Dad & Mom Kelly's Stay

We are lucky enough to have the best family members! Dad and Mom came to visit for the week and from Monday to Friday, Dad and Scott did not stop working. Our home is beautiful - we love it - but there are two things that we need to change in order to make it work for us.  This week was one of them - the master bedroom and spare room became one room this week! On top of just knocking out the wall, they had to drywall a door in, lay the missing hardwood floor, and rewire multiple outlets. Below are some pictures of them working hard.

In the midst of all this, they managed to fix our doorbell and our garage door too. The minute Mom and Dad headed for the plane, Scott was in the garage organizing it all. He is so happy to finally have 2 working garage doors!

Mom and I had a great time visiting, baking, shopping and spending time with Kale and Gilmour!

Our boys were definitely sad when Nana and Papa left....

 

Saturday afternoon after mom and dad had left, Kale and Gilmour worked together to chew the garden around the fence and have a wonderful lunch of onions, carrots and cucumbers.

I spent yesterday a little teary eyed all day as I was sad to see Mom and Dad go, but Scott did a good job of making sure I was occupied. By the end of last night we had chosen a paint colour for the rest of the basement living room, taped the room, sanded our bedroom again and made stairs for Gilmour to get up to our bed on!

While Scott and Dad were taking the trim off in our bedroom, they found this:

"Each new day is a beautiful gift from God."

As I was going to bed last night I saw it sitting on the table, it reminded me that He will always look after us. Yesterday was definitely a "homesick" day for me, but it's not home I miss, but rather the love of my family. We are so happy here with our life, and our jobs, and that wouldn't be true if we didn't have Him. We are looking forward to getting this project finished and enjoying the next few weeks of summer until our next group of loving family members fly in.