School Pictures

Maddie’s 3-year school pictures are adorable!

Maddie

Maddie

Maddie

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A very special day!

This weekend we celebrated Sue’s 70th birthday with a surprise party!

Group

Ralph, Sue, David

10 years

On this day 10 years ago, I was blessed to get to marry my best friend! Love you boo!

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Merry Christmas!

Hope you and your family have a wonderful holiday!
Maddie Christmas

I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day.

An occurrence which many said would never happen has happened: Ralph Cox has retired!

Here’s a snippet from his goodbye letter to his co-workers:

All, After 30 years with Industrial Handling Engineers in Houston and 15 with Tompkins, it’s clearly time for me to retire. If you don’t think so, keep in mind that when I started we took black and white still photographs of operations, did facility measurements with 100’ tapes, timed operations with analog watches, did spreadsheets with paper, pencils and erasers, multiplied and divided on slide rules, added and subtracted on ‘adding’ machines, drew layouts by hand on drafting tables with parallel bars and printed them as blueprints, used a Smoley’s handbook to look up needed triangular dimensions, communicated long-distance in writing with a letter or a telex machine, arranged conference calls with telephone operators, copied one original at a time for reports and collated the black and white report pages manually.

Tompkins Associates celebrated Ralph’s retirement with a very nice luncheon in San Antonio. In a company made up of traveling consultants, it is rare indeed for everyone to be together in the same room. Most of these folks hadn’t been together as a group in more than 5 years!

Ralph, Scott & Gene

Ralph & Jim

Ralph & Brewster

Ralph in lobby

Ralph & Cake

Ralph & picture

Ralph speaking

Group photo

Dave & Jen

Jim, Gene & family

Family

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It’s a major award.

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This year we were proud to celebrate with Mike “Papa Pumpkin” Kinney when he was presented the Texas A&M Distinguished Achievement Award for Graduate Mentoring.
Go Papa!

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Better late than never

It is time to catch up on a bunch of posts. It has been an exceptionally busy summer and fall and this blog is bereft of maintenance.

First, the continuation of our trip to visit our family’s northern contingent in Nebraska & South Dakota. See the first post: http://davidcox.org/family/2015/07/independent-on-the-mighty-mo/.

Maddie & Taylor

Maddie & Jen

cotton candy
First Cotton Candy

dancing with cotton candy & mom

Volleyball

Jen, Bernie & Maddie

Bernie Dancing
I’m not really sure what’s going on here.

Bernie & Maddie looking up
Maddie & Grandpa

Maddie Flying with Jen

Maddie & Cheryl

Boatride
First Boatride – her eyes are watering from the wind… she’s not crying. She actually really enjoyed it though you can tell from her serious face that it was a new, different experience.

Cheryl, Jen, & Maddie

Taylor
Aunt Taylor

Maddie & little girls
Back in Bassett, Nebraska at grandma & grandpa’s house, we celebrating (belatedly) Maddie’s 3rd birthday with family. Here is Maddie holding court with Allie, Jacie & Kelcie (Jen’s cousin Barbie’s daughters).

Maddie & little girls

Maddie & Jacie

Sprinker

Birthday Cake

Birthday cake

Cake!

Maddie & the girls

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Independent on the Mighty Mo

Happy 4th of July!

We are celebrating a beautiful Independence Day weekend on the Missouri River at the Cedar Shore Lodge in Oacoma, South Dakota with Grandma & Grandpa Hart and Auntie Tay.

Flag Girl

Harts & Maddie

Ride 'em Cowboy

Flag Girl

Parade

Flag Girl

Parade

Square Flag

Spinning

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I’m Going Back to Texas

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Cowgirl Maddie

Cowgirl Maddie

Maddie’s school recently had their graduation celebration which included performances by the various classes.

Toddler Class Texas Song

Toddler Class Texas Song

Here’s the video of Maddie’s toddler class performing “Deep In The Heart of Texas”. Maddie makes her entrance at about 1:20 into the video.

Here’s the link to the school’s gallery of photos from the event: https://picasaweb.google.com/arboracademy/Texas2015?authkey=Gv1sRgCM36uM2q-MvRsQE#

Toddler Class Texas Song

Toddler Class Texas Song

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Happy Easter!

Happy Easter from our family to yours!

Happy Easter

Easter Bunny

Happy Easter

Happy Easter

Happy Easter

Happy Easter

Happy Easter

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