We're Packing, Painting, Moving and Unpacking!!

So the internet/phone lines will be on the fritz for a few days. We'll get some new pics up as soon as we're back in business again to show off our new humble abode. Be praying for us in the meantime and look forward to the invite to the Volunteer Celebration/Home Warming Party! Until we meet again, check out our "Cherry" special imprint on our new garage door pad, done by Cristina Cherry...

The Honorable Builder Jake...

Here's my daddy-o again! He got this Certificate of Appreciation at our Open House last month and boy were we all proud of him!! It was obvious that even Eli recognized all he's done for the project and families (Eli mentioned in his thank you speech to about 100 people that I wouldn't have made it without my dad, my validator. They all laughed and I definitely acknowledged the truth in the statement.), building for their futures out of the kindness of that big teddy bear heart! He might have a little bit of a tough guy rough & tumble exterior folks, but it's all a fraud--he's a total lovable, huggable, kind and generous man that just never stops giving. Thanks papa Kuitert, we love you!

my mama, she's a gem and a beauty...

She even got an award last month called the "Crystal Apple" award from the Roseburg Public School System. Quite the honor if you ask me or any other teacher in the Roseburg area! The coolest part of it all, is that she got the prized apple and a very special speech written by her principal, just a few short weeks before her official retirement from 32 years of service to the district on June 9th! Woohoo, what a way to go out! Congratulations mama, you inspire me to greater feats in ways you can't even imagine, I admire you so much! Check out a few pics in this album of all of her loved ones showing up (as a surprise, we all snuck in the back and waited for her to be announced, before making ourselves known with big hoots and hollars) for the deeming of June as the "Crystal Apple" of the Roseburg School District.

Mom's Crystal Apple 5.9.07