that God said to my Gorgeous family, " what lies ahead, is far, far better than what you leave behind," and I say " BRING IT ON."
His plans are far better than mine!

Okay, I"ll move on......

Sooooo, this brings us to a HUGE decision we had to make...Many years ago I wanted to travel, in fact I did a little travel around Victoria when I was a young and crazy teen/20 something girl, but I wanted to travel a lot more.
Life went on and those travel dreams went on the back burner, as they do, but throughout my marriage, I kept badgering the man of my dreams ( Yes, I mean Shane, my hubby ) about travelling....even more so this year, this seed just grew, and grew and grew.

So I did what I do best and pestered, no I mean prayed to GOD about it a whole LOT!!
I prayed and prayed and pestered and prayed, and to my amazement, I felt GOD was telling me to go..To TRUST HIM, To follow HIM, YAYYAYYAY!

So now the real hard work started.....I had to convince My SPUNKY Husband that not only did I want to travel Australia with him and our two GORGEOUS daughters, but God said so, so he couldn't say no to me because if he said no to me, he would be saying no to God's plans for us, Haha!

Unfortunately, I nagged my Hubby for a little while, just a tiny bit though..... Okay, Okay, I nagged him A LOT, but then I felt God tell me within my heart, "Leave him to me."
Awesome, I was wrapped, I will leave Shane to God, YAY!
Shane can say no to me, but he can't say no to God.......
.......To Be Continued!
 

I always feel close to God at the Beach.....

Take Care,

Dimi xoxox