Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Christmas Faces...
Here's just something to post because its been a little slow on here what with the holidays and all :)
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Yay Something New to Post!!!
Friday, December 26, 2008
Merry Christmas!
Sorry I have been away for so long! We are just partying it up here in California! Well, mostly. There has been some work, but mostly fun! We had a great Christmas today with the our whole family together for the first time in five years! For more about our Christmas go to....
Blair Family Blog
Hope your Christmases were great! Send pictures so we can post them!
Heidi's Line...
Teresa's Line....
Monday, December 22, 2008
Mindy's Line...
Question of the Week....
Amy's Catch Up...
Monday, December 15, 2008
Happy Anniversary
Jeny's Honeymoon...
Heidi's Honeymoon...
Teresa's Honeymoon
Nickell's Honeymoon!
Mindy's Honeymoon.
Question of the Week...
Here's a short one for this week:
Did you have a honeymoon? Where did you go?
Mindy's Catch Up...
Everyone else told how the world has changed. I agree that even kids don't have as much time as we did when we were kids. It seems like they get home from school and I'm on them right away to get homework done, practice piano, then we eat dinner and it's bedtime already. Technology has come a LONG way. Remember Kristi and Lloyd's first mobile phone? Big, clunky thing compared to what everyone has now, and they were considered rich for even having a car phone!
Monday, December 8, 2008
Baby Leah
How the World has Changed for Heidi
Jeny Playing Catch Up
The oldest relatives I remember are either Grandma Margie or Grandpa Black. I don't know which was older, they both were just super old.
I remember visiting Grandpa Black, but the memories are a bit fuzzy (since I was so young, not because I'm getting old!). He seemed really skinny, and was very kind. I remember playing hide and seek in his house. I think Lori and Kristi suggested this game so I would go hide and they wouldn't have to play with me anymore. I hid in a trunk at the end of a bed, and once inside I couldn't get out. I do remember feeling a lot of panic. I banged on the top, and I'm sure I was crying. It seemed like forever before someone came to rescue me, and that someone was grandpa Black. He was the only one that cared that I was stuck, because he loved me.
I went on a trip to Montana with Grandpa Breckenridge when I was a young teen to visit Grandma Margie. Supposedly I look a lot like her, but when I saw her I did not want to look like her. She was old and in the hospital with tubes everywhere. She had all these super old and crazy family people around her, and one of them kept telling Grandpa that I needed to leave because I would get Grandma sick. I think that was Aunt Ida. I wasn't sick, Ida was just a bit . . . eccentric. Grandma Margie didn't really say much, and died very soon after we got home from that trip.
I don't know what to say about how things have changed since I was a kid because everything has. We used to walk to school with our legs. The only time we got a ride was when Mom heard a siren and thought we were dead on the side of the road. We walked home from school and went to Primary on Wednesday after school. Sacrament Meeting was in the evening on Sundays, a few hours after Sunday School. We didn't have computers or video games - we actually played outside a lot. We even played outside when it was raining sometimes. I loved that! We used to sleep outside sometimes, and I don't know if parents now would even consider that. Too many weirdos. We had about 5 channels on the TV, and 2 of them were public television, so we didn't ever watch them. We changed the channels on the TV by getting up, going to the TV and turning the knob. The first time we had a remote, it came with a very long wire attached to the VCR. I remember for about the first 2 years of school I always wore a dress, and so did everyone else. We got chicken pox, Kristi got measles and I got the mumps, and we survived. Mom didn't work outside of the home, and neither did most other moms. That was very comforting to me. Swear words included "butt", "shut-up", and "stupid". I didn't really know there were other bad words until I hit junior high. We very rarely ate out. In fact, I remember visiting McDonalds as a family and being a little embarrassed because Dad made a bit of a fuss about how much it cost, but it was a real adventure!
How the World has Changed for Teresa
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Question of the Week...
Nobody responded to last week's prompt. Let's see if you like this one more.
How is the world different from what it was like when you were young?
Saturday, December 6, 2008
New Header.
Friday, December 5, 2008
So Weird
Sisters
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Leah is Here!!!
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Happy Belated...
Question of the Week
Thanks to Heidi and Tere for last week's question of the week. I somehow hurt my back last Sunday and have been down in bed ever since. My family did Thanksgiving dinner, pies and all! It was great, but all I could take just to sit at the table to eat it with them. Thank goodness for good drugs. Anyway, I probably still shouldn't be sitting at the computer to write this, so here's the question for this week:
Who is the oldest person in your family you remember knowing when you were a child? What do you remember about that person?