Throwback Thursday - I love these women

We all have people in our lives that we feel have been influential.  That's how I feel about these three women.

This is another one of my aunt Dot's slides and, again, I remember them talking about how this was at a bridal shower for "Alliree Eide."  She was the daughter of one of the pastors of our church. 

In this picture, left to right is Lucille Choquette (I wrote about her funeral here), Jennie Lockerby, and Daisy DiLorenzo.  There were all mothers of girlfriends that I had growing up.  I spent time in all of their houses.  Most importantly, they were all role models when I was young, and friends when I got older. 

Donald Merz Wait

My grandfather's birthday was in February.  He would have been 113 this year. 

I think this picture was taken on his 58th birthday, February 5, 1958.  I would have been 7. 

My aunt used to take slides.  At least once or twice a year, usually on a holiday that my aunt and uncle and cousins were with us, we would pull out the slide projector and screen and look at all the slides.  It's funny how the same thing was said for every picture, every time we looked at them.  For these particular pictures of my grandfather's birthday they would always say that the reason I looked unhappy  was because I wasn't allowed to blow out the candles on my grandfather's cake.  They also used to say, it looked like my grandmother was going to hit my grandfather in the head in the first picture, and why in the world didn't they take off the jars and all of the other clutter on the table.  Ha ha!

I must have gotten over it, because I didn't look upset anymore in this picture.

I love how I still remember what we used to say for each picture each time I look at Dot's slides.

Waiting for Marley's Bus

Throwback Thursday - Happy Valentine's Week

Paul gave me this box of chocolates for our first Valentine's Day together.  I think I was 17.  He used to call the dress I had on my Italian tablecloth dress. 

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

Throwback Thursday - Ice Skating

Last week Mark and Janelle took Mason ice skating.  Neither of them had been on skates for years so, needless to say, they had as hard a time staying upright as Mason. 

I got thinking about how much I loved ice skating when I was a kid.  My Aunt Dot used to take me to Porter Lake in Forest Park.  They had a building right by the lake where you could put your skates on and/or go to warm up.  Dot loved to skate and she was pretty good at it.

I also used to skate down at the end of my street at the "swamp".  I was usually not allowed down there except in the winter to skate. 

This is a picture of me and my friend Carlie.  The swamp was right in back of his house so he was always down there and I used to think he was so lucky!

These pictures were taken in 1981.  Paul made a skating rink in our back yard.  The kids loved it!