Our month of May

We have loved this month in Chico. We are both a year older now as of the beginning of May but that hasn't slowed down our work. This month we were busy working to finish a house near Gridley for an intern to move in. We had one month to transform this little one bedroom house. We made the deadline with no help from our robbers. We spent about 3 hours beginning the install of a laminate floor one Friday and then left for the weekend. Someone decided that is just what they needed so they took up the flooring we had installed but left it. They took all the packages of unopened flooring, Of course they would need to have the underlayment for their new floor so they took that and they would need a broom to clean it so they took that also. They took all of our cleaning and painting supplies. They also took the new blind we had sitting ready to be put up. Luckily we carried all of our tools back and forth with us so they didn't get any of those. They climbed in through the bathroom window and I think all that exertion got them sweaty because they also took a shower in the new shower stall we had just finished putting in. Be sure to lock your windows and doors on your projects and carry your tools!

This is how the house looked one month ago.

This is how it looks now  

 We had some fun visitors come to Chico, Denny and Lorene Berrett from Utah! We were missionary couples together during our first mission in Africa. It was great to see them and reminisce about our experiences together. They were passing through on their way to Yosemite. It was fun to show them the farm and talk about our mission here.










We participated in a Stake Father/Son camp out where their activity was to oil the 30 handcarts that the Stake rents out for Trek. It was fun to see the dads teaching and working with their sons to get the oil on the carts. They did a great job and after a couple hours all the handcarts were oiled and ready to hit the trail.

We worked on an interesting Eagle Scout project with the Strong family for their son, Jared. The Chico Stake requested 10 more handcarts so Jared Strong took that on as his project. Jared and Elder Dever made jigs so the workers could know exactly how to put them together and they would all be the same. We met with a group of scouts and their dad's on Memorial Day and at the end of the day had all the carts made and just needed to put on the wheels and oil them. The boys and dads worked hard and it was fun to see a project go so smoothly. Since then the wheels have been put on and they are oiling them tonight.

The weather is warming up, hitting 100 degrees a couple of times already. We planted a garden and are excited to watch things grow. We planted some cat nip in our window box and this is what we got! I think we will plant some more and see if we get a different color. It is incredible to see the Oleander plants blooming along the highways. What a beautiful time of year here in Chico.