Happy 1st Birthday, Tyson

It is still officially Tyson's 1st birthday even though he has been tucked into bed for the last two hours. It is hard work turning one. Meg and Ryan hosted a great party with kabobs and salads. Tyson was really taken with a couple of his presents as they made great noise. Look out! We just wanted to share a little clip of the patootie enjoying his cake. Happy birthday, Tyson. We love you. Grampa Marc and Gramma Jan

Happy 22nd Birthday on the 26th Molly!

Molly-

We hope you have a great birthday! We are very proud of your accomplishments this year and look forward to pictures from Ireland and your stint as director of the South Dakota version of MCT! Have a happy birthday! Love, Mom and Dad

Happy 24th Birthday Jen!

Happy Birthday to the best legal intern in the Office of Navy General Counsel! We hope you have a fun day--we thought we would post this a little early so you could enjoy before Molly's birthday. We are very proud of you--have a great day! Love, Mom and Dad

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BRI!

Happy Birthday to the amazing Briana Rye - mother, business owner and spectacular baby sister. For those who haven't heard, she was recently awarded space in the Portland airport to open another spa (slated for ribbon cutting in the late fall/early winter, I believe). Now that Sabina is running around like a rabbit and talking up a storm, I fully expect that she will be equipped with a hammer and a level and put to work on the buildout this summer. We love you very much, Breezy!

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to all the dads: John, Marc, Dinger, Tom, Jerry, Matt, Mark, Peter, Nate, and Ryan (the rookie). If you're not spending the day with your kids, hopefully you're relaxing just enjoying it.

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Happy Birthday to a wonderful mom, wife, and grandma!! You don't look a day over.....well, I won't say your age...but you definitely don't look a day over it! :) I hope you have a great day in Plains!! Thinking of you on your special day!

Love you!!

Gramma Invades Billings

Mary and Jim came to Billings this weekend for Sam's baseball tournament. Gramma decided to jump in the car and visit the Magic City as well. We visited, played some cribbage, watched some baseball, and made a shopping and sightseeing trip to Red Lodge. Sunday night was baking night as Gramma, Jeanine, and Shannon joined forces to make a great rhubarb cake. It truly was tasty. The visit wrapped up Monday night with a barbeque at Miranda and Nate's house. It sure was great to see everyone and have Gramma spend a couple days with us.

Love y'all,

Tom and Jeanine

Happy Anniversary!!

Happy 34th Anniversary Mom and Dad!! I know you guys are not together today, but I do hope you have a great day! Love you both so much and thank you for being such an amazing example of love!

Love always,
Jen

Happy Birthday, Nate

There are still 20 mintues left of your birthday here in the Central Time Zone. I hope you had a great day back in the Magic City and that the new year of adventures is a great one. Happy Birthday, cuz!

Happy Birthday, Abe!

Ain't no jive -- Abe's thirty-five.
Wednesday's the curse -- could be worse.


I hope you'll all join in wishing Abe a momentous birthday. It's a milestone, to be sure. Don't really know how he'll be celebrating. Of course, he and Dez recently went to that county in Wisconsin to see The Doors. (Funny, I didn't know the surviving members were still playing.) Anyway, happy birthday, A-bomb! Hope you have a great one!

Last Pre-K class~

This is a picture of my last class of Pre-Kers. As some of you know, I am taking a new position at Holy Spirit next year and won't be teaching. It was a very tough decision but one I am feeling pretty good about right now. I guess we will see how long it lasts. I couldn't have asked for a better class of kids! They were awesome!

My new position is called development which is really P.R. I will be in charge of recruitment, retention and fundraising for our school. It will be very challenging for me since I tend to be a bit introverted, but I am looking forward to that challenge.

I am also looking forward to summer break!! So wish me luck in cleaning out my classroom and getting my office set up. It is a long, tough task, but I get a pretty good break afterward!

Graduations & White Coat!

Well, we now have six children with college degrees; two children by marriage with college degrees; two daughters (one by marriage) with masters and two working on a law degree and a doctorate (optometry)! I tell you what - we are proud!! The latest to graduate are Joey and Molly with Michael getting his white coat in the middle. We were fortunate enough to be able to attend all three and decided to share in our pride. Congratulations to you Joey, Molly and Michael. We love you!

Memorial Day in South Padre

Here are a few pictures from Ben's and my weekend down in South Padre Island, Texas. It was hot and Ben and I got SUNBURNED. It was a great time though. And you know we have football skills.

Few Pics From A Long Weekend In Door County, Wisconsin

Congratulations Molly!

It is a day early, but I wanted to say congratulations to Molly for graduating college. That is quite an achievement Molls, and you did it in four years!! I hope you have a great day and I know that you have a very promising future. Congratulations!

Building update

I talked with Bobbi Jo Fowlie today. She is open to the idea of putting together an event. I pitched Jim's idea of doing it in conjunction with the Book Festival (Aug. 1), along with Jim (the younger)'s idea of a street dance. Both seem to work, but nothing is set yet.

She said Historical Preservation Society has $6,000 in the bank. She doesn't know how much it will take to fix the roof and the porch to "historical" standards.

That's the news so far.

Happy Birthday, Jake!!

Happy birthday to the future rocker, or is that Doctor?!?
Have a great 24th birthday, Jake! Hope you can take some time off from the studying and have a bit of fun.
We love you tons!

FAMILY PICNIC 2009 - OFFICIAL POST

OK, OK. Here's Jeanine's and my thought on this. There is a wedding (Papich) that I think Nate, Jake, and maybe Ben will be attending on August 8 in Billings. If the picnic were held Sunday, August 9 at Jumping Creek, they might be able to make it. So, that is our vote. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Family Picnic 2009!

So I hate to be THAT guy, but I was enjoying a phone conversation from someone very dear to me on Thursday evening around 11 pm (i think). Anyhow, this particular person brought up the question of family picnic and when/where it will be held this summer. As I thought, I realized that there has been, to date, no Blog posts pertaining to picnic persons, places, and things. I figured, since I now have a week off before returning to school, that I would start to urge this summer's picnic authorities to begin that conversation.
Hope all is well, semester went great, things are good, life is beautiful.

Nick

Matt and Kelly's House

They have lived there since February, but the Florida house has seemed like a mythical place because there are no pictures available....until now! If you want to see Matt and Kelly's sweet digs, just go to this site and check it out. I am visiting for a little bit, and snapped some photos as evidence. It is about 85 degrees with 60% humidity today, so that is awesome! A little nicer than the weather we have been having in Helena lately, but of course as soon as I leave it's going to get nice. Enjoy it while you can, because I am back in MT on the 20th! Anyhoo, here is the site to see the pics. I will post some more of my photos in the future.

http://joeybuyskespictures.shutterfly.com/