Fire Recovery

The current event that shapes what we do with our time is a house fire that occured a month ago. One evening, Mike came home to a strong burning odor. He found Aaron's room had been on fire. The computer monitor in his room had burned up and destroyed all of Aaron's belongings. He literaly lost everything but the clothes he was wearing (and his school backpack which he never puts away). Besides Aaron's room, there was soot damage to other rooms on that floor. We have had to move to the house next to ours. Fortunately, the insurance company is footing the expense. We are grateful that there were no injuries and that it did not spread to the rest of the house.

Welcome to our World

I was looking at the family portrait hanging in my dining room and gave thought to the fact that it was a fairly recent photo and it was already out of date. I realized also how behind we are in getting updated photos to family. What is to be done? The answer came when recently Ariel sent us the link to her family's blogspot. Mike thought it would be a good idea and a simple way to get much information out to family and friends, especially when our family is evolving so fast. What do I mean by that? Well, currently, we have both daughters expecting babies this fall/winter, we have one son engaged, we have one son graduating, we have one son growing faster than we can outfit him and we have grandchildren learning to talk, and having ballet recitals etc. Many, many great wonderful changes and also challenging times that best shared with family and friends. We hope to put smiles on faces and prayers in hearts with this blog/journal of our family.
Enjoy,