All it takes is a bit of imagination...

...A laundry basket cover, a stick, and a handkerchief - and you have an umbrella!!

Boy's play

Sometimes I can't help but shake my head at my boys. They watched the well-drilling and several weeks later, this is what came out of it - a well of their own - dug with a piece of steel!

The problem is - they didn't have water in their well either. But that's easy to solve - just dump water in it. "Mommy, why don't we do that to the {real} well?"

My apologies

Sometimes in the midst of training children, keeping house, and teaching algebra I realize that some things on the blog are way out of date... It's not that I'm not taking pictures, I just haven't taken the time to post them. I have updated family pictures that I've been meaning to post for months now... :-/ So I'm sorry to those of you who have been checking out the Haiti Banquet form only to find last year's date on it. It has finally been updated, so please see the "Haiti Banquet" page to register for this year's event...

It's a gorgeous day, and we're heading to a friend's wedding.

Blessings,
   Rhonda

Amazing

Jared amazes me with his creations and the detail he puts into them!

Here's the helicopter he made from sticks and mud. =)

Pals...

These two little guys are best of friends already. I often hear Jeffrey calling, "Wessin, where's Wessin?" They are together constantly - playing with wagons, drawing "pictures", discussing Weston's favorite book, "Chester the Rooster", and sharing snacks - they fight plenty, too. :-/ I told Weston this morning when he and Jeff were scrapping over some crackers, "Weston, you pray for another little brother and sister - if you had them, you'd have to do a lot of this same kind of sharing! :-)"

Picture overload =)

The rig set up at the second drilling site

The drilling crew (left to right) Jimmy, Sam, & Ivan

Sometimes the spectators had to help. If I remember correctly, these rods weighed 400 lbs!

After Weston had been down there watching for a while, Yeye asked him, "What are they doing down there?"

He was quick with his answer, "Making ice cream!"

With the foam that they used I can see why he thought it looked like ice cream. =)

Always spectators...

And often decisions to make...

And the children???? Fun, fun, fun...

Cherlise with my newest nephew

"hay rides"

The children got so grimy and filthy! Their bath water was brown - or red!!!

Final drilling update

Well... we finished drilling last evening around 6. We did go down to 380', but we didn't hit any better water source than we had found at 150'. We'll have to wait till we can put a pump down to know exactly how much water there actually is. They moved the rig over to Don's land last evening and are planning to start drilling there today. I'm working on posting pictures from the well drilling.