A Windy Day with Granny and Gramps

We went to visit Granny and Gramps last weekend. It was a very windy day, as the video will show. We took a short hike, played croquet and, of course on a windy day, we flew kites. The video was taken with our new Canon HV20 high-definition camcorder so the pictures are nice and crisp. View it full screen for more detail.

A Windy Day with Granny and Gramps 6m 37s

Halloween Costumes in Outer Space

This is our 9th year of dressing up in a family "theme" for our Halloween costumes. This year's theme is Outer Space.

Once again, Felicia deserves all the credit for sewing some difficult costumes. My astronaut jumpsuit was a faux white "pleather" and the girls had sequin material that required Felicia to go really slowly when sewing. Numerous times she had to deal with broken thread and needles. As always, I am proud of the final results. Take a look at our costumes for this year and years past

Photos from Yellowstone National Park

Here are some photos we took on our Yellowstone trip recently.

Click on the photo, or the following link for our slideshow of Yellowstone

Family Camping Vacation to Yellowstone

The title pretty much says it all. We've packed the mini-van and we are driving to Yellowstone National Park in a few hours. Just wanted to keep you updated. Expect some photos on our return.

Rosemary is an Ambassador to Washington DC

Last year Rosemary was nominated to be part of the prestigious "People to People" Ambassador program. She was the only student from her school to travel to Washington DC as part of the program. Click on her photo, or the following link for a slideshow of her trip to our nation's capital.

We won First Place for our Halloween Costumes!

As part of our annual Halloween tradition, we come up with a "family theme" for our costumes. This year we went as The Holidays. We entered in to two local Halloween costume contests and in both we won first place trophies and prizes for our group theme.

Once again, Felicia deserves all the credit for her hours (weeks) of meticulous sewing of all our costumes. And each costume was varied in terms of fabrics, patterns, sizes, etc. A few of the costumes had no patterns (April Fool, Leprechaun) but that didn't deter Felicia. I am so proud of what she created this year. Take a look at our costumes for this year and years past

Rosemary is Graduating from 5th Grade!

Rosemary is graduating from the 5th grade this year. As part of the promotion ceremony, the class will be showing this "slideshow" that I created of the entire 5th grade. Parents submitted photos of their children as babies or toddlers along with recent photos. This little montage is almost 13 minutes long but is fun to watch. By the way, it starts out with a little homage to Mission Impossible followed by music from the Shrek 2 soundtrack...

5th Grade Promotion Video 12m 51s

Finally! Pictures from our trip to the Big Island of Hawaii!

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For those of you that have been waiting, here are the photos of our trip to the Big Island. While we were there, our main camera got wet and we almost thought we had lost the bulk of our photos, but both the card and the camera survived (after a couple weeks of drying out). Fortunately we had a backup camera (and our two video cameras) so we were able to capture all our memories. Enjoy the show!

Snow Tubing at Kingvale

We took the kids snow tubing a couple weeks back. The last time we went to the snow, Jason was a baby while this was the first time for Amara. I put together a short Family Snow Tubing video for your enjoyment. It's about 4½ minutes long, but it flies by.

Halloween Costumes 2005

Photos of our Halloween costumes are now online. Before clicking on the picture, however, see if you can figure out our theme. All our costumes are related if you look closely. Or if you give up...