Ruedas: In Greg’s Absence

Toby and his wife commute 100 miles each day from Marble Falls to Austin so that he can find work.

Greg Ruedas is in trouble again. After months on monitored probation, paperwork snafus were keeping him from having his ankle monitor removed. Two weeks later, he got frustrated and cut it off.

Greg and his brother Gabriel are still technically on parole, but they’re now in a facility in Dallas that holds non-serious parole violations. If nothing else goes wrong, they’ll still be freed men soon enough. In their absence, their family keeps going. Toby is off parole and holding a job at a sign-making plant. Grandma goes to church alone. Izabelle is turning 15, and the family is busy preparing for her quinceanera.

Have some photos.

Toby has a $8.50 /hr job working in a sign printing shop with his cousin.
Toby and his wife commute 100 miles each day from Marble Falls to Austin so that he can find work.
Toby moves emulsion-coated signs to the enlarger.
Toby's cousin, who got him the job. He's helped many members of the family find employment.
The neighbor raises a flock of always-crowing roosters
Izabelle is celebrating her quinceanera next month.
Her dream is to be a doctor and her biggest dream is to meet Hannah Montana.
His dream is to work in an auto shop and have a "cool car"
Lunch with the Ruedas: chicken and rice.
Bridget
Grandma and Toby
Playing with friends
Toby and Izabelle in the yard
Gabriel's wife and child. Gabriel, like Greg, is in a facility in Dallas for a parole violation.
Reading together
Toby
Toby and Blondie, one of the new puppies.
Toby's girlfirend is five months pregnant.

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