A Sad Loss

Today our hearts go out to the Funari and Holder families whose daughter, Ava, lost her three and a half year battle with cancer last night.
Chrisie Funari and Mike Holder introduced Brian and me on May 29, 2003 and thereby made our family possible.  They have been the definition of brave during Ava's struggle and we are keeping them in our hearts as they go through this terrible time.
To read more about Ava, please visit: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/avaholder

Memorial Day Zoo Trip

A bunch of turtles.  This was about 1/4 of the turtles in the vicinity.

 We thought this guy was real purdy.

 First stop...the big horned guys.  You can tell we didn't do much reading up on the animals.  Mainly because we were trying to corral our own.

 Ok, I got this one...zebras!

 Monkeys!  I mean, they were in the monkey enclosure.

 Transportation.

 The orangutans were the coolest exhibit by far.  This gal was just watching the kids, so cute.

 This dude was not cute.  In fact, he laid the law down with one of his youngins while we were watching and that kid hightailed it out of the enclosure REAL QUICK.

 Miming.

 How sweet is this one resting on his/her fist on the window watching the kids?

 Evan had this Komodo dragon in a leg/head lock.  Poisonous saliva is no match...

 This guy had food all over his head.

 Sweet piece of tail. Heh, heh.

 Heeby jeebies now acquired.

 Maybe this little guy is related to Pearly?

 Headed out.

 A view from Madagascar.

We've come a long, wonderful way in 6 years!  Happy anniversary to us!

Annie's Visit

Annie operating a toddler tattoo parlor.

 Getting inked by your grandmother...hardcore.

 After the tats came the tickling, or more specifically, the rib counting.

 This little piggy...

 Another rack of ribs.

 Hollan couldn't get past one rib...just like her mother.

 The park.

 Little monkey girl.

 So proud.

Annie & Sidekick.

 Flying with Daddy.

 Sleepy boys.

  Goofs.

New Kinds of Fun

Remote control cars!

 Water balloons!

 Splat against the garage doors.

 Hollan gets little too close to the splat.

Summer is officially arrived in AZ!