House News!

For those of you who know what I am talking about we have some exciting and daunting news: house building officially starts on the 14th of November. From that point on all of Brent's waking hours will be spent at work and the house project, so all and any help would be most appreciated, as it would be really nice for his family to see him too!

For those of you who don't know what I am talking about, we are a part of a housing project similar to "Habitat for Humanity". In this group there are ourselves and six other couples or single people, we are all granted loans to buy land and build houses we other wise could not afford. All we have to do is build all the houses, spending 30-40 hours per week at the job site, working together as a group. There are a few things we will contract out like the wiring and plumbing, but most of the work is done by the future owners and neighbors, us! Right now as it is winter the minimum is only 30 hours a week, 15 of which Brent has to do himself, the other 15 can be contributed by friends and family. Then in the summer when there is more daylight hours it will probably increase to 40 hours per week.

Brent usually works a few 12 hour days per week at his job so getting the 30 hours will be exhausting, any volunteers will be gratefully pounced upon. You would be working with Brent as volunteers can' t go alone :)
Once we get more settled in with a new routine for Derek and Caleb I can contribute hours by babysitting for one of the other families, but I have my hands full as it is so that might take a while to happen ;)

Today was Caleb's 2 week checkup and we found out that he is growing in leaps and bounds!
He needed to be back at his birth weight of 8lbs 14oz, but he has managed to surpass that at 10lbs 3oz, breast milk is great!