My father Tom is a very serious man. He never mugs for the camera. Here's his mother, my Grandma Madge Shriver.

Here's my mother Jean holding her favorite present EVER. Here's a wonderful letter her mom Emma wrote her kids before she had surgery, shortly before she died. For more about Mom's family (the Heiberg clan) click earlier in this sentence ;-)

As Mom would say: "Shoo fly pie and apple-pan-dowdy, makes your eyes light up and your stomach say 'Howdy!'"

Here's a picture of my whole family, at sister Chris and Dale's wedding in 1996.