I know it has been a few days since I last posted… I guess this is a good day to break the silence. 
Today Katie and I have been married for 14 years!  I can’t believe it.  I can’t believe she has stayed married to me this long.  I am thinking back to all the […]

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I thought I already had a part III… I guess not.  I can’t find it.
So, for those of you who didn’t know Katie’s maiden name - now you do.   Lucky you. And Lucky Katie - at least now she has a more normal name.   Bettendorf is a normal name, right?  More normal than webb anyway.  […]

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Way back in early 1996 I bought a Rabbit.  A Volkswagen Rabbit.  Not just any Volkswagen Rabbit.  A super-cool silver 1984 Volkswagen Rabbit.  With a diesel engine.  I like cars from the 80’s.  The 80’s had a lot of cool cars.  Like the Buick Grand National.  The Alfa Romeo GTV6.  The VW Rabbit/Golf.  The VW […]

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Remember those little photo booths at the mall?  Here is Katie with a friend of hers in Junior High.
 
I guess those count for 80’s perms.  She looks like a kid in a movie back then but I can’t think of who… Annie?
 
 
She must have had poor self-esteem back then.  ;)  I mean it is […]

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Katie is the best wife in the world.  Not that you guys aren’t good wives.  Maybe I should have said Katie is the best wife in the world for me.  I cannot imagine being married to any of the other girls I had met and thought I would have liked to marry.  Not to insult […]

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Here are some pictures my mom emailed me the other day.

1974.  My cousin Aaron, me and my sister Jennifer with my Grandma Smith at her house in Lynwood, CA.
 

1975.  My Cousin Aaron, my sister Jennifer and me with our dog Peter at our house in Tucson, AZ.
 

1976.  Me, my cousin Aaron and my sister […]

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Look how small our family was back in 2003!  I think you will recognize all but two of the kids in these pictures.  Back then we had Kayla (light pink shirt) and Joey (dark blue shirt with tan stripe) living with us.

Weren’t they so little?
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As I was looking through the Bettendorf Photo Archives, I discovered these pictures of the kids hiking at the White Tank Mountains.  I used to take the kids there often; it was only 10 minutes from the house.  These pictures are from three different hikes we went on back in 2004.  During the Spring it […]

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Our Family Portrait - Do you see how small our family was back then?

Jenna

John

Jacob

Jason

Jessica

June

Joshua and Josiah… or is it Josiah and Joshua?

Jillian

Jolina
 
Circle of kids
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