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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0><script> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-47423994-1', 'fortunecity.ws'); ga('send', 'pageview'); </script> <center> <br> <div> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://ad.broadcaststation.net/ads/show_ad.php?width=728&height=90"></script> </div> </center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=131 BGCOLOR="#00BFBF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0a000830exycxg.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#330033" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><B>The</B></FONT><B> </B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#336633" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><B>Owens</B></FONT><B> </B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FF33CC" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><B>Family</B><B> </B></FONT><B>         </B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><B>Yours</B></FONT><B>....</B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#6633CC" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><B>Mine</B></FONT><B>.....</B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#993380" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><B>Our</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#993380" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><B>s</B></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mark"><B>Mark</B></A><B>  </B><A HREF="id30.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bambi"><B>Bambi</B></A><B>  </B><A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Chris"><B>Chris</B></A><B>  </B><A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Melissa Joy"><B>Melissa</B></A><B>  </B><A HREF="id28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="TAYLOR (aka TBone) "><B>Taylor</B></A><B>  </B><A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Maddi"><B>Maddi</B></A><B>  </B><A HREF="id40.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Kids Cam"><B>Kid's Cam</B></A><B>  </B><A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Animal Kingdom"><B>Animal Kingdom</B></A><B>  </B><A HREF="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Family and Friends"><B>Family</B></A><A HREF="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Family and Friends"><B> and Friends </B></A><B> </B><A HREF="id34.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Our Church Lives and Church Family"><B>Our Church Lives and Church Family</B></A><B>   </B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=33.125% BGCOLOR="#FF3399" TEXT="#080000" background="22734d50erkjhf.png"> <bR> <div> <B>Welcome to our home page. We are a blended family and proud to say after nearly 11 years, that we are defying the statistics predicting doom and gloom for second marriages.</B></div> <div> <B> We live north of Atlanta and are all native southerners.</B></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#330033" FACE="Arial" ><B>Updated 4/14/06</B></FONT><B> </B><B>  </B></div> <div> <B>  </B></div> <div> <B> <br><center><font face=arial size=1><a href=http://count.rubylane.com/ target=_top><img src=http://count.rubylane.com/cgi-bin/b.cgi?qWOI width=60 height=20 border=0><br>Hourly Statistics by Ruby Lane</a></font></center>  </B></div> <div>   <form method="post" action="http://www.weather.com/cgi-bin/uncgi/zip_city_search.cgi?par=internal&site=magnet&code=685225&promo=english" target="_top"> <table> <tr><td> <font face="arial,helvetica" color="#004371" size="2">    Enter a City or US Zip: </font> </td><td> <input type="text" name="destination" size="8" value="">  <input type="image" src="http://image.weather.com/pics/button_go.gif" width="26" height="23" border="0" alt="go!" value="Go City"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> <a href="http://oap.weather.com/fcgi-bin/oap/redirect_magnet?loc_id=USGA0151&par=internal&site=magnet&code=685225&promo=english" target="_top"> <img border="1" width="270" height="140" src="http://oap.weather.com/fcgi-bin/oap/generate_magnet?loc_id=USGA0151&code=685225"></a> </td></tr> </table></form>   </div> </td> <td valign="top" height=349 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <div>                      <IMG SRC="44391520.png" border=0 width="401" height="338" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>   <P ALIGN=CENTER> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript1.2" src="http://www.codeamber.org/js/codea.js"> </script> </P>   </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="43bda870.png" border=0 width="474" height="647" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Our beautiful children!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Maddi's 8!</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="4347acf0.jpg" border=0 width="634" height="463" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>We hope your family has ended 2004 with the joy and happiness that we were blessed to experience.   Scattered throughout our web site are pictures from our various holiday moments.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Oh my gosh, Santa came!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="3d403590.jpg" border=0 width="259" height="345" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="3d936e90.jpg" border=0 width="310" height="233" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="3db39eb0.jpg" border=0 width="313" height="235" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>And he remembered my stocking, too!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="3dd9b340.jpg" border=0 width="411" height="308" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="3fba33a0.jpg" border=0 width="419" height="314" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Please visit </B><A HREF="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Family and Friends"><B>Family and Friends</B></A><B> for more pictures of Christmas Day.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Over the summer, I met some of my closest friends in the world and I only had to go to Houston, Texas to do it!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="3ce04a90.jpg" border=0 width="516" height="425" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Each time we do one of these we take up a little less lens space.</B></div> <div> <B>:-)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="3be0fca0.jpg" border=0 width="271" height="458" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Of course spring meant baseball!  We took Maddi to a game early in May</B></div> <div> <B>against the Houston Astros.  Other than having to put up with our</B></div> <div> <B>dear friend, Natalie's "ha ha ha" phone call after we lost, the game</B></div> <div> <B>was great.  :-)  Oh, Natalie is from Houston, did I mention that?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="380b3460.jpg" border=0 width="435" height="326" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="382ac3b0.jpg" border=0 width="428" height="571" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>We attended a Youth Celebration ceremony at church and Maddi</B></div> <div> <B>brought along her school "visitor" Grizwald who comes to visit </B></div> <div> <B>throughout the year.  We took him to church (where you can see</B></div> <div> <B>he enjoyed singing from the hymnal) and then wrote all about his stay with us</B></div> <div> <B>in the diary.  Hopefully, this will be the last time Grizwald comes to </B></div> <div> <B>our home this year since we're running out of ideas to do with him</B></div> <div> <B>and frankly we're sick of seeing his little fuzzy face.  :-)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="386b6480.jpg" border=0 width="438" height="584" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Easter Morning was full of surprises.  Even though all four</B></div> <div> <B>kids were sick with Rotovirus, they managed to rally that morning.</B></div> <div> <B>Chris chose to sleep in which is why there are no pictures</B></div> <div> <B>of him.  He </B><B><U>was</U></B><B> in the house.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="38847f50.jpg" border=0 width="327" height="245" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <IMG SRC="38a47f50.jpg" border=0 width="327" height="245" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="38c3fef0.jpg" border=0 width="319" height="239" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Some lasting images of Winter 2004</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>We weren't sure it was going to happen but it did on February 26th!</B></div> <div> <B>We got snow.  Those of you who live in the north will snicker, but</B></div> <div> <B>in Atlanta this is major stuff and every school system in the metro area</B></div> <div> <B>shut down as well as many businesses.  Generally, we have one or</B></div> <div> <B>two "snow days" out of school but it's more often for ice than snow.</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="36bef730.jpg" border=0 width="495" height="371" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>Christmas 2003</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Despite our warnings about coal, apparently Santa felt Maddi</B></div> <div> <B>was deserving of his love and there was a big, beautiful bike</B></div> <div> <B>waiting in the living room.  She was amazed at how similar it was</B></div> <div> <B>to the one she'd seen and asked for at a local store!  Talk about</B></div> <div> <B>coincidences.  Some more holiday pictures follow....</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="324c9570.jpg" border=0 width="457" height="343" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Oh my gosh!  Santa actually came:</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="31287250.jpg" border=0 width="391" height="293" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Santa brought the bike and the biggest toy </B></div> <div> <B>horse we'd ever seen!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="314932e0.jpg" border=0 width="403" height="302" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>And darned if he didn't fill her stocking too.  </B></div> <div> <B>She must have been really good this past year!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="3169d360.jpg" border=0 width="413" height="310" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I might have promised to not put this on the web site, but </B></div> <div> <B>I think it's so precious of Dad and Maddi, just had to do it.  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The second picture was how pretty it all looked before Maddi </B></div> <div> <B>ripped into everything.  Just for those who count our kids, we </B></div> <div> <B>only had Maddi that morning.  There were plenty of presents </B></div> <div> <B>for the other three.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="31822da0.jpg" border=0 width="290" height="218" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <IMG SRC="31a23da0.jpg" border=0 width="291" height="218" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Proof of the other presents.  :-)  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Also, Santa left Maddi a letter thanking her for the goodies.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="31d57c90.jpg" border=0 width="343" height="457" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  </B><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Standout" ><B><IMG SRC="32233990.jpg" border=0 width="307" height="409" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></FONT></div> <bR> <div>   <A HREF="http://www.trellix.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.trellix.com"><IMG SRC="25d52280.png" border=0 width="82" height="40" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </A>          <a href="http://htmlgear.lycos.com/specs/guest.html" target="_top"><img border="0" ismap src="http://htmlgear.lycos.com/img/guest/gb_peach.gif"></a><br> <a href="http://htmlgear.tripod.com/guest/control.guest?u=bambjoy&i=1&a=view" target="_top"><font face="arial,helv,helvetica,sans serif" size="-1">View My Guestbook</font></a><br> <a href="http://htmlgear.tripod.com/guest/control.guest?u=bambjoy&i=1&a=sign" target="_top"><font face="arial,helv,helvetica,sans serif" size="-1">Sign My Guestbook</font></a><br>   </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>