Summer Begins

Dad with all his kids at Doug & JoAnn's house.

All of my grandparents grandchildren together for the first time in 14 years.
FR: Tonya, Kristi, Kim, Julie BR: Steve, Mike, Rick, Thomas

Down the slide with Austin.

I love it Daddy!

It's nice when your big brother is the lifeguard.

She get's braver by the minute.

I am ready to go Mommy!

This week was a very emotional and busy time. Our Uncle, Doug Keller (Dad's only brother) passed away at 66 from cancer. Uncle Doug was a very good man and will be missed. I have so many fond and funny memories of him growing up. Going to OKC 89er baseball games (where we got caught up in a tornado once), raising and racing Racing Homer pigeons together, listening to him tell funny stories non-stop, and especially last year when he went to the OSU-Texas football game with me and my cousin Rick. It was wonderful to get to spend the entire day with him watching football. He was an original!

School is over, and Memorial Day weekend is the opening of pool season for our pool company. All of our 18 commercial pools opened on time yesterday. We even took Emma swimming at one of them, Willow Creek. It is a neighborhood where Cathy used to live and her kids grew up there. Austin is the pool manager there. Emma had so much fun that she threw a fit when we had to leave. On the way home she was crying and repeating "whem, whem" which is "swim" if you didn't figure that out. Summer is the only season we have not had her and it's going to be alot of fun. We may take her to the lake this week and get the boat out.