Things of Extrodianary...

This is my little Luke. He is my best friend and truly a blessing to me! He turned seven years old this year, but people usually think he is a lot older because of the "grey" hairs on his face. This started as a little white spot on the chin when he was a puppy and have just gradually grown more and more over time. He is a pro catcher, and has his own little number I call a "pretty jump" where he does a spinning twist with his body in mid air while jumping to catch the ball. It's a trick he taught himself and takes a lot of pride in! He also thoroughly enjoys these walks we take down to the lake, seizing the opportunity to go for a swim and fetch some sticks!

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't" -Erica Jong	"And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom" ~ Anais Nin	"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey." ~ Stephen R. Covey
"A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails" ~ Donna Roberts	"Love and the self are one, and the discovery of either is the realization of both" ~ Leo Buscaglia	Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. -Albert Einstein
"Change your thoughts and change your world" ~ Norman Vincent Peale	"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace." -~Thomas Mann	"Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public." - Tom Walsh

rootsweb - an unprecedented resource for genealogy research! Click on the old family photo on the left to see for yourself (incidentally those are my 2nd great grandparents) ! I am currently working on the Family Trees of: Stegent, Dornhoefer, Koester, Ullrich, and Sarao - this has branched me out into many other families as well such as Wunderlich, Menn, Mayer, Bilski, and quite a few more, specifically around the RoundTop, Carmine, Winedale areas of Texas. I am the administrator for the Dornhoefer, Gerhard and Stegent Message Boards and the Dornhoefer Mailing List on Rootsweb.