Geared up for School

We are trying to have as much fun as we can with our rainy, gray days until school sets in and our days will be filled with forced fun. :-) We got spoiled with nice hot sunshine on vacation and thought we were ready for some rain. Oh we got our rain and apparently are never content, as we are wishing for a little sunshiny vacation again. Needless to say, we've been playing lots of board games and doing lots of cheap crafts.

Tadd leaves tomorrow for California and we are trying to get back into some routine so getting up for school is not such a shock. Kenya and Elijah have been real troopers at getting back into chores and helping mom and dad around the house, now that we are off our extended vacation. Most of their time has been spent playing with and caring for the new puppy that Daddy just couldn't resist bringing home. He's hoping that who ever house sits for us for 6 months is O.K. with taking care of a pure bread Border Collie who is sweet as pie. There was a sign down the road for boarder collies $350.00 Then one day the $350.00 turned to free, which happens to be in our price range. I guess the pups were 6 months old and he just wanted to get rid of them and start fresh with the next litter. The kids were obviously ecstatic.

Tadd has been working a lot for friends and will probablly be working for one of them full time until we leave. Jennifer and Jarod have been doing lots of work getting our downstairs apartment ready in Haiti, most of that includes getting all of their stuff moved and constructed upstairs. We are working on getting all of the technical details worked out here in the states, so we can go forward with the move. Please continue to pray for the adoption as our papers that were lost are now "supposed" to be done by the end of August. We just sent off a package for Annecy's 8th birthday on September 1st. Time flies. Thanks for your continued prayers, it is the most effective and also the only tool we have in this neverending battle. God is so good to give us this tool, we just need to learn to pull it out of the tool box more often then we do. This adoption has been so good to teach Kenya and Elijah, and also Mommy and Daddy how we don't always know why God does what He does, but we do know He always does what is best for us and if we are continually praying and seeking Him, He will give us the peace to get through, until our prayers are answered.