Busy, Busy Week!

This week has been a busy week.  Monday and Tuesday were filled with catch up work for Doug since he's been traveling the past two weeks.  The poor guy has a list a mile long of things to do before our April launch service and the busy summer we have ahead. 

In an attempt to try to lighten Doug's load some, I've been acting as his secretary for a few weeks now.  My assignments lately have been to finish outfitting the block party trailer for this summer's outreach events and to secure two apartments for our summer missionary help that is coming in beginning in April.  The block party trailer stuff has been ordered (the UPS man is going to either love us or hate us) and I was able to secure a perfect location for our summer help coming in.  We were able to find two apartments in a fourplex that are right across the hallway from each other!  PERFECT!!  The landlord has been wonderful to work with.  Not many people want to do a 6 month lease.  He is even allowing us to move in our furniture as we need to even though our lease doesn't technically begin until April 1st.  Nice guy!  Now we are on to trying to find some basic furniture to meet their needs for the summer.  Craigslist here we come ...

Wednesday we spent ALL day working on our new church building.  The carpet is being installed this weekend and we wanted to get the painting done before we put down the new carpet.  We started around 8:30 or 9:00 on Wednesday morning and worked until around 11:00 pm.  We were so tired, but got all but the hallway and a bathroom done.  We just ran out of steam and decided we'd just lay drop cloth to finish up those areas.  Adyson was with us all day and worked like a champ.  She painted, picked up screws that were all over the building from construction, scraped up globs of sheet rock mud that was on the foundation to help prep for carpet, swept the floors, and helped move the 130 chairs to the stage to get them off the floor for the carpet guy!  I was proud of her working with such a helpful attitude.  What a trooper!  Benjamin came to help around mid-afternoon as he was still not feeling the best.  He helped out some too. 

Poor Benjamin was sick on Monday and Tuesday running a pretty good temperature (102 to 103), but not having any other symptoms other than a headache.  I hate it when my kids mysteriously run fever.  Then Wednesday he had an asthma attack while he was sweeping up sheet rock dust.  He's never had a moment like that before and it scared him (and me) when he felt like he might pass out.  Poor guy. 

This week, beginning Wednesday, has been Spring Break for our kids.  They don't get a full week like Texas schools do.  However, we have an Easter Break in April.  Our Spring Break has been different this year.  Usually, we go skiing in Colorado at Wolf Creek.   This year, the short break wouldn't allow for that.  Yesterday, we spent the day going to the dentist for teeth cleaning and for a follow up visit for Adyson's eyes.  We got a good report on her eyes.  It seems that doing the dilation drops on her left eye is allowing her right eye to strengthen some.  She had gained some acuity when her vision was tested again yesterday!  Praise God!  So ... it's eight more weeks of dilating her eye daily and then eight weeks of dilating every other day. 

We've also gained two kids this weekend as our friends the Hartung's will be welcoming their new baby girl into the world today.  Their two older children joined us last night and we had a fun night playing games at Peppy's Pizza (kind of like Chuck E. Cheese).  We brought home four tired, but excited kids.  Today they are busy seeing what they can get into and having a ball!  It's been a long time since I had four year olds in my house!  I forget how funny they can be!  They are very much looking forward to meeting their sister later today (hopefully -- come quick little lady)!