Honey's Puppies!

Bessie, Tippie, Harry, Winkie, Luna and Boots

Periwinkle, Welcome to the Family

This a beautiful machine right here. Eight passenger, hemi, DVD player, sunroof, leather, in a color that is light blue with a touch of purple. She's lovely and she's ours and we call her "Peri"

Sunday Service

Jules and I (mostly Jules) planned the Teacher Dedication service for this past Sunday. Here are a couple of pictures of Jordan and me reading the Story for All Ages.

Where there was once only kitsch, now there is .... more kitsch

We decided to do something about our guest bathroom, which was designed in 1971 by people who were obviously on the very best psychedelic drugs available at that time. The appliances are an icky, mustard yellow and the tile 'matches' only because it's icky yellow, but splattered. Someday we'd like to remodel, but for now we painted and added a shower curtain and a 'surfboard' rug which is trying to pull all the colors together. So now its decor inspires me to laugh, instead of gag. Which is an improvement.

The photos above are three dolphins in Sebastian Inlet and a reef off Key Largo.

Our First Trip to SUUSI in Virginia

Along with about 20 other members of our congregation, River of Grass Unitarian Universalist, we made the trip to SUUSI this year. Here Jackie and the boys are waiting for the banner parade to start ...


Each one of these banners represents a congregation at SUUSI
Tons of kids to play with
Brian loved the rock climbing wall! We went tubing down the New River-- chilly!

Climbing and exploring around the River

The boys and I fit inside this tree trunk : )

Gymnastics Class

Brian has been taking gymnastics for over a year and is doing very well. A few months ago he moved up to intermediate boys' class along with Christopher. A couple of weeks ago Patrick suddenly expressed an interest in doing the class with them and he just joined right in and is doing great with Coach T and all the kids!

Yes, more cruise

Yes, we played.... no, didn't win

We were on our way disembark when Carolyn realized that after four days enjoying the ship and all of the adventures, we'd forgotten to get a family picture of ALL of us.... so there we go : )

Even more cruise

A little shopping on La Quinta

Showing off

Good-bye Playa del Carmen
A day at sea-- the deck is full!

The view from the stern

And more cruise

After snorkling the boys had a swim in the resort pool

Time for lunch and swinging in the hammock before we head back to Cozumel

More Cruise

Snorkeling in Playa del CarmenBrian and a young loggerhead!

They were so beautiful !
Patrick's going free-diving

Ahhhhhh

Our Spring Break Cruise

Leaving the Port of Miami...

Patrick, Brian and Christopher dressed for dinner

Fun at the pool

Leaving Key West

Last Day at Science Class

Ms. Katie had the classic Mentos and Coke chemical equation for the last day of class!

Friends

This is a picture of Patrick, Brian and Christopher with their friend John from down the street. It just cracks me up because John, Brian and Christopher are all the same age : )

Welcome, Charlie!

In January of 2008 we got Smokey when he was just a kitten and we had high hopes. He was adorable and spunky in the way that all kittens are. But as time went by we realized that people are not his top priority. He has no interest in being held or petted. Everything and everyone is prey. We decided that he was born to be a mouser aboard a pirate ship.

So this time we deliberately chose a grown-up kitty who is obviously a lap-cat, lover of his peeps. Here is Charlie: