Thanksgiving Day Pictures

Finally here are some pictures from Thanksgiving Day... We enjoyed spending the day with the crew from Allegre. A late morning brunch started the day off, and then we had our traditional turkey dinner in the evening. It was a fun day...

The children enjoyed a treasure hunt...

...and games... (poor Alex suffered a bike accident and injured his nose!)

Enjoying the rewards of the treasure hunt...

And a pinata that a family from the States sent down...

The children were thrilled! It's kind of getting to be a yearly tradition to do a pinata... and when it looks like the pinata will give out before everyone gets a fair chance to swing at it, well... it's duct tape to the rescue!!! :-)

There was singing in the unfinished addition 

where the acoustics are really good...

 ...lots of interesting conversation...

And what day would be complete without a few stories and laughs from "The Fishwrapper"???(They are the MOST READ books around here when we have guests!!! I like to tease that I'm going to start charging rent on 'em!!! :-) 

And the perfect ending to a wonderful day...

Just love these sunsets around here!!!

Back again!

3 weeks... does that break a record for me? I'm sorry, I know how disappointing it is to check a blog when the author never posts!!!

It's been a very busy 3 weeks for us... I was in the States for 10 days, and came back just a couple days before Thanksgiving. So that meant a dive into Thanksgiving preparations as soon as I got back... I also came back from the States with a partially torn ligament in my knee, so I'm getting a taste of managing my household on crutches or from the recliner - not my idea of fun... especially when the generator battery goes dead, and you have to get it going again!

I wanted to post pictures from Thanksgiving Day, but Blogger was giving fits about it, so I'll have to try again later...

Some comments overheard from Weston...

In talking to Loretta about her impending visit to the States he wondered, "You're going to come back?? And when you come back I'm going to do school with you?" (He hears the older siblings talking about school when Lor comes back.)

One day when he was playing nearby, he was talking half to himself and half to me. "God made Weston for Mommy... and I'll give you starbursts!" (He really has this thing about wanting to give special things to the people he loves!!! :-)

Later...

Finally!

 So the rain is over, but the wall still needs to be built, and the sand that needs to be sifted for concrete is very wet. We had a beautiful weekend of sunshine, and were ready to begin bright and early Monday morning - with 2 1/2 days left to do the project that was the main purpose of their trip! Of course that day my hired man had to take off for a funeral, and we had to sift all our own sand... Here's the proof ;-) - Cleon & Lori made a really good team! The next day when Lori was shoveling sand for Maxo (my hired man) she said she'd never try that again, because he never stopped for a break! I told her, he couldn't stop as long as she kept on shoveling!!! He was amazed at this "blan"!!! :-)

 Dad cutting the doorway in from the other side (to minimize the dust in the house). I wish I had a picture of him when he was finished... Even his eyebrows were coated white from the dust!!!

 My boys enjoyed helping wherever they could...

 Stress management at its best??? (Breaking the doorway out with a sledge hammer)

 The finished wall with the doorway cut in...

 ("Is Mommy taking a picture of us????")

 The Haitian bosses came up on Thursday and in 2 days had the wall plastered. 

 Saturday night we put hours of "elbow grease" into the tile floors to get all the concrete off before it got any harder!!!

Somehow, having this wall up and the door cut in make the addition project seem so much closer to being finished! And it makes the other rooms feel more connected to the rest of the house! We'll have to let the concrete cure for a while before we try to paint, or the paint will just run off the walls...