I have not gotten the girls pictures taken in a while so I found a few and but this together. I down loaded the program called Picasa and it has a lot of fun options to edit pictures and create all the collages you see on my blog. 
This one is of Areya and her cousins while on our trip to Tennessee.
On Saturday July 25th we had a house warming / pioneer day BBQ. We invited a few friends from our old ward in Arlington Heights up. I am so happy that you were all able to come. We had a great time. Thanks for making the drive.
If anyone has some pictures would you please e-mail me they. I didn't really get to many. Thanks again!
We also had Josie and her baby.
We had a nice 4th of July BBQ and then did a few fireworks in the drive way. There were so many other people doing the big fireworks that we all we had to do was look up to get a great show. I think the girls went through about 400 sparklers and amazingly we only had one small burn.
We spent a few days camping at the lake and took a few rides on Uncle Mike's boat. We built sandcastles, went swimming and cooked hobo dinners, hot dogs and smores over the fire. Yummy! In the lower left hand corner of the picture are my two swimsuit supermodels posing for you. The girls also got to go fishing and even caught one. And now for my favorite of the group: Aniela asleep in the chair with her arm still in the Cheetos bag.
We also took a tubing trip down the river. We were able to go down twice and had had a quick lunch in between. Aniela was so tired from her first trip down that she fell asleep in my lap for most of the second trip. It was amazing how well she slept while floating down a river and even over a little white water.
On our way home from tubing we stopped to look out over the Smokey Mountains.
Thanks again Mike and Kim for having us, we really had a great time. Can't wait for you to come and stay with us next summer.
Damian has been off work for the past 2 1/2 weeks because he is still have problems with his heart. He went back to the doctor and she adjusted his meds and put him on a few new ones. He also had a stress test which came back good. We still aren't sure why and what is going on. He stayed home alone (with the dog) the whole time the girls and I were in Tennessee which was no fun, I'm sure. The doctor gave him a week of bed rest and he was scheduled to go back to work this Friday. Happy to announce that he did make it into work on Friday and so far has been doing pretty good. Let's hope he continues to feel well.
He has also asked us to pray for him, which is a big deal for Damian, so if you could all keep him in your prayers that would be great. Thank you!
