Helping Papaw water the tomato plants in Versailles, Kentucky

Pausing for a 'cheese' moment

Jonah's 11th birthday . . . in his favorite color: green!

Lipstick gone wild

Morgan added a new hobby: Harp playing

Mom and Step-Mom: Same shirt and same color . . . More than odd, don't you think? Definitely twighlight zone material

The cousins

High fructose corn syrup meets food coloring. This can't be healthy.

Our trip to the Creation Museum in Kentucky

Yes it is!

Request from Makaya: "Please, Mr. Dinosaur, don't eat me!"

Mom and 'Kaya

Or, alternatively, "if you believe there is no God, you better be right!"

Hanging out with Granny Mert

Piano duet

Hanging out with Grammy

. . . and Grandpa!

Playing ladder golf at Whitney's high school graduation party, Versailles, KY

Whitney!

Hit a pothole going around the mountain (literally) in Pocahontas, VA (i.e., no man's land). Bent the rim and flattened the tire

The girls' piano teacher at their Spring recital

Makaya and Uncle Drew having some bonding time

Makaya's 6th birthday sugar crash

Getting my hair done for the Daddy-Daughter Dance

Almost done

Morgan's getting a little foo-foo doo, too

The completed look

another angle

Makaya's new doo

. . . and the back

All the girls . . . new outfits and new doo's!

The guys

The combined group ready to head toward the Daddy-Daughter dance at Fort Monroe, Hampton, VA

Joey and Scott getting ready to head out

Morgan and Madison at the dance

The girls on the boardwalk

Scott and his girls (minus mom)

Morgan and Madison: beach leeches

Free-spirited girls on top of a grassy sand dune

Cassie and Morgan

Squishing some wet sand between the toes

The Daddy-Daughter dance after-party

Contemplating something . . .

Waiting for Dad's retirement ceremony to begin

Scott's shadowbox

Farewell speech

Blessing my daughter, Morgan

Jen receiving her certificate

Morgan receiving hers

. . . and Jonah his

. . . and finally, Makaya

Getting ready to re-propose to my wife

Whew . . . she said "Yes" again!

Relieved of duties . . . officially

Pastor Scott concludes the ceremony with a prayer

Getting ready for the final salute and passage through the sideboys

Jen's post-retirement ceremony celebration pose. We ran out of Calgon. Plenty of clean towels, though