Keepsakes

I got my first blog award from my friend Cyndy. She can be found at http://luvmydoxies.blogspot.com/. Thanks Cyndy!

I tried to think of something I really, really treasure and I finally realized pictures are my heart treasures. I'm especially fond of the old sepia tone pics from the 20's and 30's that I loved looking at in my grandparents photo albums. PIctures of my kids at Christmas with crazy t-shirts or antlers on their heads are another on going theme in my own albums. I also take pics of my kids in the wildflowers every year, especially the bluebonnets. But my all time favorite photos will always be pics of my kids, family members and just people in general from the backside. I always joke that I'm going to come out with a coffee table photo book called the Backside of Life and have nothing but backs of people for people to look at. I think it puts a different perspective on the more normal angle of pictures that we usually take. Anyway here are some of my favorite pictures that I treasure as keepsakes. Short explanations follow each group of pictures. Enjoy!

This is my all time favorite picture of my kids.
It was taken at the cemetery where my paternal
grandparents are buried in Dallas, TX.



This is a pic of the kids on Halloween 2001. They were
almost 3 and 5. They're dressed as Mimi and Drew Carey
and they won 2nd place at the local mall for the costume
contest.


This was taken after my maternal

grandmothers funeral in March 2006.

My favorite pics combined. Backside and

bluebonnets. Taken last year in 2008.

We missed this years crop.

Easter 2007 we had snow after the bluebonnets

bloomed. Gorgeous in the snow!

I love doing crazy Christmas shots with

my kids. These were each used for

Christmas cards during different years.

My husband Chris with his Grandfather and his

brother Alan. Papaw was almost 100 when this

picture was taken by me.

Papaw passed a few years ago at the age

of 101. I got this shot of my BIL Alan, Nicky

and Chris just by chance. It just seems to

be leading from the pic above into the

next generation.

This is my maternal Grandfather

Ivy and his BIL Shorty at a

Louisiana carnival in the 30's.

My maternal grandparents

Ivy and Ruby. Circa 1937.

My maternal grandfathers

Grandfather.

and my all time favorite

picture of my Dad with his

sister Shirley. Definitely taken

during World War 2. He's in an

army uniform and she's in a red cross

uniform that were both made by

my Grandmother.