Summer days

It has been a challenge to keep up since we got back. Summer has arrived and there is a lot of children/youth in the yard. Since it has been so full we have needed to spend a lot of time out with them just to supervise. It gives great opportunity to minister to them on occasion - at least when they are in the mode of asking questions - other days it seems to be mostly crowd control.

We are trying to fit some school in as well. The school has been pretty sporadic. Another project we have been trying to plug away at is just reorganizing shelves, cupboards and etc. It would be a great time to have a yard sale to get rid of all these things we're finding that we don't actually need. All of this will hopefully help make more room around here to add another one to our nest. I guess we will just add to the coziness of our house. :-)

The pregnancy is going great and we are getting more excited all the time. As it turns out we will probably have the baby in Indiana so about the middle of August we will head east.

An update - the family that settled in Kansas is doing really good. We continue to see them grow and they are really connecting in the community there with Bible studies, etc.

And now for some pics...We had friends here from Denver for a day and we did some hiking behind the village.

This is the waterfall into the canyon at the bottom of our driveway after about an inch of rain in 20 minutes. (Unheard of for here) To see the rainbow go to Bryce's blog. Even though the rainbow pics don't capture what it was really like. At the top center it seemed as if there was an echo of rainbow below it. (if that's possible) We could see all 7 colors very vividly.

Burning tumble weeds.

Our homemade earthboxes.

Because of all the rain we've had the Mulberry tree was loaded. Here we are harvesting some. Jim would climb the tree and shake them down.

We now have several bags in the freezer. Nice!