Friends

Rick, Bryan, and Cory

Boy Scout Camp

July 11, 1998

(Frontier)

Rick, Bryan, and Cory

July 11, 1998


Rick, Bryan, and Cory
June 28, 2008
(almost 10 years later)
a UCONN Student, a U of U Student, and a Bentley Student



hmmmmmm .....


It is the friends that you can call at 4 A.M. that matter.
~ Marlene Dietrich

have a great rest-of-the-weekend!

xoxo

Bird Homes on Our Deck

I finally turned two of my many gourds into bird homes and hung them from our newly painted 'beach beige' deck. Hopefully sweet little birds will take up residence soon ...

... right now they are living in Robin's Spider plant on our Barzebo ...

... you can't have 'Spidey' back now Robin ... sorry!

xoxo

p.s. rumor has it Chris and Ellen have a bidding war going on for the sale of their home! Congrats! ... we are all looking forward to having Thanksgiving at your new home in AZ! I'll make the Brussels sprouts!

No Smoking Please!

My Dad

7.14.27 ~ 11.4.89

(62 years young)

cause of death: complications arising from lung cancer

-

(a vintage Camel advertisement)

are you kidding?

SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING:

Smoking Causes Lung Cancer, Heart Disease,

Emphysema, And May Complicate Pregnancy.

(Joe Camel and the dirty truth in a more recent advertisement)

...

enough said ....

xo

Bry is coming HOME from Utah ...

... for 18 days (but who's counting!?!?)

Bry in a holding cell at the Farmington PD a couple years back

with a Candy Cane ...

Check out his 5th article in the Daily Utah Chronicle ...

http://media.www.dailyutahchronicle.com/media/storage/paper244/news/2008/06/18/Sports/Bijak.Fulfills.Olympic.Dream-3382948.shtml


Picking him up at the airport tomorrow (Delta canceled his connecting flight, so he is stuck in Atlanta tonight for 3 hours)

... have a great rest-of-the-week!

xoxo

Oh NO the big Five-OH!

My baby sister turns 50

at 8:27 a.m. 6.16.2008

Happy Birthday Michele!

Happy Birthday Sis!
(Michele and Geralyn Jan 1963)

To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time.
~Clara Ortega

Happy Birthday Aunti Shell!

(Kevin, Michele, and Bryan Christmas 2007)

xoxo

Daddy's Little Girls

Daddy's little Girls

He didn't tell me how to live;

he lived, and let me watch him do it.

~ Clarence Budington Kelland

Susie, Dad and Linda
~
Richard H. Fink
5.28.1927 ~ 6.3.2006

Michele, Dad and Geralyn
~
Arthur A. Chouinard
7.14. 1927 ~ 11.4.1989


If there is any immortality to be had

among us human beings,

It is certainly only in the love

that we leave behind.

Father's like mine don't ever die.

~ Leo Buscaglia

Happy Dad's Day!

xoxo

Frank J. Mattoni

"To live in the hearts

we leave behind

is not to die."

~ Thomas Campbell

Frank J. Mattoni

5.27.1944 ~ 6.7.2008

love,

your 'forever' friends

xoxoxoxo