See a Female Bald Eagle Nest With Her Eaglets

Here is a live UStream feed where you can see a Female Bald Eagle take care of her 2 Eaglets!! Pretty cool...

http://www.humwild.org/humboldt-bay-eagle-camera

Live video by Ustream

Jason and Mary Ellen's Wedding Reception - Feb. 8th, 2013

Jason Philps, Cecile's Nephew was getting married the weekend of February 8th in Houston, Texas.  Parker was in the wedding as the ring bearer...he did OK.  The night before, we went to the rehersal dinner at Don Shula's Steakhouse.  The room was amazing, there were tons of black and white photos of the dolphins players, trophies, and so forth.

Here are a few pictures:  One of me and Cecile and one with Taylor and Whitney all dressed up.  The last one is Thomas and Parker at the wedding all decked out.

Austin Kite Festival - Parker and Derek Had a Blast

On March 3, 2013, Parker, Derek, Thomas, Whitney, Cecile, and I went down to the annual Austin Kite Festival.  The day was outstanding...clear blue sky and temperatures in high 60s.  There were over 1000 folks flying kites and performance kite flying demonstrations and kite-making workshops...food and music too!!

Parker had a pirate ship kite and Derek had a penguin.  Parker's kite did not fly very well, but Derek's penguin kite flew great so we let parker fly it as well (picture of Parker and his Dad, Thomas).

Derek also got into a hula-hoop content and he did pretty good, he can keep it going for a long time!!

Derek Doing Volunteer Work -- Raising a Shed

The first week of April 2013, Derek spend the day helping out with his youth group build a shed to store tools and such.  He got quite a kick out of running a power tool!!!  He did not want to go at first since he had to be there at 8:00am on a Saturday, however, once he got there he got to eat donuts and breakfast tacos.

They managed to get the floor done and part of the walls.  Not bad for a bunch of teenagers.