A BIRTHDAY WISH

After one trip to the hosptial and being sent home the young couple had to wait 'til midnight to return. After several more hours of labor, Mom was exhausted and Dad went home sick. Finally at 7 am in 1977 a young lady entered the world, Melissa Lee Beck. (For those not good at math, that's 33 years ago.) HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEETIE!!!!!!

Check out my hair-do!!!!

Help! There's more than I have bottles! What do I do !!!!

My favorite Strawberry ShortCake. She looked beautiful for one day.

I was a GENIUS. ( My science project in 3rd grade.)

Continued

8th Grade graduation

I was the greatest soccer player they every had at Hueneme High School. (Check out the mud on the knees that proves it.)

High school graduation

Her wedding

Jan 2009

What season of the year is it !!!!

So Saturday morning this is a shot of the mountains over the top of C.I.

Then from out by the beach.

Then we found some wild flowers out by Mugu Rock.

The strawberries are starting to have berries and more blossoms.

I got a kick out of this; there is a tomato and strawberry growing in the same pot and it had red ones today.

A Continuation

A couple of more shots of Mugu Rock.

And like always, no matter where we go, Mom makes new friends.

Looking back towards Pt Mugu, it was amazing to see all the foam in the water left behind.

A couple of miles past Mugu Rock, we greatly enjoyed the sights and the day.

The Water Show

Well, today was Mom's and my day off and since it had rained all week not much could be done in the yard so we drove over to the beach, and it put on quite the show for us.

Then we went to see more at Mugu Rock.

Stay tuned for yet some more pictures.

What your kids can get you in to!

So somehow Joe claimed that a coworker had challenged our family against his family to a softball game. As we were getting there we found out that they were using more than just family plus there was going to be two games. So I could not just watch, and being the weakest member of the team, they put me at catcher. ( Mary, being the concerned wife, thought I would over do it, so she switched off ever other inning with me.)

Jeff at bat, got out the first couple of times (Everone said it was the too-small-C.I.-jersey holding him back .) Then he started hitting it out of the park and proved everyone wrong.

Kenny at bat; (What's that coming towards me? ) he did great.

.. Marci at bat ( I'm going to hit it out of here.)

So here are the CHAMPIONS; we won both games in a big way and had a lot of fun. (Joe no longer has any friends at work.)

The Latest project

While the kids were home for the holidays they insisted on doing somthing around the house to help out ( or work togather at) so they tore the old roof off of the patio. ( It was done so fast I couldn't get the camera to take a picture, MY BAD ) then when they got it off they all left town.

So this weekend, with Mom's great help and painting skills,

we got new wood on the patio.

Then the boys felt sorry for me and came over to give a hand.

Then the finished project. ( Thanks everyone for all the help.)