Howdy everyone!!

I finally got some time to do an update. We have been real busy lately. Our server started crashing as well, and I had to find time to install a new one and get it all up and running. It should be running fine again. In the beginning of the month I was in China working. I was in Beijing, Tianjin, and then Shanghai. I have some good pictures of the trip, even though I was working late most days.

Click on the pictures to see this gallery.

Marius is doing ok as far as we can tell. He is growing a lot and developing his senses and personality. We will return to Rigshospital in September to do more tests on his heart. He is starting to get tired again when he eats, which can be a sign of his heart working hard. I put a few pictures in the gallery. Click on a picture to see them.

The real big news is all the work we have been doing on the outside of the house. The only thing we had to do ourselves with the new house was the yard. This included patio and side walk all around the house, carport and driveway tiles/brick, and of course all gardening. We new this was going to big a huge job, and we figured it would take a month or so and would be hard work. We planned it so that we could do it while I had summer vacation, and I hoped to get a lot done then. We worked real hard and managed to get almost all of it done in a little over a week. I concentrated in getting the real heavy big tiles placed all over, and Nina focused on the small granite stones placed in between the big ones. The girls helped a lot too. Each of the 13 boxes holds 700 granite stones, and the girls placed two full boxes of these stones. It really helped Nina because she could just sit and dig the stones in without getting up to get more. We also had some real good help from Preben and Karina. Preben helped me with the big tiles for the carport and driveway. They weigh about 65 pounds each and it is hard work to lay them carefully. There about 350 of these tiles for that area! The other areas had a little thinner tile that weighed about 50 pounds. There are about 600 of those that I put down. My arms and hands hurt now. I managed to lose about 10 pounds myself during that week, which feels good.
Yesterday we got the outdoor spa delivered and placed out on the back patio. We can't wait to get it hooked up so we can use it.

There are lot of pictures add to the gallery. It is a good idea to use the slideshow link to see this album.
The link is at the top right corner after you click on the pictures below.

That's it for now.
Take care everyone.
Rick