we forgot about you all!..... not really

so sorry for not writing this past month has been crazy! went had c.o.'s visit, convention and job changing. we hit the last convention of the season, it was our friend Casey's so we didnt know that many people there and there were soo many people at it. attendance friday was 5,ooo, saturday was 6,000 and sunday was 8,000!

convention in september

casey & alashia - had to babysit them cause they are dating :)

sitting opposite end of the stage

sitting behind the stage

We also went to a baseball game with some friends in our hall, it was a minor league game that is held in its own field like 15 min. from our place. they host for spring training the major league team of pittsburg pirates. so its a smaller field get to be more up close.

sunset at my parents

Josh was stung red wasp and his hand swelled up and his knuckles disappeared.

here are a few of the meals we have made lately. we are always trying new things...

shark - very yummy would recommend to anyone

pretzels we made at home, practicing for josh since he will be working at  auntie anne's pretzels!

bathroom done & family visits

It's been a crazy weekend but great to see the family.

a little added color to the new bathroom

total transformation!

jr, aiden, malia, ben, janeiyah, josh, abby

jr cooked eggs benedict for us

the house is moving along....

Much apologies for not posting or emailing much to anyone. July turned out to be a bit of a transition time for us, but things are finally starting to settle down. Since we have some family coming to visit in a couple of weeks we have been trying to get a couple projects at the house finished.

my laundry! i for once get to do laundry anytime i want in my own house-i love it!

the rest of the room will be a hobby room once the floor and trim are done.

our other bathroom that was gutted- we should have all the fixtures in by next week

our river-stone shower floor that my mom picked out

the painting that was idea for paint color in our bedroom- josh just put it up

floor in the kitchen & dining room floor is going good, our friend had to take a break from it to do the bathroom

josh had never seen mushrooms this big. 

a wildlife sanctuary - they have trails and this is where the mushroom picture was taken.

July News

Has it been over a month since our last post? Well all we can say that it has been very busy. Where do we start. Our job with the food trailer business was difficult to continue due to we didn't have enough customers coming in as we expected. So the plan was that we would move the trailer back to the chef's restaurant and revamp it and station it in the city. Though it wasn't gonna be another month to 2 months until it was open again for business. Since we are tight on budget we had depart to look for other jobs. Abigail was able to go back to a pizza place where she used to work before moving to Guam. Whereas I was able to find one with a brother who runs his own business doing carpet and tile cleaning focusing more on residential homes than commercial business. So we're trying to get back in the swing of things again. Our home is coming along, slowly but surely. Right now the sister is working on tiling our guest bathroom, which originally planned was to tile the dining and kitchen first. But we got news that my brother and sister and her family will be coming down to Florida for a visit and JR will be staying with us for a couple days. So we at least need another bathroom fixed before they come which is the mid part of August.
Now with the ministry, we finally have a study! A few weeks ago, we did a follow up call from a brother that came down to visit and he found the call when he was here. So the first time we visited we met the husband and explained that we were asked to come and continue our visit with them and we discussed the magazines. Very nice guy. The second time was just this past Sunday and he was there again but watching his little daughter. There were a few distractions with the daughter and dog but he was very nice and patient with us and we were able to go over the study article in the June Watchtower about the importance of using God's name. At the end we tied it in that it leads to using the bible teach book and next time we will come back with it. He seemed excited and said Saturdays are better days to catch him and told us that we'll see him next Saturday. So we know he'll be expecting us to come! Okay enough of our stories for now, the reason why you came was for the pictures. It's not much but it's a little update:

An unknown bug was hanging off the branches in the front of our house

We finally have a dining table!

We decided to make use of the bi-fold doors instead of throwing it away

Added some primer paint...

And turned it into a headboard!

Tiles in the guest bathroom... almost there!

We finally have a microwave! No more taking 30 minutes to reheat food!

One of our hibiscus plant. It's biggest flower from it so far.

Moved in!

This past weekend we finally moved into our new place! Last week we were trying to get as much done as possible so that we could move in and it was not easy. We also had a visit from a friend we have not seen in a while and it was nice to have a fresh face around. Now that we are moved in we still have to finish the dining room and kitchen which will be done soon. There is also the laundry room and other bathroom but I think we are going to wait a bit before trying to finish those-give everyone a breather.

One of the things I have shown below in the pictures is the process of how we textured our walls. This really covers imperfections on walls (which we had many). This method is using regular tissue paper (like what you would use when wrapping a gift), and paint. We love the look and are so happy how much imperfections it covered.

We also start our job this week, training and setting up. I also have pictures of our new work home below. We got to go out to the site yesterday and look at the trailer.

Just so you all know we do not at the moment have internet at our house but do on our phone so we can check our email and that’s about it, so forgive us if it’s hard to reach us. We would like to skype/gmail video chat with anyone who can, so just email us so we can set something up.  

For all of you in Guam we miss you guys a lot and hope to hear from you soon. Until next time………

this part is next

moving in

tissue paper process- need paint for your wall (it takes the amount of two coats so makes sure you have enough, rollers and tissue paper). 

take your sheets of paper like this and scrunch them into balls as see below

undo the balls and layover something as here. you then paint a square about size of tissue paper, then place your piece of paper on wall and smooth but also make your wrinkles - can make it more or less wrinkly. then you roll over it again with paint (so basically your putting 2 coats of paint on the wall). make sure you put plenty of paint on the wall since the paper will soak some up. once dry check over walls and touch up with paint, you wont see the brush marks from touch ups. 

our food trailer that we will be working out of

the inside - on the left side are the windows we will serve out of