Busy, Busy!!!

OUR FAMILY

in Thailand

(left to right) Peter, Caleb, John, Mark, Mary, Moses, Jessica, Sarah, Terry, Victor, Dave, Naomi, Samuel, Steve, and Rachel. All dressed up pretty/handsome for a family picture.

The light was so bright Dave couldn't stop blinking - of course I was a big help!! Here are the five older, good looking boys; Peter, Moses, Samuel, Caleb, and Steve. (Moses hadn't got his new clothes as yet)

Dave preaching at the Thai Sriracha Victory Church, with Teddy as interpreter.

Auntie Terry & Jessica and Uncle Dave & Mary at the church.

Steve, Caleb & Naomi before church and on the left; Samuel, Moses, Peter, Victor & John.

Relaxing at Grandpa Alan's Home Steve, Caleb and Jessica. Mark - what a beautiful smile, eh?!

We had a bus load from the Chaengwattana Community Church from Bangkok come and Bless us one afternoon. Including us, there were 55 of us in our new home. (no, we aren't moved in yet)

They had games and prizes all organized to play with us for the afternoon.

Here is a group picture of most of the kids and one of our two; Jessica and Rachel.

They ordered pizza's and DQ ice cream and brought fruit punch. We used plastic plates, cups and our fingers. Oh, they also brought home made(by most of the leaders of the group) brownies and cookies. As you can see, we still didn't have the kitchen sink hooked up so we were improvising where we could. (notice the two gals behind me, well, they are at the sink and they had just finished dumping punch down the sink and it ran all over the floor.....well, guess how fast ants can travel.........yikes, they were EVERYWHERE!! and NOW!!)

We had just moved the furniture from the old home into the boys room at the new home - piled everything on the bunk bed bases.

Moses and Peter were cleaning up the front room/dining room for all the guests we had coming. Wow, you should of seen the SPIDER that came along. Yes, it was wearing work boots and could he ever run in them....YIKES!!!!!!!! Dave chased, and I mean chased him with a broom - he was fast..(there was no getting him in a little kleenex - and those big beady eyes......whew!!!

Here is a couple of pictures of brother Al, working on the electrical, and sister Ter, working on painting in the Lighthouse - just a couple of the many jobs that have to be done before renters can move in. It is going great though, now we just have the fifth floor to finish. It sure is looking smart.

Some more shots of the workers on the outside. On the left, Nittaya(from El 1), Sarah and Mark are busy filling buckets with sand to be hauled to the roof for the concrete workers. On the right, we have Caleb, Moses, Peter, Mark and Steve moving dirt for our walkway to our front door of the home.

Here are the concrete workers on the roof - Peter, Samuel, and Moses were usually on concrete duty. Peter is the one working the wheelbarrow. They were awesome workers, but they are now happily back at school. Funny how school looks so good sometimes.