Some of My Favorites

Just thought I would share with you (more to come)-
One of my top 5 favorite songs:


One of my top 5 favorite books:

A Steamy August in a Breeze

If you can believe it our August was busier than our July. Perhaps it was because Megan's summer break was coming to an end or perhaps it was because my boss leaving the country and leaving me in charge of his construction company. In either case, we were as swamped as the dog days in August. Still, we found time to have fun on the weekends with family, friends and each other. Here are a few pictures of the fun times we had.
On August 1st we headed up Lake Delavan to celebrate my mother in laws birthday. It was a blast. We always seem to eat good food when at the lake. This time was no different. The birthday of beautiful women now remind me of a quote from Archbishop Fulton Sheen when he said "To tell a woman who is forty, "You look like sixteen," is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is "Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful." Happy Birthday Mom!

In the middle of August we had the opportunity to go to my family's house in Galena with some of our couple friends. We spend a lot of the weekend playing games...(a lot being an understatement). We ate lots of food, shopped downtown, went to mass and experienced a less than mediocre mexican restaurant. One of the shops we went into was a games shop with many old time games, like these cap guns and stick horses, and fake puke and whoopie cushions. It was a fun weekend.









On August 28th our friend Steve Borello was ordained a Deacon in the Diocese of Joliet. It was our first deaconate ordination, and hopefully not our last. It was a beautifully joyous mass and a very exciting time for our friend. Here are a couple of pictures during the mass and after at the party for Steve (which included a soft service ice cream machine - Best Party Ever!).


The sunday after the ordination our neighbors, who are building a new 4 car garage in their back yard, needed to make some room so they offered us their shed. The only catch was that we had to move it somehow. This shed, 11'x17', would end up about 25 feet away from where it originally stood, but could not go through the fence which our neighbor just put up. Instead, my dad brought some 2x4s and large PVC pipes and, with the help of my borther Jeff and friends Chris and Mark, we pulled the shed along the pipes out of their yard and back into our yard. It was a tough job but well worth the value as we now have a place to put our lawn mower, decorations, tools and any other stuff that we can't fit in our garage. Thanks for your help guys! Oh yeah, my godson, Matthew, came along to help move the shed. His job was to pull with the truck.















Finally, over the Labor Day holiday weekend we treked back out to Galena with my family this time. We ate a lot, played some games, played with the boys, went for lots of walks, went to mass and even sung some P&W. Our nephews are at such a fun age right now, so 3 days with them was such a blessing. The two pictures are of Jacob with Megan and one of him acting like a 'woman of Jeruselem'. Very Pious.








I'll have more photos and videos soon. Updates will be coming more often now that I'm not as busy. Thanks for checking in.