In Keeping With The Season~

I was Mooned!
(By my son Ranes, is his adult form of mooning)
So~~ *MOON OVER UTAH*

JoeJoe

Is JoeJoe precious or what?

Son of Joey, Solom's father... so *The Castillo Boys*

He is three, likes to say *ding ding*

GOOD JOB FISHING JoeJoe!!!

From Free to Four

What a great Birthday!

Can you imagine a finer evening than a dinner of mashed potatoes, a nap on the way to Build-A-Bear, and a most cool Pink Unicorn~~ all shared with your Daddy on your Birthday!

Daddy calls this picture *cheap date*. Kayleigh fell asleep after dinner

right in the middle of her dinner date!

View of Utah Mountains, it SNOWED on September 30th!

Birthday Snow?

The total JOY of having a Birthday in the Fabulous Five Family

is going on a Daddy Date! Kayleigh is four today (told me she was *free* when we chatted on the phone, so we updated.) After all, she was already in the car and on the way to her *Daddy Date*.

Like her brothers, she had a choice of dinner and entertainment! Braydon had pizza at the skating rink, Tyson selected Chinese and bowling and Kayleigh's choice was *Daddy Date* and *Birthday* . Her modified dinner request was *Mashed Potatoes and Gravy*.

I think she had a GREAT evening!!!

Kayleigh Is FOUR today!!

Kayleigh Joy Carter

9-30-2005

First Trike!

Declared an Official Pink Hat Lady in Thomasville!

Sharing her Great-Grandmothers 80th Birthday last fall!

Kayleigh is all girlie!!

She can slap her hands on her little hips and give you what for,

or she can apply her own make-up in the middle of the kitchen bar,

as well as decorate a lot of extra things close by in pretty colors!!

WE SURE LOVE HER!!

(little grill)

Happy Birthday Kayleigh Girl!

Hands On Thomas County 2009

6th Annual Event for Community Volunteers!

We selected Thomas County Historical Museum.

The jobs needed were landscaping, sanding vintage iron work

and painting a white picket fence!

Our group was John and I, Blace, Sky and Brittany,

Sky's friend and neighbor, fellow Girl Scout.

Blace went to work on the iron, some of it half buried!

She dug it out!

Our group was also made up of my fellow employees, this is Sandra and I on the picket fence!

Afterward, all were treated to lunch at Cherokee Lake to include Blue Bunny Ice Cream!

YES... we will do it again next year!

Tyson's Grand Birthday Finale~

The grin is as cool as the bowling pin gift!

The only possible topper for that great evening

God put a Rainbow, right over the Bowling Alley!

Magnificent, or as Tyson says, Supercalifragilisticexpalidocious,

or is that Braydon?

At any rate, this was a FANTASTIC Birthday,

we weren't there in person but were there through these great pictures.

THANKS DADDY!

(by the way, I meant Daddy Ranes, Sky says that our Honey is the rainbows, she had one on her Birthday, and we had one at his memorial dinner at the Train Depot this past June, now one on Tyson's Birthday and several have been noted this past year at various time.

It's been a RAINBOW year!!

HAPPY 8th BIRTHDAY TYSON!

~The best *8* ball of all~

The Scoreboard

Tyson sends the 8 pound ball down the alley

Tyson's Birthday Dinner Choice!

~CHINESE~

MMMMMmmmmm~~Good!

Now lets BOWL!

C'monnnn STRIKE!!!

How cool is a Birthday Night Out with DAD all to yourself!

Tyson Ranes Carter

September 18th, 2001

Little Man!

Handsome Dude!

Rugged Outdoorsman!

No matter when or where, Tyson is ONE SPECIAL BOY,

and a fantastic Grandson!!

(especially when he calls his Grandma *Princess*)

HAPPY 8th BIRTHDAY TYSON!

WE LOVE YOU!!!

Happy 10th Birthday Braydon

Braydon Paul Carter

born

September 15th 1999

A freefall on the big day!

June 09, the Braves game in Lehi Utah

Braydon, age 1

Braydon being tossed about by his Dad Ranes, while Aunt Blace looks on.

Anyway you look at it, we have had 10 FUN FILLED years with this

Beautiful Baby Boy Braydon!

HAPPY 10 th Birthday Braydon!

WE LOVE YOU!

Beach~Finally

Gulf of Mexico

I don't think we've ever been anywhere that John didn't have to have a hat when we arrived!

In Oklahoma, he was after a Hoss Cartwright special, the kind that required a special container to transport. Luckily he opted for a more amazon variety, Dundee?

So I got in on the fun too... but only because the hat was red and I can use it at our monthly Red Hat Society meetings~ and it is that special Madagascar weave like the one I got in Catalina~ Ranes thought it was hilarious that the one thing I loved best there was a hat! That was in 1998 and I have not worn it since, still waiting for the right occasion!

It's been so long, I forgot the pleasantries of the beach! We went out into the surf, got knocked over a few times, went past the first dip to the sand bar and still at about waist level. I couldn't keep my balance, had to hold on to John's hand all the way back in to keep from falling~ This must be what aging is all about, no longer a fish in the water~

The view from our 4th floor balcony. The pool (one of 5) is posted to be *for adults only* and *quiet area*...what a hoot! Those adults were louder than most children I have been around on loud days!!

Words can not describe~~ the Bird of Paradise~

This was an incredible thing that I managed to miss, John was there!

The Tampa Bay Rays played The Detroit Tigers (and lost but that is fine as we are Tiger fans since my uncle Paul pitched for them) . There was a huge beach party for the game, which is shown on the giant screen TV attached to an even bigger truck!

We finally made it to the beach! One more day and it would have been September!

The occasion (there has to be an occasion) was the annual meeting of the Gulfcoast Chapter of the Underseas Hyperbaric Medical Society. None of the pictures depict that, but that was the objective of the trip, just happened to be located at a totally gorgeous tropical type resort beside Treasure Island on St Pete Beach!