Work at Grand Turk

While in Grand Turk I was to help with the cooking. So Tim set me up a temporary kitchen. It worked out well and quite a few meals were cooked here.




Here Tanner and Alexis were working on knocking a concrete wall down. They had fun hammering into it and seeing that they could actually knock it down. They worked very hard this past week.

Tyler was a big help in working with the guys that came down. Here he is working with Norm. my kids had fun picking on Norm and Norm I think had fun picking on the kids also.

Forrest, Tim and Key Key are thinking on how to get the next piece up on the ceiling. We got all of the church ceiling up and the sunday school rooms framed and part of the ceilings up in those along with other things before we had to leave. The team of guys will be there for another couple of weeks working so Lord willing more will get done.

Here is Trevor and Alexis scraping paint off of the walls. It is very old paint and peeling so I had them working on it. We used plastic spoons. It worked very well and they were excited about seeing the paint come off of the walls.

Grand Turk

We spent the past nine days in Grand Turk working on the church there. One evening Tim took the younger kids and i to the Lighthouse. It is along the beach where it is very rocky and huge dropoffs. it was beautiful and very peaceful to walk along the top and look out over the ocean and watch the waves and imagine the huge fish swimming below (this is the 8,000 feet deep water). it was very windy up on top and we had to be careful to not be blown over, at least us lighter ones, Ha!! I really enjoyed walking along by the water.

Here is a picture of Tim and Alexis, notice how their hair is blown back away from their faces.



Tanner and I

A look from top of the cliff

Lighthouse

Tanner and Alexis posing for a picture with the ocean in the background.

We really enjoyed our time in Grand turk. Will try and post some pictures of working on the church later tonight.

School is over

Another year of school is finished for Trevor and Tanner, Tyler has just a few more days to finish up. they have worked hard this year and finished ahead of schedule even with all of the travels we had to do. never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that I would homeschool my children. We just finished up our third year of homeschooling. I dreaded it every time I thought about it. That first year I could not understand why I had to teach school to my children ( the older boys were attending a christian school). Then when we felt led to go to the mission field i knew why I had to homeschool. Since that first year I have felt more confident about teaching, and have been getting into finding different ways to teach and different books to use. it is more fun to me to be able to shop for school things. I actually enjoy it. Now, don't get me wrong, there are some rough times and days that have many ups and downs, but we made it through another year. If anyone has any ideas on math I would appreciate it. I am still trying to find a math that will work for my kids. We have done A beka and ACE math and both have been a trial. I plan on starting Alexis in Kindergarten soon so that I have time to concentrate on her before the boys start back in school this fall.

Teenager

It is official....we have a teenager in our home now. Please pray for us. Tyler celebrated his 13th at the beach in Grand Turk. We are over here working on the church and so spent some time in the water. it was a beautiful day and the water so very clear.



Posing for a picture. The sun was very bright today.




Enjoying the chocolate cake. YUM!!!!YUM!!!!!

Milk

Oh! the joy of finding bargains. Today milk was on sale for 99 cents. It is cheaper to buy half gallons then a whole gallon of milk here. We have been using powder milk and a lot of milk called parmalat(this is milk in a carton that can be stored on a shelf), as this has been a bit cheaper. We would buy regular off and on, but to find it this cheap I bought 10 half gallons (which is 5 gallons). So now we will freeze it and use it when needed. To have real milk with my cookies. YUM!!!!!

ANNIVERSARY

Today Tim and I celebrated our 14th anniversary. Wow!! Where have the years went? I am so thankful for Tim's persistence in trying to get me to date him while we were at GBS. God has really helped us in our marriage and I am very thankful to Him for bringing Tim into my life. Tim surprised me by putting in some pipes so I could have hot water at my kitchen sink. Since moving here I've had to boil water whenever I needed to do dishes. Now I can just turn on the hot water and do dishes. That is so nice! Thank you Tim, I love you very much!!




Tyler fixed grilled chicken for us. That was very sweet of him.

Here is a picture of us.

Trevor

Trevor is our destructive child. He likes to chop things down. We were on our way back to the house last week and he wanted to see if he could cut down a huge cactus tree. So...... he started whacking it, and whacking it, and whacking it. He cut for awhile and then today he finished cutting it down. Of course, I didn't have the camera with me to show the tree falling down. He was a little worried about it falling on him, but thankfully it didn't. He didn't want to deal with cactus all over him again. He was covered in cactus spines when he was two years old.