another look

Here's one more picture of my sister and I and our elementary school teacher.  The picture was taken last June in Paynesville, Minnesota.  What a wonderful woman and an excellent educator.   p.s.  What's up with my crazy face?  

Dad and me

This picture was taken June 23, 2007.  It was the day before my Dad's ninetieth birthday and our family was celebrating with a picnic at the beach.  Family from all over the country had gathered for the weekend of festivities.  The big reception was coming the next day.  Okay, so now you see where my big forehead comes from.  It's a family thing.  We've all got 'em.

years later

If you go back and look at the picture in the post called FOUR FRIENDS you will see me and Janet standing next to each other on Confirmation Sunday.   Here we are together again fifty four years later.  We have visited each other several times over the years whenever I am in Minnesota.  This picture was taken in August of 2016.  Getting together with friends from the past is so much fun.

the church newsletter

For many years my siblings and I appeared in a picture that was placed on the cover of the church newsletter.  I have saved several of these newsletters from different years and they have been  carefully stored in my collection of family photos.  We were the minister's kids and that is how and why we were pictured in the newsletter.  Hey, happy (holi)day to everyone.

eating with a friend

I don't really know too much about this picture from my photo archive.  My brothers and my sister along with my mother and me are visiting at someone's house and we are about to eat.  My dad is most likely taking the picture.  I can't recall who the woman seated in the center is but I have seen several other pictures in this series where this woman is present and I believe this is her home.  The wallpaper is very distinctive.  I need to do more investigation into the who's and the where's.  I look to be about seven years old in this picture taken in the mid 1950's.

baby Jason

Here is a picture of my oldest son when he was about four months old.  He needed the support of the high backed chair to sit upright.  I just think he is adorable.  (and don't we all need a little support from time to time?)  Go Jason!!

Monkee business

It was 1986 and here we were just waiting for the Monkee reunion tour show to start.  The concert venue was a dinner theater and we were having a good time just eating, laughing and excitedly waiting for the Monkees to gather on stage and sing.  Linda, Barb, Vicki and I had attended their first concert in the Twin Cities area twenty years earlier and now we were together again for another festive evening of entertainment.  What a fun evening!  We had aged a bit...but so had everyone else in the room.  We were all fans just having a good time.  p.s.  Look at my curly perm hairdo!  And, those bangs!  Okay, I guess my hair HAS gone through a few changes over the years.