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Overblown lighting but still fun! Will have to pull into Lightroom and edit… 😉 |
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Gramma Gini’s roses bloom in the background and the old cherry tree stands to the left. |
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A favorite! |
Simple beauty for your home
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Overblown lighting but still fun! Will have to pull into Lightroom and edit… 😉 |
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Gramma Gini’s roses bloom in the background and the old cherry tree stands to the left. |
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A favorite! |
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He looks sooo young in his high school portrait! |
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Bill Brown ~ Pete’s best friend |
He was best friends with his neighbor of 56 years, Bill Brown, and his wife Mary before she passed from Alzheimer’s. Bill’s death last year while they were out visiting us hit Pete really hard. I think this was a deciding factor in Pete’s passing.
He and Gini cooked many meals for church members over the years, for the Odd Fellows and Rebekah pancake breakfasts which benefited local youth, and volunteered singing and playing guitar for Sunday worship services. Pete was always serving.
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Something goofy like Pete would say… |
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Reddish-pink bougainvillea with a sky-blue Pacific Ocean in the background. |
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.
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Red poppies and red roses… |
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Cooking at our Prairie Home. |
“You know Moms are without a doubt a mix of sugar and magic.”
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Peter and his little M, 3 weeks old |
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I didn’t have much hair back then… Looks like I have a mohawk! 😉 |
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Gene and Gini, New York City 1986 |
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Gramma’s little family screenshot… |
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My favorite picture so far! |
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Our fair maiden wearing my wedding veil… |
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I’ve shared Mom and Dad’s wedding portrait before but it is always a favorite! |
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From the IOOF Downton Abbey-Roaring 1920’s dinner. |
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Justine is about 8 weeks along as of three weeks ago. |
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Pete and Gini checking the roast for doneness at 6:30 last evening. The scent spreading through the house was so delicious! |
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My sweet baby… |
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My mom and dad ~ he was 28 and she a young 21. |
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Our Amy, whose 27th birthday was two days ago. She was my mom’s birthday present in 1992. 😉 This photograph was taken at the Carlsbad Caverns, NM, 2016. |
Dad’s love language was gifting sparkly presents to my mother and Mom loved the beauties he would buy for her! She wore them to parties they attended the whole time we lived in Hawaii. Later she wore them to other parties in California and to the theater where Dad performed (his hobby).
Once I borrowed the lavender jade ring and wore it one day to high school as I loved it and it called to me ~ then I was so terrified I would lose it, I put it inside my wallet in my locked locker in my backpack and rushed it home after school to get it safely back in her jewelry box before she got home from her teaching position in Sacramento.
I never did that again, let me tell you!
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A photo of my mother during her high school days ~ posted by one of our relatives through Ancestry.com. She is 2nd row, plaid skirt. |
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My brother Frank out in the front garden ~ he lived in the house until it was sold in 2010. |
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My mother Ginny, circa 1971-1974. |
This is us at our engagement party during the summer of 1987. Charles officially went into the USMC in January 1988.
The hair got a bit shorter after this photo was taken! This was phase one of the haircuts. 😉