First, we know it is not the hard drive because we were able to buy a hard drive enclosure and connect it to our desktop so we could retrieve all of our information. Praise the Lord! Second, it crashed AFTER I finished all of the 2009 financial statements for the ministry in Guatemala! Praise the Lord! Third, we have a desktop that the kids use for school so we have still been able to connect to the internet. I pay most of our bills online and retrieve Don's paystub as well so this is really a blessing! The Lord is so faithful!
We have been trying to finish our curriculum for the year. We won't really take a huge break over the summer but it is nice to finish up some books so we can start something new. The summer stuff is generally less intense and more "fun" than school. We have also been trying to get some work done outside. Yesterday we worked in the garden and on a patio project.
Caleb and I working in the garden.
Bethany, Hannah and Samuel are working on our patio project. We moved the swingset further back in our yard (you can see it in the background) so that we could put a patio where it used to be. They are shovelling up the wood chips into buckets and then hauling them away in the wagon. They had a system where Hannah and Samuel would shovel. . .
. . . and then Bethany would haul. They worked really hard and were very tired! We are hoping to get the area all level so Don and Caleb can lay brick down soon.
After all the work and school was done, the kids filled up their squirt/squeeze bottles and had fun getting wet.
We have been having great weather here so it has been fun to be outside more. We are going to my parents for Memorial Day weekend to spend some time with them and do some bikeriding. Hope you all have a great weekend as well! Thanks for reading
