As many of you know, one of our prayers for a LONG time now (several years) has been a new job for Matt. The girls pray for this too, every night, especially when he isn't here to tuck them into bed at night. Well, God's timing is here! On Tuesday (June 23rd), Matt had a second interview for an Assistant District Manager for the Charlotte region and ......... HE GOT THE JOB!! We are so excited for this new phase in his career. He won't be in just one store now and have to deal with working his retail hours. He will be over several stores in Charlotte (not sure of which ones yet) and it should be more of a "normal" schedule. Now, there is never anything normal when it comes to the retail world, but it will be a huge change to us!! He starts next week, so I will have to keep yall posted on how things are going with it. Thank you Lord for this opportunity!!
The interview just happened to be in Charleston (because that is where the guy was and they wanted the position filled by the 1st), so of course I offered to let Matt use my car to drive to the interview - filled by his biggest fans!!! Neither one of us has ever been to Charleston, so we made it a little day trip!! His interview was Tuesday night at 5, so I dropped him off, went across the street to the outlets and shopped while he was there. Then we went out to eat in downtown Charleston right on the water with his brother, Chris (he lives in Charleston). We slept in a tiny little hotel room, with one King size bed (oh yeah, we slept with the girls - Harper still sleeps in the pack and play). That was fun - at one point Carly had her head on me, her legs over Chloe, and her feet were on Matt!! Oh well, they slept good. Then in the morning, we ate breakfast and went out to the town. We went on a horse and buggy ride, walked all of downtown Charleston, ate at a little place called Jestine's, went to the marketplace, and then went on a water taxi ride. It was super hot!!! The kids loved the horse and buggy and the boat ride - we even saw some dolphins! It was a long day, but fun to see Charleston. The kids were such good troopers!! They didn't have a nap and they walked and walked and walked that town. They would say, "Mom, what song can we sing?" They thought singing would help out the walk, so we sang a lot of songs! It was fun to spend one more day together on a mini vacation!
On a pier after dinner. We say a man catch a sting ray!
Harper with Uncle Chris
Harper getting Larry the horse ready for the day!
Carly hanging out the back of the carriage enjoy the sights of Charleston!
Of course Chloe did it too!
Pete and Repeat were on a boat!!
Relaxing on our taxi ride - it was nice to sit!!
Here is Carly about 5 minutes after we left Charleston at 5:00 - it was a long 25 hour mini trip!!
And here is Chloe! These are supposed to be travel pillows, but when you put them around the back of your neck, it pushes your head forward, so I tried to crawl back there and put them under their chins - didn't work out so well, so they just bent their necks!
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