General Update

Ok, so I am finally up to date and to the recent weeks. We have been in party mode. We had 2 birthday parties the last weekend of June - CJ [our neighbor] turned 3 and Abbie [a friend from work's daughter] turned 1. We made it to about 1/2 of both parties as they were on the same day. We were supposed to go the lake the next day for Aunt Hilary's birthday but the weather did not cooperate with us. Last weekend we had our friend Melissa's birthday dinner Fri and then Thomas turned 1 on Saturday [a friend from work's son] and then we went to Chelsea's [a mom from the mom's group I was in before returning to work] baby shower on Sunday night. This weekend we had a baby shower for Michele [a friend from work] on Saturday. Next weekend Cate [a friend from high schools daughter] will be baptized. After that, things should be quiet until Labor Day weekend. That pretty much brings us up to date. Work is going well for both Carl and I, it is very busy, but we both love our jobs. We booked our tickets for our Italy trip for the end of September, we are starting to get excited, but nervous too about how Alex will do on such long flights when he has never been on a plane before.

On a GREAT news note, my dad had his screenings earlier this month and we heard back last week and all came back cancer FREE! He does not have to go back until November again. YEA! We are all very happy and relieved.

We hope everyone is having a wonderful summer and I will try to keep this updated more frequently now that we are back in town for a while.