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June 17th at the Dickerson Park Zoo in Springfield MO.

Riley feeds the giraffe at the Springfield zoo

After a long day at the zoo

 

Riley fell into the alligator cage, but she wasn't afraid.

Hayden get's eye to eye with a giraffe.

We took a train ride we thought would take

us all around the zoo, but it only took us

around a small pond.

Memorial weekend

This is action from the bonus Sunday before Memorial Day 2007.  The Youngbloods, McKennas, Brights and Cooks all went for a night of eating out and taking the kids to the bowling alley.  After that we all came back to our house for game night and karaoke.  Looks like it was a lot of fun.  These pictures are pretty much my entire memory of the evening.

Shelley and Amanda bring it with a rousing duet (Salt n Peppa's definitely here).

The smooth, mellow song-stylings of Brad wooing the adoring fan in the front row.

Tim gets the party started with a song that makes everyone get up and dance.  Even the sober children can't sit still when Tim takes the mic.

Amanda Bright...the next American Idol

Tim Mckenna....the next Canadian Idol

The Cooks rock the house with a beautiful love song.

It was hard to wrestle the mic away from Amanda

The sisters trying a new sign they just learned

 Here's a picture of us taking all the kids bowling that night before going home.

     

Wait a minute,  the bowling alley doesn't sell beer on Sunday.  Sorry kids, maybe next weekend.

Hayden's 4th birthday

Haydens class at Ms. Carries, plus Riley.

His favorite present on his birthday.  A Shrek card that sings when you open it.  I would never have believed such a small battery would play "all star" 500 times.  He slept with it, took it to school, took it to church, and doesn't let it out of his sight.  I certainly hope the battery doesn't "die" very soon.

UPDATE: Shrek card still operational, but seems to have been misplaced in a kitchen cabinet above eye level.

UPDATE II: Someone (Shelley) found the card and returned it to it's owner.  Here's the video in case you were curious.  Click here

 

Hayden's frog cake

How old are you Hayden?

The party at the pool

Hayden gets a razorback puzzle

See all his birthday pics in the Haydens fourth page.

Travis Hayden Chandler   - 8lbs 9oz

Proud papa Ryan

Looks like someone is destined to be a Nascar fan.

Larry and Laurie Chandler are now at 9 grandchildren with Riley being the oldest at 7 years old.

Jill was induced on Wednesday, May 30th in the morning.  Shelley was out of town so I had planned on driving home and picking up the kids and driving back to Little Rock to meet Shelley and see the new baby.  Shelley's plane was behind so she didn't make it, but everyone else did.  The hospital waiting room around 7:00pm looked more like a daycare center.  7 wild indians running all over the place.  Two of the indians were named Youngblood.  By 8:30 the Youngbloods had to leave and get to bed, Jill appeared to be a few hours away still.  Finally, at just before midnight, Travis came out weighing in at just under 9 pounds.  He's a dead ringer for her mother.

July 4th fun - This is how the Youngbloods spent the 4th of July 2007
Shelley goes down the slide with Hayden.  He would go down all day long if he could get someone to ride with him.  Riley, Abby, and Mary Clair Ben and Tim make a graceful landing at the bottom of the slide.

They guys relax in the pool

Riley finally got the courage to go down the slide and now she can't get enough of it.

 Shelley gives Caroline a ride down the slide.

 

The annual 4th of July fireworks show at the Bright's house.  English came through this year with some really good stuff.  Not just the snakes, smokebombs, and bottle rockets we usually do.

Speaking of snakes, English made a snake of his own.  John seems to think this was as funny as we did. (except Shannon).

 

No one was injured the entire night.  Not counting the big black mark above the neighbors door courtesy of one of the Zips.

 

Travelers Night

On July 6th we went to the Phi Sig alumni Travelers game.  We had been in Hope all day and stopped off in Little Rock to meet everyone.  It was a really good turnout and everyone had a great time.  Lots of kids for Riley and Hayden to play with and lots of beer for the adults to play with. 

Riley and Abby must have needed to clean up after eating cotton candy.  They each asked for a quarter and went to the bathroom and came out with some napkins.  Shelley and Holly had a nice talk with them about female things later.

John, Hayden, Riley, Abby, Gillian, and Bailey

Must be 6th inning chicken dance time

Tim and his my son.  Hayden and John look a LOT alike.

 

Hayden has a new toy he likes to play with.  A set of hillbilly teeth.  I finally had to get out the video camera and film him in action one night before bedtime.

September 8th

We finally made up to the kids the bowling date that we had to skip out on a couple of months ago.  The bowling alley DOES serve beer on Saturdays, so the kids got to play this time.  We couldn't get lanes next to each other, so the adults had to sit and watch the kids bowl.

 

 

 

 

After going bowling several times during the summer with her daycare, Riley was an old pro at the bowling thing.

 

Hayden gets ready for his second frame ever of bowling.  He thinks this is an awesome game

 

 

 

His first roll of the second frame and he gets a strike.  He's excited and everyone is cheering for him.  Then I have to tell him that he doesn't need to roll another ball since he got a strike on the first ball.

 

 

He cried for 5 minutes after that.  He was so upset that he didn't get another turn.  Riley and Abby both offered to let him roll one of their balls to help him feel better.

 

Shelley got to take Riley to work with her for the 'take your kid to work with you day'.  That may not be the actual name for it, but Riley had a great time just the same.   She made a couple of new friends and got to do a lot of artwork.

 

 

Riley's art project for the day. 

Hayden Youngblood and Caroline Bright  Hayden Youngblood and Caroline Bright

 

 Toadsuck Daze has become pretty much a 'run downtown and let the kids ride a couple of kiddie rides' kind of event for the last few years for the Youngblood family.  So we didn't bring the camera this time.  Of course, both the kids decided to be brave this year and ride the big rides.  Hayden and Caroline rode the ferris wheel by themselves and had a great time.  Ben took these pics with his phone.  Riley rode with Mary Claire on the tilt a whirl and with Shelley on some other big scary ride.  

From now on we take the camera everywhere
Riley and Hayden Youngblood Riley and Hayden Youngblood

The first slip and slide day of the summer

 

  

Riley got a new bike for the summer.  5 minutes later she ran into the house crying over two skinned knees.

Hayden Youngblood       Hayden Youngblood

Riley and Hayden Youngblood   Riley and Hayden Youngblood and Cullen

The neighbor kids all came over for the fun
On December 1st, Shelley and Riley went to the Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus concert in Little Rock.  Holly and Abby, and Amanda and Mary Claire and Caroline went with them.  Tickets were hard to come by, but Shelley and Holly and the girls got tickets on the floor 12 rows back.

The Jonas Brothers were the opening act.

If you've never been to the old mill in Little Rock, you should really go.  I always thought it was just an old building that was long ago a mill, but it's really interesting.  We had a photographer take some pictures and some of them turned out really good.  Mostly because the kids were so happy to be there it was no problem getting them to smile.  And we found out it's haunted.  One of the pictures we took with our camera of Shelley and Riley had an orb show up in it.  Look below for that one.

                 

This bridge was made of rock and petrified wood

This is the orb picture.  All the other pictures we took right there had nothing in them.  Ghosts are attracted to children.

 

Madeline Reese Chandler was 

          

 Kyle and Heather Chandler are the proud parents.  Kyle is Shelley's brother

  

 born on April 12, 2007.

 

Maddie is getting to know her cousins Chandler and Riley
Here are the latest 4D pictures of Ryan and Jill's baby Travis.  There are many more here. http://www.babychandler.blogspot.com/

Our poker group recently donated the first 100 diapers to Ryan after he won the big pot on his first night with us.

Recently there was an act of vandalism at the Youngblood house.  We were out of town and some Auburn people came over and wrote obscenities in our driveway. 

 

We think this guy is responsible

 

    Jackson. Riley's squaredance partner       

Riley is a square dancer!  February 13 Marguerite Vann 1st graders had a square dance.  She did great!  We got a video you can watch by clicking on the icon to the left.  (scratch that...the video was way too big)

 

Shelley started her new job at Windstream on Monday February 12th.  She'll be doing a lot of the same things she did at Alltel and working for a great boss.  And once again working for the same company as my dad.

 
Brad Youngblood My first day in LA.  I went on a walking tour of downtown.  This is the Disney Music Hall just up from the Millennium Biltmore where I stayed.
I had lunch in the financial district on my first day.  To get the full effect of having lunch in a downtown big city, I had to eat at a hot dog cart.
Brad Youngblood I decided I needed a haircut while I was in town, so I walked in the LA Barber College and got a $5 cut.
A guy on Venice Beach trying to make a buck.  I enlarged his sign.
The last night of the conference.  A big group of us went to eat at a Mexican joint, then out to see some more sites.

  

I had a United Way conference in Los Angeles at the end of January.  I managed to do all the tourist things and even get some pictures.  I was by myself for the first day so I decided to do some self portraits in front of some of the LA landmarks.
Brad Youngblood Day 1 in ChinaTown
Brad Youngblood The first day of the conference I met my new friend Tony.  He had a rental car and knew his way around the city so we hit the town.  This is the Adam Sandler handprint in front of the theater.
Had to get a shot of this one
This is the set of the new movie Invasion with Nicole Kidman.   They were filming that night.

 

Here is the latest picture of baby Chandler, soon to be son of Ryan and Jill Chandler.  And.... they have named him Travis Hayden Chandler.  What a great name! 

You can keep up the their progress here -  http://www.babychandler.blogspot.com/

 

Kyle and Heather Chandler are also expecting a child.  Madeline Reese Chandler.  See more of their ultrasound pictures here

It's 2007 and everyone here is doing great.   We're glad to be back home from all our Christmas traveling, and trying to get back into our work/school schedule.

The kids got a trampoline for Christmas among other things and have been on it every day.  It's been really cold out but that doesn't slow them down. 

We had friends over for New Years Eve.  Tim & Holly and Ben & Amanda came over with kids.  We played scene it Nickelodeon for the kids and then scene Friends for the adults.  The women won both the scene it and the karaoke competition.