Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Early Celebration for Peter's 8th

We celebrated Peter's 8th birthday a week early since he will be gone with Mom and siblings on his birthday weekend.  Happy Birthday Peter!


Mateo shows off his Pokemon shirt


Peter in orange and Mikey in yellow.  They all love Pokemon


We want cake!


Getting ready to blow out the candles


Happy Birthday! 


The ice cream and donut cake


Part of the crew...and Isabel once again hiding from a picture


Paula and Raul.  Wonderful grandparents, parents and friends


Sunday, July 17, 2016

Mazie's new sister Nadine and San Diego Visit

We traveled to San Diego on July 4 to join the Houghtens to await the birth of child number 2 in San Diego.  On July 9 baby Nadine Evelyn was born about 3:30 in the afternoon and weighed in at 8 pounds, 3 ounces and 18 inches long.  Baby and Mom came through just fine!  We stayed in San Diego until July 16 with the last 7 days Rose and Bob staying downtown at the Gaslamp Plaza Hotel.  Daughter Maeve and her two daughters flew out to visit on July 15 for a short 3 day visit. The following pictures are not in sequence but capture our visit and the joy of the birth.
Enjoy the pictures and I'll add captions later so come back in a day or two!





















Tuesday, May 10, 2016

May Miscellaneous

These are some pictures from some May activities.

Our gardenia bush is blooming and smells wonderful

Baby cardinals at the Mason ranch

The Mason pool is open

Rose wanted a banana split for her Mother's Day breakfast!
Avery at Kendall's school fun fair

Kendall heads in, too

This is the condo we HOPE will work out.

Monday, April 25, 2016

Swan Lake at Sumter, SC

It was a nice day before the heat sets in so we took a drive to Sumter to walk around the Swan Lake park.  It was a pleasant stroll of about two miles on both sides of the park.  

There were just a few turtles at the feeding trough

A beautiful piece of art

The iris is starting to bloom

The boardwalk in the cypress swamp

Cypress trees and Spanish moss

I still need to lose another 20 pounds!!

Sunday, April 3, 2016

Easter, Myrtle Beach and the Zoo

In no particular order here are some pictures of Leighanne's visit with Carmen and Paulina.  The couple Easter shots are before they got here.