• Proud of my dad, a Vietnam war veteran, at the veteran’s wall at Soldier Field in Chicago.

  July 22, 2010

• An afternoon at Shedd Aquarium… along with 10 million screaming day-camp kids.

  July 21, 2010

• Time for some Chicago-style deep dish pizza! One pizza fed five of us and we still had two slices left over.

  July 21, 2010

• Another snapshot of Donna at her childhood home in the Chicago suburbs.

  July 20, 2010

• One last snapshot of Maggie at Donna’s favorite childhood park, where, she apparently started a fire with a friend of hers.

  July 20, 2010

• My nephew, Joey, trying to decide if he wants to go up or down the tube slide. A few bricks and some mortar and I might have tried to seal both ends while he was in there.

  July 20, 2010

• If you’ve never tried Big Red… well, I feel sorry for ya’

  July 20, 2010

• My niece, Maggie, burning off some of the ample energy she seems to have.

  July 20, 2010

• The high school Donna attended appears to be twice as large as the school I attended, and hers was for 11th & 12th grade only! She graduated in 1990 with about 700 other students in her school.

  July 20, 2010

• Donna was so excited to see the home where she grew up. Of course she recalled it being much bigger as a child.

  July 20, 2010

• Donna, taking a trip down memory lane while wandering through the park down the street from her childhood home.

  July 20, 2010

• Things apparently went downhill after the 1980 photo of Donna dressed as an apple computer.

  July 19, 2010

• I don’t think I’ve ever been so proud of my wife – Donna, dressed as an Apple computer, circa 1980

  July 19, 2010

• Time to pick some flowers for the kitchen.

  July 19, 2010

• Just another snapshot of Donna and her grandma, enduring some humid, 90+ degree heat.

  July 19, 2010

• Donna and her grandma, admiring the flower beds in the back yard of her Berwin, IL home.

  July 19, 2010

• My first encounter with my niece and nephew, Maggie & Joey. They remind me of the Energizer bunny.

  July 19, 2010

• This is the one I meant to post of Donna with her grandma. They both real sweeties.

  July 19, 2010

• “This is my life,” a book by Donna during her earlier years.

  July 19, 2010

• Donna and her grandma, heading to the back yard to check out some of her flower beds – she’s the green thumb of the family.

  July 19, 2010