First Day of School/New Chalkboard September 2015

On to Turnberry

On July 27th, we officially said good-bye to our beloved Princess. Eight years and three new children and countless hours of cleaning, decorating, gardening, painting, reading, schooling, movie watching, playing, eating, cooking, reading, conversing, and dreaming made for an emotional move. We loved living on Princess!

And hello Turnberry. What a blessing!

view while washing dishes

New School Room

Chalk board paint is amazing!

Fireplace Area

Family Room

View from the Family Room

Master Sitting Nook

Color coordinated handprints and towels (a different color for each child)

The Play Room!! 

(free chair that my mom is in the process of recovering for me 

with extra linens.--she recovered the cushion using 

the boys' old black out curtains!)

Our only purchase for the play room

I love that we have butterfly bushes all along the front of the house.

Our Sun Room (unfurnished as of yet) and our deck

the Hammock

the pool!

We're Putting Our House on the Market!

And so it begins...

Our dream has always been to buy land here on Lookout Mountain and build, and in order to get that process moving, we are putting our current house on the market and moving somewhere smaller. We are sad and nervous and excited and overwhelmed at God's goodness!

We have loved our seven years in this beautiful house and really want to see a family buy it and enjoy it as much as we have. Please pray for this whole process. We hope to be showing building progress pictures on the blog within two years. 

Check out the posting for our house on Trulia.

Boys' Baptism

Caleb and Amos were baptized on Sunday at Lookout Mountain Presbyterian Church.

Nate and I were married in this very spot. Naomi, Jacob, and Bethany were all baptized here as well.

Pastor Joe said, "Ok, we can just say the benediction and go home!" because being hugged by Amos was like a sermon and worship music all in one!

Amos Perseverance Simbwa Oster

Caleb Purpose Kimbugwe Oster

After the service we had a huge party to celebrate the boys, their baptism and their coming into our family.

We had at least 108 people at the house!

THANK YOU!!!

to everyone who came

to those who prayed us through this process

and continue to pray as we learn to parent five

to those who gave of their time, talents and money

so that we could be a family of seven.

We are forever thankful!

We are so very blessed.

(and a special thank you to Abby who took all these lovely pictures of our day!)

Easter 2014