Lovies

Here is Addy working in some sibling bonding...


...and then Jackson had endured the hand holding long enough.

Ignorance is Bliss

Fun in the Kitchen

That adds a new twist to "pothead."

Family Date Night at Shackelford's

Jack had finally had enough and pulled the blanket over his head to go to sleep.

Football with the Fellas is Back!

With the return of the NFL, the Ritner Sunday routine got back to normal with Mom hitting the road for some alone time and shopping therapy, and the boys staying home to follow their fantasy football teams. As you can see, Addy already knows that football is more fun than shopping. Her future husband will thank me someday.

Baby Tomatos

Grandma French planted some cherry tomatos outside when she was here last month and the crop finally came in this past week. Here is Addy eating the first fruits. We figured she was a little to young to teach her about tithing her first fruits to God.

Sadly, God killed her tomato plant the next day when Hurricane Hanna came through and Dad tried to move the plant into the garage and all the branches split off in the process. I guess God takes his tithing seriously.

New Toys!

While Mom was away Dad and Addy got their hands on some matchbox tracks and cars. Here we are showing them off to Mom when she got back from Chicago. As you can see, Addy thinks they are pretty funny.






We made a little tweak to make them accomodate the Little People cars as well!

Congratulations to Grandpa Ritner on his second Hole in One!

"Today on the 160-yard third hole at Logger's Trail, I hit a 7 iron
that landed inches short of the green and rolled fifteen feet and into
the cup for an ace!"

Jack and Mom's Visit to Chicago

Dad and Kristyn visit Wrigley and see Aramis hit a game winning Grand Slam in the bottom of the 8th to beat the Phillies.


Three generations of beautiful mothers.

This about summarizes Dads day so far

Check out my new laptop screen. After 6 weeks of tweaks, it crashed this morning, forcing me to resort to this. Just wait until I put this laptop through TSA screening at the airport!