couple more pictures

If you like old pictures, here are a couple more of the boys and our new car!!!!
The days before seat belts!












They were the cutest little
boys and now they are all
3 grandfathers.
My how time does go by fast.

A new car!

In going through old pictures I found this one of our new car! Where has the time gone? The cost of this brand new station wagon was $2300.

Another red letter day

Old Old pictures

Well today I have nothing to blog and it is past Bill's birthday so decided to do by heritage wall. Starting on the left is my grandmother and grandfather, Pearl and Milo Potter. In the middle is their wedding invitation dated April 9th, 1900. The bottom picture is my mother Evelyn and Lucille Potter as children. In the middle, the top picture is a 4 generation picture of my great great grandmother Harriet Pinney, great grandmotherEmily Pinney Rose, grandmother Pearl Rose Potter, aunt Lucille and mother Evelyn. The middle picture was taken in 1884 of my great great grandmother and grandfather Harriet and Elbert Pinney and all of their children. The back row second from the left is my great grandmother Emily. The right side top, is my Mother Evelyn and father Walter Smith.
The middle is Bessie Lossee Smith my father's mother and the bottom is Percy Smith, my father's father.

This picture is of James Parker, Bill's grandfather, when he was discharged from the Union army after the civil war. He was 18 years old.

Just another picture of the Pinney family in 1884.

Now let me think, Elbert and Harriet would be my grandchildren's great,great,great,great grandparents and my great grandchildren's great,great,great,great,great grandparents! Whew!!!!!

A RED LETTER DAY FOR SURE..........

HAPPY BIRTHDAY........HAPPY BIRTHDAY...........HAPPY BIRTHDAY.........HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Leslie's request

Well Leslie you tagged me so here it goes! I met your grampy at a church camp for college age adults at Crestline California. It was love at first sight. He was so cute and had such a winning smile and great personality the I couldn't resist him and so I let him catch me. Our first kiss was ,believe it or not, a few days later and from then on it was history. He was just back from the service in WWII and I was a sophmore in college. My girlfriend had her eye on him but because he was just going to be a freshman she knew he was to young. Well, I knew better. I knew that he had been in the service for three years right out of high school and of course I didn't tell her.
He was going to attend Chapman College and I knew I had to go there too. So I talked to my grandpa and he agreed to pay my tuition. Off I went!! We were meant to be together because after about 4 weeks ,believe it or not, we were married and moved into the quonset huts for married students on the college campus.

We did not have much of a wedding but it was a nice on in our ministers home with our familys there. We had a small wedding cake and then headed off to the mountains for our honeymoon before going back to college.

The rest is history and after 58 years, 3 boys, 13 grandchildren and 22 great grandchildren we are still here and perking along at a pretty good speed.
Life is good and our children are spectactular. Love them all.

Can you guess???

Do you recognize any of these cute little girls?

First Sunday of the month!

Sunday was the first Sunday in September so the Matthew Parkers came over for dinner. Fun day. They didn't have to get home for a meeting or school the next day so we had a good visit. The kids were toooo cute. Max ate for the first time at the table with the Annie and Jack and you can see he really enjoyed desert. Annie and Jack sat out on the deck with Grampy and each took turns telling stories. Even though it was hot out there they were out there for at least 30 minutes or long just telling their stories. Max went out for a while and peeked in the house through the door with his little squashed face. We even sang Happy Birthday to Oliver as his birthday is today. The first Sunday of the month is my favorite and if you were here in OC you would be able to join us. There is nothing I would like any better then to have my kiddos here.
It has been very hot but then Steph and Les know about hot weather. We just aren't used to it being so warm for so long. Today it is finally cooling off and maybe I can do some yard work. The sun really burned the garden even though I was good about watering sometimes twice a day. It needs some work now to get it ready for fall plantings.
Have been making some things for Stella and will get them in the mail today. Tomorrow I will go to Breanne's and take care of Emeri for the day so that Breanne can go to the Salon and get some bookwork done. I don't know how people have time for work- I'm sooo busy and I don't even work! I love what I do though