Here are some pictures from the fourth. Danny and Misha acame over and we grilled up so much food and had lots of fun. I can remember 5 years ago when we had just come back from our honeymoon and came to visit Las Cruces for the fourth. We had such a good time we decided to move from Socorro and we just went and did it. Along the way we've made some great friends and had some good times. Now as we celebrate our last Las Cruces fourth I'm really looking ahead to all the fourths we'll be spending in Socorro watching the Tech fireworks and hopefully still cooking out with the same ol' friends.

"I'm what I am and I'm what I'm not, and I'm sure happy with what I've got. I live and love and laugh a lot and that's all I need."

Emma got her first and hopefully only tattoo, because that's something that good girls just don't do (sorry Linds). It was cool though because it was birds just like mine and she enjoyed it while it lasted. Emma and I also made our first cake together. It was for the fourth and it came out great, in fact I just cleaned up the pan today.

Happy Anniversary Linds. 6/22/02

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to when you have forgotten the words.

Emma has been as silly as ever. She loves to play pretend lately. Below she and Lindsey were playing "spa". They do each others hair, nails, massage.....I think Lindsey is just training her for later. Poor little Emma just thinks it's fun.

Then she was fingerpainting which turned into face painting.

And last but certainly not least, Sue came over for a visit and we broke out our new beach cruisers for a ride to the swimming pool.

Emma has been in swim lessons now for almost three weeks and she is doing so good. She practices the crawl and breast strokes, jumps off the diving board, and can even dive and flip off the side! She continues to amaze us.