Christmas Letter

THANK YOU!!!!!

We want to say a very heartfelt and warm thank you to all that have been praying for us.

For those that need updating, we have been working on a house project since March of 2010 for our basement. There was a grant program available through Waukesha County for those who were affected by the June 2008 flood; that was the flood that put 5 feet of water in our basement. The program was to help restore our basement to pre-flood conditions.

There was a lot of time, effort (including 15-20 estimates from various contractors), and paper work put into this project which finally broke ground August 1, 2011. The first day they dug half way around our house, but then they stopped their work on August 2, 2011. It was then they found our house had no footings and they needed to come up with a new plan. While we were waiting for soil tests and engineer(s) to draw up plans, our basement wall broke away from the house. The house was still standing and soon temporary support beams were added. We lived there a few more weeks. Meanwhile, the 2008 Flood Grant program job position had expired and our house became the responsibility of Waukesha County’s Parks & Recycling department. They decided it was in their best financial interest to pay to relocate us and level our home, we then became the responsibility of the Waukesha County Highway Relocation department. So, a week before school started, Waukesha County put us up in an Extended Stay Hotel in Wauwatosa for 2 weeks. On Labor Day weekend we moved into a rental house in Waukesha and began our search for a new home. We sold our house to Waukesha County on Wednesday, October 5, 2011.

We had never seriously considered moving before this. It took only 2 weeks of serious looking before we found our home. We had a sharp realtor and we worked with an amazing seller, one that fixed all we asked him to fix and wound up with a great house that we had purchased on October 28, 2011 and we moved into on November 3, 2011.

Well, we serve a very AWESOME God who has used this project to teach us some lessons! We are filled with praise and thankfulness to our Lord for taking great care of our family in His timing. We never anticipated a new house when we pursued the “basement project”! We now have a newer, larger home, with a spacious yard and a dry usable basement! Our new address is:

Ryan, Sarah, Dash, Sammie, Ali Cohan

S37 W25065 Wesley Dr.

Waukesha, WI 53189

God is amazing!

What are you praising Him for this year?

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