Blessings

We've been so blessed these last couple months from our family and friends. When we returned home from our summer holidays in Vernon, Josh told me to come look outside in our backyard. John had dug up our whole yard and got it ready to put new grass. It was in a pretty bad state so John came over with his tractor and removed old trees, old cement blocks and ordered new sod to be laid for our yard. We had torn down our old deck last year and hadn't done much to it since so John tampered the ground and got it all ready for us to lay our stone patio. Another thing we are hoping to do this summer.

We then walked into our garage to find that it had also been cleaned out by Tammy and Marie (a friend and youth from our church). It had been another thing on our to do list, but was never getting done. I don't even want to think of how gross our garage was so I was very thankful to Tam and Marie for cleaning out all the of junk, dirt, and loads of pop bottles out of our garage. Josh's grandpa also came by and fixed our garage door which Emmett had torn a hole through a few years ago. It was such and unexpected surprise and we are so grateful for everything they've done for us.

Here are some pictures of our yard. Liam has loved having his Papa Phillips over all the time. I have to try and distract him or get him to just watch John work from the window otherwise he can be a little nuisance and it's a little tough for John to get any work done. :)

Liam watching John from the door.

Of course he didn't last too long at the door and was down there helping out too.

The sod took awhile to come in, so we were very excited when it finally arrived.

Grandpa Brown, John, and Josh all helped lay the sod.

A new fence is another thing on the to do list :)

Yay for new grass!!

As well as re-doing our whole back-yard, John, with the help of Josh and Marie, has also been over here on his days off re-shingling our garage roof which was also in a pretty sad state. As you can tell, our house needs a little maintenance :) It's been wonderful to have all his help!

And then yesterday, we had another blessing from our other friend Marie. She is an amazing cook and offered to come by and cook us some meals to put in our freezer for when we get home from Edmonton. She made us soups, casseroles, chili and meatballs. It's going to be hard for me not to eat everything right away...it all looked so yummy. Thankfully she made too much of one soup so we got to have a little sample for supper last night.

Liam helping Marie make one of the soups.

We`ve had so much support from our family and friends and we thank you all so much!