Showcase

This video wouldn't download to blogger, I guess it's too big.

I would forward to about 1:50 in the time since the action doesn't really start until then. Michael is in the middle in the brown shirt. Michael Kelly is stage left, Zach Elias stage right and Skylar is on keyboards and vocal.

Showcase 1

Showcase 2009. In this line up - Iam Baker on the drums in the first clip. Then Michael on the drums for Lead Boots.

There's one more clip but it's very long and I'm having a hard time uploading it. I'll try again tomorrow.

Showcase 2

More video - Michael playing bass in backup.

Showcase 3

Here's a few videos, Michael playing base, Skylar (his teacher) is in the vest. I apologize, I don't know the other students and participants names.

13 Candles

Well 14 actually, one for good luck. It's hard to believe that as of August 5th, little Sarah is now a teenager. It goes by way too fast. On her special day we went to Pete's Sushi for a family dinner, then came home for homemade chocolate cake.

Sarah loves to light candles.
Sarah and Dad.
Sarah and Delaney
Sarah and Michael with his cheesiest smile.
Later on the weekend, we went to my parent's house for a visit. Friday night we went to The Irish Times Pub in Knoxville. Dinner was excellent. Two peas in the Shepherd's Pie, Delaney and Sarah.

Then on Saturday night we had a cookout with most of the family. Kathy, Sherri and Aunt Sue here...

Waiting at the dinning table for even more birthday cake. From left to right - Sarah, Delaney, Chrissy (facing other way) Mike, Clark and Joe.

Everyone hung out and relaxed most of the evening. We had a great time catching up. L-R, Norm, Bubbles, Sherri, Rob, Kathy (Rob's girlfriend) and Aunt Sue. Rocky is seen walking out of the photo. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU...

Milestones - revised

It all goes by so fast doesn't it?

First steps...

First trip to the beach...
First Halloween...
First birthday...
First car...

First bike...

first LEARNER'S PERMIT!

Congratulations Michael!

I might need to get a prescription soon...

Here's one more shot that I thought made it into the last entry. I guess I accidentally deleted it.

Michael shooting out of the yellow slides.

And just a couple of videos.

Michael and Bubbles on the beach.

Sarah makes a squashed penny.

Mike and Sarah on the water slide.

I caught this yesterday, the dogs were playing. The quality isn't great, I only used the regular camera. If I had gone for anything else they would have seen me and stopped to see what I was doing. You never know when I might hand out treats so it's always good the be on the alert.

It's Show Time!

Show season started for us today. We haven't travelled around for the Spring shows. Sarah and Moe did very well today.

Here's a video...

Extra Spring Break Photos

I forgot to add these to the previous post.

One of the best parts of the whole trip for the boys was putting the top down on the jeep in Florala and rocking it out the rest of the way to the beach. It was a total hair fest.

We had to stop and take a picture at the infamous elevated porta-potty, just outside of Georgiana, Alabama.
Excited boys going to the beach.
A quick video of the girls walking the dogs on the beach.

Spring Break 2009

This year we had quite the crew for Spring Break. There were 8 of us in all and it was a lot of fun. Michael and Sarah each brought two friends. Michael brought Ian and Michael and Sarah brought Harliegh and Delaney.

The weather was great the whole time we were there.

It was cold a couple of days but at least it was sunny.
The boys did their traditional busking at Seaside.
There is a video of them at the bottom of this post. For some reason the videos downloaded at the end.
The girls did a lot of bike riding...

And beach walking.

The lovely and talented Miss Sarah...

Cool picture of Delaney. Good job Sarah.

Sarah and Delaney.

Harliegh seemed to avoid a lot of photos...

The three girls, Harleigh, Delaney and Sarah.

Two of the three Michaels...

Do you have to take my picture?

Michael D. and Michael K.

Really Mom...

The boys at the beach.

Football on the beach. Just click the play button.



Busking at Seaside.

Max Watching TV

You kind of had to be there, but I thought I would post this anyway. Max was sound asleep on the sofa when we switched the TV channel over to some dog agility trials and races. It immediately caught his attention and he sat, rapt, for quite some time. It was funny.

Sarah & Moe

After several attempts I FINALLY was able to get this to download. This is Sarah and Moe from lesson last week. Sorry about the wind noise in the audio, it was unavoidable.

It's a full course so the video takes almost 2 minutes.

Dog Videos!

OK! So I took a couple of videos of the dogs during our walk out at the barn.

Pop, when you come back to visit you'll have to take them out to the creek, they just love it and Bubbles can go off the leash once she's away from the horses. Poor Max of course never gets off the leash.

The quality is not great, but it's just a regular camera, not the video camera.

Learning New Tricks.

I'm learning new things every day. Today I learned to add videos.

These two are almost identical. Sarah didn't want me to put these in, she said they weren't good. I'll delete them later when I have better ones.

For now - Sarah and Moe.