Work Party

Wow.

I am amazed at how incredible my ward family is.

It's true, that wherever we've lived, we've been surrounded by wonderful people. You have all become our family at different times in our lives. (Which is why I blog...to keep in touch and up-to-date with you!) It doesn't matter what state we live in, wherever we go we know that we will have friends and support group.

Saturday we had a "Work Party" at our new house. (Doesn't that sound like an oxymoron? -is that how you spell that? --looks ridiculous....) Anyway. It was amazing how many people showed up, early on a Saturday morning, to help us tear nasty doggy-pee carpet out of our house, scrape linoleum off of the floor --some as a suprise under carpet!, wash walls, mow the lawn, remove bushes, clean gutters...etc.-and babysit kids. Even more amazing was how many stopped by or called later that evening to see if there was any more they could help with. And were we going to do this again with the next phase? They'd love to come help. (We got so much accomplished in that one day--more than we could have done on our own in a week! We've got a jump-start and I'm super impatient to keep going. Kilz-ing the house is next!)

I am so humbled to be the recipient of such service. Such cheerfully and freely given service.

Thank-you.