Mark and Dora, 1979	Mark and Parents, 1979	G.I. Joe, 1979	Grammy, Dora, and Mark, Christmas 1980
Bob, Christmas 1980	Denee at Canyon Lake (Texas), 1980	Denee (left) and Steve, 1980	Dora and Denee, 1980
Dora, Randolph AFB, 1980	Dora, New Orleans, 1981	Mark & Dora at a Halloween Party, 1980	At Dora's Cousin Gracie's Wedding, 1980
Our First Portrait, 1980	Getting Domesticated. Our First Base Housing, 1980	Bill & Mark Sharing Thanksgiving Nap, 1980	Mark and Denee, 1980
Denne Had Razor Sharp Puppy Teeth, 1980.	Departing for Honeymoon, Jan. 25, 1980	Our Cat Steve on Top of Our First TV	Bill & Sandy with Duke, 1981
Caught Denee Taking a Nap, 1981	Dora in Front of the Randolph Air Force Base Taj Majal, 1981	L to R: Mark's First Job's Supervisors Sharon Hook, Jo Hogue, and Chief Master Sergeant Kitty Enters	Christmas in San Antonio, Mom & Dad, 1981
Busch Stadium from the Top of the St. Louis Arch, 1981	Christmas in Illinois, Dad and Ruth, 1981	The Harlingen Gang	Trying Out Mark's Special Effects Lenses, Dora at the Beach, 1981
Opening presents, Christmas 1982	Beautiful Dora, 1982	After Our Trip to Gilley's, 1981	Mark & Ruth, 1982
Trip to Oklahoma, 1981	Steve Up a Tree, 1982	Mark's Texas Lutheran College Graduation, 1983	Visiting the Clevingers, 1983
At the Beach, 1982	Dora in a Jovial Mood, 1983	Dora at Knott's Berry Farm, 1983	Mark, 1983
Oklahoma Visit, 1983	Dad & Muff, 1983	Dora's Favorite Flower, the Texas Blue Bonnet	Posing at Lanham's, 1979
On Our Honeymoon at the Alamo, 1980	Mark's Homstead from 1970 to 1979, 415 East Carroll St., Macomb, IL	One of Our Favorite Photos - Posing in Front of Our First Car, a 1980 Chevy Citation, 1980	We Lived with Bill & Sandy the First Three Months of Our Marriage. Washing Dishes, 1980
Working on BA in Psychology, 1980	Dora in a contemplative mood, 1983	Dora, Mark's shining star, 1983	Gorgeous Dora, 1983
Handsome Mark, 1983	Air Force basic training, 1979	Graduated from basic training! 1979	Christmas photo of Ruth, Dan, and I, 1979
Grammy was proud of her new airman grandson, 1979	Meanwhile in San Bruno, CA . . . Dora and Mark hadn't met yet during this summer of '79, she was finishing up her Associate's degree. Here she is with her family, 1979	Good buddy Paul Vinton from technical training school at Keesler AFB, 1979	The message on the back of Paul's photo - he was right, we did catch up... in 2011, on Facebook. As of this writing (Nov 2011), we're planning to get together (32 years later) during an April 2012 visit to San Antonio, although I don't know about the beer for me - that was more of a tech training beverage.
My technical training buds. L to R: Martin Shackelford, Paul Vinton, me, Keith Manning.	More friends from Keesler AFB. L to R, spelling out the word "friends" in sign language: me, Roxie Jones, Martin Shackelford, and Patty Bright.	Dora and I dated for 12 days before I proposed to her and we were married 2 months later. A year later on our first anniversary, Dora's mom presented us with the top layer of this cake from her freezer to eat. Man it tasted nasty. :)	Our first Christmas, 1980, in San Antonio
Dora and work friend Barb Lanier, 1980	Dora in our base housing apartment, 1980	Mark went through a "photography craze phase" - here's Dora in front of the "Taj Mahal" at Randolph AFB, 1980	1980 family portrait
1980 - our "pool-shooting" friend Yvette Tomayo ("Lefty") . . . R.I.P.	Dora's aunts, uncles, and cousins in Harlingen, TX for cousin Leticia's wedding, 1980	On the beach at Padre Island, 1980	1980 - at an Air Force semi-annual picnic, where we first danced in 1979
Getting ready to leave for our honeymoon, 1980	Mom and dad at our wedding reception, 1980. Dora's "abuelita" (grandmother) in the background	The Lanhams and newly-joined Reeds	Wanda was on some flag-waving team in high school. Isn't she cute? 1980
Wanda looks like a Latina Princess here doesn't she? 1980	Wand'a senior year photo, 1980	Ah, that pouty expression brings back memories. I see it on Taylor occassionally. :)	Lanhams and Reeds, 1980
Lanhams, Reeds, and Reeds, 1980	Love this photo of Sandy adjusting Dora's veil. The expression on Dora's face is pricesless.	Sandy with my best man and Air Force supervisor, Bob Svoboda. In 2011, I reconnected with him on Facebook after 30 years.	Dad, at a San Antonio Riverwalk cafe, 1981
Dan and Mark in Checotah, Oklahoma for Thanksgiving, 1981	Again,my photography phase... love this photo of Dora, 1981	Playing in the snow, Illinois Christmas, 1981	The beads remind us this photo was taken on a trip to New Orleans, 1981
Mark, 1981	Boy oh boy, we look so young, 1981	Having fun with Sandy, 1981	First Christmas in Illinois, 1981
Reeds travel to San Antonio, posing near the Alamo, 1981	"No, don't look at me, look over there." Mom posing on the Riverwalk, 1981	First Anniversary - hey, there's the top of our wedding cake that tasted nasty after sitting in the freezer all year. I was smiling until I bit into it	Illinois Christmas, 1981
I graduated to special camera lens filters. Dora, 1982	Here's Dora at the famous tavern "Gilley's" near Houston (featured in the movie "Urban Cowboy"). Neither of us was brave (or foolish?) enough to "ride the bull."	Hubba hubba! Dora on a Padre Island beach, 1982	Dad with Tina, 1982
Bill and Sandy's energetic doberman, Duke. We loved this boy, but he passed after only 6 years from heartworm.	Albert and Gracie's (Dora's cousin) wedding, with Sandy and Wanda, 1982	Trip to Checotah. We drove up to Dallas to see the Rolling Stones in concert at the Cotton Bowl... and kept driving north to Checotah, Oklahoma (where Mark's dad was born/raised) to see Mark's Grandma, 1982.	Dora, 1982
Getting promoted to Sergeant, 1982	Texas Lutheran College in Seguin, TX offered night courses at Randolph Air Force Base, so the TLC advisor helped me formulate a plan to finally get my B.A.	Mom on her 51st birthday, 1982	Mom and dad joined us on a trip to Padre Island, 1982
Mom, Padre Island, 1982	Aunt Velma, Aunt Francis, and Grandma Reed, 1982	The Oklahoma Clan. Front row, L to R: Aunt Sue, Great Aunt Francis, Dora, Cousin Roberta, Aunt Shirley. Back row, L to R: Cousin Jason, Great Aunt Velma, Grandma Reed, Uncle Jim	I attended 4 different colleges in San Antonio to collect all the credits toward my B.A., 1982
San Antonio has lots of Catholic universities!	Reeds and Reeds, 1982	Aunt Sue (R.I.P.) and Uncle Jim, 1982	Dora's cousin Thelma and her daughter Angie, the cutest toddler ever, 1982
Wanda the co-ed, 1982	Our beloved beagle-mix, Denee, 1983	Dora, 1983	Trying out the newly-invented 1,000 ISO film and a star filter. This turned out to be a favorite photo of Dora, 1983
Finally! After 7 years, I obtained my B.A. in Psychology, 1983	Mom and dad traveled down for my graduation ceremony at Texas Lutheran College in Seguin, TX, 1983	1983: after 4 years at Randolph Air Force Base I received orders to move to March Air Force Base, near Riverside, CA, and a new job, Career Advisor. I was on the top of the world! Here I am with my Randolph supervisor, Jo Hogue, with whom I reconnected on Facebook after 30 years	Our Persian cat, Steve, died right after we arrived in California. We adopted our new family member, Micki, in 1983. She was with us for 18 years.
Micki, 1983	Micki's first bath, 1983	Micki didn't like baths at all, but she trusted Dora enough to let her soak her.	Mom with Tina, 1983
Wanda's high school grad photo, 1982	Ruth, Dora, and Mark, 1983	Christmas, 1981	Christmas, 1981
Dad on the School Board, 1980	1981, Dora and I in our new Gilley's shirts. Remember the movie "Urban Cowboy?"	Christmas 1981 in Schertz, TX. Ruth helping with the dishes.	1982, Mark was best man for his pal Pete DiMarzio.

BACK