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Oh my goodness! My daughter has a baby shower this weekend so her dad will be up here. I told him that I am seperating the pics of the kids and and giving them each their own baby pics. HE will take our son's pics to him.
I have a bazillion pics of my kids. SOme are together so I am splitting those between them.
You forget so easily how darned cute and fun they were. I must have spent most of their lives behind the camera because so much was documented. I am sure they and their families will enjoy them immensly!
It was a good warm fuzzy to be going through them, but kind of sad too.....my babies are all grown up!
Just wanted to share......
jode
I know how you feel! This was the first Easter I did not force my way to old (24, 19 & 16) year old kids to hunt for money filled plastic eggs in the morning and made just one "central" basket for the family. I knew no one wanted to dye eggs but I still did a dozen myself...
I look at the old pictures and miss those days too. The darn movies are all on VHS so I can't watch them anymore.
I had a really hard time when I had to drop my daughter and son off at college for the first time. My daughter was first and she was in state and I bawled. I was so bad with my son after we moved him in, we went to breakfast. I was tearing up the whole time. My husband said "We are dropping him off at the curb at the dorm because you are making a spectacle of yourself'. So that's what we did. I cried and cried as we began the 6 hr. drive home. My husband said "you're tired aren't you?" "Yes" I sobbed. "Go to sleep" he said. I think I tered up everytime someone mentioned his name all the way until Thanksgiving. Then I had a hard time letting him go back to school again. LOL. I don't know what I'll do when I send off my youngest. I do remember crying at kindergarten for the first two and jumping up and clicking my heels when he got on the school bus...I love & enjoy him just as much but I think I was ready to get some time back to myself!
I was going through pics today to...tho not of Kelsay...*I did that a few weeks ago LOL* but this time I was finding *blackmail* type pics of my cousin who is 16 so that I can put them up on Facebook..Yea im mean but OMG is it fun...thats my job as the oldest cousin right? I was also going through old picstures from highschool as well and just laughed and laughed
Jode, I also know how you feel. When my daughter graduated from college I gave her a scrapbook of her life, with pages documenting everything from her baby years, holidays, being a brownie and girl scout, and on and on. I cried many bittersweat tears as I made up that scrapbook, but it was a wonderful experience and something she appreciated so much.
I've always thought that if I had to evacuate my house in a hurry, after the people and the pets, the photos would be the first thing I grab, because they mean so much!
Id have to agree w/ you about having the pics be the next thing to grab...LOTS of memories.
my mom brought over a VHS of when i was Kelsays age during one of the breaks before the dr came to update them about my grandfathers surgery a few weeks back...OMG we laughed SO hard....there was one from Thanksgiving and it was the first movie camera in the family and you could hook it up to the tv and watch the tv as it filmed...OMG it was hysterical....the other one was around christmas that same year and its me singing a song and OMG it was Kelsay to a T...if someone wouldve walked in not knowing it was a VHS and and "old" VHS at that they woulda sworn it was Kelsay...the sound, the actions...it was good to watch
I just love looking at photos...especially older photos. I've just started getting into scrapbooking, so I have several different albums I've been working on. Take a look at a few pages I've done if you'd like....I have a lot more done, just haven't posted them yet....I'll be adding some more soon. (they're not just pages of my children, some are of older photos)
You're right Jode...they grow up way too fast!
OMG When we evacuated for Hurricane Ivan, I specifically bought a rubbermaid air-tight bin to store my photos in. And yes, they and all the negatives came with me!!
When we were in Montgomery, getting the snot pelted out of us, I was so upset beause I had left the pictures in the trunk of the car, not wanting to clutter the hotel room. We had no idea we'd get it so bad there. It was all I could do to NOT run through the flooded parking lot to my car. LOL
When we evacuated for Hurricane Dennis, I took the pictures IN the house we stayed at. LOL I was NOT making that mistake twice!!
I love looking at older pictures, but man, they do make you tear up a bit! My oldest son will be seven next month and his baby pictures make me cry. They do grow up way to fast.
You also never realize how much fun you actually had (and how great you really did look! hah) when you were younger until you check out the old photos. ;)
yea my mom has a picture of my little brother *he'll be 8 in June* and its of him and a "cousin" of ours BUTT NAKED trying to see if they can both fit on the toliet at the same time...one in front of the other *a clean pic nothing can be seen* I tell him all the time that when he gets married im going to blow the picture up and have it at his reception :D thats what older sisters are soposed to do right? OMG does his face get bright red...its a priceless typical boy pictureKel, your scrapbook pages look great. Nice work. Being a genealogist, I'm especially partial to the older photos! I love looking at life the way it used to be, the clothing and hairstyles. And I like to look at my ancestors and see what I can see of myself and my kids in their faces.
Photos are best shared, and posting them on the internet for others is a wonderful way to share and preserve them. There are many genealogy websites where you can post your family photos, and I am trying to do it with all of mine. Then they are passed on for future generations to enjoy, instead of sitting in a shoebox under the bed, vulnerable to fires and floods. And it is sooo exciting to find a photo out there on the web of one of your ancestors - it's like finding a treasure for a nut like me!
I will say, it is almost heartwrenchingd...finally ah to go through the pics, I laugh, then I cry!I finally had to stop for a bit.
Oh and the geneology...TIm is into that. We would spend hours pouring over that.
I would look it all up online, but that would be too hard to do.......especially after what i learned about what my family did. Man I have missed him all this time! Got tons of pics from Indiana too......*sigh*
I just recently starting finding some info about my dads side of the family...I recently found some paperwork that has a family tree of sorts....I dont have the money to join a genelogy site so all I was able to find was where my great geat grandparents and some great great uncles were buried...it was really cool to read some of the stuff I did find howeverShannon, there's a lot can you do for free on the web. And the best place to start is with family members - ask questions, take notes. Everyone in the family has a different piece of info that they have heard or remembered, and you keep collecting the pieces to build the story of your family. How did your grandparents meet, where did they get married? What do they remember of their grandparents, favorite memories of childhood, etc. Just keep asking questions, and listen, take notes, ask for photos, bible records, etc. A lot of times when family members hear you are interested they will come to you with things to help.
Rootsweb is a free website where you can search messages for info on the surname you are searching on, and make queries, etc. At ancestry.com you can search the message boards and check family trees that others have posted for free. Findagrave.com is another free website, where you can search for the graves of family members. Google the name of the cemetery you know someone is buried in, and many times that cemetery's graves are listed somewhere on the web and you can see other's buried there who are often relatives.
There's a lot you can do for free. And of course, if you ever want help, I would be happy to help you or anyone else. Just send me a PM!
[QUOTE=Hillhoney]Kel, your scrapbook pages look great. Nice work. Being a genealogist, I'm especially partial to the older photos! I love looking at life the way it used to be, the clothing and hairstyles. And I like to look at my ancestors and see what I can see of myself and my kids in their faces.
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I've always loved the older photos as well for the same reasons you stated. I've always wondered what life was like back then.
I posted a few more of my scrapbook pages...there's one there of myself compared to my great grandmother's sister's daughter. I was so amazed at how much I looked like this girl when I was a young girl.
Thanks for naming a few sites to look at in your post to Shannon. I've book marked those and will be checking them out later today to see what I can find.
Oh Kel! Your scrapbook is great!Thanks, JodeMy son has enlisted in the US Navy and goes to boot camp on Aug 13th. My daughter, who is 24, is engaged and getting married next March 14th. The next 12 months for me will be bittersweet ones, to say the very least. I know I need to go throught he boxes and boxes of pictures that I have, and organize them.
My parents just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. As a gift to them, I created a powerpoint presentation slide show of their lives, from baby pictures, to courting days, to their wedding, and on up to recent great grandchildren.... I had no idea how much it would mean to them until I watched them watching it at their anniversary celebration. My Dad was actually crying. So, now I've decided I must do the same thing for my son's bon voyage, and my daughter and soon to be son-in-law for their rehearsal party, or reception.
I have lots of work to do, and this thread has been a good reminder!
Thanks, Lisa That's too bad about you losing a lot of your photos.
Biz....what a nice thing to do for your parents! Nice idea for your daughter's wedding and your son's bon voyage!
WOW! eryevery has such great ideas.
I think I will make a small photo album of my daughter with baby pics through 1 year for the babyshower. It would be nice if I had the smarts to make something on the computer for her......I am not that good withit!
One of the best pictures I have is of my two older kids being locked up in a jail cell. There uncle is a peace officer and we were visiting and they wanted to see the inside of the lock-up. The looks on their faces when he suddenly closed and locked the cell door was priceless. Even though they hadn't done anything wrong the impact of being in a cell so small you met yourself turning around made a huge impression.
Yes, they have prints of this photo and I have one, too, that I'll show the grandkids when they're a bit older. Will show them the picture first - then give them an explanation. Hey, I'm entitled to a laugh or two, too!!
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