Melissa climbed up this large inflatable at a recreation event and then she moved through the air, from one end, toward the other end. This photo was taken, before she dropped down. 7 1/4 years old.    01 March 2008

Another photo of Melissa, before she dropped down onto the inflatable. 01 March 2008

Close up, Melissa contemplating the drop onto the inflatable. 01 March 2008

Melissa on the left, nearing the top of another large inflatable, before she dropped down on the other side. 01 March 2008

Melissa coming down the inflatable. A young man at the top of the slide wet it down with a water hose. 01 March 2008

Melissa: 7 years and one month old. November 2007

Melissa, 7 years old, Halloween 2007. Pilar won this costume, in a raffle from Kellogg's, in the store where we shop.

Melissa, after her face was painted, at the annual festival in her school.   March 2007

Pilar. 11 November 2007

Pilar in our home office. 16 November 2007

Lanny with a big smile, because Pilar said something that made him laugh. 10 February 2008

Lanny, 29 February 2008

This is Genaro, our 43 year old parrot. 29 February 2008

Gina, our Samoyed, with 3 Toy Pinchers using her as a sofa. This is a common sight. 29 May 2007

Smoke, after the launch of the Space Shuttle "Atlantis", STS-101, on 19 May 2000.  We were on Kennedy Space Center, approximately 6 air miles from the launch pad. This photo was taken when the Space Shuttle was approximately 200 miles from Kennedy Space Center, over the Atlantic Ocean. The white dot to the right of the smoke is the Space Shuttle. Pilar was approximately 4 months pregnant with Melissa when we were in Florida and we saw this launch, very early in the morning, the day we returned to Colombia. Watching the launch was a spectacular experience we will never forget. We are leaving this picture here, as our memorial to those who died aboard STS-107, "Columbia", in 2003.

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