THE  KIDS'
OLDER
PHOTOS

THOMAS
1st. grade age 6

TINA
Kindergarten, age 5

CRYSTAL
Around age 1yr.

Thomas & Tina  at the Toledo Zoo summer of '93.  They were about 8, & 7 yrs. old.

Tina, Thomas, & Crystal at the Toledo Zoo summer of '94.  They would have been 8, 9, & 3  1/2.
They are joined in the picture on the left by Tina's best friend Stacey, age 5.

Camera shy.
That would soon change.

Crystal, her first carrosel ride, age 3  1/2.
( frightened to death,  I don't think anything has scared her since. )

Toledo Zoo again, 1995.
Ages 9, 4 1/2, and 10.

Climbing the rocks at the African Savanna.
Toledo Zoo 1995.

Historic Turkey Foot Rock, and on the battlefield at the
Fallen Timbers historic battlefield site, Maumee, Ohio.
This was the indian battle, led by "Mad Anthony Wayne" that finally opened the Ohio valley to settlers. 

A bridge near the locks.
Sidecut park, Maumee, Ohio.

Our favorite outdoor place is Sidecut Park.  Built over the remains of what was the Black Swamp, it was home to many indian camps until the 1800s.  Later they built the locks to raise and lower the canal boats of the Miami & Erie canal, which ran down the river where the park now stands.  A small part of the orriginal locks still stands decaying today, a monument to our past in N.W. Ohio.

At the locks at Sidecut Park, and the small stream that was once the Miami & Erie canal.
1995, ages 10, 9, and 5.

Bumper cars at the Lucas County Fair, summer 1996.
Ages 11, 10, and 5 1/2.

Watch out !! 
Mad woman behind the wheel !!
Women drivers !!

The locks at Sidecut Park again.  Tina is wearing my mom's Arizona University, national basketball championship cap.  Crystal is chewing on a flower.  And Thomas is looking very poised and model-like.
Around summer '96.

Straycat with my little girls.  Thomas is taking the pictures this time.  Around '96 at Sidecut Park again.  GOD I LOVE MY KIDS, even if they aren't really mine !!  I LOVE PLAYING DAD !!

Thomas walking on water ??
As close to holy as he's likely to get.
Marblehead beach on Lake Erie.

Tina and Crystal.
Ages 10 and 5 1/2.
Marblehead beach '96.

Historic Marblhead Lighthouse, on the shore of Lake Erie,  1996.

Tina, Crystal, & Thomas, on the
boat to Put-In-Bay, Ohio, where Commodore Perry defeated the British tall ships in the battle of Lake Erie that all but won the war of 1812.

At the canal boat rides in Grand Rapids, Ohio, with  "Jackie the Jackass"
( their mom? )  summer '96, ages 11, 10, and 5 1/2.

The "Blue Bird Special" steam train, runs between Waterville, and Grand Rapids, Ohio, and gives passengers a feel for riding on an old fashioned steam powered passenger train.  Summer '96.

On the boat to Put-In-Bay, an island in Lake Erie.  One of my favorite pics.  Crystal is almost 6, Thomas is 11, and Tina is 10.  Summer of '96.

Looking out the rear car of the Blue Bird Special as it winds it's way from Waterville to Grand Rapids, Ohio. 

Getting the feel for the controls of a steam powered passenger train.  The Blue Bird Special, Grand Rapids, Ohio.  '96.

All the kids but Crystal (home sick)
(l,r) Thomas, J.D., Charity, Tina, Sissy.
At the Old West End festival.

Thomas learning to fly, and the girls by the
Maumee river at Walbridge Park, around '96 or '97.
Walbridge Park is near where Fort Industry once stood.  The site that would become the city of Toledo.