As you can see from the photo it was an interesting week at the new Mierins household. Friday afternoon Gail called Andy at work to tell him the van was on fire. She was working in the kitchen, looked outside when she heard a clicking sound and saw the windshield wipers go on, then smoke started pouring out of the van. Andy arrived home to fire trucks and police cars and while the boys were very excited, Gail was less than enthusiastic. It appears it was an electrical fire that began in the dashboard. As you can see the fire melted most of the driver's side, but thankfully other than one CD, none of the other things in the van were damaged. We are waiting to hear from the insurance company, so for now the van sits in front of the house. Outside of this it was a fairly calm week.

Matthew started summer school this week and all reports thus far are good. Nikolas and Matthew are enjoying their new rooms. Nikolas got a "ripstick" for his birthday and spends a good part of the day riding it up and down the sidewalk and in the eever increasing empty sections of the garage. We have all worked very hard this week to unpack boxes and there only a few remain. Then the fun of moving our storage unit stuff begins. That about sums up the week

We hope all is well wherever you may be.