ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF ST HELEN's BLOW
ALEX MADE HIS APPEARANCE

from Montgomery, Alabama, to Thousand Oaks, California
with a few side trips in the meantime

Just a little weary of the whole birth process - Missy later becomes a good friend

Electronics became a lifelong passion

Winston loved tug of war at Judy's cabin in 1997

It was a long steep walk to view St. Helen's crater,
one of the side trips we took from Judy's cabin

The electric guitar was a passing instrument in Alex's music career

Floating down the Yakima River in 1998
after a session of pulling knapweed on a Nature Conservancy island

Aunt Nancy encouraged Alex to write and draw during a visit to Bellingham

Everyone should expereience scraping ice off a windshield once in a lifetime
even if one has to go 2000 miles north to do it

Returning triumphant from a band competition in Orlando, April 2000

Versailles and the Eiffel tower in France 2002

Building computers was a piece of cake

Drumming in the marching band for competitions and football games
while in Senior highschool