July in Chattanooga

We spent the most of the month of July in Chattanooga working on our house. We were between tenants and decided it would be a good time to get some needed projects done on the house. Our oldest daughter, Rinnie, and her three girls came to "help". They were there for two weeks since her husband was away in Kenya. We were able to repaint two long sides of the house and remove a drop ceiling in one of the bedrooms and sheetrock a new ceiling and paint as well as numerous other smaller projects. It was a lot of hard work in the hot sun but very rewarding as well.

Kirk and Sarah and their daughter came for five days and during that time Anna arrived back from Tanzania and Wil and Amy came over for a day. We were missing Erik (Rinnie's husband) and Meg (in Tanzania) but grateful to be with everyone else.

It was fun seeing all four of our granddaughters together and we had some special times with each one. We are very thankful for our children and the closeness our family feels. God has blessed us in more ways then we can begin to say.

At the end of the month we spent a few days with Wil and Amy in Murphy, NC. It was a nice way to end a month of hard work. Of course, Paul did have to replace a water pump and starter in our truck and Wil a starter in his car but at least they could work together.