During our Building Blocks Trip I met Jamie. All through the days of the build she took pictures and put them on a site. She has it nicely organized for each day. You should check it out.
Jamie had the sweet privilege of having her husband and Mom and Dad there. They all worked hard in building our house. Here’s a good one of them and here’s one of Jamie and her parents.
Here’s one of me from Day 3.

This morning I got a phone call that makes me proud of my three sons. The manager of the park where we live called and asked if one of my sons would come and mow their lawn. The manager has also referred other people to my sons and their little lawn mowing businesses.
We had to figure out who would get it. We finally decided that Jonathan could do it since he has had the least business lately. It makes me smile to know my children have a good reputation for their work. 🙂

Here are some good internet games to help your children learn proper keyboarding.
Kids Learn to Type
Kid’s Typing Drill Game
How Fast Can You Type

In the Bible King Saul didn’t like and was jealous of David, the Isrealite. He wanted the favored warrior dead. David was on the run and being hunted down by Saul’s men. His situation was tense and stressful, always fearful that someone near was going to kill him. I read in the Psalms his words and can relate to him somewhat.

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My husband, Danny, is an independant thinker. I always like to run ideas by him to get his opinion. And then, he makes me look good because I adopt his interesting ideas.
Here’s his quote: If God chooses to make me poor so that my children could be rich in character; I’m fine with that.

Yesterday when I came home from work Ginny showed me a simple recipe for cookies. She asked me if she could bake them. She found the recipe in a book. It was about a missionary names Lottie Moon. Lottie Moon is famous in Baptist churches. She lived in China. Every Christmas an offering is taken up in her name.
Ginny made the cookies. In fact, she doubled the recipe. We didn’t have any cream. I told her to just use milk. The cookies were very crumbly and wouldn’t hold together. But they were still good.

It began raining outside at about 4:30am.
I took about 500 pictures on the Habitat For Humanity trip. I’m still sorting through them and writing in captions for each picture. I just got an email from Mary Ann. She has her pictures on this website She took about 150 pics.

I return to my normal routine today. Stacey is driving in our carpool.
I had the opportunity to take a picture with the homeowner and a range. The range was packaged like we always package them so its from Tulsa. I also got to describe some of the different parts of the range to a young woman engineer from Michigan who took the picture.
I met many interesting and successful people in Arizona. That was the funnest part.

The Tulsa Manufacturing Plant sent five volunteers to the build.
–Brian, an engineer and his wife, Debbie
They worked on House #9.
–Mary, RACAL Laboratory
She worked on House #5.
–Gisy, an industrial engineer
She worked on House #2.
–Linda (me), Manufacturing Line #4
I worked on House #7
We put in more than 40 hours of work on our houses. On our time off we enjoyed fine dining, fun and rest.

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You need to know the basic facts of this major endeavor.
–This is a joint effort by Whirlpool and Habitat For Humanity
–This is the second annual event
–This time 9 homes were built in 4 1/2 days
–The 9 homes were built in Guadaloupe, AZ
–300 volunteers participated

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