Week of September 30, 2005

Hi All,

This is a picture of our dog, Rocky. Rocky is a Lhasa. Our other dog is name Lucky. Lucky is black and white and is mixed German Shepherd and other breeds.

William has been in sick for three days last week. He had a stomach virus. It is going around.

Mom and dad went to school on Thursday for Open House. Dad followed Alan's schedule and mom followed William's. Dad had an eye opener about how things work. He is convinced that there is way too much for the kids to remember, smile. There are a lot of things to remember and do when you enter 6th grade. The good news is that they put most of it on the internet. We will be keeping up with the internet. William's wasn't as hard. They figure by this time that the kids know what to do. The hardest thing is now they think they know everything and the hormones are rushing. The teachers who have the 8th grade really are patient and try hard to keep the kids under control and let them have some freedom through these trying teenage years. The school end of the 1st quarter is this week and we will find out how they are doing in the next couple of weeks.

We got some tickets to go see the Devil Rays play their last game this season. Because so few people go to the games they offered the tickets for $5. Alan managed to get a couple of autographs but the lines were so long that by the time we got there most of the team had gone to warm up for the game. Devil Rays gave away a number of Fan Appreciation gifts and even raffled off the shirts of the players back. This was a fundraiser and the money went to the Katrina fund. One of the boys in our party was a winner of the shirt but his family had left before they announced the winners. Apparently, he will be able to get the shirt at a later date. Everyone seemed to have a good time.

Well the Bucs are 4 - 0, what a start. Unfortunately, for our family the Cowboys weren't as lucky today.

It was good having our sister, Marcia, visiting this month. Mom went up to Atlanta and spent time with Sherri and Marcia. Then Marcia came to Florida and visited us for a week. When mom was up with our sisters we stayed home with dad. It was good to have a guy's weekend.

Well take care and we'll keep in touch.

William and Alan