I have officially written about everything on that list that I posted a while ago. NOW, there's still more! Of course, that has happened even since then.

In the month of July, Peter stayed home and didn't go to camp and helped David with completely redoing the kitchen. They took a mini-jackhammer and evened out the walls, re-tiled the floor, put new tiles on the wall, added more electrical outlets(because there were only 3 in the entire kitchen before, one for the fridge, one for the mixer, and one for the coffeemakers(American and Italian). So yes, there were times we needed a few more and now there are at least 8...hooray! They also painted the rest of the wall and the ceiling, moved the new furniture in and put in new faucets...it was a job, let me tell you.

They weren't the only ones that helped though, everyone chipped in and even visitors helped out. There was a mother and daughter that was passing through and they helped for several days, Derrick and Jay, Emily's friends, helped for several weeks. They were supposed to do a work exchange with someone else in Florence and once they got here, in Florence, these people cancelled! yikes, so they did a work exchange with us instead, they worked on the kitchen and got room and board. Once we got back from camp, Ryan came over everyday and helped until it was time to stop. Everyone else helped as well, but I can't name everybody.

The furniture is actually used but it's new to us. Pepperdine University in Florence was redoing their kitchen and getting rid of the old kitchen stuff, so Elizabeth Watley knew we were doing our kitchen and gave us their old stuff. Awesome! All stainless steel and the kitchen looks great and is so much better than before. It will be so much easier to work and prepare big meals now. Thank you so much to everyone that helped with that!

I'll post some pictures of that soon.

VBS!!!

Ryan and Laura organized VBS at the Florence church this summer in June. The kids loved it and so did everyone that helped.  The theme was "The armor of God". There were kids from Prato, Florence, and Pistoia. Here's the video Laura made and there is a clip of the skit the guys did that you have to see...they really put on their actor faces. VBS video You'll have to be logged in to see the video and if you still can't see the video let me know and I'll ask Laura for a copy of it or something. Here are pictures even if you can't see the video...

Emily really took her job seriously, making the armor.

Tested and Approved by Emily Woodroof

Zoey is sporting her name tag