Mid-Term

Taylor's G.A.T.E. class... eight from the right top row....

Las Vegas 51's baseball game... Cashman field..... Annual game.... Go 51's

We are at the end of another school year. Taylor did very well in all her courses. She was trying again to get the top award "The Golden Paw" but explained why she fell short. We are looking forward to a long hot summer. Taylor was recently accepted again to the school as she is on a variance from year to year and we usually do not know until the week before the start. The difference this year was probably due to Al's contributions to the school this year. We all try and participate in every function but this year, Al even put in some hours at a few of the Activities.

We enjoyed Memorial Day weekend in Utah, fishing and camping with family and friends. We are planning on taking Father's day and going back up for some more fishing. Even Taylor learned how to cast her own fishing pole.

Hopefully the cold season is behind us although the weather cannot seem to make up it's mind. Windy, overcast, dusty day in and day out while we await rain and moisture. We decided to skip Vail this year, Al wasn't too happy about that but we have decided to pursue other activities, Disneyland, Sea World and a few other places. This past six months have flown by and it's hard to believe the year is half over. With the different hours and shifts required to run the restaurant, we do the best we can in spending as much time together as possible.

Al wants to go to Salt Lake City, Utah on July 24, for the Pioneer celebrations they have. He told me that during his College years he would go up and watch the fireworks and festivities. We will most likely stop at Rubio's and the Spaghetti factory at Trolley Square while we are there. Those are two of our favorites. We also stop at the planetarium and this time hopefully the zoo.

Taylor has been visiting a bunch of web sites and found Brain pop.com to be somewhat overloading. We had to keep her restricted to certain times and minutes she could be on as it was conflicting with her sleep. Her little mind is like a sponge and sometimes it gets a bit too much.

Taylor and I are going to my mom's in Phoenix this weekend. Al worked for three days on a damaged door on his Jet and spent almost three hours on Friday with mechanics putting on a new skin and adapting the new parts so that it would have the proper alignment and seal.

He will be staying in Vegas taking care of business and preparing for Taylor to get some braces on her teeth... We started last November but were not satisfied with the Doctor and switched.

It's amazing how many teeth have come out in the past six months or so.

We are proud of Taylor. She is always making, drawing or painting something. With no brothers or sisters to play with she is always coming up with new projects. I tease her about owning her own business one day. TMF Enterprises... It is her first and two middle names. She is named after my fathers mother and my mothers mother, Mary and Frances, too good Catholic names. (I grew up Catholic until I was 21.) Al wanted make her middle name after an old college flame, but the agreement was that if a girl TMF, and if a boy he could name him the fourth.

We are looking forward to this summer, swimming, traveling and BBQ's. The fourth of July is near and we picked up a bunch of fireworks last month. We usually get together with my Brother and light them all off.

Al is spending his time cleaning the pool several times a week. He calls it a second job... Taylor loves to swim.

We are looking forward to Taylor's 4th grade year. She is surely God's precious gift!!!

by Sandi Lane