9 years ago when we got married I became interested in genealogy. I posted to a lot of boards and asked questions, searching for relatives and I got some answers. I put together two gigantic binders and organized it all. Then it fell by the wayside. Other hobbies took over and on occasion I’d get a new message from someone since the boards are still searchable and waiting for others to add to. So, two years ago when I got a message saying that someone had replied I jumped over to that board and I got really excited. The person who was replying basically said she was my second cousin…

What can I say, my niece is a little ham! She loves, loves, loves playing outside but the heat here in Texas is unbearable during the day. A quick jaunt in the mornings or evenings in the backyard has to suffice. She’s almost three and has boundless energy! Most of the time she’s great for the camera but sometimes she says enough’s enough and I put it away. But I love capturing these moments when she’s having so much fun, giggling at my mom (Mimi) standing on the swing and being goofy. Sometimes I look back at photos I took four days after her birth and wonder where the time…

Happy Birthday bro! 28 isn’t that bad! 🙂 Love you!

To celebrate Father’s Day here’s a few good photos of my dad and me! A bit blurry but coming down the aisle 9 years ago! Backpacking at Texoma a few years ago. At Saguaro National Park in Tucson. At Bahia Honda State Park in the Keys on one of Dad’s annual trip to the Keys when we lived in Florida. Just Dad when we went to Glacier for a quick evening because we both had trips that coincided with each other to that area. Another Keys trip! And a Christmas trip to Florida. See ya soon Dad! 🙂 Love ya!

This is my mom. Dad calls her Donna, I call her Mom and Moosie (a name I came up with in high school from Moo-Moo which I don’t know how that started) and Zoe, my niece, calls her Mimi. She’s cool and I love her. We like to shop together, do creative things, and somehow I eventually caught on to cooking despite resisting strongly throughout my growing up years. She adds butter to things I wouldn’t, like eggs, but you know, that’s ok. But, today, Mother’s Day, I’d like to thank her for my freckles! I can’t imagine having a bare face. I mean, it would be interesting to see…