Pictures of Us

 

Derek:

Wrangling a resistant, 15-pound salmon at sunrise on Lake Michigan  2007

Showing off the blindfolded drawing of "afro" that clinched the New Year's Eve Cranium victory for him & teammate JD  2007

Playing the ghee-tar in Phoenix  2005

Amused by a funky cactus in Glendale  2005

Petting the world's sweetest camel  2005

Sedona  2005

At the rest area on Highway 17 north of Phoenix  2005

Trying on "old man hats" at Cabela's  2005ish

Rub-a-dub-dub  2004

Executing a jump shot  2004ish

With his Mom  2003

"pardon me, do you have any grey poupon?"  2003

At Leslie course, with deer in background  2003 or before

Spellbound by a tornadic-potential storm rolling in  2001

Playing in the City Golf Tournament  2001

City Golf Tournament #2  2001

At Navy Pier   2001

Another Navy Pier shot   2001

Hosting Thanksgiving dinner for the kitties  2000?

With Mom, Ted, Wink, Kristin, & Yan  2000

On the Pictured Rocks boat tour  2000

Showing off on the rock wall, State Fair  2000ish

Wearing a dorky U of M football "helmet"  2000ish

 

1990s

40th birthday #1   1999

40th birthday wearing his birthday present   1999

40th birthday blowing out the candles   1999

At Epcot, Disneyworld  1998

At Epcot one more time  1998

Harassing our friend Pat  year unknown

Marveling at a hermit crab in the Florida panhandle  1996

...attempting to then EAT the hermit crab  1996

Funky picture of a 9-ball break  mid-1990s

At a pool tournament in London (Canada, not England)  1993

Showing off his roofer's balance at Presque Isle  1991

Using a sand wedge in Gladstone  1991

At my apartment on East University shortly after we first started dating  1991

 

(The 80s never happened, evidently)

 

1970s

Sometime in high school  1976ish

Face-off!  mid 1970s

What a stud!  mid 1970s

A former pastime  mid 1970s

Studying, sometime in high school  mid 1970s

In his little league uniform  August 1970

 

1960s

5th grade (roughly) school picture  1969

2nd grade  1966

1st grade (roughly) school picture  1965

Riding a camel in the Middle East  1965

Snuggling in a blanket after falling in a fountain at lunch  January 1964, Turkey

Little red (I assume) wagon  1964

In a tub in Turkey somewhere  1964

Master Scuba man  August 1963, Zurich

Brushing up on his "Colloquial Turkish" (at age 4??)  May 1963, Turkey

Age 2

Age 2

Age 2

 

Togetherness  #1

 

 

 

Our trip to "The Thumb" July 2007

 

 

 

St. Clair, Michigan, visit with Fran S., July 2007

 

 

 

Our day's catch on Lake Michigan, July 2007

 

 

 

 

Our blueberry buckets, July 2007

 

 

 

 

Lake Michigan weekend, August 2006

 

 

 

 

Later that night at the rental house

 

 

 

Christmas Eve 2006

 

 

 

 

New Year's Day 2006 in Mexico

 

 

 

 

New Year's Eve 2005-2006 in Phoenix

 

 

 

 

 

North of Phoenix on Hwy 17, 2005

 

 

 

 

 

Glass City Open 2002

Glass City Open Pool Tournament, 2002

Betz:

Enjoying smelt at Bortell's on Lake Michigan  2007

Picking blueberries near Pentwater, Michigan  2007

Reveling in her clay creation of "underwear" during a heated game of Cranium  2007

At the "Gates of Detroit," one stop on the Culture Bus Tour with DSA colleagues  2007

My scrapbookin' birthday  2006

Letting Elayna try on my hat at the Dietzler Family Reunion  2006

At Bond Falls in the U.P.  2006

The hottest day of the summer in Ontonagon, and the hottest place in Michigan that day, 97 degrees  2006

At the Gay Bar 2006

The river that bears my name (just north of Gay) 2006

Atop Brockway Mountain   2006

At a refreshing waterfall near Eagle Harbor   2006

Watching a Scottsdale camel try to chew on my shirt  2005

Downtown Phoenix  2005

Sedona  2005

Rest area on Highway 17, en route from Phoenix to Prescott  2005

Remember when my hair was black?  Witch costume, Halloween  2005

The whole costume   2005

Posing for a UM staff spotlight photo  2004

      (Click here to read the article)

With Mercutio the hedgehog (a student employee's pet, Summer 2004)

Mercutio again (he hissed at me and poo'd on  my shirt)

Posing with a 1929 Duesenberg at the 2003 Rolling Sculpture Show, Ann Arbor  2003

With an Elvis impersonator 2003

In a historically significant (but evidently not significant enough for me to remember details) spiral staircase from some European church or something at the Detroit Institute of Arts  2002

In a huge fireplace in Albuquerque's Old Town  2002

As Dorothy, Halloween  2002

Casa Loma in Toronto  2001

With Demi Moore in Toronto (haha)

On the ACUI Region 7 Quiz Bowl  2001

With Bruce the Moose in Toronto  2001

At the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto  2001

With the Coca Cola bear in Las Vegas  1999

At the Ringling museum in Sarasota  1998

Playing pool  year uncertain, mid 90s

My favorite hair day ever!  1995 (?)

The Christmas tree murderer  1993?

Christmas tree murderer, post-kill  1993?

My first trip to the U.P. with Derek   1991

Asserting my belief that changing my hair color would somehow change my miserable life (one could argue that it actually did)  1991

Being exceptionally childish and avoiding school work like it's my job  1991

Summer job at the Marquette Chamber of Commerce   1990

My brief encounter with the Greek system  1988

The original Michigan Squirrel Club  1988

A former pastime  1986-88

Graduation picture  The official one

Graduation picture   Ford River #1

Graduation picture   Ford River #2

11th grade

10th grade

9th grade

8th grade

7th grade

6th grade

5th grade

4th grade is missing!

3rd grade

2nd grade

1st grade

Kindergarten

With my little brother 1977

Mom, Betsy, Sean   1975

My first bra   1974-ish

With my Easter bassssskitttt  1973-ish

Age 2 1973-ish

Age 2  shopping for girdles

Age 2

Togetherness  #2

 

 

North of Phoenix on Hwy 17, 2005

 

 

 

 

We searched high and low for the perfect saguaro with which to be photographed, even going to another country.  On the 6th and final day of our vacation, after covering thousands of miles in the southwest, we found it about a mile from Cathie & Steve's home

 

 

 

 

Florida 2005 (Rick & Laura's wedding trip)

 

 

 

Ahoy cap'n

Florida, December 2004 (when we met Laura)

 

 

 

Tara & Chris' wedding, 2004 (click to enlarge)

 

 

 

In Louisville en route to Alana's wedding, 2004

 

 

 

Derek's birthday at Palio, 2004 (click to enlarge)

 

 

 

Christmas Eve 2003

 

 

 

New Year's Eve 2001

 

 

Lisa & Dan's wedding, 1997

 

 

4th Street, Marquette, 1991

Our first trip to the U.P. together, July 1991

 

 

 

At the Mackinac Bridge

Our first trip to the U.P. together, July 1991

 

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