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My brother and sister-in-law surprised us with a horseback swimming adventure by the Skyway Bridge. Never knew they were such powerful swimmers!

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The weekly picture from my homepage for 2011.

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The weekly picture from my homepage for 2010.

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Here is where you will find the pictures of the week for my homepage used during 2009

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Instead of a single web page that just has what's soon to be over 100 photos all in one big column, I figured I'd transition them over to the gallery. I remade the pictures so you can get a real large version if you want. Also, being in the gallery, they can now be rated and the slide show feature works.

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Pictures of the week on my homepage for 2007 and earlier.

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I had an unexpected day off Thursday, July 3rd and my mom was in town still, so we took it as a sign and met her at Myakka River State Park for the day (well, morning anyway). She kept finding deer standing on or near the road every time I was off taking pictures somewhere while she drove off for one reason or another. Finally got to see a baby deer and track it through the woods snapping pictures along the way. I hope you enjoy the pictures half as much as I enjoyed taking them.

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Myakka State Park with Carey and the parentals. Not a lot to see, but it was a nice day.

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Myakka River State Park is one of the nicest state parks in the area, and we tend to take it for granted since we grew up not too far away. They have plenty to see and do there. I definitely recommend the sky walk.

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Silver River State Park in Ocala, FL is home to some of the clearest water you'll see. I forget the numbers, but a LOT of spring water flows along the river that borders the park and gives it it's name. A decent amount of wildlife can be seen through the park and the clarity of the water can mesmerize you for quite some time.

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We went to a few different county operated parks in Largo, FL with my parents one day. We had a lot of fun on the playground at one, plus plenty of birds and other small creatures to see.

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Homosassa Springs State Park is a truly unique park. Think of a mix between a state park and a zoo. All of the animals are in habitats like a zoo, yet they are all native Florida animals, with the obvious exception of Lou the hippo. He lived here back when the park wasn't a state park, but a winter home for the animals for a movie studio. Lou was a famous movie star and when the park started clearing out the non-native animals, the local residents fought for his right to stay. The governor made Lou an honorary citizen so he didn't have to pack his bags.

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We took my brother and his wife to Busch Gardens to do the Serengeti Safari with them as a Christmas gift to her.

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Lane and I went to Lowry Park Zoo on New Year's Eve

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We went up to Busch Gardens with Steve and Salina for the last weekend they opened Jungala early for passport holders. It took them a while to get through since the card reader didn't like Salina not paying her bill, but we got in just fine. The tigers had gotten their chicken popsicles, so they weren't nearly as interesting this trip, but I still managed to get a few good photos. Enjoy!

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Another trip to Lowry Park Zoo, this time with my mom. The cheetahs and clouded leopard were cooperating :)

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We had a nice cold snap this weekend so we decided to make a run to Lowry. It was a nice day. The animals seemed to be enjoying the mid 70s weather as opposed to the 90s we've been enduring for months now. Enjoy!

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Carey and I went to the Lowry Park Zoo for the first time in over a year. Love that place!

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Our trip through Lion Country Safari — October 28th, 2011

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Busch Gardens has a decent lion habitat. Some areas you have thick glass between you and the lions, where other areas you just have a fence and large chasm keeping them from using you as a mid-morning snack. Either way, you can get some nice views of the big cats lounging around enjoying their peaceful days.

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Lowry Park Zoo - March 14th, 2009
The white tiger cubs were having a blast playing and the orangutan baby was extremely cute perched on mom's back. Good day!

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My favorite 44 pictures from our short trip to Busch Gardens on 9-19-2009

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We went over to Cande and Chris' house and asked Sydney if she wanted to go for a swing. Boy did she get excited at the prospect. She's a trooper! I had her feet kicking the branches quite high up and she was asking to go higher.

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The Manatee Chamber of Commerce entered a group into the Heart Walk this year. It wasn't nearly as miserable as I thought it would be.

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Our niece, Sydney, enjoyed the festivities at G.T. Bray park for their annual Easter Egg Hunt. She is two years old, and therefore went out on the field with all the 1 and 2 year olds plus lots of family members all around.

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We went to Tampa to see a portion of the Roller Derby tournament on Sunday night at SkatePlex. Now that was an interested affair!

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Alison is 18?!?! I thought she was still only 8 years old? Anyway, she had a poker themed party since she can now legally gamble. Everyone seemed to have a good time. Man, she has a lot of friends!

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I went to the Sun N Fun Airshow with Steves Waterson and Robbins. A bit hot, but the Thunderbirds put on a great show. One apparently broke. They landed it about half way through the show and went over with a truck to tow it back instead of taxiing back to their spot on the field. They kept on going though - even though we thought they were done and put up the cameras and started walking out.

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Logan - Born January 4th, 2009

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Pictures from Katelyn Teliga's first birthday party

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Carey wanted a Christmas tree costume to wear to the Holiday Coffee Club, so instead of buying one, I made on for her. Well, she made the star on top, but I sewed the tree and created the ornaments for her to cut out on her scrapbook die cutter then I sewed them on as well. Oh yeah, the garland is sewn on as well.
Next year, we buy a costume, but it did turn out good.

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We went rock to Vertical Ventures in Tampa to do some indoor rock climbing with Jess and Wade. We'll go back.

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March 27, 2010 - Sydney has her first soccer game. It is hilarious watching a bunch of four-year-olds running around around after the ball in mob formation — when they are paying attention at all.

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Sydney, Logan and family at the YMCA Playground - November 1, 2009

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We got to go into the Pit Party before the show to see all the trucks up close. We didn't want to wait in any of the lines for autographs, but plenty of people were.

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These little guys can FLY. They also take a beating pretty well.

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MiniVans driven until destruction - including a rear axle removal and an engine fire

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The races are ok. pretty short with only a lap and a half for the main stuff and 2-1/2 laps for the finals. Some seriously close races though.

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These guys are completely nuts. One of them even crashed.

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Definitely the best part of the show. Only one truck finished the event without flipping or breaking. Well, one of them finished and then wrecked right afterwards!

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The kids each got to decorate a crown with crafts and then wear them later in the party after the glue and glitter dried.

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The kids played a few games at the party, including a race with a breakable (but fake) egg on a spoon, throwing balloons around and pin the tail on the donkey.

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"Sissy" made a 9,000+ calorie cake for Sydney's party. It was pink and purple colored vanilla cake with a rasberry (sugar free for some weird reason) filling and topped off with pink icing. It was FABULOUS!

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Sydney got lots of presents. So many that she was just OVER opening them. Oh well, she'll have plenty of new clothes to wear, a beautiful mirror to check herself in and some new toys to enjoy as well. And just in case someone, somehow happened to miss it, Aunt Kim got her a Mermaid dress, complete with a tail.

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Sydney is the proud owner of her first car - a Mattel Power Wheels Barbie Jeep Wrangler. Just don't let her steer by herself!

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Various pictures of people I took of people that came to the party but weren't associated with any of the other activities.

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My mom, dad, brother and Carey all went to a zipline adventure place a little south of Orlando this morning. Decent fun, but a bit hot in August. Got to see some neat animals, including an opossum actually playing dead!

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Carnival Dream cruise to Cozumel, Costa Maya, Belize and Roatan - February 2014

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Fantasy of Flight - May 24th, 2009. I went with my dad for his birthday present.

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We went back to San Antonio to visit Carey's sister Kathy and her family. We were only there for three full days and four nights, but we did a few great things — a return trip to Schlitterbahn, a trip through the Natural Bridge Caverns and an attempted tackling of the 42" pizza at Big Lou's.

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Pictures from our 2009 trip to Hawaii

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Steve and I dove the Vandenberg off Key West on Friday, August 20th, 2010. Amazing dive!

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Pictures from Key West during our week in the Keys

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Fun things we did right behind the house we were staying in while we were in the Keys

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General fun pictures from the trip that weren't worthy of their own category

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White Water Rafting on the Chatooga River - April 16, 2010

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We made a pit stop on our way to Helen at Noah's Ark in Locust Grove. Wonderful place with wonderful people. I highly recommend a stop there if you are in the neighborhood. The pictures don't do this place justice. Too many cages to keep the animals in and safe to allow for good photographs, but you can see some truly amazing sights there!

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We went to Anna Ruby Falls the lazy way - a drive to the visitor's center and then a 0.4 mile hike UPHILL to the falls. Nice area even if they are a bit strict about the whole stay on the path thing.

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Other misc. pictures from our trip.

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We went to the zoo on Monday. Most of their habitat's have cages and bars so you can't get any good pictures, but I managed a few decent ones. I think the highlight of the trip was Courtney getting bit by a trash can.

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Schlitterbahn has to be the coolest water park in the world. It was open from 10am until 6pm on Sunday when we went and we were there every minute of that and still hoping for more time when we had to go.

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It's amazing how small the Alamo is, but the grounds are beautiful. Nice oaks and other landscaping make it a very relaxing environment. Riverwalk is a glorified drainage ditch, but let me clarify. It's beautiful. Apparently decades ago, downtown San Antonio flooded pretty bad. So they created a "River" looping some of downtown to help provide rain water runoff. In doing so, they beautified the surrounding areas and apparently continue to do so each year. They have boat tours of the river and give you a nice history of many of the sights. Definitely a worthy attraction.

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Similar to the Sea World we have here in Orlando, but there are a few differences. Still a very nice place to spend a day.

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So we got drug off to this restaurant called The Magic Time Machine. All of the waiters are actors in different costumes. We had Robin Hood, Men in Tights, but there were also Mario and Luigi, Lora Croft, Betty Boop, Ace Ventura, Tinker Bell and many others. Rob and I thought it was ok, but the girls were in heaven. Oh, and Cody had a blast too.

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We ate lunch at Dick's Last Stand on Friday while downtown at the Alamo and Riverwalk. Our waiter wasn't mean and sarcastic like most of them, so it took something from the experience, but it was still a good meal.

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Before heading to the airport to go home on Tuesday, we stopped at Dave & Busters for some video gaming fun. It's a nice place and almost all of us got roped into those quarter pusher machines. Very addicting!

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Here are pictures of people that either didn't belong in one of the other groups or I just plain didn't feel like putting in there for whatever weird and unusual method I had running through my head when I was sorting pictures late at night.

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28 different .zip files, each with 27 images inside. Click on them to download.

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As I'm sure you know, our wedding was 64' underwater in Grand Cayman. That makes for difficult photos and what not, but it was wonderful. Here are photos of us on the boat just before, on the way down, during and a couple right after. For all those that couldn't be with us down there :)

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We went on the same basic cruise the year before and Carey desperately wanted to win a "Ship on a Stick" at one of the little contests. Well, it was close when we won the towel folding competition, but they gave us a book on towel folding and the second place winners for the "Ship on a Stick" so I tried to win her one at the belly flop contest on the first day. Darn that man with the big gut!

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The Chamber staff went well above and beyond and got use the honeymoon decoration package which entailed the hanging sign on the wall, the monster chandelier like piece from the ceiling and the little flower like stand on the desk area. Add to that all the towel art the stewards make for you every day and it's just a blast to be in the room :)

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There were just too many underwater pictures to mingle with the wedding ceremony photos, so I made them their own separate section. And without further ado...

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You know one of the main points of going on a cruise is the non-stop eat-fest that ensues. I'm a BIG fan of the all you can eat ice cream buffet. I had to bring my own toppings since they don't put them out but about once per day. Between that and the Cherry Cokes, I almost got my money's worth. Had to throw in that pesky wedding to really feel like I broke even.

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Here are all the pictures that either weren't worth making their own category over, or I was just plain too lazy to do so. Enjoy.

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I can officially say I didn't lose a single penny gambling. Of course that's because I didn't play. Carey didn't do so well and she can't even blame it on me hovering over the table near her this year :P Everyone had a fine time though.

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This was from our 2005 trip to Hawaii with Steve and Salina. The monk seal was very friendly and was quite playful. What a truly humbling experience to watch them zip around the water with almost no effort while we are lucky to fight off a strong current.

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We took Steven Watterson out to the Landing Craft 8 miles off Longboat Key to initiate him into the world of scuba diving. He did well, just sucking down a lot of air as all newbies do. Nice water, decent vis, and two tank made all around good day. Hopefully the last dive off that boat! TONS of barracuda hovered above us.
Check out the recent videos section of the website to see three clips from these dives.

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Stephen and I went to the M1 Barge off Sarasota today to relax underwater. I got too many blurry pictures, but I'm better with a real camera than a point/shoot. It's kinda hard to tell if you got a good picture while you are underwater, but also hard to go back and take another, so I'm posting some blurry ones because you can still get the point.

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Scuba diving with Carey, Steve and Salina at the Fin Barge on Sunday, May 31st 2009

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Steve, Steve, Dad and I went diving (after we waiting out the 2 hour thunder/lightning storm).

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Carey and I went out on Jim's boat with him and his girlfriend, Lisa. She isn't certified yet and planned to snorkel around the boat while we were diving. Turns out, she's not too fond of the barracudas so we shot one when we were done diving just for her.

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These pictures are from four different trips between August 17th and August 28th. Different types of dives, all fun :) Getting my money's worth out of the equipment in this stretch.

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Scuba Diving on the Fin Barge and Doc's Barge - June 20, 2010

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Steve and I took a trip out to the Fin Barge on June 11th, 2011. Saw some cool stuff.

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Steve and I took my brother-in-law Rob out for his first scuba dive in a few years. We had two fairly nice dives. The visibility wasn't great, but not horrible either.
We saw tons of things — plenty of jewfish, starfish, small grouper and snapper, trigger fish, flounder, ornamental reef fish, and even a ginormous sea turtle on the surface.

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Scuba trip to the Fin Barge with the Steve's

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Steve, Mike and I headed to Key Largo for Memorial Weekend with grand plans of mass diving. We got in five dives and saw some neat wrecks, even if the full plan didn't come to fruition.

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They didn't win, but they had fun :)

If you want any of these pictures, click on the "Contact Me" link up near the top of the website.

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Greg's team didn't win, but now they can go drink instead of bothering with that pesky final match.

If you want any of these pictures, click on the "Contact Me" link up near the top of the website.

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We played the last two games of the regular season on Friday 7/24. We remained undefeated for the season. Now for playoffs! Thanks Steve and Salina for being score keeper / photographer.

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There are 184 pictures of various dogs making box turns in here. If you click the S symbol above the top right of a picture, it'll start a slide show.

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Some pictures for Mike of various balls in the flyball box

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101 pictures of the various dogs jumping the hurdles during the solo race practicing. Click the S at the top right of a picture to start a slideshow.

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Pictures of Leo

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Some various pictures of Maggie

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Some of the other dogs while not actively running a practice race

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8 week old Isabelle two days after her arrival in Myakka

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Hard to get good pictures of the baby horse with a highly overprotective mother keeping VERY close

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My parent's old house that they built mostly themselves out in Myakka City

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