praise: our backyard is no longer an embarrassment.
prayer: one of our neighbors has been having very bad health problems. please pray for more open doors to share (or remind her of) God's goodness. she brings up "church" when we talk, as if that is all that matters. i've tried to bring up true salvation, but i have not had a clear opportunity.
playfulness: i've got sooooooo much to blog about. i'll try to do this blog and the birthday bash tonight.
here are some pics from years past of what our backyard originally looked like. the first picture was taken in may of 2004. you can see all of the wild berry bushes at the fence line. they were big enough that they almost meshed in with the heinous tree.
this next picture gives you an idea of how dark and gloomy most of our yard was.
this next one was in january of this year-before the tree was removed. the brush had already been removed in the summer of 2005.
the following two pictures are of our backyard now. i love it!! we still have some work to do-but it is such an improvement over what it used to be.
