The First of the Xmas Pictures

How is that for a very cute little Granddog!!

Cory's Graduation

Cory graduated from Berkeley on December 8, 2007. She got her B.A. in Comparative Literature.

She is starting work after the first at Demandtec in the San Francisco Bay area. Think it is down by Menlo Park area. http://www.demandtec.com/

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Congratulations Cory!! Well done. Keep up the good work etc. etc. etc!!!!

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We love you and think you are pretty special!!

In Honor of my Newest Grandson

Upon Seeing an Ultrasound Photo of an Unborn Child

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Tadpole, it's not time yet to nag you

about college (though I have some thoughts

on that), baseball (ditto), or abstract

principles. Enjoy your delicious,

soupy womb-warmth, do some rolls and saults

(it'll be too crowded soon), delight in your early

dreams — which no one will attempt to analyze.

For now: may your toes blossom, your fingers

lengthen, your sexual organs grow (too soon

to tell which yet) sensitive, your teeth

form their buds in their forming jawbone, your already

booming heart expand (literally

now, metaphorically later); O your spine,

eyebrows, nape, knees, fibulae,

lungs, lips... But your soul,

dear child: I don't see it here, when

does that come in, whence? Perhaps God,

and your mother, and even I — we'll all contribute

and you'll learn yourself to coax it

from wherever: your soul, which holds your bones

together and lets you live

on earth. — Fingerling, sidecar, nubbin,

I'm waiting, it's me, Dad,

I'm out here. You already know

where Mom is. I'll see you more directly

upon arrival. You'll recognize

me — I'll be the tall-seeming, delighted

blond guy, and I'll have

your nose.

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by Thomas Lux, from The Drowned River.

Winton's Birthday and New Car!!

Someone just had a Birthday!! It was the 88th time Dad had a birthday but I won't say how old he is. Here he is with his new car that he bought a couple of weeks ago. He has been thinking about getting one for sometime now but I noticed he didn't do anything about it until he passed his drivers test!! (With 100%!!) He now has his licence until he is 93 years old!! It didn't take long for him to find a car and buy it once he decided to do it. One day he said he had stopped at the car dealer to look and then the next day he had bought one!! He got a great car with low mileage and very well taken care of. The owner wanted to make sure he was going to put in the garage!

The Birthday boy on his Birthday 2007

2001 Toyota Avalon XL


Here is another Birthday present he has been talking about for sometime and finally got. He had a gate put in on the side of the house. Here the workers are just about finished up with it.

Happy Birthday Dad!! And Many, Many More!!!!

The Day After the Storm

Here is a picture of the Freeway by Darcy's house. It is taken from the computer Traffic Web Cam. http://www.utahcommuterlink.com/ie.htm My weather page says it is 20degrees there at 9 am and it feels like 8 degrees!! It says it will get to get up to 40 degrees today. We are at 44degrees right now and should get up to 59 and I'm complaining about the cold?

This picture is right near Shannen's apt. Provo seems to get more snow then Farmington most of the time but this time it seems the same. Both of the girls will have to walk to school in the snow... uphill both ways I'm sure!!