October 2012

Family get together in October.

 Lona and family made it back in October this year, something new for them.  It was a good time and too short as usual.. Above is Nick and Megan and below is Alex and BJ. 

Family on the 4th

Arizona actiivities

I managed to get in on a few things while I was at Lona's in Arizona. Alex had a double header baseball game. They won one and lost one. Megan had her dance recital where they danced the Charleston and to the Beatles "Here Comes the Sun". I also lost about 50 games of Mariocart and had some good food and relaxed to the nice weather for a few days.

Lona and kids

Here's a few photos from Mom's trip to Arizona a couple of weeks ago. Above is Alex with BJ.

Alex, Lona and Megan - Alex is getting almost as tall as Lona now.
Below is Megan and Nick. Nick had a couple of weeks of vacation and spent it in Arizona as well.

July vacation.

I didn't take a whole lot of photos this year, we were just busy running around it seems.
Above, Megan with here cake for her 10th birthday (June 9th.) We also had a cake for Nick.

Jason finishing off the last of the sweet and sour pork. Took it just because I could.

Megan and Dad above. They had some pretty good weather this year.
Below, this is the only photo that the dog, BJ, was looking at the camera. I didn't get one where everyone was looking or not blinking, so I choosing this one just for BJ.

Fireworks 2009

As usual, there was no shortage of fireworks at the Howard place this year. That's Megan above, with sparklers.

This was Jason's 300 shot finale, which looked pretty cool on camera.
And below, Alex with some sparklers.

A few more from my Arizona trip.

Just a few photos from my Arizona trip that I hadn't gotten around to editing yet. There's Alex above, trying to look like he doesn't want his picture taken. Below is BJ, right after his haircut, and Megan.

Megan and her friend Lindsay, on the trampoline and enjoying the summer.

The Arizonains.

I'm still catching up with my photos from the Southwestern trip. Here's one the morning I left Lona's. That's Charlie, Alex, Lona and Megan. The dogs were there but didn't want to cooperate.

Alex's game and homerun.

Playing for the Holbrook Angels, no. 12, Alex Haussman, catcher and 2nd base.

I caught a game of Alex's on Monday night. He got an inside the park home run during the game. That's his slide into home above. And the home run hit below.

He got a new bat that weekend and gave it a workout during the game. His team was 8-1 at this point.

More from Arizona

Megan in her Girl Scouts uniform.

Alex, Nick and Charlie at PF Changs.

Dad, Lona and Megan.

Arizona vacation

A few picture from Mom and Dad's vacation in Arizona in March. Above, Lona adding some rock to a wall in her house.

Megan and Molly, I think that's the right cat?

Alex.

Nick and BJ. Nick heads oversees again this week.

One last day in South Dakota.

Lona, Charlie and Alex and Megan got one evening in Pierre before they headed back to Arizona. Alex and Megan dipped their toes in the Missouri River.

We also went for a bike ride, stopped at Zestos for some good ice cream, took a tour of the Capitol building and roasted some marshmellows. A good full evening.

Photos from Megan, part 4.

Well, I'm getting a bit jealous of the good photos Megan is taking. Here's a few more she took on her vacation to South Dakota.

A very nice picture of her Grandpa and Grandma.

Grandpa Chet.

Her brothers Jason, Alex and Nick.

NIck makes it back.

Nick made it back to South Dakota after a bit of a delay. He had a couple of weeks off, so he'll get to spend some good time with everyone.

Alex got a set of Samuri swords.

Megan got a kimono.

And both got picked on endlessly by their older brothers. Jason and Nick get Megan above.

Alex is about to end up on the losing end of a squirt gun fight against Jason.

Horsing around.

Alex and Megan got a ride on Anna's horse, Mick during their vacation.

We had to bribe Alex with a dollar, but he was fine after he got going.

Megan and Dad.