Work Party

The icky coop, before:


and after!

This weekend our family hosted a work party (is that an oxymoron?) at our house. If you wanted to help tear down a chicken coop or shovel some dirt in the garden, you showed up at 10. If you just wanted to come for lunch, you showed up at 12. I had kitchen duty, we fed people well with hamburgers, hot dogs, beans, potato salad (which got a shoutout over the pulpit yesterday!), veggies and chips. Including us, there were 32 people over at the house and it was really nice to have people help us and also nice to have people come visit.

I was really touched by the fact that people walked into our little home and said "I like your house"...that's really never happened before because we used to live in a decrepit mobile home. It was also fun to have of bunch of kids running around, they went fishing in our ponds and actually caught some fish! The weather was beautiful as well, not too hot or buggy.

I feel pretty blessed to have such nice people at church that would come and help us out. We've had people wanting to come help us for a long time, so it was nice to finally do that. It was a really nice weekend.

Our branch president knocked down the coop with his tractor in all of two minutes and six seconds- it would have taken much longer to do it by hand! I am beat after the weekend- it was a lot of work to get the house and yard ready and a lot of work to cook and clean up! Naptime!