Last week of July

The Griffinator being a great big brother and holding Marin.

Great-Grandma Ettie visiting with little Marin.


Kids looking for elephants- Papa and Grammy looking for ?????


The Junior Zookeeper at a special zoo event. He's been wearing his zookeeper uniform as much as possible the last few weeks. Including his namebadge, sunglasses, and of course, the key to unlock the animal cages. Playing 'zoo' at home is his favorite thing to do right now.



A "Carbon" tomato from our garden...very tasty and nice.



Here's Mitch with a big cucumber from our garden.




Komodo Dragon from the Minnesota Zoo. Very neat.

Trip to Minnesota!!!

Mitch and Griff ridin' a tortoise at the Minnesota Zoo.

It's too bad the boys have a hard time having fun.

The sweetest little girl around...she had a great first vacation.

The wonderful Cherry on a Spoon at the sculpture garden by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

Wha-choo takin about? This is one of the coolest animals at the Minn Zoo. It is a takin. One of China's rare treasures. Very cool.

Good ol' Hot July

Griff with his lemonade at Mitch's TBall game.

Mitch, Number 9 on the Outlaws!

Mitch up at bat, wearing Matt's hat.

Mitch playing catcher- in charge of placing the ball back on the T for the next batter. Very important.


Marin enjoying the game- or at least the outdoors.


Mitch teaching Marin about the world through Baby Einstein.

Matt's very proud 'tour of the garden' with special commentary from Mitch.

Griff has been playing so hard, that almost everyday, he literally passes out from having so much fun- It's funny to see how he'll sleep each day.

Matt & Griff shuckin' corn on the deck- Note Matt's beautiful Daisy from the garden!