IRONMAN Congratulations....

A huge congratulations goes out to Davey Owens and Triona O’Dowd Hill who completed the IRONMAN 70.3 in Dublin this morning. This is no small feat folks, these guys are solid…….well done to you both!

Photos below grabbed from Facebook!

Random Pictures from a wet Sunday Afternoon

Happy Sunday everybody. It has rained most of today so we’re having one of those down days. Ella and Pat went home yesterday so the house is truly very quiet again. I have some random pictures from the last few weeks to show, hope you all are having a very relaxing Sunday afternoon/evening.

I have pictures of some friends over for dinner last night, Heather and Kirk, the kids getting a hair trim, an apple from one of our trees, Anja and Isabel relaxing doing their favorite things, a picture of a beautiful sky I captured on my way to work, some resurrection lilies at a friends house and a picture of a half completed roof job which we have being doing for the last 10 days.

Walking Tour of Purdue

Today we did a walking tour of Purdue so that Ella had a good chance to see it before she heads back to London. Of course the students are not yet back so it was pretty quiet. Nevertheless we had a great day, taking in the sights of campus plus a visit to Vons, Isabel’s favorite place in the entire world.

In the afternoon we returned to Loeb Fountain, Purdue's iconic fun spot, for some cooling off. The kids have grown since that last two times I posted pictures of them there, here and here.

Isabel's 8th Birthday Tea Party

We had a great day yesterday celebrating Isabel’s 8^th birthday. She will not actually turn eight until the 11^th but she wanted Gran and Ella to be here for her party, a tea party. Lynne did a fantastic job as usual pulling the appropriate delicacies together for such an event. She was thrilled with it all.

Thanks to Anne for an incredible lemon cake, which tasted scrumptious. As always my Mum sent over a beautiful dress for the occasion. Thanks also to everybody else who came with presents to make it a special day for Isabel.

Ella and Gran Visit Again!

The next chapter of our summer started with the arrival of Pat and Ella yesterday. They will stay for three weeks. Just as she was three years ago when she last visited, Ella is the big attraction today, each of our children are vying for her attention. Welcome back Gran and Ella; we’re really looking forward to a great visit.