Well, Megan is our first child to get railroad tracks across her face. Yep. Brace Face. She chose blue bases. What ever happened to just plain metal? I sure hope the blue color didn't cost me anything extra. Not that I don't want my little girl to look good because it's obvious that I do, otherwise I wouldn't put braces on her to straighten her teeth out. I just don't want to pay anything more then I have to. I had even thought about moving to England where Megan's jacked up teeth would be accepted or even celebrated. I soon discovered that that would have cost me more money to move the family then just putting her in braces. Sorry Megan. Daddy loves you.

Megan has become quite the photographer. She is improving with every pictures she takes. I just wanted to share a couple of pictures that she took over the summer. Megan entered a photo contest and won first place. Her winning picture was entitled "Just Straight Chillin" If I can ever find it again, I'll post it for everyone to see. I'm glad that she's artistic like her Nana.

The V.P. over my office had a retirement party and the St Frances Yacht club in San Francisco. Bonnie and I were invited to attend on Friday November 7th. We stayed at the Palace near the Union Square. We decided to make a get away out of it and to see the sights. We had a fun time going to Fisherman's Wharf, Ghirardelli square, Pier 39 and other parts of the city. We took a ride on the famous cable car and barely made it to Fisherman's Wharf after breaking down (loosing the cable) twice. We had to be pushed by a truck one time and then pushed up hill with a semi truck. The cable car was packed and very uncomfortable. People just jump on the sides and hang on for dear life as the trolley moves from block to block. Bonnie and I were sitting in outside seats when this man and his wife jumped on the sides right in front of us. Needless to say, the woman's purse kept swinging as the cable car was moving hitting me in my "Sensitive Area". I sure was glad when she got off cable car before I had permanent damage.


Trolley Car

Bonnie Pounding down a sunday in Ghirardelli Square. Man that girl can eat mint chip ice cream.


Alcatraz Island is in the background



Bonnie had the Clam chowder and I had the Chile both in Sourdough bowls. It's always fun when you can eat the bowl that your food came in.

Fishermans Wharf Crabs. Yummy

Lefties Rule store. Everything that a left handed person could ever need. My favorite is the left handed butter knife.

Fishermans Wharf

The kids loved the little train ride.







There is a little school house in the town. The kids got a chance to see what it would be like to go to a school back in the 1800's. Meg got in trouble and got the paddle. Liz was acting up and got the wrong answer so she had to sit on a stool and wear a Dunce Cap. Andrew got in trouble and had to stand against the wall with his hands behind his back. Those "Card Kids" would have been in trouble all the time if they had to go to school back then.

The kids had the opportunity to try out handcarts.











We all ate candy and drank sarsaparilla at the ZCMI General Store.

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We all had fun playing with the pioneer games.

They have lots of cabins, stores and shops with demonstrations on how the pioneers lived. They do a really good job showing the kids how to wash cloths, make soap, shoes and other leather goods, woodworking and lots of other things. It was a good experience for them.

In July while visting Nana and Papa's house we all went to Heritage park "This is the Place Monument". Nana, Jeff & Jen's family, Shari and kids all went and had a really fun time.

No this isn't a Halloween Picture. The girls just decided to give Mom and Dad a show. A football player and a cheer leader. I don't know what got into them but they both have that showman bug in them. They had a little skit that they wrote, practiced and then performed for us. Mom and Dad enjoyed it but Scott thinks his sisters are a little on the goofy side.

Liz just loves sitting in holes and waiting for a big wave to come and wipe her out. You should have heard the screaming.


Grammy came down to the beach and enjoyed an afternoon with us.


Scott has become a pro at catching waves. He just loves trying to run over his little sisters as they play in the water.







We had a fun time this summer in Laguna Beach. We went to the Beach every day (except Sunday of course). We caught and rode waves, built sand castles, stepped on bees (twice for Dad) and walked on the rocks.

Diane Keaton (the actress) sat next to us one morning down on the beach. She had some kids with her. One of the boys that was with her came out of the water and spit in the sand in an attempt to get the salt water out of his mouth. Ms Keaton turn to him and said, "We don't spit, thats Low Rent, we are high class people". We all got a chuckle out of that and for the rest of the trip we used the line, "Thats just LOW RENT, We ARE HIGH CLASS PEOPLE" of course we looked like Low class people in Laguna Beach trying to act like High Class people.