BLUE ANGELS

A great day in Annapolis. The Blue Angels were in town for graduation. Bill and I grabbed Conner & Claire from school to enjoy another tasty lunch at the Annapolis Yacht Club. After dining on crab cakes, shrimp salads, sauteed chicken and of course the desserts, we wandered out to the deck for the show. Fat Albert got us all started and then the real show began. Lots of maneuvers this year and I don't think we've ever seen quite so many fleur de-lis! Always a great time and we couldn't have asked for a better day!

New House in Wilmington, NC

The house is a 3 bedroom 2 1/2 bath house with a wired shed (aka. mini garage for stuff now!) in the back.  We have a nice back porch and about 8/10ths of an acre.  A fence and a garage are already on the list!  We close in ATL on 6/4 and in Wilmington on 6/5.

Side yard and pad for the future garage.

Shed!

Front Porch...our cool spot for cool drinks!!!!!

Lacrosse Pictures

Lacrosse season was great this year. Conner's team did really well, they lost only one time. He's really improved from last season. Claire played for the first time this year and she did well. Girls lacrosse is so different from the boys...Claire scored quite a number of times and Conner is sooooo close...maybe next year!

Spring Rock Fishing

Bill and Conner went out fishing on 5/11 with some friends. An early morning ride to the boat (5:00am) and hopefully a great day on the water. Imagine my surprise when Bill called around 10:00 to tell me that they were on their way back to the dock, full limit caught and what catches they were! I think that Conner, Alan, Ryan and Mike all had a great time. The Dad's had a blast as well I'm sure! Both of Conner's fish met or exceeded 41"! He said his arm was sore after hauling in the 2nd fish. What a way to spend the morning.....

The Grandkids came for a visit over the summer and we fished and crabbed. What a relaxing way to spend some time!

Keith and Cliff's parties

Hi-
We had a rock climbing party for Keith tonight. He had a lot of fun with his friends and eating cake.
Cliff turned 1 on Thursday and Troy made him a dog food cake. Fun for all.

Keith is a TEENAGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Hi--
Keith just turned 13!!!! He woke up to the tower of donuts. Once filled with sugar, he had a day free of chores, went to a friends birthday and opened a lot of fun presents, including the day pack that he is modeling.

Cliff wants to know if he can have donuts for his b-day Oct 2nd he is 1 year old!

the foot...

My new boot! Lovely...no exercise on it for 4 more weeks. But I can walk on this one.

Update on foot and the boys are flying

Hi everyone-
I thought I should replace the pictures of my open foot with something a little better. Big cast off tomorrow, I can't wait.

The pictures of the boys are from them earning their Aviation merit badge with the boy scouts.

They got to fly with a pilot and one other scout from Gillespe field in El Cajon to Ramona. Land switch pilots then fly back. They had a great time.

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Laura's Foot Surgery

Laura had surgery on Tuesday for her torn extenser tendon from an accident at work. Tuesday evening she was doing well but Wednesday was another matter. She had a not so pleasant reaction to the pain meds which resulted in a day spent nauseous and vomiting in waves. She opted to stop taking the pain meds which of course meant after awhile the foot pain was combined with the vomiting, not a great day! In the afternoon she called the dr, a prescription was issued for anti-vomiting and by the evening, she was eating, drinking and actually coherent!!

Dowd San Diego visit

Cathy and the kids came out to visit in June. We played at home, work, beach, Sea World, Navy Base and the Wild Animal Park. It was a fun filled adventure.