Friday, July 17th, 2009.........We Closed with the Bank Today!

Cleaning Day with Pat and Leslie
Taylor and Jacob and Luke......Still Trying To Complete the Garage

Dad Got the Tall Side Painted!!

The Sidewalk

Kitchen Backsplash and Undercounter Lights

Stained Concrete Floor and Fireplace

Writing in the Concrete on the Driveway!

Staircase Turned Out Beautiful!!

We have a place to sit down and eat!!

Master Bath

This Week's Progress

Trecia's cookies in our new oven!
The Door Factory!

"It's been a long day for the back"

The Birthday Girl....Our First Party in Our New House!

"Now...these are the fun people at my party!!"

Taylor, Uncle Josh and Heather

So Excited to Have Both Grandparents!

A dress form for her fashion room from the Aunts and Uncles!

She kept telling people that she was getting to have 13 people go eat for her birthday!

Barbeque ribs are one of her favorites.

The long awaited "getting her ears pierced"

Some More Progress

God Causes ALL things to work together for good for those who love him and are called according to His purposes. Romans 8:28

This mailbox is symbolic of this scripture and what we are claiming as true

regarding the storm and the delay on the house.

A man who will be our neighbor at some point was taking out some fence post and ran into our new mailbox that Josh had put up. He told me he felt bad about it and wanted

to replace it with one that he built. This was about 4 weeks ago.

About 4 days after the storm he put up this mailbox. I cried and told him that "I didn't know to pray that he hit my mailbox so I could have one 10 times more beautiful!"

Taylor's Bathroom Vanity....Rock Wallpaper

Taylor's "LOG CABIN" wallpaper in his room

Elise's Tub

Taylor putting up all the trimboard! He is so handy!

Tile started in the master bathroom

We are all a little disheartened at the thought or "re'doing" when we want to be done. We must count it all joy and persevere with patience (James 1)

Accessing Damage! Taylor has a bump on his head and had

several welts on his body from running to the house from the barn/trailor.

By the way.....the trailor is the only place that the windows didn't break in....how strange is that??

Pat collected hail and put it in the freezer. It had

already melted a lot. As you can see in Josh's window of his truck....

it was the size of a baseball or bigger.

All of the windows in Carl and Pat's Family/Game room
are cracked and broken out. Their sky window in the office and windows in Pat's bathroom are broken out. They are covered with plastic here.


Josh's truck!!!! He and Taylor drove it to the house/storm shelter from
the red barn. Josh couldn't see anything. It was all white so Taylor looked through this hole to tell him when and where to turn! That sounds like an adventure huh???


Dad's truck. His side mirror is even all broken off. This
picture makes it look better than it really is.

We can all be grateful................No lives were taken and the houses are still standing!
Even a 5th wheel trailor!

"THE STORM"

Joshua is carrying me to the front door to see the damage.

Worley and I were almost to Amarillo to celebrate our 20th Anniversary when the

storm hit so we came home.

The stucco up close
Even the concrete siding has dents!

Windows broken out and covered with plywood and stucco has lots of damage on the North

side of the house. The glass is blown all over inside. We just finished

vaccuming up glass off of all that trim and drying it off.

Man, am I going to enjoy that trim when I sit in my house and look at it.

It has had a lot of stories behind it and a lot or perseverance and help from others.

The trampoline!

Trim & More Trim and a break to Celebrate Heather's Graduation!

Pat and Heather

Heather and her friend Sharon

Don't we look good for just moving Heather out of the Dorm Before Graduation??!!

Mom looks so happy, but we really are "sick and tired" of trimwork!!

She is happy to just be here with us and is such good help.

Sharon, Heather, Mom and Stephanie Staining.

Pat and Laura helped too, but weren't here for the picture.

Installing Cabinets & Help Showed Up to Paint Trim!!

Pat, Shannon, Stephanie, Leslie and Laura

came for some encouragment and help.

Shannon's Chicken Salad and Pat's Brownies

were encouragement too!

What Great Helpers!! Thank you!!

Harper and Stephanie in Elise's Bathroom

Shannon ....upstairs living room

Elise....painting the bright pink she picked and talking on the phone.

How appropriate!!

Sue helping with the glowing pink room