Friday Photo Flashback: 1995

I haven't done a photo flashback in about a year I think?

Three kiddos keeps me busy.

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This is my little brother, Isaiah!  

He's 16 now, but wasn't he so cute?! 

(Haha, he still is pretty cute. :-P)

It'd help me with comparisons if Kheaven had teeth yet!

They're not twins, but definitely related!

(You can tell more in other pix and in person.  If I had more time I'd find them, but this will have to do!)

Friday Photo Flashback: Halloween 1992?

I am FINALLY getting a chance to post after a week of not.  I have been preparing for visitors and just enjoying all three of my sweet kiddos.  Kheaven is a month old now!  I can't believe how fast it went.

Hope you enjoy this flashback!

My brother and I as Raggedy Ann and Andy in costumes my grammy made for us.

Several times we dressed opposite each other for halloween.  Thinking back it was fun, I'm not sure I felt that way back then though.  :-P

The creepy vampire behind us is my dad.  :-)

Good times!

Friday Photo Flashback: Grandpa

Grandpa
I met him when I was four or five...

He is one of the funniest guys I've ever met.
He can yell loud, and has from time to time.
He was always playing basketball, or hunting, or fishing, or working on TVs.
I love him.

On his wedding day.

...I didn't get to see grandpa last time I was in WI visiting.
He was in the hospital.
He had just had his 5th heart attack.
They were trying to figure out what to do.
I wanted to see him, but it was a short visit,

time and transportation were issues.

Grandpa and Grandma summer 2007,
The last time I remember seeing grandpa look really healthy.
He's older than any man in his family ever lived to be.
Even though his heart (the muscle) isn't strong,

it (in the metaphorical sense) is good.

He's going to go to heaven,

and it will be good.
I wasn't sad when he got sick,
because I know he'll be okay.

But now, after a stay in the hospital, they have sent him home to be under hospice care...

There's nothing they can do.

I know he's going to heaven.
I will miss his laugh though.

I will miss his yell.
I will miss him bombing people with wrapping paper at Christmas time.
I will miss his hugs.

I wish he could meet Kheaven.

I wish the kids would have a chance to know him and be "picked on" by him like I did.
They'll have my dad, and my dad is a lot like his dad, my grandpa,

so I guess a big part of him will live on...

Even in me a little, as I can yell with the best of them, especially at sporting events!
And, I have no problem bombing people with wrapping paper.

Photo Flashback Friday: Buggy and his Best Gal Pal

Some pictures of my little bug with hanging with my cousin throughout the years.
2005

2005

2006

2006

2007

2008

2009

It's amazing how fast they grow!!!

Friday Photo Flashback: Family

"You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them."
~Desmond Tutu~

1985

The family I was born into.

1995

The family I grew up with.

9/22/2009

The family I have helped to create and am blessed to have.

Photo Flashback Friday: The Cap and Gown

Alicia at More than Words is hosting Flashback Fridays, and what a fun thing for Fridays to be! 

Looking back can remind us of how things were good or bad, and by knowing where we are now we can see that either we are blessed to be at a better place, or if we aren't at a better place we can be grateful for those past memories to help us through!  We can then look to the future and know that things can be good again!

1984                                                                       2003

The first picture of the little girl in the graduation cap and heels is me, at a whole four years old!  So eager to grow up, or maybe just to play dress up!  :-)  Being the daughter of the oldest of five children let me attend a few grad ceremonies...  Probably about four, by the time I was four.  No wonder I wanted to model after them!  ;-)

The second picture, all grown up!..  Or so I thought.  I was happy and proud to be graduating.  High school wasn't the easiest time of my life, and by the time senior year came around I had to work to graduate.  I did work, and thank the Lord, working worked for me!  Pictured with me was my best friend from Junior High through High School, Emily.

I am reminded of how fast time goes by looking at these photos.  I am reminded as well that no matter what was happening in life at any given point there was always time to stop and smile for the camera.  ;-)

If you wanna join in the flashback fun please go to Alicia's blog on linkup with Mr. Linky so we can all enoy reveling in eachother's memories!