Tristan

Tristan started baseball practice and ready for his first game.

Ryan

Ryan excited to be starting soccer practice, he's already starting his birthday list.

David Pondering Life

David now works at Slumberland part time. He's sitting on the couch trying to figure out how to pay for gas at $3.50 a gallon.

Patrick Lounging

Pat can't wait for nice weather to get off the couch and get outside.

Easter Dinner

Very nice picture of mom and dad at Missy's after Easter Dinner. Ham was great, kids had a blast finding the 250 eggs for the egg hunt. We had a good time.

Tristan First Communion

Tristan's First Communion. He enjoyed the passover feast with his dad and making bread for Communion. This photo will go in the frame we bought him. Yes he loved the "juice" and bragged about his wine in the fridge.

Silly Kids

What can I say?

Easter Eggs

Boys coloring Easter Eggs

Hawaii

Mom and Dad in Hawaii. Beautiful picture of rainbow off balcony of hotel.

Chance's Birthday

Chance is two years old Feb. 22nd. I also had a good bday.
He's finally starting to talk more and chase his brothers.

Grandma Florence

Grandma Florence and family in January

David is 17

David's seventeen already. Wow.
He appreciated all the presents and cash. He liked the new winter coat and money he got from us. Especially to pay for gas for his truck.

Our Florida Trip

We flew to Brooksville Florida on Dec 19-26th to visit my parents over Christmas. We had a blast in the warm weather, saw manatees, alligators, flamingos, went to Sea World and a mermaid theme park. Took a boat ride, picked oranges, lemons and limes, went golfing and much more. The boys did pretty well on the airplane, but Pat and I did have a touch of the flu during our trip. Spending Christmas here was awesome. Here is Pat and Gabe and Chance at Homosassis Wildlife Park and flamingo's in the background. Warm weather was awesome. St. Petersburg is where we flew into and it was absolutely beautiful, gulf of mexico, palm trees.

Mom and Dad

Mom and Dad enjoying the beach, it's nice to be able to visit them over the holidays. This is Pine Bend beach on Christmas Eve.

Check out these mermaids

Pat and Gabriel at Wiki Watchee theme park in Brooksville Florida. We also went to Sea World to see Shamu the next day. 79 degrees the first few days, beautiful. Pat liked the mermaid show here at wiki watchee. I prefer this mermaid. ha ha

Beach on Xmas Eve

Does it get better than being on the beach on Christmas Eve? Gabe went swimming, the boys played, we saw a few hermit crabs and mom and dad packed a picnic for us. Loads of fun. Didn't notice the "no swimming alligator sighted" sign on the other side of the beach until we left, but oh well, we had a blast.

Beach Bums

Pat thought this would be fun, bury Gabe.

Chance

Chance was a little scared of the sand at first, but then loved the beach and of course shovel and bucket.

Yikes an Alligator

Notice the alligator in the background. Gabe wouldn't take his eyes off this one long enough for a picture. We went to a famous mermaid show our first day in Florida, and a 9 foot alligator swam up the crystal river last year to surprise the mermaids in the theme park.

The Manatees

My favorite part of the trip was watching the manatees in one of the largest refuges in the country. There were 70 wild manatees in the day we visited. We got really close to them and the park rangers also fed them carrots. Amazing animals. Chance got a toy manatee to take home.

Golfing on Christmas Day

As we are golfing on Christmas Day, we were picking oranges off the trees and eating them. Gabe really liked golfing.