This one's for you.... Merridee!

Thought this might make you laugh......

I came acoss this old picture and the only thing I remember is doing a tap dance to the song "Animal Crackers" by Shirley Temple.

I don't remember being amazon girl! Was I really that much taller than you? (I am 5' 9 now... I am interested now to know how tall you are?)

We are only 1 1/2 yrs apart! You must have looked up to me, huh? Ha, Ha!

Fun memories!!!!!!

Teenage Invasion......

D.Jay officially became a "teenager" on Monday, the 20th!
The birthday boy got to choose where he'd like to eat his "birthday dinner"
and he chose......of all places.... Denny's! This kid loves French Toast and
will eat it at any chance he can.... so I guess there weren't many
choices!

This is Kyla pointing to her soon to be...baby brother!

April 1996

Can you tell by the smile on my face that I had an epidural (And of course...a beautiful, healthy boy)? My first & only one (that worked) & thank goodness... 'cause he was my biggest baby at

8lbs 4oz & 22 inches long. That's what

happens when you go overdue!
(Look what pregnancy did to my hair!!! It would get sooo dark & then lighten up afterwards)

Just a few days old! He has such nice, dark skin....unlike his mother!

Just a cutie on his first birthday! This was 4/20/1997

D.Jay wanted the chocoletiest chocolate cake I could find.... and I think I hit the mother load of all chocolate cakes! :)

Just blew out his '13' candles!

Aahhhh.... I can't believe that I

now have 2 teenagers! They grow

so fast!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY D.JAY!!!! We Love You!!!! :)

EASTER GETAWAY!

This past Easter weekend, we went camping at Campland in San Diego with a group of about 38 families. We didn't know everybody, but we made new friends......even with this duck family! Isn't the "yellow duckie" cute? Does she stick out like a sore thumb or what? Is this one considered like the "black sheep" of the family? Or the "Golden One"? Humm.....

Awww.... look at the brotherly love! Bonding with a fishing pole and the hopes of catching something. And they aren't even rolling around on the ground beating each other with it!

Scotty getting ready to take a good chunk out of that Easter basket pinata!

Every kid in the "group", received an Easter basket! It sure made them feel special!

Even D.Jay got something from the Easter bunny! He was excited about the i-tunes gift card inside and was being a cheeseball about it!

The boys had lots of rough and rowdy

time! Lots of baseball & football! It looked like D.Jay let these boys slip through his hands!

Can you say bangs? Hello Kyla..... this is what I'm talking about!

Kyla "socializing" with friends!

Me & this strange child who didn't want to do the Easter egg hunt! I about fell over when he told me it was because he didn't want to eat all that candy and get sick! Yeah right! I believe it was because he found an new buddy to ride bikes with!

Now these are some serious poodles! I think they might be related to Cliffored, the big red dog?

Darryl and his best friend, Jim enjoying the sun while it was out for about an hour!

My little fish with a big hammy smile! Do you think he is having fun or what?













Now why is there so much spacing between these last few pictures? I wasn't trying to add suspense or anything.....does anyone know how to avoid this?