Pictures & Memories

I sat for a few hours while at my dad's house last week and went through MANY photo boxes filled with pictures. There were memories galore in those boxes and I loved laughing and crying while I flipped through the pictures. A few of the pictures made me smile and I knew I had to scan them and put them on my blog.

My great grandfather, Harry R. Dieffenderfer, who lived to be 100 years old. Here he is with his dog Sally and I loved the captions he wrote on the back of the pictures.

A cute little picture of Lily wearing a sweater that my mother knit for her. Loved her little pursed lips in this picture:

A super cute picture of my dad in Pennsylvania snow in November of 1934. He was a year and a half in this picture:

This Makes Me Laugh

The girls got their Spring portraits back recently and I just had to post them here. Lily looks like quite the fashion plate with her jazzy scarf wrapped around her neck. I like her coy little grin and her pretty heart necklace.

Shelly got her Pre-K photo along with her graduation picture. This picture of her in the floral dress captures her innocent and shy smile. Love it.

And wow, that grad picture makes me laugh so hard. She looks a little bewildered in this picture. Does she understand that all of this fun preschool stuff is coming to an end in just 3 weeks??? That grad photo will one day be proudly displayed alongside her high school graduation picture. Won't that be fun?

And just as a little something else to make you laugh, here I am at age four preparing for my first day of preschool at Tinsy Bear in Kodiak, Alaska. I love the surrounding scenery in this picture. You can see the World Book Encyclopedias, National Geographics, the record albums below that, and the bells hanging from the mantel...very very vivid memories for me. Oh, and don't you just love the all turquoise ensemble???

Home Again, Home Again

It was lovely to be in Virginia Beach with our family for six days, but it was also good to get home. I have completed 3 loads of laundry and made chili for dinner.

Yesterday afternoon, while still in VB, my sister's family wanted some photos taken at the beach for Christmas cards. So, we went to the bay and took pictures in some very windy and chilly weather. Thought I'd share a few of the 136 pictures. The girls came with me to help as my photog assistants.

Ok, off to do baths and get ready for a busy week.

Obligation-Commitment-Rule-Deadline Phobic

Well, I have come to the conclusion that I don't like deadlines or rules placed on me. This "picture a day" thing isn't going so well. I think I will just keep taking pictures like I usually do and post them when I can. Works better for me. So.....

On Saturday, the girls pulled out the Angelina Ballerina gift that Aunt Linny got Shelly for Christmas. They were both in their dance outfits and ready to go. So I had to take some photos of them. They were having so much fun and making me laugh with all of their funny antics.

The concrete is finis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There were a couple of snaffus, but they were all worked out and no problems exist. That's a good thing. I think they may start on the vermiculite and liner the end of this week/beginning of next. We'll see.

Today is Lily's last official dance class for the year. Next week she has dress rehearsal and her recital. It has been such a good experience this year. My parents and John's mom will be here for her recital. We are all looking forward to seeing them and having them here for the big event.

Where's the Pic A Day?

Well, the best laid plans have gone awry! I was planning to do a picture a day for the month of May, but it seems that I am not doing very well with this. I will try to improve my efforts tomorrow. In the meantime, here is a picture for ya: (Lily's class on May Day...her teacher is the one in red)

A Month of Pictures

As a distraction, I am planning to take a picture a day and post it here in the month of May. May is always full of plenty of activities and I thought this would be a great chance to try a Picture A Day for the month. So, here is today's pic. This is a sweet little necklace that I got from this Etsy site. I bought another one, as well, and just think it's fun, sweet and springy.