Cleanup update.

As many of you have heard tragedy struck my family last week. In the middle of home renovation we discovered the ceiling was made of asbestos, as apparently many materials from the era this house was built in were, and the house was thoroughly contaminated. In the end we found an honest cleaner and had the house cleaned. In this case cleaning means we lost the vast majority of our possessions and cost around 7000.00.
The only real difference between this and a fire was we have a house afterward. If you want the details of what was thrown out just ask but knowing all of you I can think of one or two things each that would make you cringe.
A number of people has asked how they can help so we set up a Target gift list for those so inclined.
Additionally we are having a house re-warming BBQ this 4th of July for those of you close enough, bring meat we'll bring the coals.
We still have the important things, our family and a roof over our head but it is going to be a lean year though we will make it and once repairs are done I imagine the value of our house will only be higher.
In short it has been hard but we are coping and will survive.

Erick, Cymon, and Shiva.

Father's Day with Dad, Alesta, Maddie, Lydia and Patty

Maddie enjoying the fun spouts of water, trying to catch them......

We found a friendly person who took this picture.............

We had lots of fun before the lightening and thunder came in....

Bubble rock and heads...........notice the clouds rolling in?

Maddie did most of all the wading.....and enjoyed rock throwing in the pool.

Oh, here's Lydia enjoying the fountains........when she's not in school or working.

Disaster for the Kirkland Kilmers.

As some of you may have heard by now there has been nothing short of a disaster in my life. while trying to renovate my bedroom for Cymon's return from a business trip I instead contaminated my entire house with asbestos dust. On this Saturday and Sunday professionals are coming to my house and decontaminating everything they can and destroying the rest. On the short list of things you can't clean are anything made of cloth like rugs, clothing, and mattresses and more esoteric items like TV's and Computers also can not be cleaned. As you might imagine this is an especially tough time for us since Cymon is in Prague. To quell any immediate health fears the expert I have talked to referred to Shiva's and my exposure as 'minimal' and essentially nothing to worry about though not recommended. Financially we can take he hit right now so we will be OK so no worries there but keep us in your prayers.

Our visit and Matilda's first birthday party

Here are some pictures from our AWESOME visit in Seattle and Matilda's first birthday party. I wish I'd had my camera at Chris ad Rebecca's wedding it was (and they were) BEAUTIFUL!

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