EAGLE SCOUT, DAVIS MCKAY AGLE

Our newest Eagle Scout joins his cousins, Robert, Derek & Mark Sanders in this elite group! CONGRATULATIONS, DAVIS.

Beginning to sort all the collected items!

 

In order for Davis to receive his Eagle Scout Award he had to complete a special project. A lot of work goes into this. First you must submit the project, get approval, execute it and then summarize the results.
Davis planned to ask families and businesses in the area to donate items for a community sale and with that money purchase school supplies for an orphanage and have them shipped there. This orphanage, Corner of Heaven Orphanage or (Foyer Coin des Cieux Orphanage) was one that had been identified by Ken on a recent visit to Haiti).
The collection of items took several weeks and a lot of storage space!
During the process, a massive earthquake hit Haiti and because the infrastructure was destroyed, it would prevent them from mailing any supplies to Haiti so he altered his project to replacing the beds in the orphanage. The beds for the children were in very poor condition even before the earthquake, and needed to be replaced years ago. Moreover, the money could be wired to a wholesale supplier already in Haiti and the orphanage personnel could go get the beds and install them.
The sale was extremely successful and $1,935.50 was raised. His parents donated more to bring the total to $2,300. The Orphanage received 10 bunk beds with 20 mattresses. Well done Davis and all who helped out with this massive Eagle project.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARK ANDRUS

 

This picture was taken at Aunt Florence and Uncle Albert's home where we were visiting. I'm showing Mark the pretty flowers! Happy double nickel Birthday, Mark.

(MOST OF) THE RUMMLER CLAN

Here is a family group picture of the Rummlers. (Missing is Brent's family)
On the left is Neysa's brother, his wife and 3 children and her mother next to them.
Next is Keith, Cindee and 4 of their children (Bonnie is at college in Flaggstaff) That's us! Mom & Dad Agle
Next in the back is Barbara & Steve
To their left is Greg, Kellie and their children including their married son and his wife.
On the far right is Caryn and her son daughter with her husband and little daughter
In the front are the reason for the occasion. Kevin, Neysa, baby Kurt, Grant & Julia. (Neal is serving a mission in Hungary)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RYAN

He is now 12 years old and has a mean arm. It was a great toss of the football. Happy Birthday Ryan with many more to come.

Remodeling the Carlton's (only) bathroom

These are the before pictures with the boys in the old bathtub, the start of the project and some of the pipes that needed work. Handyman Eddy is becoming a real expert as you will see with the finished bath. It's beautiful. Here's what Rhiannon wrote.
"Our house was built in 1968 and our only bathroom had the original tile. We had been putting a band-aid (just putting chalk over cracks in the grout)on our bathroom for a couple of years. Eddy was about to rechalk the tub when he decided it was time to tear it all out and re-tile it. So another project was born. I plan and design and assist, and Eddy executes. It was suppose to be a simple weekend project--ha! One problem after another but finally three weeks later we finished. Eddy had to replace quite a bit of plumbing that had corroded and Home Depot didn't order the rest of the tile like they were supposed to have. We lived without a shower for three weeks and no water to the house for 24 hrs and no bath tub for 4 days. We bathed all the kids in the kitchen sink. I definitely would rather live without electricity than running water. We finally have a wonderful shower and just a few projects left to do in the bathroom to finish the redo."