ROCC Extreme Home Makeover - Small Group Edition

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Welcome to the ROCC Extreme Makeover - Small Group Edition!

At long last! So many of you have been anxiously awaiting pictures of the exciting activities that when on one cold weekend in January! What exactly was happening at the Roberts house the weekend of January 9th, 10th, & 11th? Following you will get to enjoy pictures and the story of how beautifully the Lord works in the details of life in addition to how He brings joy to all involved ... may your life be blessed by seeing the miracle of what the Lord can accomplish when we give Him something to work with!

A Special Thanks Goes To ...

An incredibly big THANK YOU goes to Jeff Hutchison with Patch Ministries. We could have never pulled this huge project off without him!

How the Roberts Home Makeover Came to Be ...

This idea was born out of hearts that desired to serve a family within our Church Body as a Christmas gift to The Lord. Through the leading of the Holy Spirit, the Borders Small Group began to formulate a plan for how they could serve a weary family in need of some extra love in our Body ...

The Roberts family of 8 (Bob, Caroline, Elena, Ian, Evan, Elijah, Jonathan, & Joshua) became the unanimous choice and the group set out to make arrangements for how to accomplish the task at hand.

First, the group wanted to send Bob and Caroline off for a weekend get-away. This was a two-fold purpose; 1) to give this weary mom and dad a relaxing time together alone with NO children, and 2) to give the group a chance to tear up their house and then put it back together again without them seeing the process; a mini-home makeover per say ..... So a card was created letting Bob and Caroline know about their weekend get-away (destination unknown to them!) Once they had chosen a date, arrangements were made to finalize their destination, and then it was time to make arrangements for the children!

The plan was for the children to stay Friday night at the house and be helpful in the cleaning and organizing process (whose bright idea was that? ~ oh, ummm, nevermind ... I think it was mine) ... The Borders and the Newvines stayed with the children Friday night. Then Saturday morning, arrangements were made for each child to go to a special "fun" destination for the day as well as to spend the night Saturday night with someone in the Church Body. All the children would then be ready for Bob and Caroline to pick up Sunday morning immediately after church; that was the initial plan anyway ...

Saying Goodbye and Exiting the Building ...

The Newvines arrived at 3:15 p.m. Drill Sargeant Joy wasted no time encouraging Mom and Pop to get their "booties" on the move ... and that they needed to be out the door at 4:00 p.m. sharp! Let's go, let's go, let's go!!!!!!

Johnny made this beautiful house that he wanted to make sure Mommy remembered before leaving for the weekend ... Elijah is so graciously displaying it for the picture ...

Mommy saying goodbyes to her youngest Joshie ...

The Roberts Family Photo

Bob and Caroline before pulling out of the driveway to their desitation of ... where?

Caroline and Bob took the Newvines car with an envelope waiting for them on the dash telling them where their next stop would be on their desitation to .......

(by the way, they were pulling out of the driveway at 4:15 p.m. ... not bad!!!)

Not 30-seconds later ...

Bob and Caroline had not even finished backing out of the driveway before demolition inside began ....

Johnny's expression as he entered the room ... and here is what he saw ...

Monday, February 2, 2009

Beware! Hazardous Work Site ... Under Construction

Where should we start ???

Let the organizing ...

And cleaning begin ...

Dinner Time!

Here's what was accomplished by dinner Friday night ...

Framing was up for the recessed lighting.

Elena assessing the "ruins" ...

Don't look too closely, it's a little dusty ...

Construction in process on the new closet ...

Spaghetti for dinner, yum!!

David has decided to sacrifice tonight ... instead of shaking a half can of parmesian on his spaghetti, he saves the little bit left in the can for his buds ...

Buddy gets in on the action ...

Back to work after dinner ...

Sheetrock is now up and ready for mudding ...

Friday Night Notes and Bed-Time Stories

At about 9:00 p.m., the children sat down to write Mom and Dad notes telling them how they were thankful for them and how much they love them ...

Elijah was so enthusiastic about writing his note and drawing his beautiful picture ...

Johnny was enthusiastic about taking his Rubik's cube to the Hargis's on Saturday. He was also packed and ready to go!

Elena was checking out what was going on with the outside world while chaos was going on with her inside world ...

Next, it was time for a bedtime story of Goodnight Moon

Joshi loved helping tell the story ...

Nighty-night everyone ...

Saturday Morning A-Buzz With Busy Bees ...

Even though it was cold and rainy, Saturday morning was in full swing by 9:00 a.m. We had an outpouring of people in the Body who helped in various ways such as those who picked up children for their fun time away, those who gave monetary resources to support the cause, and those to came to help clean, sew, build, wire, mud, sand, paint, etc., etc., etc., ...