Sunday, May 4, 2008

Blast from the past

I love looking at old pictures and found some that I thought were absolutely worthy of sharing!! Here is the wedding photo where it all began, back in 1947. What a handsome couple!

Here is a picture of Dana and I. I think this was about 1960 or so. and I think this picture is where I might have earned the nickname "lump-lump." haha

This picture of Dana and I was taken in Sammie and Marion's back yard in our little matching dresses. Mother and Gray used to sew a dress for each of us and we always looked so cute! ;O

This picture is proof that Dana was the one with the pretty hair and I STILL to this day have the ugly, unmanageable stuff. But now there's proof that it was once a nice shade of red!

A little more proof----I always have told my kids that we once owned a Volkswagen bus. And here's the picture to prove it. I was the one assigned to clean it out before the upcoming camping trip. It was a blast! (Picture taken around 1969)
And then, here's our big brother (who by the way, just had his 59th birthday on May 4. Happy Birthday, Gary!). This was somewhere around 1969 in Crane, Texas. Gary always loved to torture us girls. Can't you tell just by looking at the faces on all three of us. haha So funny... Here the three of us "kids" are at my high school graduation, May 1977.

Here is Dana and I with our oldest boys. This was in 1980 in Hobbs, NM. Again, check out the messy red hair and Dana's perfectly well-behaved and groomed hair.Now this piciture is something else. Taken in 1983. Check out all the hair (on Gary and Bradley)!!! And doesn't Nicole look just like Bailey standing there next to Sharon??? Amazing.
This is some cowboy dude. ;o) Picture taken in Odessa in 1981.
I love this pic of Dana's kids. This is pre-Kailee. Look at that huge smile on Jenalee. She was only about 2 months old. Nov. 1986.
This is a picture of mother and daddy taken around 1984. I think it might have been at South Fork, Colorado. Not sure about that. But I love this picture.

Well, I hope you enjoyed the trip down memory lane as much as I did. It's always so much fun. I could spend hours looking at old pictures.

3 comments:

Nicole said...

Oh my word. That was so much fun to look at!!! My dad was a little hottie! I've always thought that he was cute, and he was!! That picture of him torturing you and Dana is hysterical!! Avery saw it and said, "It's like what Ryan does to us!!" I was thinking the SAME thing when she said it. They are alot alike!! We had so much fun with him here yesterday! Mom took the FUNNIEST picture! You have to see it and some really cute ones of all of us. We just love that boy! Anyway. Thanks for the great pictures!! I really enjoyed it.
BTW-I've always loved that picture of Nanny and Grandaddy too!

Cody and Danica said...

That is so cool. Killer hair mom!

Taralee said...

Oh wow. I love all those pictures. Old pictures are my favorite. You were a goof! That one of you, Gary, and Dana is my favorite. It shows your personalities. ha ha. (Nice facial expression!)
And you are right...Bailey looks EXACTLY like Nicole. It is crazy.
Loved the blast from the past.