Genes

In a birthday message to Chris, Mom told him that what she would like to do, now that she is "older than the hills" is to study genes "Because I had 4 kids who were alike in some ways but very different in others".
Photo 1975 (she was 50 years old)
Journaling 2012

You Make Me Bloom

Every year at the Mountaineer Week Arts & Crafts Fair, Bob buys me a card handmade by a local artist. Sometime during the year, he'll write ma a note inside the card. In the card from 2008, he wrote:

"Even on the darkest of winter's days, my love for you grows like the flowers of your summer garden. In the midst of gloom, you make me bloom." I feel the same about him.

Forever Love

In this season of love, I'm featuring Bob's parents whose love, long after their deaths, abounds in their children.

"Jim, the debonair accountant, marries Maxine, the friendly secretary, on October 6, 1946. He was 36, she 27."

Reprints X19

When the boys were little, it was not uncommon for me to get reprints made of their best pictures. I could be found dropping negatives with numbers marked X2 or more in the Superior Photo window early in the morning, then picking them up on the way home. Bob's Mom and my Mom each got copies. In the digital age, I send pictures as attachments, post some and my layouts where many will see. I still print copies for my Mom.

Chris will 19 tomorrow. You could say I've been making reprints for his entire 19 years!

Welcome Freya Rose

I'm in need of some printer maintenance, so today I created a digital layout! My nephew Steve and his wife Laura welcomed their second child yesterday. Freya Rose Michael was born at 1:41 pm. She weighted 7# 4 oz. and was 19 inches long. Pictured here is her older brother Oliver, age 2, held my Mother Laura. Photos by proud Dad Steve. 2012

Thank You for Greg

I cried in joy when I read the thank you note from Michelle for the shower, invitations and more. On the last page she wrote: "Thank you both for Greg. It is fun to hang out with you guys because I get to see where he gets many of the traits I love about him. He has Bob's sense of humor and Cindy's warmth." Pictures 1989 and 1990. Journaling 2012.

Window Shopping

"Two furry faced primates study each other." Como Zoo 2011

Thanks to Michelle for getting Greg's camera to take the picture of him and the curious monkey studying each other at the zoo's glass enclosure. Going to the zoo is one of their favorite activities.

The monkey had such lovely facial markings. I wanted to find some black and white fur to use on my layout.

Sugar said "no way"!

So I used black and white netting from food packaging:

Here's one more picture of Greg at the Minnesota Zoo photographing a monkey last summer:

Check out the fur on these monkeys!