Grandson 10 Grandchild 21

Here's proud papa Randy with James Cole. Momma Chrissy is doing great.

Officially Retired

Here's a look at me teaching my last class in underwater basket weaving at the University of Florida. It was hard work, but someone had to do it. Hungary, here we come!

Beszélsz magyarul? (Do you speak Hungarian?)

Would you trust these two...

to search high...


and low...


through the streets...


of Hungary...


as missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?


Well, you better because that's what they'll be doing for the next 18 months.

Grandson 9 Grandchild 20

Here's the proud family, Jen, Robert, Branden and Ella, with new brother Bryce Alexander. Grandpa suggested that his name should be Parmesan (or Parm or Parmi) since they used the Eggplant Parmesan system to start labor. A local restaurant said that eating their Eggplant Parmesan would start labor within 24 hours if the baby was due. Since the baby was a day late, they decided to try the Parmesan Procedure. After loading up on Eggplant Parmesan for two meals, the baby came just 35 minutes before the time limit expired--thus the suggested name. Grandpa's suggestion was overruled. You'll have to agree that Parmesan is a better boy's name than Eggplant.

They thought that since names set your course for life, Bryce, as in Bryce Canyon, would set him on a life of outdoor adventure rather than a life with an exotic eating disorder as suggested by Eggplant Parmesan.

Of course, as soon as grandma got back to Gainesville, she had to head off to Sage and Troy's so she could tell grandson 8, Stephen, about his new boy cousin. Can you tell he's happy to hear the news?

Kannas Time

Four and a half Kannases just visited us for the weekend. (Can you see where the half Kannas is?) It was too cold and rainy to go canoeing so we went to St Augustine, lighthoused and ate Cuban food. Can you tell that the nice stranger who took the picture is lying on the ground at our feet to get all the lighthouse in?

Little Dutch Girl

Last year at this time we were in the Netherlands watching the first flowers of spring appear through the snow.


Imagine finding a little Dutch Girl amidst our tulips in Florida.


Time to put on those wooden shoes and think about working in the garden.

"I hope they call me on a mission"

Here's our future missionary Stephen visiting grandma and grandpa to help them fill out their mission papers.


Let's walk to church to talk to the bishop.

Kim's off

Kim is off to Honduras for nine months. Of course she had to have some last minutes touches of love, such has sitting on the floor at a Japanese restaurant with Joseph, Blake and Spencer to eat with chop sticks and...


having Aurelia, Summer, Jessica, David, Victoria, Mary, and Stephen pamper her for three hours reading her stories and doing a full spa treatment of pedicures, manicures, facial, head and back rub.


Here are the spa workers relaxing with the finished product. Doesn't her skin look lovely?


Is this a teary farewell?

Layover in Layton

Here are the new Rigbys cutting cake in Layton.


We got to greet all of Caroly's relatives that couldn't make it to Florida. Sister Diana and her husband Merlin...


brother Larry and his wife Rose...


sister Kathy and her husband Reed...


brother Dondavid and his wife Renee...


and uncle Oren and aunt Byrnie.

Some old time friends also stopped by: Caroly's first BYU roommate Lacy and her husband..

and former Gainesvillers Sorensens with their new boy after four girls...


and Camilla Tacogdoy Fairbanks and her husband Derek and her brother JT. There were plenty of others but I wasn't quick enough with the camera. Former Gainesvillers and relatives filled about a third of the cultural hall.


Someone forgot to tell the car decorators that Debbie and Eric have been married for two weeks already.

Kicking around the Kid's Place

When you are in Salt Lake, it's 20 degrees and there is 4" of ice covered snow, what do you do? Play in the water at the kid's museum, of course!


Here's Allie showing Maddie and Daddy some principles of water dynamics.


Kim does some grocery shopping with Allie. What's the nutritional value of plastic veggies?


I think Cassie is overdoing the asparagus shopping.


If you can find the horses, you can find grandma.


Is all this fun driving Grandpa up the wall?

New Doos

Mr. Cool


Bangs need trimming?





My turn?


Yipes!!

Gone Fishin'

Of course if Robert is visiting,there has to be a fishing trip.