Shalom Friends & Family,
I hope you all are doing well and enjoying these hot summer days! We have had a busy month but it has been good! One of the biggest things that is going on is ... we are in the process of remodeling a house that we are going to move into! It is a 115 year old farm house on 105 acres of land! It is really amazing how the Father brought it all about and we are getting really excited, even if it is a lot of work! Here are some pictures ...
The new Happy Hills Farm!
The back of the house.
The place has 3 large barns/equipment sheds.
Some of the cattle that are being run on the land right now.
Every boy needs a field to run across with his dogs :)
And there is a lovely little creek.
One day when Abba and Ima were out of town, they had us children go to the house and make a list of what needed to be done before we can move in. Surprisingly, even though there were 7 of us, we all agreed on just about everything that needed to be done :) Not a lot of different opinions :)
Putting in new windows is one of the priorities! We all like light ... especially natural light :)
A work zone.
Both kitchen windows installed!
Cleaning other windows until we can replace them.
Painting.
Thankfully there is very little rotten floor for such an old place. And a bigger blessing is ... our men are fully able to fix what is wrong!!! Praise YHWH for that!
There were a bunch of old newspapers under one of the floors that we tore up! They dated back to 1970 ... 45 years old and it was really neat reading them ... the world was SO different back then :) I'm sure some of you remember those days but it was pretty amazing for us to read blips of them.
Do you like this advertisement for Levi pants for $4.05?!?!? Or white sheets for $1.78?!?!?!
Sitting by the creek after working at the house one day.
We went to the Manchester firework show for July 4th. The timing of the fireworks was HORRIBLE ... but there were a lot of pretty ones!
Lydia with a couple of her puppies.
Sam on Stone.
Abigail with Gracie.
The four youngest in the back of Tommy's truck ... we were going to help our neighbors pack up, since they are moving as well.
Our dear friends Clinton and Sharon had their baby and we went to visit them and meet Natan'el!
Samuel made a wooden tool box with some wooden toys for Natan'el!
He is SO adorable!
So precious!
Some dear friends, Scott and Laura, came to visit and we took them over to our new house to see it.
Our visit was so sweet and way too short :( But we were thankful for it anyways!
Towards the end of the month, Abba took us four youngest on a puppy delivery trip! We went up to Michigan and then over to New York City and back home!
On our way, we stopped off an exit and visited with Clinton and Sharon and Natan'el, and their Uncle and Aunt for a few minutes! We were only supposed to be there for "three and a half minutes", but for some reason we were there a little longer ... we just couldn't put this little guy down :)
He's just too cute!
For some reason we didn't really get pictures traveling through the different states, but here are some of NYC.
I tried to get a picture of the Israeli flag, but it blurred :(
NYC is FULL of buildings ... if you didn't know :)
We parked on one street and walked down it for awhile.
We found a health food store that was really neat! We got some olives from it :)
Driving home through the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.
Well, that is all for now! I hope you have a great coming month. Blessings & Shalom!
