As most of you know, I have been married to Laurie Cottrell since June 12, 1993. Laurie is the most wonderful wife on the planet. She is caring, smart and very pretty. Unfortunately, she is also bashful, and prefers not to have her picture on the web. Laurie has an Associates Degree in Business from Robert Morris, and is a full-time mom. For income, she sells items on ebay under the lbpgh name. She is basking in the life of having no children in the house!

Our daughter, Elizabeth was born 3 weeks early on February 8, 1998. She is a very smart and happy little girl. She is enrolled in the Sixth Grade and is doing very well. This year she is playing Soccer and Softball for Elliot/West End. Her favorite shows are Survivor, America's Got Talent and anything from Animal Planet, Discovery or Chiller. Her favorite songs come from artists like Fergie, Pink, Kelly Clarkson and Bon Jovi.

Our son, Christopher Lee was born 2 weeks early on August 17, 2002. He is in Second Grade. He can read at a 4th grade level, does addition and subtraction in his head and excels at computers. He plays soccer and baseball for Elliot/West End. For soccer hs is a great goaltender. His likes just about every cartoon or action show. SpongeBob, iCarly and Ben Ten are among his favorites.

We have a few pets. Alex the dog was born on August 2, 1996. He is a Welsh Corgi, Pomeranian mix. While that is an odd mix, Alex is a very loving dog.

On October 14th 2010, we adopted a kitten named Juliette. We adotped her from the Western PA Humane Society. She is a tabby/manx mix. She has not quite found a favorite yet. She likes to be with us, likes to play but is not a big fan of being petted yet.

In 2008 our cat Toby died. Toby was at least 19 years old. I adopted Toby from a college friend 6 months before I got married. Toby loved Chris more than anything in the world. Toby would read with Chris every night. I had to put him to sleep about 2 weeks before Christmas.

Shadow Kitty was my mother's cat. In 2010 Shadow Kitty died of old age. She was at least 16. Like Toby, she loved Chris and spent most of her time in his room.

Finally, we have a varying number of fish.