Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Happy Childhood...indeed!!

So the other day as i was printing up pictures of Jordan for one of her school projects (a getting to know me kinda thing) and i have TONS i mean TONS of pictures of her doing her various kid things. and i got to thinking that the world of digital and being able to have pics on your PC makes it REALLY easy keep track of childhood memories. i can honestly say that i know i have pictures that i have taken of her on a regular-go-get-it-developed camera and i can't imagine where in my house i stashed them for safe keeping. this makes me want to apologize to mom for wondering why i have very few pictures of myself as a child. if i can't keep track of ONE kids pictures how could i fault her for not keeping track of FIVE kids pictures. i am grateful for the few that i have of me as a child...really i am. i was a REALLY cute kid...pale but cute. check these out...oh and to my siblings...post your kid pics on your blogs...just for giggles.

oh and mom and dad...thanks for loving us the way that you did. i look back and i think we had it pretty darn good. i am especially grateful that dad had a job that made it possible for you guys to parent us as a team. i grew up knowing what a united front was and i wanted that for my kids. AND i never doubted that you gys loved each other OR that you were hot and horny for each other...making out in the kitchen, 'taller woman', 'stopping short', "get a room!!"..."we did, we picked this one". LOVE IT!! yep we were pretty lucky growing up...you seemed like a pretty good example of what Happily Ever After looked like...i am glad i found MY Happily Ever After FINALLY....(third times the charm right?)

enjoy the pics...


is this the photo shoot that i refused to smile? i love this picture!!...love it!

ME...looking ADORABLE, in my little 70's dress, at Grandpa and Grandma Tenney's house in Gualala...BEST childhood memories ever...i love them and i love that little town...to me it was a pretty darn magical place...or was that the grandparents? it is what you make it right? i love them.

LOOK!! it's foxy lady...our puppy. how many days did we have her? my most vivid memory (please don't tell me i made it up) was when the cherrios went flying and mom let her in to "clean up" the mess...cute puppy.

someone please tell me we are standing on the hood of a car or something...seriously can you say amazon children?? or was the tree and house REALLY that small?? can you belive 5 kids were raised in that little house...proves you don't need a lot to be happy.

AWWWW....look Mark likes me, he really really likes me.

check out AMY'S gum on the chair....awesome! "Oh that's where my gum is"

10 Dandelion Wishes Made:

banananutmeg said...

first of all...
mark, you were a fat kid. Seriously...save some cheerios for the rest of us? Second...anyone care to post some pics from MY childhood? It seems that the family was unable to recover any photos from my early childhood...i didn't even see a baby photo of myself until i was 16! I even remember having a beehive activity where we were supposed to bring a baby picture and mom sent me with a picture of scott because all the pictures of me were on film in the frig-undeveloped.

I forgot that is what the front of the house looked like! The earliest picture i have is of scotty and i pretending to shovel "dog poop" (tan bark) for hollee ann's science project.

Does anyone even have an old family picture with all of us in it? (ASIDE from the one before amy's wedding where i have the nasty big hair and braces?)

Also, how old is amy in these pictures? How come she doesn't have any hair? Is this a hereditary thing? Is THIS the reason Reese is almost 3 and has no hair?

The Vasquez Family said...

Meg...i know you are not going to believe this but IT IS NOT always ALL ABOUT YOU...and there WAS actual life BEFORE you came to this planet...yes reeeeeeeally!!

oh and yeah your kid is pretty much screwed when it comes to hair until she is atleast 5...sorry.

(oh and Mark wasn't fat...it was the cameras way back then)

The Chair said...

You know, there was a time when I took pride in being the ugliest of all the harvest gold items in hal and lynns home. I mean, I blew the entry way wallpaper, the refrigerator, and the 9 foot sofa right out of the water. ...Then mark had to show up with those boss pants and all of a sudden, I got nuthin'!

The Vasquez Family said...

LOL BOSS pants....sooooooo funny!!!!

Amy's Gum said...

Hey! YOU can shut up, Chair! I lost my best years because I was stuck to the front of you...at least Amy could have placed me up somewhere near that awesome wicker...maybe then I could have savored some of my hubba bubba freshness just a little longer...

Amy's Gum said...

I wish I had been Meg's gum.

The Vasquez Family said...

oh and one more thing Amy actually DID have quite a bit of hair she just had a HUGE head...i mean seriously, the reason she got the chair is because she couldn't stand up without falling over from the weight of it...really no balance. prolly the same reason sje got the ginormous boobs...to balance it all out..ya know?

banananutmeg said...

hey I'm not complaining about the ginormous boobs over here. It seems lame that I didn't get them until I was 19...Would have been nice if i'd had 'em in high school, probably could helped me out a little.

Amy's Huge Feet said...

Amy's huge head! That's hilarious!

amy's therapist said...

hey! take it easy...

 
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