Additions & Renovations





RENOVATIONS

ADDITIONS





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God has been very good to us as we prepare for Candidacy and our family's transition to Alaska.  From the arrival of our healthy baby boy last week to all of the support from our friends and family.  We have had people in our home priming, painting, packing, moving and fellowshiping.  We have had really great meals every night since Caleb arrived.  The coordination of all has been the mighty work of the Holy Spirit.  There is no schedule for work and support - people just seem to call and volunteer at just the right time for just what the need is. 

ADDITIONS ...
Caleb James Bodolosky arrived in our lives on January 10th, 2011.  He is very sweet and his siblings love him dearly.
   

MOST OF THE FAMILY
(little kids are still with their other families)

FIRST BATH

GOING HOME



Everyone is loving on Caleb and adjusting to having a new baby brother in our house.  Caleb has been eating well, gaining weight and is a happy baby. The older children have been an amazing blessing with the care they have been giving to Caleb.  They help with everything and so far have a lot of joy to do so.  

 RENOVATIONS ...

The picture of our bedroom above was where we were a week and a half ago.  Thanks to the help of many great friends and family here is where the bedroom is today:

Our bathroom is still a work in progress but we are close to putting the finishing touches on it

MASTER BATH BEFORE

MASTER BATH NOW

The girl's room was a lot of fun.  I wish I had taken a before picture of their bedroom before we started painting.  The room was a hard to look at fushia color with light blue polka dots.  I took a picture of the light switch that still had some of the fushia color on it:

THE COLOR - HARD TO LOOK AT!

After a lot of paint and primer applied by our good friends from Charlotte this is where the room is today.  Hopefully the girls will sleep in their room tonight and get off of the couch.

THE GIRL'S ROOM TODAY

God is good all the time!  That is all I can say.  Sometimes there seems to be so many things happening at once we cannot keep it all straight but it all works out perfectly.
TO GOD BE THE GLORY!

COUNTDOWN TO CANDIDACY

We are excitedly preparing for Candidacy!!!!

Selling our House ...
We are moving forward in faith and putting our house on the market before we leave for Candidacy.  We have never cared to update our home and now that we are placing it on the market we are doing several projects to make our home more desirable.  Our crew has been working around the clock.  We have moved out of the master bedroom and moved our king bed into our girl's room.  Now we have a bunk bed and a king bed in this room.  On any given night there can be anywhere from 5 to 7 people sleeping in this room.  It sounds crazy but it's actually been a very fun and peaceful time.  Here are some pictures of the master bedroom:

Sarah Sanding Away on Bathroom Walls

We had a good friend and realtor tell us that if we were going to spend any time and money we would get the most return from improving the master bath and kitchen - we decided to start in the bath.



The Crew Working Hard and Having Fun



We could not exactly change the master bath without making the master bedroom somewhat similar.  The kids had fun ripping down wallpaper, repairing and sanding walls and playing tic-tac-toe on the walls.  I hope they don't continue to play games on the walls once we get them painted.

We are out of town this weekend for Air National Guard training and Jen's mom & dad and a great christian brother are at the house trying to get the walls primed and painted.  The goal is to get mom and baby in the room as soon as possible. 

Next - the living room and kitchen.

Funds... 

We are leaving for Candidacy on March 16th.  We have to pay for the airline tickets and van rental ahead of time so we need to raise our funds by February 15th.  Our budget for Candidacy is $11,000 and our church has set up an account from which they will manage the funds for us. Checks can be sent to the church office at the following address:

     Taylors First Baptist Church
     200 West Main Street
     Taylors, SC 29687-2342
PLEASE MARK THE Memo Section with the following:
     BODOLOSKY M.A.R.C. CANDIDACY

Please continue to keep our family in your prayers.  We are about 2 months from Candidacy.  At the end of Candidacy we will know if we are invited to join the M.A.R.C. staff.  Our new baby is due any day and we cannot wait to meet him.  Our house is coming along and we are praying God has a buyer ready.

Preparing the House for Market

We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas. 

Our house was filled with joy and excitement as we celebrated the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

As you can imagine there is also a lot of excitement and anticipation of the New Year and Candidacy.

We continue to declutter, give away, throw away and pack.  It's an amazing process of renewal in and of itself.

Prior to Christmas we sent an email with details about Candidacy.  Many have asked where they can help us prepare physically for our departure on March 16th and we promised we would provide more details prior to the New Year.

The Crew in Action Demolishing our Master Bedroom

Jennifer and I have created a list of projects and set priorities.  We are starting the projects immediately and we can always use any helping hands offered.  Our plan is to work on the following weekends (keeping in mind that at some point Caleb will arrive and we will take a small break :-)  :
    Dec 31 - Jan 2
    Jan 15 - Jan 16
    Jan 22 - Jan 23
    Jan 29 - Jan 30
    Feb 12 - Feb 13
    FEb 19 - Feb 20

The primary tasks we need help with are preparing to paint and painting.  As other tasks arise we will make those needs known.  If you have a period of time you would like to help please let us know and we will coordinate with you.

Please continue to lift our family in prayer as we move toward Candidacy.  We are very excited and drawing closer to the Lord daily.