Hello Everyone,

I was so sorry to hear about Sonja not being able to make the trip.  We were really looking forward to seeing her.  I hope she is able to make it out later.  I was looking at the calendar and noticed there are tons of birthdays this month.  Happy birthday to everyone born in July.  I also wanted to tell everyone that Nathan, the kids and I really really enjoyed getting together with everyone at the reunion and we can't wait for the wedding.  Living so far away from everyone is hard on me at times so I feel very lucky that the family has so many opportunities to see each other this summer.  Speaking of seeing things, we saw our first rattle snake on Sunday.  Luckily we were in the car and the snake was crossing the road in front of us.  We stopped to get pictures and take a video though and to make sure no other cars came by and hit it.  It was pretty exciting for all of us. 
Deanna