APRIL newsletter!

....good friends!

          It's always nice to have good friends around, like John!  He came to spend a week with us playing with kids and slugging cement!  He and his wife were good friends of ours from Edisto.  His wife, Aubie recently left us for God's kingdom and we miss her.

       We really do enjoy seeing people from back in the states because they lift our spirits and in turn, this growing family lifts theirs.  You are invited to join us anytime for however long you want to stay and help us.  Lori and her daughter, Becky will join us for three weeks in June to help teach school.  The guest house is going to get new windows and a porch in the next few weeks and it will be complete. You have an open invitation!

.....Santi!

        Well, the boy with the appetite has arrived!  It's only within the last week that Santiag has really impressed us with his new habit of eating and what a joy it is!  He also has begun to push his walker around. 

        As always, Momma Trisha is besieged for attention in most waking hours, but we're (the kids and I) are beginning to relieve her.  He still bellows for Momma at night, when he wakes, but even that is subsiding.  He requires a lot of sleep, but will go on with little, if we are not attentive. 

        He still as light as a feather, but his strength grows daily evidenced by his ability to stand longer......and he's so very beautiful with a smile that takes up his whole face!

....racing against the rain

       It's here and still pretty gentle, but the rainy season is starting.  We have been tying a lot of steel for subsequent pours in the coming weeks.  We've installed rebar for the kitchen counters, the living room entertainment center and two more roofs.

This is Ray's office/lots of storage room! We are packing this room right now
and getting breathing space in the sleeping area.

Kitchen has tons of counter space.....the hole at the end is where the kids will put their dishes.

      

Windows and doors are now being made for the house and soon it will really be secure and hopefully this summer, we can start to address the finish coat on the exterior walls.

We've got two large areas which will be poured in a month,
adding 600 more square ft of dry, (keyword) living area!

This is an entertainment center being started in the living room.
Cabinets will be made and slid under the long counter to hold all
 the music and films that we have.

     A lot is happening right now thanks to my retirement checks starting to come as well as some contributions from God's people!  Last year was a brutally uncomfortable with all the rain and temporary roofs.  We are really busting our butts to make life more comfortable.

Sticking to His plan, as it unfolds.

I have set Jehovah always before me: Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.    Psalm 16:8

He sees me through uncharted waters and cements my belief
that He alone is Lord.