Wisian At Work

Brett & Lucy Knight: The Talk of the Town

Congratulations to Brett and Lucy Knight in Davis, Oklahoma on the start of their new home! People are coming out of the woodwork (no pun intended) to see the progress on a 2,000 sq. ft. home going up under towering pine trees at 521 East Allen.  The Knights are active in their community and are a pleasure to work with!

Financing is provided by The Bank of the Arbuckles in Davis, quite an impressive bank...

We've wrapped up our charity water pledge for 2011 with a total of $2,175.  Together with Bank of Commerce, we were able to help fund a project to bring clean water to a village in a developing country.   On average, projects cost $5,000 and can serve 250 people with clean water. 100% of public donations go directly to water projects. All operating costs are covered by a group of private donors so every dollar given can go to people in need. Almost a billion people on the planet don’t have access to clean drinking water. Unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war. charity water is working to change that. Click on the link above to see the video of the amazing results of 2011 donations and projects.  MONEY WELL SPENT.  

And moving on...

Who's thinking about color this month? Everyone we know!

Click on this Sherwin Williams 2012 Color Forecast for all the inspiration you need when its time to pick your paint colors this year!  

Summer/Mother Update...Little Impacts: One house at a time

While the CEO of this company didn't slow in the summer, the chief photographer & documenter worked on her tan with her children and this blog was not, what I would say, "child friendly!" And in my defense, the customers who we built for were on the job site every day and chasing their kids as well! 

But it was productive.  Memories were made, sports were sported,

and vocabulary was broadened.  

And Wisian was still at work.  Thanks to the following families for allowing us to help build on your dreams this summer: Brian & Terri Quinn in Marietta, Chris & Misty Boswell in Springer, Jake & Autumn Hembree in Ardmore, Dee & Josh Smith in Elgin, & The Merez Family in Elgin. To keep the highway hot, Joel built five homes for Chickasaw Indian families in Ada, Duncan, & Marietta.  

Downtown Springer

1310 Saddlerock, Elgin. Loved doing this landscaping!

As mentioned before, we are doing what we can to give back to the communities in which we build in 2011.  One tangible, trackable, attainable commitment we made is to donate $100 to the school system in which we build a home. Throughout the summer months, we have accrued a number of schools in which we are happy to help as they start another school year:

Charles Evans-$100

Plainview Primary-$300

Springer: ACT Tests for kids taking the prep class-$100

Marietta-$300

Elgin-$200

Latta-$100

Duncan Food For Kids-$200

And, Our donation to charity water increased by $1,100, and with a match by our friends at Bank of Commerce for $275, bringing our total 2011 donation to Charity:water so far to $1,800. Helping to bring water to a village.

 

 

 

charity:water we have a new partner; plus a few more

Thanks to the very generous folks at Bank of Commerce in Duncan, our collective pledge per house sold in 2011 is now $125! What a great extension of a wonderful partnership! A pledge to help provide clean water is beyond our expectations. 

Together, we are able to give $125 toward our Charity: water campaign, Home Sweet Water, to which we will be donating one lump sum at the end of the year- in hopes it is $5,000- to get water to a village! Please visit the link above to see what charity: water is accomplishing!

The Cunningham and Hoosier homes in Ardmore are looking great! The Cunningham home is very close to completion and the Hoosier home is in the dry! Good thing!:)

charity: water campaign "Home Sweet Water"

Over Christmas, we became fascinated and captivated by charity: water, a worldwide organization that brings clean water to developing nations. One billion people struggle to get water every day that is likely to make them sick. We just started a campaign to raise $5,000 to get water to a village! That’s all it takes and that’s why we are believers…charity: water has it figured out and all we have to do is trust. The equipment is ready to dig or rehab the well, pump, or treatment facility, the manpower is trained, and private funders underwrite every single operational expense.

The Wisian Family will donate $100 for every home we build in 2011 to “Home Sweet Water,” the campaign that is going to give our children a tangible and spiritual experience in saving lives we may never meet.  We can watch the charity: water progress and see the village via Google Maps and see photos of the results.  Our kids can understand that… and we just may go visit the village if they have anything to do with it!

If you'd like to see the campaign and become involved with the grass roots efforts that has become a worldwide phenomenon, click below!

"Home Sweet Water" charity:  water campaign

hope we get to do some of this tomorrow!