What's "Happening"

Just a little update on what we are all doing. Nothing too exciting :)

Pete and Matt are both working for some friends of ours on farms/ranches. I think it's great! They are learning responsibility from someone besides me (which will probably go over better too, lol), getting to do different things from driving a combine to fixing fence to digging out cattle guards... and best of all they are earning their own money so they won't be asking me all the time!! Pete is driving the Intrepid because we got a different car that I am driving. He is very happy!

Jenn is still in the "Big City" working but is home a lot, or should I say Palisade a lot,as she has another reason besides us to come to Palisade?!?! She has a couple different jobs and is helping my mom since she recently had back surgery.

Matt and I helped at Hamlet Saturday. Our church just bought an old building and they had a work day for whoever could come to get the building down to basically bare bones. They figured there were about 35 people there helping and quite a few of them were under 21. One of the things the building is going to be used for is a new Youth Group place. They definitely need more room than what they have now. It will also be used for other things. Anyway, we started at 8:00, ate lunch at noon and then worked some more. It was dusty, dirty work but...we got it all done that day!! Everyone worked together so well!! We all wished we would have had cameras to take before and after pictures. It was such a change! Plus to get pictures of the people and their faces. Talk about dirty!!

I also would have gotten pictures of things like John and Jack in the rafters beating down the ceiling, John, Jack, Matt and I'm not sure who else on the roof tearing down the chimney, Marty in the hole in the front of the building on the scale, Tom C. balancing on very little wood (and about giving me a heart attack) to tear out plaster and stuff over the stairs to the basement, Kevin L. climbing up the same spot and grabbing hold of the beams above, swinging upside and then righting himself to get where the ladder couldn't go. Alec "sleeping" in a wheelbarrow, Alex having so much patience with Caleb when working with him, all the girls having fun in the back cleaning, Karen and Christi and the wonderful lunch they brought to us that different people donated, and so many others! It was a great day, not too hot and a little breeze. And working with friends with a common goal and getting it done!! Wow!

Well, that's it from us for now!