tim's seventeen

 Oh my goodness, Tim, what a great day this was and has always been.

 Seventeen years of YOU?

Thank you for your sense of humor, your appreciation of The Office, your thoughtful comments and your kind heart.

We love you more than you can even imagine.

Happy Birthday, Buddy. Thanks for being ours.

Love, Mom and Dad and Everybody

this weekend

Okay, good night.

Love, Val

last weekend

 Beautiful, flowers blooming, bright green, sunlight from heaven.

Birthday on the beach, nothing better than turning TWO.

 Tubing:

The roofs were replaced this spring on the fish house and the shower house, so the trim had to be painted dark green to match the roofs.

Well, then the inside looked really super crappy, like disgusting spiderwebs and dirt, really, really in need of TLC after fifteen years of being ignored.

 We picked out paint colors to paint each of these boards a different color and the guy mixing the paint (exterior semi-gloss light blue, lavender, yellow, and pink) asked us, "So what are you painting?"

We told him the inside of the fish house.

He looked at us wide-eyed for a couple of seconds and said, "Well, that'll be something!"

Well said, guy.

It's actually looking quite amazing, and so is the painter and her sister.

Love, Mom

she's two!

 Can't hardly believe it's been two years.  It feels like you've always been here.

Who were we even before YOU??

 Happy Birthday to  my  sunny, sparkly Spicy Toes girl.

We couldn't be who we are without you.

Love Grandma and Grandpa and Everybody

sidney's sweet sixteen

So there they are together, Maria and Sidney, in celebration of this fluff of cotton's sixteenth birthday.

And here they are back in 2003 in the beginning.  It's all good.

Old dogs, little cousins and sisters, delightful.

We do love you, Sid. Your companionship and no-nonsense attitude are first rate.  You're a dog's dog, and also a pillow pet.  You love on Maria and have lined up every dog who has ever entered this house over the past sixteen years. 

You helped old Spooner find his way back to the house when he was blind and had vertigo besides--yes, you were an exuberant and helpful friend to him.

We love you.

Love, EVERYBODY who has ever known your sweet scrappy feisty absurd little self.

beautiful clouds

 Dannell's brother was there for the weekend, always fun.

Love, Val