Zoo Daze Craze

On August 7th, 2007 the Bugos Clan visited the Oklahoma City Zoo animals... and had a blast! Jacob and J.P. were out of their minds!


Jacob was here elaborating on the AWESOME snakes he saw in the reptile exhibit.. some were literally bigger then him!





Smiles, smiles, smiles
and cheeze on top of that!

Mom and Jake-ba chill with Boorab, the mighty hare

they befrend while reading Brian Jacques' "Redwall" series.

Now it is late, and

J.P. gets in a pouty mood when he gets tired.

At this point, he was to dramatic to look at his favorite animal - the zebra!

..see, Mary still loves ears.

Mom feeds everybody, even the wild ass that has a big sign saying "Please don't feed me".

Here we come, walking down the street...

You have to Kiss a lot of Frogs.....

Before you ever find .......

A Prince!.....

Jamie, Sam, Drew, Meb, Jake, and John Paul all got to ride on the carousel ($.75 ea.!). We selected our favorite animals, such as an ocelot, a wild boar, a tiger. The best seat though was that of Marty the Zebra, which J.P. refused to leave without riding and hugging good-bye.


Thus, off we went to the merry tunes of "Pop Goes the Weasel" or "Do Your Ears Hang Low".

















King of the Jungle.....

The wild animal clan!

Danger Ranger

Who is this cool dude today?

Is he Piderman, or Captain Pohn Jollie?

Or a Blue Power Ranger who knows

that his cuteness is a danger?

Summer Days

Taste the Milky Way..... ICECREAM!! ON Sunday, Dad brought out the beloved old ice-cream machine, and we all set to churning. Jam, Sam, Drew, Meb, and Jake all churned till our arms ached, ( while J.P. menacingly threatened us with a hose), but we all had fun!

In the end, the result was fabulous! There is simply no better ice-cream then Dad's homestyle ice-cream. Wish you girls where here!

Graduation Night

I think it was a strange awakening for our family, as we watched the Jamie and her LPN classmates graduation ceremony at Gordon Cooper. It kindof brought home to me how much work and trial the girl has gone through, and how definitely she deserves the honor and awards given her that night.

Jam conquers, with God's grace. She recieved the award of best student of the year, with a 97% overall. She also was the class Seceratary, and won a $1000 nursing scholarship. I think she viewed that as a definite bonus!

Afterwards, I found this picture from Norman Rockwell. I thougth that it resembled Jamie pretty well. A good girl, ready to conquer the world, and bold as sugar!

Photo Time

Can you tell who everybody is?

P.S. We also enjoyed our time with Grandma and Grandpa Higgy, as well as the Husted Bunch. We went to the Mississipi River over by the Butterworth Park, were we played and slid, and swung, and monkeyed around. We got to see the new makeover that Grandma and her helpers did to the kitchen and living room (it is gorgeous). And of course, we enjoyed Grandma's homemade brownies. (Hey Grandma, can I put those in this year's fair. Their copyrighted aren't they?)

However, we are lacking good pictures from that afternoon, but I am planning on nabbing some from Sara. So hold on till then!

Vacation 2007!

Dave and Jake

Vacation 2007 brought us a trip that was practically perfect in every way. We had a great time! During the reunion at Roger and Sue's, we got to see lots of family, shared good food, and played a crazy game of shaving cream whiffle ball.

Nick and Jennifer

Roger and Sue had a litter of 9 puppies, three boys and 6 girls (can you guess what we named them?) that all of us enjoyed immensely. They set up a little pen outside, and all of the kids got in with the puppies, while of the adults circled around, snapping pictures like crazy. You know, there is nothing cuter than kids and puppies.

Grandma still masters the Grandma look, and we discovered that John Paul has inherited it! She really bonded with Jake and J.P. while we were there. Can you believe it, she can still flip J.P. inside out! She's like 85!! Yeah, we have a pretty crazy Grandma.

Grandpa taught Jacob the art of pool, which he really loved. However, when Grandpa wasn't looking, Jacob preferred to play his own finger smashing game. Gramps showed us pictures of his fish, and also some of the beautiful mission rosaries that he makes. As Jam said, 'Grandma may get a little harder of hearing, but things really don't change much there'.

The Journey to McDonalds

J.P. loves to go to McD's. Nearly every day, when he's outside, he'll suddenly start marching down the driveway saying "Oop, it's time go McDonowds", and away he goes.

Sometimes we'll give him a coup of pennies, or a dollar and then his little legs will take him all the way to the top of the road.

Sometimes, he'll only reach the first bend.

Suddenly he'll about-turn and say "No, its to far. We'll go tomorrow".

his boy thrives on Irish dance days, when Mom takes him and Jake-ba to McD's.

The King and His Little Side Kick

CHA TIME!!

Mom and Mary spent a good part of Mother's Day in a quaint little black hackney-like buggy.
You can see the smiles shining!! Mom cried when Dad presented it to her, Dandin groaned, and Mary almost broke her little face smiling.

Well, as J.P. says: ..Go Go Cha Race!

Headline:Brother and Sister Are Poons;Turn Into Wild Animals

To the best of the investigator's knowledge, two young siblings in McLoud, Oklahoma recently were changed into wild possums after being "Poons". An official J.P. definition of "Poon" is: any brother or sister who is being a) a goose,
b) an eeiot, c) a funny cha racer, or d) any just having a good wholesome time.

Oklahoma Rising

Praise God!!! May ushered in 8 days straight of t-storms, giving the Centennial song
"Oklahoma Rising" a new meaning!












- Check out these cool pics. These are both shots
of the water that goes under (or over) our
driveway. At one point, the water was about 40 ft. across the drive, and 3 feet deep!!

Silly Faces!

Two red hats,

And two blue coats,

Two sweet smiles,

And four sweet hands.

Two Little People,

Peering out at us.

Photo Caption Contest

Without any inention of being mean to Jamie, I thought that this cute picture was just crying out for a really good caption.

Thus, I leave it up to you .

Easter 2007

The Very Odd Egg...

The Egg Searchers....

..and the clutch of chicks.
(plus a little Peck or two!)