Brennan and his friend, Jason, are feeling pretty cocky after getting the lifeguard's phone number! 

Wendy & Pat and their friends all joined us on our front lawn to watch the fireworks. We had a blast!
 

Fourth of July

Celebrating the 4th of July, Mom's Birthday, and Mom and Dad's Anniversary. What a big day! Don't they look great?! 

A few more pics of our fun!

Eating at the Shotgun Cafe. 

Brennan & Jacqúe had a fun, muddy ride!

Playing games on the deck.

Summertime in Island Park

Here we are in Island Park for a few days R & R.


Brennan,
Kelsey,
& Jacqúe.













Here's Marty with his favorite activity! (NOT!)











Mariah was making friends with the Seagulls.









Kelsey & me enjoying the sun.

Brennan's Mohawk

Brennan had to prove what a rebel he is! Luckily, it only lasted a couple of days.

Happy Father's Day!

I took this picture of the kids and put it on a chef's apron for Marty for Father's Day.

Kelsey's 20th Birthday!

Kelsey had to work on her birthday, so we stopped in to say hi.
 

Mariah & Brennan

Brennan was Mariah's partner in a Swing Dance for her last dance concert. I took this picture the morning of the concert.

Cowboy Ken

Brennan went to a Barbie theme party on Wednesday. He went as Cowboy Ken. He thought he was really something!

Kelsey & Jacqúe

This was such a good picture of Kelsey & Jacqúe I wanted to share it. Jacqúe flew back to Illinois Monday afternoon after spending a week with us. He is hoping to be back again for Kelsey's birthday on June 4.

Fun in the back yard

Happy Spring!

I couldn't resist these pretty flowering trees in our back yard!

Marty's Birthday Video

I finally got Marty's 50th birthday video uploaded! It's 6 minutes long. Just click on the "Cindy's Videos" link at the right.

The Old Shotgun

Marty has been wanting to do something with his dad's shotgun to display it. He was able to confiscate a door from his Grandma's old farm house. Then he added a hat, shirt, shotgun shells and box, and an old magazine add for the shotgun. He put this all together over the coarse of a couple weeks. Pretty artistic, huh?

Mariah's Dancing!

You can tell Mariah is having a great time at competition! 

April

April is just flying by! I haven't been taking any pictures lately and I forget that I can post without having pictures involved. So I thought I better at least do a little updating.

Mariah had cheerleading tryouts and she made JV cheerleader! We are so proud of her! She really worked hard and she looked great! She also has her driver's license now, so I hardly have to drive any more. It's great! She is a very good driver, too.

Brennan has been active in Track. Throwing discus and shot put. He's already looking forward to football starting.

Kelsey has her sights set on getting through finals and being home for the summer. She'll be getting home in the middle of May.

Today and next weekend Mariah has dance competitions, so I'll be getting some new pics to post.