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We left the day after Thanksgiving, but not until after lots of fun with family and friends....if you followed the 4 little Ferguson's blog, you know we spend noon and after with Dale's crew, and dinner and games with mine. These photos show the 18 leaf table, plus there are 3 other tables, that house all of us there. That's one big happy family! :) We even had some surprise cousins from Philly pop in at my moms that evening. It's always a joy to see Jason and Karena!
 Our social calendar leading up to Thanksgiving was the fullest it had ever been. We left exhausted, but it was so good to see everyone! Even squeezed in some babysitting for Destiny, a girls day out with my BFF for a steak and lobster lunch, shoe shopping, and of course getting the kids together for a playdate...... My momma in law was wanting some help with her big tree at the restaurant before her private Christmas parties start. Dale was my human ladder,and we got the job done right! And yes, he is standing on a chair. He thought he was so funny dipping and swaying around. ;)
And because momma in law has recently redone her beautiful home and kitchen, she has new colors in her house. Well, far be it from me to decorate her tree with her old color scheme, so I asked if she wanted a new one in her new colors......off to Hobby Lobby we went, and created the most beautiful theme! Oh I just adore it! It's like a breath of fresh, cold, wintery air! 
 Being home was not without its challenges, in the midst of the fullest calender we have ever had, we moved too! Not really moved moved, but relocated the stored items from the future apartment side of our shed, to the RV side of our shed, anticipating the builder coming to start working on the apartment. When his schedule got pushed back to January, and with the temperatures PLUMETTING, we made the decision to move the RV indoors. We were not wanting to deal with freezing kids and freezing burst pipes. Sooooo, Dale moved the boxes BACK to the apartment side, in order to open up the shed side enough to pull the RV in to stay warm. He wrapped the pipes in insulation inside too. Yup, it was that cold. We had pillows in front of the door and sleeping bags over the blankets on the kids beds, to stay warm. RV's are luxurious, but they are NOT designed for cold. We were fine, and the heater does a good job, just not ideal. :) Sophie agreed. It is PAST TIME to go to Florida!  After 3 plus weeks in Kansas, we were antsy to hit the road again. We headed south to what we thought would be warmer weather. Nope. It was cold and windy in Texas too! And they were calling for an ice storm later in the week. ACK! We have a blossoming team here, so its important we see them again before hiding out for the winter. We wished we had more weeks so we could go deeper in Texas and see all the rest of the Texas doTERRA Dorothys as well!!!! But made the most of it, coloring, playing games, swimming in the rv resort indoor pool, watching Christmas movies and just having fun. We ate our favorite restaurants and revisited some sites from past trips through as well.   The RV park we were staying at had a fun Longhorn Limo service that took you to dinner. Yehaw! We thought that'd be such a fun surprise for the kids......they loved it! We were celebrating, and PRIME RIB and STEAK was on the menu! YUMMO! A year ago on November 30th, we made the Diamond rank with doTERRA. To explain, Diamond rank is the 3rd from the top leadership rank, and for a long time was the ultimate goal of ours. We have hit Diamond many many times this year, but as of November 25th, we hit it organically, without any special planning or buying in. PRAISE THE LORD! I hope this is the new normal!!!! :) God is so good to provide for all our needs, and allow us to help others in the process, with life changing health.   We have been to Cadillac Ranch before, but we didn't have spray paint. That just isn't acceptable, so we tried tried again. But that's a nother post, for another day! Hugs, T 
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We are home in Oz, working with our team, seeing family and trying to get our shed insulated before winter. Brrr! Whose bright idea was this? Its FREEZING here!
Kansas will always be home, and the perfect "hub" for us to stop back through between our journeys across the USA. Afterall, Ks is 1500 miles from anywhere! :) But the RV is our actual home, and it feels like it! We love coming back from a long day of adventuring to its cozy space, where everything has a place, and our family can be free to enjoy our time together. We want to eventually have a small apartment here, so we can pull the RV in the shed and defrag in an apartment setting while we see family, church family and friends and our doTERRA team. We want to be able to cook up some grass fed beef for the RV freezer, switch out seasonal clothes and see everyone while enjoying a change of scenery. We also have double full hook ups, in and out of the shed, so we can just live in the RV too, which feels like our home now. It's all about OPTIONS! :) I wanted to show you around our future "home sweet shed": Hub Sweet Hub from Tonya Ferguson on Vimeo.
Last fall we put up the structure with some of the money from the sale of our home and acerage. We decided on a metal outbuilding, but I told Dale, it has to be PRETTY!
One half is for the RV, the other half a garage, and someday, a small 2 story apartment! We love the land we found, nice and foresty and private. Right now, its not very green, but in the summer its beautiful and lush! 
It hard to visualize without someone in the photo to help with scale, but this second door is a 14 foot garage door. Nice and BIG so the RV fits!
We hope one day to put a roof over the porch, and create a fun outdoor living space and eating area, facing the forrest.
I have had lots of ideas bouning around in my head since last year, and I can't wait to see it come together.
I usually go with warm, rich, darker tones. For those that followed the other blog, lots of warm taupe, burnt orange, deep red and a pop of apple green. Here are some pics of our old place: 4 Seasons of HOME. https://4littlefergusons.wordpress.com/2014/12/03/the-4-seasons-of-home/ 
This time around, we are doing grey and white as our base colors, so we can create a nice light and airy space. Then accent colors were inspired by two things:
Papa Don's blue fence we asked to take with us when we moved. If you remember, Dale's father was our next door neighbor before he passed away from cancer. I want Dale to turn his blue fence into a barn door for the laundry room. You can see the blue wood on the far left of this pic from last summer....the grey block in the center is the wood floor we will do throughout the main room. In laundry room and bathroom, I want to do that with black and white checkered tile, since its a totally different area of the house. Time will tell! 
The second inspiration was this awesome ORANGE retro leather chair I found on facebook, at a little antique store, and bought over the phone.
Third inspiration came from a retro 1950's silver table with the funky formica top and silver sparkled grommet chairs with square backs that I found at a farm sale.
{not pictured, still in storage} This made me decide to go super fun, retro and vintage throughout our home, as opposed to the cozy farm antiques of the old house. I also want to take old road signs and mix them on the wall with canvases of all the places we have traveled. FUN right!? :) I about SQUEALED out loud in the store, when I found our countertop.... Ok ok, Dale says to tell you I DID squeal, loudly in fact. What? It was SUPER exciting and literally the perfect colors. What are the odds? So here is the official color pallet, not much different from the original set over a year ago, just with some kitchen options this time! So I am hoping to do the kitchen white cabinets with slate grey countertops and the island grey with these FUNKY awesome retro counterops in blue, grey and orange. MY COLORS! Eeek! The orange paint chip is the exact orange of the chair, and the blue is the exact blue of the fence turned barn door, so we are set. I will decide later which paint goes where. 
Here are some more ideas we are loving.....
We want to do this as debt free as possible, so for now, we save up, spend it on boring stuff like sewer, electric and driveway.
Next, studs, plumbing, heating, and air. THEN, the fun stuff!!!! Hopefully soon, but post likely, next summer or fall. It's hard being so dang sensible. {SIGH} Until next time, hugs! T 
We headed back to Oz after a WHIRLWIND of classes!!!! We have been home ever since, working our tails off on our "Hub" and seeing family, friends and team members! If you want to grow in popularity, move away and then come back home, the calendar gets so full its often unmanageble. We are doing our best to swim through 17 functions and get togethers in the next 20 days! Here is a photo DUMP of all the things going on from Missouri to Kansas. We hope to be back on the road by December and escape the COLD! 
Found a YUMMO all you can eat Sushi place. HEAVEN ON EARTH!!!!!
Uno Dare is our new FAVORITE game! Funny things like walk the a runway model until your next turn, everything makes you cry and pin a card to the wall with your nose until your next turn, had us in HYSTERICS! :)
We of course had to see our Fercho friends on the way home......we always have a BALL with them!  Trips home are always full of tons of family get togethers while the Grandma, Nana and Gigi get their Ferguson Fix..... Loads of family get togethers and team meetings too!
We were also honored to be selected by doTERRA to host a Post Convention Tour in our town. Great info on the heart of doTERRA and all the businesses they give to, the upcoming work being done with amazing ministries, the science behind the oils, and the upcoming Medical Journals on doTERRA oils by Johns Hopkins. Great turn out and a great event! We also rented a theatre and had a team movie night, "Ancient Secrets of Essential Oils." It was SO GOOD! The rest of the time was spent doing the normal day to day activities like school, trying to stay warm long enough to insulate our shed, {we have to park outside while we work}, waiting for the builder to come work on the apartment and moving our STUFF around so he can do just that. Below are pics of my bookworms reading at bedtime, a very cold Sophie girl, a mud mask date night and some new jeans and unearthed boots I had forgotten about. {Its amazing how exciting old things are when you haven't seen them in a year and a half}
My visual learners are working on memorizing passages of Romans in school right now. Can you figure out which verse these are? I am so so thankful for My Father's World curriculum and the literature rich, Bible based teachings, we get to utilize and enjoy each and every day!    Did you figure it out? I am no artist, but am AMAZED at how this helps our kids remember their verses!!! We want them to hide God's word in their heart! How special that its part of our school day. I will show you the answers below in case you are struggling. In the next blog I want to show you around our property and the shed/apartment we are building as we have the cash. We don't want DEBT, so its slow and annoyingly tedious, but worth it. Right? Its worth it? Sigh. That's what I keep telling myself!!!! :) Hugs, T  |
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