How does YOUR garden grow? :)

Euro-Ball. Or as I like to call it, Reality Monkeyball.

Beckett enjoying the botanical views.

The boys each at 5 years of age.

It takes a long time to dig to China, but you have to start somewhere...

Snowflakes in the blue spring sky

Putting a whole new meaning to the request to put the dishes in the sink. This looks like a Tommy signature.

Christopher's school invention: The Clicker Caller
If we can page cordless phones when they are MIA, why can't we page the remote controls that are always MIA? Patent pending...!

Even the boy scouts voted. Did you?

I noticed this passing by the refrigerator the other day. I don't know who or why.

Future pro soccer player, learning some strategic foot work.



Little ants sitting on the sidelines. They're sponsor is a pest control company with a little ant in their logo.



Player number 0 in red is Joey.

Another great use of a box. Or several.

"Thanks for watching TV with me, Timber."

Raising the bar.

"It's a good thing that kid left his sneaker there, or else I wouldn't have been able to jump up here and make off with this pizza!"

"Yummy! Pizza! All for little ol' me!"

This is my class of first-graders to whom I taught religious education during the last two weeks. The 'big' kid was a high school aid and the kids just loved having him in the class!



It was happenstance that Sean wound up in the class I was teaching, which was Joey's 1st grade class. Sean's mom was teaching Christopher's 3rd grade class, where she also has a daughter his age.

Sean (on the left) and Joey were conceived around the same time back in October, 2001 and ironically, they were born on the same day in July of 2002 in different hospitals, only a couple of hours apart.


Want more irony? In the first picture, note the girl to the right of Sean in the front row. Sean's mom and I were at Olivia's mom's house back in October, and Olivia was born a few weeks later.

Who would have ever thought they'd all wind up in the same religious education class six years later? Not me!

Having a pool is nice, but nothing compares to the sand and shores of the beach. You could almost lose your head!

There's an elephant in the room yard.