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My Family |
Boating | Camping | Motorcycling |
Four-wheeling | Snowmobiling
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Here I am with my beautiful wife, Laurie. She teaches first grade in our home town of Cedar Falls, Iowa. We will soon celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary and are still enjoying every single day of life together. We both graduated from the same high school in Jefferson, Iowa. We enjoy action, whether it’s boating, jeeping traveling, physical fitness, or whatever. We don’t like to sit around and let life pass us by. |
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Here is my family, gathered at a recent holiday. My daughter, Katie, is attending law school in Colorado. My son, Joe, is studying art at the University of Iowa. Also in the photo is my dog, Kaiser, who suddenly died from a blood disease in May of 2007. We still miss him dearly, but we did soon thereafter get a new dog, Lex. |
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Here I am with my family in Playa del Carman, Mexico. We have taken a few vacations in southern Mexico, and do enjoy the R&R. However, I can’t really sit around and try to relax and do nothing for too long. I start to get “antsy” and anxious to get back home to my regular routine, including following all of the markets! |
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This is another “Kodak moment” of my wife, Laurie, and me on the beautiful beaches near Playa del Carman, Mexico, celebrating our 25th anniversary a few years ago.
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This is my son, Joe, and daughter Katie posing at a recent family wedding. I’m proud of my kids, as I’m sure you are proud of yours, too, if you are a parent. |
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Here is son, Joe, the artist, examining his work at a sidewalk art show. He’s a pretty creative fellow, as his work shows. His artistic interests include drawing, painting and music, including composing songs. Joe certainly did not derive his artistic ability from his dad! |
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These are my two beautiful gals: wife, Laurie and daughter, Kaite. They are posing while traveling in Greece. Katie studied law in Greece in the summer of 2007, and Laurie went there to visit her. |
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This is me and my new pal, Lex. He’s a Doberman Pinscher. He hangs out with me in my office during the working day, snoozing at my feet most of the day. What a life! |
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This is a family photo with me, my brothers, my sister, my mom and my grandfather, Jim, and his wife, Mary. Gramps passed away in 2006 at age 98. He lived a good, clean life and was rewarded by living nearly a century. Gramps liked to follow the markets, and was always asking me about the grains. He would always talk to me about trading the grain futures, but was just too frugal to ever pull the trigger. |
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Here is the whole gang of relatives on my wife, Laurie’s side of the family. What a group! This was a family reunion in which a game of “Survivor” was played. A motley crew, indeed. |
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