New site will try to post weekly Aug 20 2008

Hi welcome to the Lamparella blog. Mark and I travel weekly and both Matthew and Luke are in school so we are a busy family but we will try to update you regularly. Please visit here to see what we are up to. I will try to put up pictures but bear with me because I am new to the computer world and find it challenging to download and upload. I go to Paris France tomorrow for the 3rd time tomorrow. I have fallen in love with Paris this summer. The people have not spit on me and have not been rude to me but I am a pretty independent tourist and am pretty good with a mapbut everyone I have come in contact with has been hospitible. Mark has had a pretty busy summer and starting a busy fall. He has lost a few employees which means he is taken on more responsibility than he already does which mean he is taken on 130 % of workload instead of his usual 110%. Luke and Matthew are doing well at school. Luke started kindergarten Aug 4th. He has had homework, and classwork and is doing very well. He will start one extra activity which will be soccer. He has some good friend in the neighborhood Gavin and Xavier (twins), he slept at their home two weeks ago and they stayed over last weekend. We decided that to have a kindergarten boys night last friday so we had another boy, Ethan and the twins over with some pizza and costumes and had a night of it. Matthew even had a great time. Matthew is potty training which is code for pissing up all the bathrooms. Kidding. He is doing pretty well, we bribe him with skittles so you know he is anxious to get on the potty often. Well I'll get back to you soon with some photos.