Family History in the Making

I am convinced we should all take more photos, especially at family holidays, family gatherings.   And either blog more, or write down somewhere what we are thinking.  Who we love.  What we are doing.

Kisses from Max on Mother's Day (LOVE THE NEW CAMERA!).

Crab, Maryland style!  I love eating crabs with extended family!

Great Grandma Billie likes the mustard.

John & his mom on Mother's Day.  I laughed looking at this picture--their t-shirts crack me up!

Me with Sam.

With Roxie.

Sam with Great Grandma!

Suzanna Ruth, borrowing the camera, up on Queen/King Seat.

Playing with old photos of Great Grandma Ruth.

And William & Rose, her parents.  Really wish there was one of them closer together, wedding photo, anything.  It looks like his knee might be bumping into her leg.

The whole family in front of THIS house in Paris, ID.

Which I am trying to find on google map street view and making myself motion sick!

This summer we are spending time in Bear Lake, ID, and I want to go see significant family history places.  Grandma Sandy said they tried to find this house, nobody knew where it was...

In William Shepherd's history:

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...and a little bit about Ruth:

A paragraph?  I want more details!  This is my husband's grandmother.  She inherited the strong & sturdiness from her mom.  As have 2/3 of my daughters.  (Emma is more delicate, more Gma Lucy Babcock stature.)

Makes me think I should write in my journal today, update things some.

Update:  John's GRANDPA William Budge book online here!

Great Grandma Sparkles

These are Great Grandma Billie's sparkle hands.  She wanted to make sure Suzanna & Emmalyn saw them.  She LOVES seeing photos on their blogs about their nail parties, and wanted them to see matches!

"Hello, Daddy!" she said

The kids helped pull the grass away from the family headstones.  Nice to see the flag for their great, great grandpa. 

John asked if her dad was bawdy, like Billie.  She told us she got her humor from him, that he was funny, witty, danced and could cut up a stage.  He died younger than I realized.  Her mom was a widow for a long time, even marrying again, 2nd husband died 12 years after her first.

It was good to see the names, the dates, hear a little more about my children's ancestors.  Good tradition.  (Need to research how to clean the stone without damaging it.  Hydrogen peroxide to get rid of mildew stains?)

Thresholds

Busy Saturday!
Sam mowing like a man! Rite of passage, complete.
Grandma Sandy is running for office this fall, after much encouragement by her peers. Today was a photo shoot for her webpage of her family living in town (so there were grandkids and 2 daughters missing). Lots of honks from people driving by and waving at us! An army of purple!


This is Great Grandma Straw-Billie surrounded by 5/6 of our kids.


Grandma Sandy and her sweetie!


Gpa John gave us $ for Rita's Italian ice afterwards. Max mixed S'mores + caramel apple, and made us nervous with his Incredible Hulk impersonation trying to kill yellow jackets by clapping them to death.

Sam asked about tractor driving licenses, what he would have to do to get one.

We still have a bbq with friends tonight, I have a quilt Wild Threads meeting, and I hope to squeeze in a date with my own sweetie.