Movie Night with the Sisters

Great Pizza! This is the Draggo. We highly recommend it!
We had dinner at The Cellar, then saw "Licensed to Wed" with Robin Williams. Dessert at Steak-n-Shake. Good evening.

Lois?

New Baby Ahlberg

Joseph Michael Ahlberg arrived at 1:08 AM on Thursday July 12, 2007.

He weighed 6 lbs. 15 oz. and was 20 inches long. He looks just like big brother Jacob.

Karan

Movie Night July 17, 2007

Greetings Sisters! Just a reminder our Movie Night is July 17 beginning at 5:00 at the Cellar. Doesn't that pizza look delicious? Oh, I can smell it!

Keep cool, Cindy

Just fooling around...

Rememberace of our Sister

We Will Miss You Julia!!

As our hearts break at the loss of our Wonderful Sister and Friend, we also know that she is our Guardian Angel now.

She will be watching over us to make sure that we enjoy every minute of our lives and family.

That we remember to laugh a lot and have fun, to do fun and goofy programs, get homemade treats from Hy-Vee, that any secret sister gift can be made if you have glue and that being "Queen" is the best.

But the most important thing that I will always remember is to "Have the Courage to stay strong and positive when life gets you down" and to
"Never Give Up"!

Wishing you comfort.
Lois

Summer Book Club Selection

The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn't want the responsibility of raising a family.

The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered.

The Glass Castle is truly astonishing -- a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar, but loyal, family. Jeannette Walls has a story to tell, and tells it brilliantly, without an ounce of self-pity.

Sisters, you're gonna love this book. I've finished it and it was fantastic! I bought my copy at Target for about twelve bucks. It's also available at Amazon for nine dollars. This is a great book for the beach. Now just to find a beach...Lake Storey? Nah, I'd prefer Daytona!

Have a great summer, Cindy