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Monday, June 21, 2010

Father's Day Weekend, Old Family Photos & Cards

We spent the weekend in California at my Dad and Evelyn's house for Father's Day.  It was a fun filled weekend, my brother and sister were able to be around a lot, which was great since we haven't seen them much in the past couple of years.

Friday started off early so we could hit the road, but it was derailed a bit by this munchkin' who ended up in our bed at about 2 a.m. and was up for about an hour.  Nicholas never does this, so it was perfect timing since we planned to get up at 4 and be on the road by 6. :)


He does look cute in that big old bed. The drives both way were pretty uneventful. It was best when they looked like this....


Saturday we met Mike's brother Scott and his family for lunch between our nieces softball tournament games.  Then we headed back to my Dad's house for swimming and celebrating birthdays for my 2 nephews, Christian and Andrew. 





Sunday Dad made brunch and we hung out all day.  We took some updated family photos...



Mike got spoiled for Father's Day....



My sister and I spent time with our Dad, looking at old family pictures and finding out who the people we didn't recognize were.



We found great ones like this favorite of both my sister and I of our grandma and dad when he was probably about 2.  She was so pretty and young and he was adorable.  We think every one of my brother's and my boy's have looked like our Dad in this picture at some point.


My Dad and his brothers...(or a picture from The Outsiders.)


Our Dad sometime in the later 60's, we think.


My sister found this great one of our Grandma, it looks like someone is not behaving and getting that look....


Dad racing his cars that our Grandpa used to build. We know there has to be more of these pictures.



Earl, a great uncle, he was lost at sea in a submarine while in the Navy.  This was one of the last pictures of him.


Our great great grandparents (I think it was on my Grandfather's side)


A slice of Americana...my Uncle Jim and Aunt Noreen.




And a little scrappy stuff...I used Girls Paperie to make Father's Day cards for the Dad's in our life.








Have a great week!

2 comments:

~jan said...

I [adore] your vintage photos! Great cards-love the Girl's Paperie!

Rebecca Keppel said...

Your photos are amazing. I am trying to get my mom to part with some of those real old ones. She recently sent me one of my grandfather during WWII. Your cards are fabulous too :)