Early Summer 2005

Find out, among other things, what Dave considered to be among the best nights of his adult life...


1ColonialCapers (39K)
Katie and Emily at their colonial best for a school function (above);
Dave does his time at Mike's Cub Scout car wash (right)
1CarWash (31K)


1Luau (53K) 2EmBall (30K)
Meghan and Lindsey had a ball as they said goodbye to middle school with a luau...
Emily just had a ball


The Nuggets strike gold

Let's just say that much of the baseball season wasn't that kind to Dave and Mike's Little League team, as they bumbled and stumbled to a 3-9-1 regular season record (the tie being their 19-19 "win" in the Mother's Day Miracle).

So on June 23, the team, having not won in a month, headed into a first-round playoff game. Trailing 17-11 going into the final inning, they somehow scored six runs to tie it, held the other team scoreless to force extra innings, scored another six runs to take the lead, then AGAIN shut down the other side to win!

The team then went into the village for ice cream and rocked the place like it had never been rocked before, at least by a bunch of 8-year-olds and middle-aged fathers. Dave called it "one of the best nights of my adult life."

3MikeOnSecond (34K)
Early in the game, Mike somehow makes it to second
3DaveArm (34K)
That's Dave's arm, sending two runners home from the third-base coach's box

3Scoreboard (26K) The scoreboard (above) and the guys themselves (right) tell the whole story
3WeWin (36K)
5Nuggets (44K)
Three days later, the Nuggets were eliminated from the playoffs.
You'd never know they lost, and were playing in record heat and humidity, by looking at this picture...
Now would you?


4FathersDay (49K)
Our family with Dave's father and sister's family on Father's Day
4KTMike (29K)
Katie and her favorite li'l fella


Brace yourself for some change

5MegBrace (28K) Thousands of dollars in orthodonture, and the passage of 24 months, don't really do much...
Now do they?
5MegNoBrace (33K)



(Other family photos are up one level)