A little family photo doesn't hurt, does it?????

Really? that is all I am saying? you can zoom in if you'd like-- check out the sweet smirk on my boy's face.

Tennis time again.

She is pretty cute huh, that is our gal Kenz. With Eunice her doubles partner.

Kenzie's fans that came out to watch her play in a doubles tournament at Seville Country club. Rylee, Breanna & C.J. They all look pretty excited huh?

Kenz, Eunice & Judy- we are missing Jasmine- Judy's double's partner

Kenz & her doubles partner Eunice.
they came in 3rd place. :)

Anything wrong with this picture?

Do you see what I see? This is what happens when you ask a 13 year old to load the dishwasher, on SPRING BREAK, IN A hurry to go PLAY---she claims she has NEVER been taught how to
load the DISHWASHER?????????????????????????????????

Val Senior is 60!

Mac & Tata, I think she looks most like her Tata-- happy bday tata.

this is what I like to call the "triple decker Val sandwich". ha. Val Sr, Val III & Val Jr.

Look at how handsome they are. Wow, Val's dad turned 60 on March 1st, so we celebrated with some food & some cake. I wanted to do a post about Val's dad because this guy, well he is a special man! I am grateful for Val & the many things that he has done for our family & for the things I am sure he will continue to do. He is a kind, thoughtful, generous, loving man.

So Happy 60th Birthday Val!!!!!!!!!!

Cruise to the Bahamas.

Here are the much awaited pictures from our cruise we took with Val's company in January. Unfortunately-- pictures aren't that great. My fault & part of mother natures.
3 out of the 4 islands we stopped at we had pretty nasty weather, so wasn't too great for picture taking. 2 of our days at sea we spent laying out & I figured you can only take so many pictures of the ocean & people in swim-suits-- most people don't really want you taking pictures of them in their swim suits. :)

Welcome to our penthouse suite. Yes, 400 square feet of absolute heaven. Well, not really if it was heaven, my kids would be here, or at least in the room next to me, right? :) Neither of us have been on a cruise before- so now of course we are completely spoiled. The room was absolutley fabulous. We had a butler & a housekeeper. Our butler's name was Rashan & our housekeeper was Prescilla. They were both awesome.

Here is our bathroom. Behind the door is a big tub & on the right side of the toilet (camera's right) is a shower-- room only for one. A big walkin closet- with a safe & yummy soft robes.

Here is our huge bed-- loved it- so comfy-- just like my one at home.

Megan Farney from the Tucson branch. I do have a really cute picture of her "snoozing" by the pool, but I will only use that in desperate "blackmail" measures. :)

Randy & Diane Ornelis from Gilbert branch.

Jeff & Stacy McBride, Wendy & Joe Crowell from Vegas branch.

Our first Island was called "Princess Cays" i belived owned by the cruise line. It was overcast, cold & windy. But, definately beautiful. See our boat in the back ground?

Entrance into St. John's Island.

This is Cinnamin Beach & when we got to St. John's we asked our driver what beach was the best, he said it depends. Well, on what, we said. Well, do you want privacy or beauty? O.k. well, basically Trunk beach which I belive is the beach a couple pictures below- is one of the 10 most beautiful beaches in the world-- o.k. who decides and how much do they get paid to decide. It costs $$ to get in & Cinnamin Beach was free & our driver said it was just as beautiful if not more. So, that is were we went.

This looks like an entrance to a golf course, huh--nope- it is an entrance to a beach.

Beautiful beach on St. John's, we took a ferry over from St. Thomas to St. Johns.

Val & I on St. Thomas. Definately my favorite Island.

On this particular boat- only 1 pool. That was o.k. with me, I was totally fine with staying on my lounge chair & enjoying the pool from a distance.

This is a view from the top of our boat looking down on the dock & part of the Grand Turk island.

No, this is not our hot tub. This is on a "boat" (Holland America) parked next to us.

Another "windy" day- we are docked today at the Island Grand Turks, Val is walking a little too close to the edge of the dock- but I don't think the water is too deep, he can swim- i can too :)

A "boat" parked next to our boat. We are on the left. Apparently our cruise line was a bit "smaller".

Our last night on the boat. We had so much fun, at least I know I did. The "crew" entertained us & it was fun. I will miss the new friends I made, but I know it is time to get back to "reality" and get home to our 3 sweet children.

I do recommend, if you participate in a cruise---- Bonine --- it is a fabulous over the counter medicine that Val & I took pretty much morning & night. Neither of us got sick- The first night was bad, we had a lot of people on the boat sick-- plus the 30 or 40 foot swells didn't help. Anyone that knows me, knows I am not an easy travelor & going on a cruise was pretty freakin scary for me-- but I did it & it was awesome!!! The best part was being with my best friend & the love of my life!!

EVC 7th Grade Girls Basketball Champs!!!!

Allie & C.J. holding the trophy that coach had to go & find, because the trophy the team was holding was actually the 8th grade trophy.
I have to say, this year was awesome watching these girls play basketball. Wow. I can't wait till next season.
We went into the tournament ranked #3, going to play #2 we were down by like 18 points & we end up coming back & the game is almost over & C.J gets fouled, she shoots two makes them to tie the game & send it into over time--- than her good friend Rachel Price ends up shooting the winning basket in overtime to win the game & send us to the ship. We win that game 39 to 37.
So the Championship is against Bogle Jr. the "defending champs", at the half the score is 9 to 5. Yes we have our selves a barn burner. Unfortunately we have 5 points :( But, we ended up winning 17 to 14. It was pretty dang awesome.

Mac the photographer

We took Kenz out this afternoon to find some old things in Montrose to photograph, here are a few of our favorites. She has altered these photos from the originals that she took.

We found this old train car & she was bummed because it was behind a fence, but she managed to alter the photo & make it look cool.

These mailboxes caught her eye the first day we were here-- she went in the computer and altered the exposure & turned the mail boxes from an old rusty look to a cool vintage/artsy--(i don't know the correct term) look

There is an old junkyard over by my parents house (my mom calls it a darn eyesore) & Kenz found some old trucks & cars to photograph.

Kenz found this cool old. GMC truck to photograph. Have you ever seen a fire hydrant look this good?
My favorite is the old truck w/the red barn in the background. I am glad she likes her camera & she has an eye for finding neat things to photograph.