Day 3: First day of work

Getting ready to head into the house on our first day of work

The two homes we are working on - one with rusty shutters and the unit beside with the red walls

Inside of house one - there was a lot of water damage from flooding

The whole team looking very dignified

And again...

The whole team looking pretty goofy

Cleaning up the plaster that was ripped off the walls in house two upstairs

Chrystal...working hard...

Alex, plumber extraordinaire!  Look at the professionalism

Andrew was a little frustrated with Gerald...who looks like he is armed too!

Alex....whoa...

Little Peter has many, many walking practices

Sid is concentrating hard - SAG vs Asquared

First Day of Work:

By: Alex V.V and Leah K

       Greetings y'all!!(got the southern drawl on). First day of work went extremely well. Got tonnes done which includes dry walling, mudding, plumbing, electrical work, etc. Many of us learned new things including using a electric drill, mudding walls, hook up wires, and plumbing. Only had one accident in the first half hour even though it was small. Poor Andrew cut his finger. We all learned a lesson from him.... not to cut towards yourself with a knife. Andrew with his assistant Alex B. did the electrical in the kitchen, Cameron and Leah worked together sanding down the first layer of mud.....got really white and dusty, dry walled part of the bathroom, and mudded the walls. Gerald Brouwer and Alex V.V tackled the plumbing in the bathroom, and also mudded the walls. Michael, Chrystal, Tim DeVries, and Sid Bosma worked in the other house tearing down dry wall and putting new dry wall up.It was fun yelling at each other through the walls. Talk about no privacy. After a long day of work, mostly everyone took their first shower. Yuck. Water was cold but very refreshing. After we had dinner of spaghetti, caesar salad and garlic bread.. Yum!!!! Then we played our second round of shuffle board in our tournament. Finals are on Friday...keep you posted. We played a form of dodgeball, which including whipping balls of each other. We played with baby Peter and taught him how to kick a ball.. a great achievement and a great athlete to come!! Also we found out baby Peter can play piano... a great musician to come to. Gerald acting more of a kid then the actual kids. The kids are behaving better then the men. Hopefully the snoring ain't gonna be the bad tonight....good thing we got earplugs. Oh ya!!!! Lets just say that everyone is still alive through gaseous storms and roaring snoring. We have survived quite well. We wish you all well...goodnight!!!

For our loved ones.....a.k.a Mr. VanVeen from Alex V.V

      I found the sapphire gumdrop at the top of the chimpanzee mountain where the ash turns into butterflies which fly over the rainbow giving the boys and girls pictures of sandwiches. The End...P.s I found the pink and yellow polkadotted unicorns......on the planet imissmydad.