Family Fav Pics

Family Portraits and Favorite Pictures - 2010

We rang in the new year with Andy's birthday, and a perfect opportunity to embarrass him at the Texas Roadhouse and another one on his birthday at California Pizza Kitchen.

His party was at Coco Key.

The girls were the only group who would actually stop for a picture.

Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo is wonderful.

In January, Steve received a surprise Joint Commendation Medal.

Both Steve and Nancy also got official photos done recently.

Andy had a lot of fun when most of the boys in his class decided to get together on the same YMCA basketball team.

Here is Andy's team photo.

We did have some fun outdoors in Omaha, going tubing at Mount Crescent.

It is an adventure every night checking on Lexi, as there is always at least one cat curled up with her somewhere.

Here is Andy at the cub scout blue and gold banquet.

Steve and Lexi had a ball at the Offutt Air Force Base Daddy-Daughter Dance.

Andy's team won an 3x3 indoor soccer tournament in March, and they were really excited.

Lexi had a lot of fun as the mayor in her class play, Go West!

Steve and Andy had a lot of fun, if not a lot of sleep, as the cub scout overnight at the Strategic Air and Space Museum.

Andy even got to try Kayak Polo. After going to an open pool practice with dad, he got to play in the kid's game the next day.

Steve took Andy and his friend Hayden to a Lancers (semi-pro) hockey game. The boys really had a ball.

We headed to Steamboat to spend spring break skiing. Grandma Pat had flown in and was there waiting for us. Here is Steve with the kids.

Easter is always fun

Andy's soccer team started up for outdoor, spring soccer

Here are the kids school portraits from the spring.

The kids had their first communion in April.

The next day, they headed to the zoo with grandpa, grandma and Aunt Cathy

Alexa had an art project selected for display at the school district. She also had to present her HAL project, a book about African animals.

She also really enjoyed a class field trip to the Portal School.

Here is Andy having fun learning archery at the base lake.

Lexi got to spend a night at the Strategic Air and Space Museum also.

Andy continued to have fun toward the end of the spring soccer season.

He also enjoyed going to a cub scout campout that same weekend.

Here is Andy's third grade class on their field trip to the zoo.

Here are the girls from Lexi's class on their field trip to Lincoln.

Afterward, Nancy took the kids to McDonalds.

We enjoyed "tanking" down the Elkhorn River with Todd and Cheri over Memorial Day weekend.

We also had fun at the Wildlife Safari.

Here are Lexi's pictures from volleyball and swimming.

We had fun in Kansas City with grandma and grandpa Feind.

We headed to Steve's family's cottage in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan for the last week of June and early July. We stopped by a great waterfall on the way to Copper Harbor.

Here are some pictures from Fort Wilkins Historical State Park and the view over the bay to the Copper Harbor Lighthouse.

Once back in Chicago, Steve and the kids had a chance to visit with some of his relatives and go to the Field Museum.

Lexi headed off to a Girl Scout camp in Colorado where she was going with her friend Jenny. Beforehand, she managed to meet a group of her friends from Colorado.

Steve had fun meeting some friends from Junior High on another quick trip to Chicago.

The next weekend, Steve and Andy had a lot of fun at Cub Scout Webelos Camp.

Here is a team photo from the Azzurri soccer tournament the weekend before school started.

While both kids were excited for school to start (Alexa more than Andy), neither wanted summer to end.

Here are the kids at the Durham Museum.

The next day, Lexi had fun on a Girl Scout hike.

Time for fall soccer season.

We had a lot of fun at the Offut AFB Air Show.

Lexi and Nancy had a lot of fun in Missouri over Labor Day helping with the church picnic.

Meanwhile, Steve and Andy really enjoyed a trip to Chicago.

Steve took a lot of pictures at Andy's last soccer game before he left for Virginia.

Steve got to go to another Air Show, this time in Virginia at Oceana NAS.

Here is Alexa working with the Girl Scouts on their Bronze Award project.

Nancy and the kids had a ball at the zoo in October.

Nancy and the kids really enjoyed Vala's Pumpkin Patch for the Fish Family Campfire.

I love these silly pictures of Andy and Dylan.

Here is Andy finishing the third Harry Potter book and then pictures from the Toyota Cub Soccer Tournament.

Here are the kid's school portraits from the fall. Andy is in the forth grade, while Alexa is in fifth.

Nancy's grandmother passed away in the fall and the family all converged on West Virginia for her memorial in mid-October. Here is Andy with his second-cousin Tyler.

Lexi had a lot of fun with a HAL project on Egyptology and mummies.

Here is Lexi at her class Halloween party dressed as Grumpy, then with Nancy and Andy (as a whoopee cushion) on Halloween.

Nancy and the kids (with Cathy) went to Missouri for the Marine Corps Ball.

Lexi took her HAL project to school.

The kids had a lot of fun at Alexa's birthday party at Coco Key.

Here she is on her birthday.

When Steve got back from school in Norfolk, we headed off to Hawaii to meet his Uncle Denny and Aunt Cindy. On our first night, we drove to the overlook for the Polulu Valley on the north end of the island.