Those who know me will say, “Of course, Memorial Day is your favorite! It’s your birthday!”
This year that is true, but since President Nixon relegated the day of memories to the last Monday of May, sometimes the holiday is and sometimes it isn’t on May 30th – the ORIGINAL Memorial Day AND my birthday. While I am THRILLED to celebrate another year here on earth, birthdays don’t quite offer the same delight they did when I was 6 or 10 or 16.
Memorial Day does bring me a HUGE dose of nostalgia, and for a person who is ALWAYS nostalgic, that is saying something. Tonight is a case in point. I decided to rummage through some boxes of old photos looking for who-knows-what, and I found all but 2 of our sort of “official” family pictures. For a long time I have wanted to post them, and decided that I’ll start off the Memorial weekend with these “happy family” photos. (Of course, we all know what goes into organizing a trip to the photographers – hence the sarcasm.) So here we go down Memorial Day Lane.
We looked SO happy because we were!
I look at this picture and fall in love all over again.
The Bouffant and the Soldier Boy!
The beginning of the BOYS!
The boys have ALL ARRIVED including Teddy, the Cocker Spaniel.
TOTAL 80s look going on here!
We were all together for the first time in 2 years because Andy had just returned from his LDS mission.
We had gained AND lost some daughters-in-law about this time, so I'm just posting the ROOT of our family.
My niece took MANY photos of the fam, but I LOVE this CRAZY-FACES pose! AND we were happy to welcome the NEW daughter-in-law who married into the family that year!
This is a terrible PICTURE of the PICTURE 'cause I don't have one that does NOT hang on a wall. It's WAY out of date because 3 more little peeps have joined the family. Maybe we can just "photo-shop" the new additions!!!
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