That Li'l Bitty

I have had a new swimming partner this summer.

Lil' Bitty........

He loves water, and I was afraid he would fall in and not be able to get out. So I have tried to teach him how to swim back to the steps

so he can get out on his own.

Lexie is just the opposite she does not like the water. Give her a ball away from the water and she fine.

Last Friday night I was babysitting the Sparks Kiddo's and we were in the pool, SS was having a blast, HGS was doing okay as long as she was close to the steps, & FS she was holding on to me for dear life.... In jumps Li'l Bitty( if you go under water he tries to save you) I'm holding on to FS trying to get HGS back to the steps and Li'l Bitty is scratching the girls trying to get to me so I can aim him back to the steps so he can get out(HGS doesn't care for dogs to much anyway). In the back of my mind I'm thinking this isn't as easy as it was when my girls were this age. So when I get to church on Sunday SS has told his parents that I seem to have had a hard time with them last night. He just doesn't know how hard it was to keep 3 kids and 1 dog above the water with just 2 hands. I had the camera with me but no extra hand to take pictures with.

Home Away from Home We are finally getting settled in our Home Away From Home. We have so many people to thank for all the prayers and help that we have received over the past seven weeks. We still need your prayers as we move foward in the rebuilding phase of our home, which should begin in the next few weeks. Most of our things have been removed from our home. When we went by the house today the workers were taking the floors up( we were so proud when we completed that home improvement). We are still working on the inventory sheets, this is so time consuming we are having to list everything that was in the house (when we bought, where we bought, how much we paid for it.) And there was a lot of stuff in my house, we have lived there for 29+ years and I am a pack rat. We had the dogs at the rental house for a few days this week, but we took them back to my parents house on Monday, there isn't a fence here and the dogs were not getting enough of playtime. Ashley has returned to the classroom as a student and a teacher in the past few weeks. She will complete her Masters in October of 2007. She saids her little third graders are just so precious, and she has fell in love with each one of them. Kerrie is busy making plans for her wedding, which will take place ONE year from the day of the house fire so we have alot to do in the next few months.I will need lots of help with the wedding and trying to furnish our home when the rebuilding is finished. We went to the beach for the week and had some much fun just being together as a family, we had nothing to do but spend time together, something we haven't taken the time to do lately. I went back to work last week after alot of soul searching many prayers. The Lord knows if I was not at work I would be at the old house bugging the work crew. There is more to update on but I will close for now. Cindy