Illinois now - 3 states in one day!

Yes we are moving along quite well. Jim wanted to get a nice full day of driving today. We started out around 8am this morning and he will probably go until 8pm. We won't drive so long everyday he says and we are stopping at a motel tonight so we can get a real good night's sleep. We are down to only about 1300 miles to go till we reach our friends place in Montana. Then we have about another 400 miles or so to Calgary.

We missed the state sign this time. Maybe we will catch the next one. :)

I took a picture of the interstate sign so you know where we are.

Now we are in KY

Day 2 - Continued

I told you we wouldn't be in TN for long. We were able to catch a picture of the sign this time. Jim was able to pull over so I could snap it. The girls are taking long naps with the movement of the truck. They probably won't sleep tonight when we want to sleep.

We are in TN today

Day 2 - Scherck Trip Log

Well, Jim drove as long as he could to get us through Atlanta in the middle of the night. Atlanta traffic is much less at 1 in the morning. :) Around 3am we pulled into a rest stop so we could get some sleep. We all piled onto the King sized bed in the trailer and settled down for a few hours sleep. Around 8am we pulled away to get started on the second day of our travels. We stopped at Cracker Barrel for a hearty breakfast to get us going. The babies are doing great. They love looking around and seeing new things.

We entered into Tenn. around 10:30am. We are just going through the skinny part so we won't be in it for long.

We took a couple pictures for you. We are happy to be seeing mountains again, and cooler weather.

We are in GA

Day 1 - Scherck's move to Canada

We started down the road at 7:00pm on Monday Sept. 8th after a grueling hot day in Jax re-packing the trailer. Jim had taken some stuff out because one, we were very heavy and two, he had to get his tools out to modify the trailer. It started to rain in the middle of this and some of our stuff got wet. Not a great start, but it will get better. After a tearful goodbye with Jim's family, we headed out. The GPS shows that we have 2100 + miles to go to Montana. We are going to drop the trailer with a friend of ours who is a Boarder Patrol agent in Montana about 4 hours from Calgary. We will leave the trailer at his place until we have our work permits, then go back and get it.

We tried to click a picture of the welcome to Georgia sign as we drove by. It is not very clear, but you can tell it says Georgia. :) Only 9 states to go and 2064 miles.

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We are on our way!!

The Schercks are on their way to Canada. We spent the past week with Pop and Tutu, Tami, Brandi and Cayla (Jim's family) in Jacksonville, FL. We blew a tire in the middle of the night on the way to Jax. We had to wait in a WalMart parking lot from 4am till 8am when the tire department opened. Then once he got new tires and had to put them on himself in the blistering heat in the parking lot. It's a WalMart rule that employees can't help people put tires on trailers. Once we got to Jax, Jim and his Dad made some other modifications to the trailer to make it pull better. It took a little longer than we had expected, but we hope now to have a safe trip with no more blown tires. SO, now we are finally on the road. We are going to document the trip on the blog so everyone can kind of ride along with us.

This is such a bitter sweet move. We are excited about many things and looking forward to our new adventure in Canada. We are mostly looking forward to being able to go to our church weekly. It is so important to us to serve in the church and to raise the babies in the church. In this profession, we are working on Sundays and at other places they require us to take the kids in our home to a specific church they want all the kids to attend. So we have to take them and don't get to attend our church unless we pay someone to take the kids to church. At our new job, we will have 2 full time assistants. We are their direct supervisors and can schedule them to work on Sundays while we go to church. This is a huge part of the reason we chose to go to Canada. We know the Lord blesses us with all we have and we have to give back by serving in the church. We are also excited about working for a company that actually has a proven program in place and will give us some training. We found that we have a nack for this work, but will surely benefit from training. We know this is the Lord's work that He would have us do, so we will go, we will do.

The bitter part is the distance. We will be so far away from our families and friends that we love so much. It is especially hard since we have the twins now. We want them to know their family. We will blog, send pictures, videos, call, write, email... whatever we need to do to stay in touch and make sure you can watch the girls grow. Hopefully some of you can come visit us in Canada. It is a very nice place for a vacation I have heard. Come in the Spring or Summer though, it is really cold in the winter. :) You may get stuck in the snow. :)

Keep checking back for more trip log.

Trying to get a passport photo

World Travelers!

Well if you haven't heard yet, the Schercks are moving to Canada. The school we worked for in NC could no longer afford to keep our position, so we were let go a couple weeks ago. We were disappointed at first because we didn't want to leave the girls we had developed relationships with, but the inconsistencies in the program were a concern for us. We got several calls back very quickly from the many resumes Jim put out on the internet. We got intervews done by conference calls and were offered a position in Calgary, Alberta Canada. I know it is far away, but there are many positives for our family. We know that the Lord has His hand in our lives and guides us to where He needs us. We feel very strongly that there is a reason we were here in NC for these past 6 months and there is a reason that we are going to Canada now. We love what we do and couldn't imagine doing anything else. We feel that we are serving the Lord and making such a difference in the lives of the kids that come into our home. We are truly looking forward to this new adventure. We are on the road right now traveling to Jacksonville to spend some time with family before going up there. We are all packed up in our 24 foot enclosed utility trailer. Jim is a phenomenal packer and has everything strapped down. It took a lot of work to get us all packed up this time with the babies needing us so much. Jim has built a bedroom for us in the front . Our king mattress is up on a platform with room underneath for 34 tubs of stuff. Then he has a closet system for our hanging clothes and a tub system that we bought at IKEA for our clothes and stuff. It is really great! He is a genius! That way we can stop when we need to along the way. Since we are going to another country, we need pictures to cross the border. We had the hardest time getting the babies to be still and look straight. The slide show pictures are the result of shooting continuous shots in hopes we would catch them looking straight. I made noises while Jim held them. They just wanted to look at Daddy. At one point Jim had Alyssa on his head so she couldn't see him, but she decided to play with his hair and still did not look up. We thought they were so cute.

Too cute not to share!

Happy Faces!

Yellow Fun!

This long, yellow, air filled packing material came in a package Jim had ordered. The girls had the best time playing with it. (Supervised of course). I thought it would make some cute pictures. They like the noise it makes.

We are sitting up on our own now!

The girls are reaching milestones all the time. They have become very good at sitting up on their own. I was propping them with pillows and sitting on the floor with them. Now I can put them down and let them play with toys. They are good for a little while, then they want me again. Hannah will cry if Alyssa gets to close or bumps into her. Alyssa seems to be the one getting ready to crawl first. Hannah has the stance, but she doesn't move forward. Alyssa will get up on all 4's then put her head on the floor and roll over and sit back up. She does it several times until she makes it across the floor. It is so cute. She is so determined to get somewhere. That is why Daddy calls her Zoom-Zoom. :) Gidget loves it when the girls are on the floor. She comes and checks them out and gives them a few kisses. They love her and light up when she comes by them.

Look what Hannah got into

I had feed them some cereal, and left the left overs on the floor under the Boppy. I thought it was out of the way. At this time they weren't getting around too much. I was getting something and had put Hannah on the floor to play with toys. She had other ideas. She had it all over the place in a matter of seconds. I of course grabbed the camera before grabbing a towel. :) Alyssa wanted some too. You can see her reaching out for it. They are both so amazing. They do something new everyday.

Cutie Mail!

Play time!

We are 6 months old now!

Look how cute we are! We had a lot of fun shooting these. It is really difficult getting two babies to smile at the same time. :)

Adorable babies!!

Camping fun!

The twins went on their first camping trip at 51/2 months old. We had a great time. We went to Lake Hartwell in SC with all the girls from the school. There was a tornado within a couple hours of us getting there the first day. We had to go hide in the bathrooms until the wind died down. A tree came down on our campsite kitchen so they sent us back home for a night and then we returned when the weather was better. It ended up being a great trip. It was a little hot, but Daddy bought us a big screened room to keep the babies in the shade. It was much cooler in there. They did great. They went in the water and slept pretty much through the night. I got the cutest little hats for them and a swim tee and swim diapers. They looked so cute. We also got blow up boats for them to sit in. They liked being in the boats and kicking their feet in the water. We love building these wonderful memories with them.

4th of July

The girl's first 4th of July was fun. We had a nice day with our big girls and Jim grilled good food for us. Then in the evening we went up to the ski lodge just a couple mile from our house to watch the fireworks. From where we were sitting, we could see 3 sets of fireworks. I worried the babies would not like it, but they were fine. Hannah especially likes the light. They cried a little, but they were fine as long as we held them. Then on the evening if the 5th we took al the girls to a minor league baseball game in Asheville. The Asheville Tourist is the team and they are really good. The babies were good and the big girls loved watching the teams play. After the game we went onto the field and they turned the lights out and we watched another great fireworks show. It was really awesome. We all had a great weekend.