Liam’s art class did a mural that has ended up being hung up in a downtown art supply shop. Liam painted the chicago bean (if you look closely you can see his name!)

Miles got promoted up to white belt yesterday.

We finally moved the rest of the rubble on tuesday while i was away. We found a la a archeological dig new layers of concrete underneath, but only in patches thankfully.

I loved the progressive sense of alarm on this sign in the london underground. Sounds horrible

1pm after three hours End of day We finally got around to removing the concrete slab in the backyard. It was tougher than we thought, 8 inches thick in parts, with a wire mesh in the concrete. Our neighbor sergio helped hire two laborers he knew and we hired a…

Miles took it upon himself to wear these sunglasses when he was graduating today, followed by his chief chum Sirus.  Really funny.  Afterwards himself, Sirus and Sirus’s younger brother, Milo, enjoyed  posing for photographs.

We took on a little more than we could handle with our trip to Pallos Hills for some cycling, unfortunatley all the trails were mountain bike trials, so much of the time we were pushing them up hills.  Lovely area though, we might try returning there and looking for some…

All things German this weekend, just outside where Miles goes to Karate class.  BTW his Karate class has been shortlisted in the top four Karate schools in the US  

I’ve fallen way behind in blog posting in part because we’ve been so busy with all great weather.  We checked out the Gospel fest down by Millenium Park where we met up with a bunch of people from Cindy’s book club.  The ribs were great and it was a really…

It was great getting to see everyone in Dublin last weekend, but not surprisingly it was only Issac and Isabelle that ended up getting photographed.  Attached are two photos and two short videos that we shot. Download Video035.mp4 Download Video034.mp4