More Summer Vacation Pages!

Finally getting around to some more Summer Vacation Pages!









As cold as it is right now it's hard to remember how hot it was in Death Valley! But really beautiful too...

Old Pics as Promised

Here are a couple of pics Kerry sent to me - which I have never seen before! It is so awesome getting back in touch with family!Left to Right: Me, Tom with Deni, Jeffrey, Kerry (1975)

Left to right: 4 L-R Opal-1903, Ben-1888 (my great-grandfather), Lura-1885, Aubry-1898, Joseph-? (my great-great-grandfather) Dora-? (my great-great-grandmother) Grady-1900, Ivy-1894 (Newmans) (much earlier than 1975!)
There is one brother missing from this picture - Uncle Ted, the youngest (1906). He must have been away at college or something at the time. Uncle Ted and Aunt Mable were awesome! They used to have a cherry orchard in Montana and after they sold it they moved to Tucumcari New Mexico. It was always great fun to visit them.
My great-grandfather Ben lived to be 103 years old and (as he promised when I was born) - he was around to bounce my first-born on his knee! Joshua remembers Granddad bouncing his cane to entertain him. When I was young, he used to come visit us with a suitcase full of honey (he raised honeybees) and he would get off the bus one stop before ours so he could walk the rest of the way. He was always a walker. I guess walking is a good thing since he did live so long! And honey is supposed to be pretty healthy too - hmmmmm....

Christmas Day Games

Butterfly Conservatory - Niagara Falls, Canada

While in Niagara Falls last April, we took a whirlwind tour. One of the stops along the way was this Butterfly Conservatory, a place we probably would not have even taken a second look at without the tour. It was so neat seeing all those butterflies up close!

Black Crowes

We recently went with some friends to a Black Crowes concert. It was a lot of fun. They are such a throwback to the bands I used to see in the 70's. They look like a bunch of hippies, but not as old as real hippies would actually be!

Old Ski Trip Photos

A Family Bowling Outing

One day out of the blue, Lee said "Let's go bowling". So we did and we all had a great time. Sometimes spur of the moment outings are the best!

Summer Vacation - continued

I'm slowly but surely getting our summer vacation pics scrapped. We really had a great time. We spent the first night in Las Vegas and went downtown to Fremont Street to watch the Fremont Street Experience. Really neat show - on a huge screen over the street that's about a block long.

Niagara Falls Trip

A couple of weekends ago, Lee and I met his brother Mark and sister-in-law Amy in Detroit and drove to Niagara Falls for the weekend. I had been in Detroit for the week and Lee flew up Wednesday. Mark and Amy flew up Thursday night. It was very interesting because we drove through Canada to get there. We also stayed on the Canadian side. you get a much better view of both sets of falls from there.
Here is a quick page I did.

Dinner with Grandpa

Just a quick post today.

Twins ? (34 years apart!)

Credits: Rub On Alpha by Digitreats; Torn Paper Alpha by retrodiva; Background Paper, Stamps by SweetDigiScraps; Mom's Typewriter Font

My mother had always told me that in this picture of my dad holding her, Jenna looked just like me when I was a baby. Well, I was recently looking through my parents' old slides and found this picture of my grandfather holding me and I think my mother was right!!

Old Photos at the El Paso Aerial Tramway

Credits: Background Paper, Flourishes - My Boys Kit by Heather Watson; Index Cards - Something's Cooking Kit by Atomic Cupcake; Stringed Tag - Saturday in the Park Kit by Linda Walton; Stapled Tag - Blue Spring Kit by Marcee J. Duggar; Frames - Katie Pertiet

I was scanning some old slides the other day and came across one that really surprised me. I already knew about the one of me with the handkerchief on my head - I remember seeing that one a long time ago. But I had no idea there was a second one!!
I am so thankful that my parents took so many pictures when I was growing up! I am also thankful for a scanner that will scan slides.

Polish Pottery!

As promised, here is a scrapbook page.

Hungry Horse Montana

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Credits: Tag, fiber, tabs, Grungy overlay by Atomic Cupcake; Offshore Banking Business, OctemberScript, and Arial fonts, Scrapbook Max software. History from www.hungryhorse-montana.com

I had planned on doing this page awhile back but I was extremely disappointed that I could only find one picture of me on this horse statue. Yesterday, while looking for pictures of the kids, I found my grandmother's old slide viewer and in the case were more pictures of the 'hungry horse'. I was totally thrilled, as you can imagine. I used to love our trip to Hungry Horse - we always stopped there on the way to Glacier Park - and I always wanted to get a picture on the horse. We quit going to Montana in 1972 when my grandmother sold her place. But we went back on a 'fun' trip in 1980 - of course we had to go by and get a picture on "Old Jerry"! I wonder if it is still there. I searched for Hungry Horse images on the web but did not find any. But the Hungry Horse website says that there are 'statuesque' reminders of the hungry horses, so maybe they are still around! They used to refer to the town as the Dam Town and the store was the Dam Store. I thought that was cool because I could actually say it without getting in trouble!

Halloween Party

Lee and I went to a neighborhood Halloween Party last night. We dressed up as old hippies. It was fun putting the costumes together because originally we were just going to be hippies - I called Lee to see what color hair he wanted - blonde or black - he chose blonde. Then, as I pulled the blonde hair packages out, I saw the grey and thought - Perfect!! So I called Lee and he agreed that grey was the way to go. We even had a baggie of 'weed' - actually some crushed leaves from our front yard. The leather purse is really vintage 70's - made for me by a friend of the family - Kathryn Walker. She even sewed on my initials in leather - D N . The shirts are actually t-shirts that were on clearance. There were even some 'surprise' guests - our former next-door neighbors, Paul and Ginny, who are now living in North Carolina but are moving back to El Paso within the next couple of months. Lee has been really sick for several days so we were only able to stay at the party for a couple of hours, but we had fun while we were there. Here we are in our costumes:

Old Pics

While at my cousin Jennifer's house, I scanned some of my Aunt Anne's pictures. A few were in pretty bad shape, like this one of my brother and me, but I decided to just scrap it 'as is'.

Credits: Stitches, Paper, Corners, Buttons - Broken Jar Creations; Cloth - Atomic Cupcake
Mat - DigiDiva Designs; Cardboard Tag - Bannerwoman Designs

And, like I said about this picture of "Christ of the Ozarks", I remember going to visit it when I was a kid and I think I remember music playing from some loud speakers. I also remember getting a handmade doll in Eureka springs - I think it was called an apple-head doll. I thought she was pretty ugly at the time - but I guess when your head is made from an apple you don't have much chance to be beautiful! I'm not sure if she was really made from an apple but I think I do still have her and now I am going to have to see if I can find her!
I did a search for this statue and found it - here are a couple of links - it's kind of a strange place...
http://www.greatpassionplay.com/christoftheozarks.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_of_the_Ozarks

Credits: Papers, Mats, Flowers, Swirl, Staples: by Alexa b. Design

The Girls

Here is another picture taken during our visit to see my Aunt Anne...

Credits: Moulin Rouge Kit by Molly & Max; Frame - Katie Pertiet; DymoFontInvers and Arial fonts

Cousins, Cousins

Josh and I went with my parents to Denton, Texas this past weekend to visit my Aunt Anne. Here are some of my cousins along with some spouses and kids:

Credits: alpha_stitchinglower - unknown; Tag - Creative Victorian Designs;Typewriter a602 (dead Postman) and Arial fonts.

I got a kick out of my cousin's hair and he got a kickout of Joel's hair and I could not resist doing this page:

Credits: Photo Turn - DerekMDesign; Tag - Veronica Ponce ; Cookie Mouth and Arial fonts

Breakfast with Grandpa

Quick Post for now: These are some pictures from awhile back that I just got around to scrapping.

Credits: What Boys are Made of kit by lizandherbabes; Photo Mat - Katie Pertiet; Folder Tab - Tracy King at florescentjellybeans.com; Framed tag - Osten Wilkins; Corners - Heather Watson; Goudy Stout and Arial fonts

Diablos Baseball!

Last weekend, my company had an outing at the local minor league baseball park. Mark and Amy were here for the weekend so we took them along too. And all 4 kids actually went! We had a very nice time.

Credits: What Boys are made of kit - lizandherbabes; Stacked Journal sheets - ; Elements - Scrapbook Max;Mesh - Kim Liddiard; BellCent BdList BT font

Credits: What Boys are made of kit - lizandherbabes; Stacked Journal sheets - ; Stamp - JuLaender Designs; Stitches - Jerline'S DigigrapiCS; Mesh - Kim Liddiard;BellCent BdList BT font