Great Start to our week in Atrel

We traveled up to Atrel on Friday so Kyrk could work with the local guys to pour the walls of our cistern and hopefully the bottom floor of our house.  So far it has been a great time and we are enjoying being here as a family and continuing to get to know the people of Atrel.

 Friday night pizza night, even in Atrel!

 On Saturday we decided to put some rocks around our fire pit.  But when we discovered it had great dirt around it we didn't want to cover it up.  So we dug all the good dirt out and then filled it is with rocks.  It was hard work, but we had fun working together as a family.

The men have been working on the entrance to our property, preparing to put up a fence soon.

 This is the entrance to our property.

Today they started pouring the walls of the cistern.  It was a lot of work to get all the forms ready to go, but today they were able to get one side all finished.  It was a huge blessing to have a cement mixer to make the job much easier and efficient.

We have been doing school each morning while we are here, but in the afternoons the children get to really develop their creativity.  We have no toys up here, so today they made things out of rocks and pieces of wood.  Rebekah made a phone from a rock, Naomi made a doll from a rock and Anna was pretending that her little piece of wood was an telephone.