Surprise!

Thursday everyone started arriving to help out with the house. Haley arrived after lunch from Marquette, Michigan and began the work. In the afternoon Jana arrived with her miniature dachshund, Chester. She said she had brought us something and she hoped we wouldn't be mad. I am thinking right away, an animal-and we are a year away from our next puppy! I am praying, "please be a fish, please be a fish." As we got closer to her truck, I see a leash and think oh no, it really is a dog-what has she rescued? Jana said, "I found a dog just like Leica!" I look at the body, and indeed it looks like her! She then turns her head and looks at me, and I shout, "It's Leica (thinking why did she bring her-and in the next second I am thinking Jesse is here!) I am crying and saying, "Is she here, is she here?" Then, Jesse uncurls herself from the front seat! Jana had driven from Mobile, Alabama to Athens, Ohio to pick up Jesse!

All four girls will be together for the first time since we spent Christmas in Colorado Springs! We drove to Milwaukee Thursday night to pick up Emily who had flown in from Colorado Springs. Everyone was gone by yesterday (Monday) at 8:30! It was a whirlwind of activity and projects-from lamp fixing to concrete. Pictures speak a thousand words.