The New and Improved Randalls

Birthday31

2008-11-01T08:00:00.003-04:00

Party

2008-10-27T16:32:00.002-04:00

Birthday

2008-10-27T16:22:00.004-04:00

Corri's 14th birthday was at Pump It Up in Longwood. She and 13 friends celebrated the big day by jumping up and down in a padded room. The next day she went to cheerleading competition at The Amway Arena where her team won first in her class and are headed to regionals.

Father's Day 2008

2008-08-08T09:12:00.004-04:00

We went for a walk on the new bike trail in Lake Mary.

Cinnamon

2008-08-08T09:02:00.001-04:00

Our puppy

Ron John Resort

2008-08-07T14:00:00.004-04:00

Bob cracks up.

The Basses had to listen to a long sales spiel to net this weekend for us all.

Laura's Graduation Party

2008-08-07T13:54:00.002-04:00

We are so proud of our new 'Nole.

A Randall Event

2008-08-07T13:31:00.004-04:00

Our 10th Wedding Anniversary

2008-08-07T13:21:00.003-04:00

We were a little nervous.

Renewing Our Vows on the day we met in 1996

2008-08-07T13:14:00.004-04:00

Can you find the chocolate tower?

July 2, 2008

2008-08-07T12:57:00.010-04:00

Our 10th anniversary marked a renewal of our wedding vows in church. Deacon Connie performed the ceremony, Al and Rob stood up for Bob and Corri and Cassie for me. Harmony, Laura and Trish did readings and Corri and San toasted us at the reception. Many of our firends and neighbors came. It was wonderful.

Camp Wewa

2008-08-07T12:55:00.002-04:00

Corri and her friend and bunkmate Mindy on their last day of camp. They won "Messiest Cabin."

Atlanta

2008-08-07T12:49:00.004-04:00

I went to a conference in Atlanta for work and after the sessions Bob and I walked around site seeing. We visited Margaret Mitchell's apartment and CNN and shopped for a wedding dress for our renewal of vows on our 10th anniversary. I found one; a Kay Unger.

Lucky Lion

2008-08-07T12:47:00.001-04:00

This is the Lion Head that Margerat Mitchell touched every day while she was writing Gone With the Wind

Bob in Front of CNN Building in Atlanta

2008-08-07T12:44:00.001-04:00

We took a tour of CNN. I cost $24 for each. We didn't see too much, but we did get to sit in the anchor chair.

The Seussical Musical

2008-06-22T20:28:00.003-04:00

In May, Corri performed in a musical at her middle school. She played a Who, which is ironic because she's always looed like Cindy Lou. After five months of almost daily practice, the show was a hit with rave reviews. Bob and G-ma saw it three times, I saw it twice, Al, and Rob traveled from Stuart to see it and Richard and Carla came from Tampa. The Basses saw it too. And all of Corri's friends.

More Easter Pics

2008-06-22T20:24:00.001-04:00

Liberty Park

2008-06-22T20:18:00.002-04:00

Al, Trish, San, G-ma, The Basses, Cinnamon, and Corri's friend Nikki went to Liberty Park for our annual Easter picnic. It was a beautiful spring and a beautiful day; lush, green, not too hot.

Windows Live Hotmail

2008-06-22T20:14:00.000-04:00

Windows Live Hotmail

Sisters

2008-06-22T20:09:00.002-04:00

Cassie printed an extra picture of this one for herself.

Easter

2008-06-22T20:02:00.003-04:00

Cassie went to church with us, a once a year deal, that she promised me when she was confirmed. Corrie stayed awake for once. We colored eggs the night before and I actually boiled them, which I neglected to do once or twice in years past.

Christmas

2008-06-22T07:53:00.002-04:00

Every Christmas Eve for the past 15 years, we've had a huge family get together at my, and then our, house. In 2006, Bob decided we would go to Europe instead, and in 2007, we did.

We flew into DeGualle on Christmas Eve and attended midnight mass at a neighborhood church off the Opera Cadet. Outside our hotel were all the neighborhood accruments: grocer, cheese shop (black, moldy and soupy), hairdresser, chemist, lingerie. Corri had jet lag so we went shopping-

We went to The Disney Resort on Christmas Day, which was a huge amout of fun becuase of all the family time we've spent at Florida Resorts. Then we fended off gypsies to see the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triumph, Louve, Notre Dame, and the Champs D'Elysee where we went to the cinema to see "Gone Baby Gone." We also spent a fruitless night, searching the subways for the right connection to Cemetaite Pere LeChaise to take a picture of Morrison's grave for Cassi (and Wilde for me). We went by the Bastille, too.

We took the bullet train to London, which Corri loved. We went to the hude sale at Harrad's and she tried on a thousand pound dress. The dressing rooms are communal even in such a posh store. She was thrilled to find an H & M store and we spent an hour searching Carnaby street for Abercombie and Fitch. We took double decker buses everywhere and we were squashed. Not even in NYC have I seen such packed streets. The highlight for me was seeing Van Gough's "Sunflowers" at the National Gallery. We stayed in South Kensington, which was very nice and got a room upgrade because the heat didn't work the first night. There was a grocery store down the street and we all got our last good haircuts a block from there.

We went to Bath for New Years to visi Bob's friends Martin and Jackie. They own a bed and breackfast, Priory Cottage, which was a stone house a couple hundred years old with an auger for a stove, very cool. I'd never seen the Roman baths, and we had a cream tea at Jane Austen's tea room. After a delicious English roast, we played Buzz New Year's Eve and went outside at midnight to watch the fireworks from the hotel across the street. On the way to the airport, we saw Stonehenge.

The memory of that wonderful vacation is a little faded now, but I do recall how quickly Bob learned the subway and bus systems and navigated us with no trouble at all. Also, he kept volunteering to take pictures for tourists with their cameras; then he'd snap a shot of me and Courtney. All over the world, people are scanning their vacation pics and seeing me and Courtney waving at them and wondering "Who are these strange people?"

2008-06-22T01:51:00.001-04:00

Corri's play, The Suessicle, Laura's graduation party, Harmony's birthday, Father's Days, Liz and Bob's 10th anniversary.

The Past is Prologue

2008-06-21T21:15:00.000-04:00

Twelve years ago, I met Bob Randall and our lives have been...hmm.. well, different ever since. Starting with the winter of 2007, I plan to chronicle the events that occur, invoking some kind of visual and literal pattern. If nothing else, I can keep everyone updated on all the Randalls, their family, friends, careers, bail bonds, whatever.

The New and Improved Randalls

Birthday31

Party

Birthday

Father's Day 2008

Cinnamon

Ron John Resort

Laura's Graduation Party

A Randall Event

Our 10th Wedding Anniversary

Renewing Our Vows on the day we met in 1996

July 2, 2008

Camp Wewa

Atlanta

Lucky Lion

Bob in Front of CNN Building in Atlanta

The Seussical Musical

More Easter Pics

Liberty Park

Windows Live Hotmail

Sisters

Easter

Christmas

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The Past is Prologue