The Plane Singing Happy Birthday to Neil & Matt

Ready to Take Off from Houston!

We are Boarding the Plane in Houston

More Pics from Houston

Homemade Movie Time During Our Delay

30 Minute Delay in Houston

As of right now we are going to be 30 minutes later than planned. I.
Will post again when we begin to board. stay tuned.

Just Landed in Houston

Our New Look!

We've Arrived in El Paso

We had a great day today at church, eating out, shopping and traveling
to the hotel.

See you all tomorrow night!

The Sign Says it All!

Some Managed to Sleep During Lunch!

Celebrating Dean's "Bithday"!

Dean Loves Pink!

We Ate it All!

The Ribs were Huge!

Church on the Ranch

The children sang a special song for us.

This is Going to Hurt!

Julie's Stitches Coming Out

Hello Everyone,
Well tomorrow is Sunday and we will be doing church on the Ranch with Dean and the children. After church we will head to Texas for lunch. We decided to stay in Texas at a hotel on Sunday night rather than cross back over the boarder to the ranch for Sunday night and then back over again on Monday morning.

The team is doing great and have been a real joy to watch serving the Lord!

Matt

Building Interior

The Group Shot

Dinner Line: Ladies First?

The Building is Looking Great!

The Interior

More Building Pics

The Building is Done...for now!

For Elizabeth

Juan Miguel

Neil & Chips

Above: Children wait in line as Neil passes out chips.

160 Hotdog Lunch

Today Brit made 160 dogs so that our team could eat lunch with all the
ranch children.

Tired at Breakfast

It may be hard to tell from the picture above but breakfast today was unusually quiet.
I think everyone worked extra hard yesterday.

Singing together along with Andrew's exhortation from Philippians 4:2-9 certainly helped to wake us up and give us fresh vision for the day.

Guitar camp

Gabriel Soto, Abi Carrol, and Neal Shenk have all done an excellent
job teaching some of the girls and boys this week how to play guitar.

Success!

Andres Contreras and Christene Hoffman celebrate their triumph over
this wooden horse. They spent an hour making it.

They say it was all for a kid at the Ranch. I'm not so sure.

Sherry VanOrsdel and Daniel with his monster doll, "Daniel"

More arts and crafts:

Arts and crafts camp

Today: wooden models!

Sewing camp

Suprisingly, many of the Rancho boys have enjoyed making their own
"monster dolls".

Update: Friday @ 2:30pm

Hello Everyone,

Just wanted to let you know that we are doing great! The afternoon
camps with the children are about to get going and someone just fired
up the generator on the construction site.

Hope everyone back home is having a great day!

Matt

Meatball Subs for Lunch!

Mountain View from the Roof

The Upper Roof is Tar Papered!

It took about 7 of us all morning to nail down 3,000 cap nails! One more roof to go.

Elise & Abi Cutting Plywood

Bradley V. at Breakfast!

Breakfast Lineup!

Matthew Doing Magic

All is Well

It is Thursday night at 9:30 and we are all doing very well. We had a
lot of fun with the children today and as you can tell from the
pictures we got a lot done on the baby home too.

For entertainment tonight Matthew (who lives at the ranch) is about to
start a magic show for us.

I will write again in the morning.
Matt

Hanging Out With The Children.

Paper Should Go on this Roof Tomorrow!

It's Realy Coming Together

End of Construction Thursday

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Dinner Prep Thursday Night

Everyone Took Turns Using The Gun

Andrews First Blog Picture!

Brittany Post Lunch

Steven Making a Friendship Braclet

Get back to construction boy!