Farzanegan Family

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We're not sure of a caption to use for this photo, but we hope it makes you smile like it does for us!

A Farzanegan Birthday

Happy Birthday Max!

The newest Farzanegan celebrated joining the elusive club known as 'the single digits' as he celebrated his first birthday. He spent time with family and enjoyed everyone calling up and singing (as he put it) "wa-wa Wa-wa, Wa-wahhhh"

He walked around the house and moved items around. He also chased the dog and played with his blocks. The biggest highlight was eating applesauce at dinner. Max confides that he's looking forward to next year's birthday because he'll be twice as old!

World Champion

Just heard from Fred Farzanegan. He competed in the World Championships for Tennis and won his age division in doubles. He also is ranked 3rd in the world in singles.

Congratulations Uncle Fred!

Football

We love football season! All of us! Griff is the center of his Pop Warner league and Middle School team, while Aidan is on the line on his Pop Warner team. But watch out for Max, already working out for the 2018 season!

Early( and I mean early!) on August 8th, we headed out for a day of exciting diving! After loading all of our stuff

into the car, we went to get our friend Pete, and started the drive to beautiful Beaufort, NC. After arriving, we put the boat in the water and started to load our scuba gear, tanks and most importantly people. We went to about 30 miles off shore to a ledge we had hit before, and the fun began. On the first dive of the day, the water was warm( yay!) and the visability was about 15-20 feet on the bottom. This is when our fish killing instinct kicked into high gear, but the dive showed a lack of fish. We came up with two black sea bass( Erin's kill!). The lack of fish was made up for when a huge sea turtle came up to investigate.

On the second dive of the day, The conditions were about the same. The fish on this dive were once again MIA. But Papa did manage to get a nice sized grouper. The amberjack were just circling around us, but we couldn't find the

urge to shoot them.

On the third dive of the day, Papa and Pete went in search of fish. This was where we hit the jackpot!! The men came up with a grouper and an amberjack. Papa's grouper was about 18 lbs and Petes was about 12(Oh! take that!) and the amberjacks weighted in at about 35 lbs. As you can tell from the picture below they were huge...

That was the end of our trip to the coast, and hopefully we will go back soon for more fish and great NC diving.

-Erin and Danielle

Spring Break with Danielle

Not your average spring break! I gave Danielle the choice between SCUBA diving and going snowboarding. She had enough of the cold weather and we drove with a neighbor to Florida. The weather didn't cooperate, which kept us out of the ocean- but we did get to go canoeing down a tributary of the Peace River. We looked for fossils and artifacts and came back with better and bigger teeth than we've gotten at Venice, so Danielle was satisfied. She wasn't so happy about the deer skull which I put on the front of the canoe! I went crab claw hunting at the Skyway bridge- my first time. The current was stout, the water murky- but it was a success- we got a crab claw appetizer when we ate with our friends in St. Pete. To give a contrast to that murky diving, we went to Ginny Springs- a freshwater spring (I think Danon water comes from there) in northern Florida. The water was delicious- it was funny drinking the dive water. Ginny was the opposite of diving in the bay- we had so much visibility- and we explored the Ginny cavern- but the best dive was Devil's Eye- where spring water blasts out of a fissure and mixes with the tea-colored water of the Santa Fe and swirls above you- a sight that can't be described. It was a great time.