Happy Late Easter

Kids hunting Easter eggs, and Penny girl trying to get them to share. Note how Penny climbs up into the little lawn chair like it's made for her...haha. big kids were there too but hard to catch.....

kool-aid mustache

Everybody needs 'one'.

He looks like a little man just kinda hanging back from the crowd!!

Gabriella :)

Look close --Gabe is about 1 ft off the balance beam. <3

Fllip Factory had a day where the boys and girls witched routines with each other....

I would call that TOOTSIE Saturday

but w/e

So Gabe became Gabriella for a few hours. He was just as proud to wear pink as not!! That is one secure kid!

Fun times!!

dang...when did that happen?

Doesn't seem right that the kid should be as tall as me...well almost.

I remember when all of the grandkids (my sisters kids and mine) used to measure against their grandma (my mom) because she was the shortest adult. Everyone couldn't wait to be as tall as Grandma.....

'my turn'

That's What I'm Talking About !!

I know you are tired of hearing my 'Rant'

about Coeur d 'Alene

Winters !!

It's not true that I hate CdA winters....I just hate them past Valentines Day, or the first day of Spring or past Easter for crying out loud !!

I mean, really,how long do we need Christmas ambiance ??

We finally hit 70 degrees yesterday and every flowering tree in the county 'popped'.

Ahhhhhhhhh!!

That's more like it !!

This is my favorite little tree in the whole area...downtown Coeur d'Alene, on Boise and 3rd street.
Someone grafted pink flowering branches into a tree that blossoms
in white. The white branches reach skyward while the pink branches reach out.





So very beautiful !
Too bad these blossoms don't last as long as winter....
(I know-I know....rave on rat-sh*!)
Happy Spring!
(better late than never)

April 17, 1975

April 17, 1975, Kyle was born on Travis's 3rd birthday.
It wasn't planned or contrived....just lucky I guess !!
They hated having the same birthday as kids but I think they kind of like it now as adults...sort of like shades of being a twin.

Recovering from chicken pox...does this expression look like Brian (his son) or what?

Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer

(kindergarten)

with Greg (less than 17 months apart).

With Travis at a family reunion, both happy and excited because they won ribbons.

Senior in High School

Rafting with Dad, Greg and Cory

(I believe that is Brett swimming in the background)

One of many Scout outtings.

Kyle the Army Ranger

and Kyle.....the married guy !

(his sweetheart....Theresa)
Sorry it has taken me nearly a month...

So very proud of you, Kyle.

Love You !

Happy Birthday !!

April 17th... the 0riginal (1972)

On April 17, 1972

I went from teenage bride

to teenage mother.

You can never prepare someone for the way this changes and enriches your life....and turns you into

a mother bear !

Travis as a newborn

and again

Senior in High School.

Early "back-in-the-day" B&W.
Just old enough to be part of the last generation.
Black and White photography

was still cheaper than color...

cloth diapers

home haircuts...

recycled jeans.

our original black lab

Pako



Then....

Kyle was born on Travis's 3rd birthday.

April 17th, 1975.

No this was not planned

induced

or anything else.

Just Lucky !!

Travis with Grandpa Murray...

(aka Merry Bampa).

Grandpa never had a boy and so was very excited to have #1 grandchild be a boy !!





BATMAN

Working at his love...
haberdashery.
(approx 10 years at Alexander Davis in Boise)











Wedded to Monica Hanlin in June of 2010.
You've had a remarkable life so far....

Love you, Buck !
Happy Late Birthday