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Deborah of Pictures Pots and Pens is hosting Family Foto on Friday. Please visit her to see all the bloggers that have family photos to share.
I love series of photos that tell a story. These four pictures were made the afternoon I went with Connor’s kindergarten class to the zoo. I could tell that Connor did not feel well that day, and when I felt his head, he felt warm. Kelli took his temperature and it was over 101. These pictures show Cooper taking his brother’s temp after he saw his mama do it.
You can see from the last one he finally hit his target!
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Diane
Recently we traveled to Louisiana for a family crawfish boil. On the way home, we stopped by New Orleans and walked around in the French Quarter. It was our first time to be in the French Quarter during the French Quarter Festival. It was crowded, but the weather was fabulous, and the skies were crystal blue! These are some random pics that I took that day.
Connor inspecting some art work in Jackson Square
You never know what you’ll see in the French Quarter. Connor had a million questions for this ‘golden’ guy!
Cooper’s reaction to the dinosaur’s loud roar! 
A visit to the French Quarter is not complete without beignets from Cafe de Monde
Andrew Jackson in Jackson Square
A magician outside of Cafe Du Monde
Cooper soaked it all up too….
Connor posing in a tree in the middle of Jackson Square
Musicians all over the place playing Dixieland music!
This picture is classic New Orleans!
I love the balconies with the plants!
Large crowds spread out all over Jackson Square to listen to the New Orleans Jazz bands.
Puppeteer performing in the French Quarter
We had a great time at the French Quarter Festival and found it to be family friendly in the areas we walked near Jackson Square and the Mississippi River. It was the most crowded I’ve ever seen it in the French Quarter!
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Diane
Beverly of How Sweet the Sound is hosting Pink Saturday. Please visit her for lots of pretty pink!
You may have to look closely to see the pink this week! I have two little grandsons, and pink is not usually a color associated with little active boys. But if you look closely you can see some pink…in the eggs at the bottom of the photo, the flower behind the rabbit’s ear, and in Connor and Coopers little pink cheeks!
This picture was made about 2 weeks ago when they both spent the night with us. My husband and I took them to the mall for this picture. Cooper had teared up and didn’t really want to be there, so that is why it looks like he is trying to escape! Later, he really warmed up to the Easter Bunny and tried to ‘pet’ him!
I hope everyone has a wonderful Pink Saturday and an even more wonderful Easter Sunday!
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Diane
Deborah of Pictures Pots and Pens is hosting Family Fotos. Please drop by and visit her and take a look at who else is participating this week.
This series of pictures was made the first time I took Connor to our church egg hunt. To be honest, Connor doesn’t seem to care much for hunting eggs. But he always seems to enjoy going and being around the other children. He is around 18 months…the same age Cooper is now.
This Saturday I want to take him again, and this time Cooper will go with us too! I hope I can get some good pictures. I’m anxious to see if Cooper is more ‘into’ egg hunting than Connor was!
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Diane
Deborah of Pictures Pots and Pens is hosting family photos on Friday.
This is a picture of my sister, my Aunt Gloria, and myself made probably in the late 50's or early 60's. Aunt Gloria had been to the Bahamas and brought us back the little hats we are modeling.
This picture was made at the first house I remember living in.
I have wonderful memories of living in this house. We had wonderful neighbors that had 2 daughters that I used to play with.
This past week, the lady that lived next door to us died, and at the funeral I got to visit for a short time with 2 of my childhood friends. I wish we had had more time to visit and share our memories!
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Deborah from Pictures Pots and Pens is hosting Family Fotos on Friday. Please visit her to meet lots of friendly bloggers! Thanks Deborah for hosting this. These pictures were made about 3 years ago at the Museum of Natural Science in Jackson, Ms. Connor and I rode over with my friend Beth and her 2 granddaughters. I remember how much fun we had that day! Connor was so active and curious about everything. He was 3 years at the time.
This first picture is of Connor, Emily and Mary Landon. Connor was the youngest, but thought he was just as old as the girls!
He was more interested in the mechanics of the fence than he was in viewing the T Rex!
This is a 'hands on' type of museum which is perfect for him. He was so active back then as you can tell from these pictures.
I would love to take him back there soon. Now that he is a little older, I think he would enjoy it even more than he did the first time. And of course now there is Cooper...he will need a trip over there!
I love my old photos and the memories that they bring. Thanks for stopping by!
Last week I posted a picture of my son Jonathan in the snow with Lucy, our beloved family pet. So in an effort to be fair, I am going to post a picture of Kelli with Lucy and her dog Dixie.
I don't know if you can tell from the expression on her face, but Lucy never cared too much for Dixie. Guess it was jealousy!
Kelli bought Dixie right after she got married. She missed Lucy so much and thought that she wanted a dachshund just like Lucy. Jonathan was with her, and loaned her the money. I always thought that was so generous of him!
Later, after Connor was born, she had to give Dixie to another family. She never was very good with children and didn't have the personality that Lucy had!
Some days I want another dog, and other days I wonder if I must be crazy to want to go through the puppy stage again!
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Deborah of Pictures Pots and Pens is hosting Family Foto on Friday These photo is one of my mom and dad with their first born-ME! My goal is to get all of these old pictures scanned on the computer-if I would do a little each day, I would finally get them all done!
Here's a picture of me in a little cowgirl suit. As you can see, my problem with weight goes way back. LOL I was a chubby little thing even back then!
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This photo is one of our dog Lucy and my son Jonathan on the deck of our old home. As you can see it does snow in Mississippi.......only every once in a while. Last year we had one snow. This year so far we've had none although New Orleans which is 3 hours south of here had an inch or so!
Lucy was easy to house train, but I well remember how she hated to go outside in the rain. She would just stand at the door, and go out only if absolutely necessary. Lately I've been wanting to get another dog. We lost Lucy after having her 13 years. She was part of our family and is still missed!
Thanks for stopping by. It's raining here today...so the only outdoors I'll get is looking at blogs on Susan's site!
Deborah of Pictures Pots and Pens is hosting Family Fotos. Please stop by her blog to see the bloggers participating!
This picture is one of my dad and his two brothers. If my dad was still living, he would have been 82 today! He was born on January 23, 1927. We lost him two years ago in December of 2006. Can you look at the faces and guess which one he is?
He is the one in yellow standing on the bottom step. I can see the family resemblance in his face! His mother, my grandmother, died on his birthday January 23, 1955. Although I don't think I have much memory of her, I well remember the day that she died and how distraught he was.
This picture is one of my favorites. Although I didn't know my paternal grandmother well, I think I may have inherited her love of pictures! We have lots of pictures of my daddy as a young child. She must have been a very determined lady to get these three active little boys all dressed up and arrange for a photographer to come to their home to make this photograph.
We have so much technology available to us! I wonder sometimes what she and my other grandmother would think of a blog and computers! Can you imagine how many pictures we would have if there had been digital photography back then?
I don't think my dad would have been impressed! LOL
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This picture is of my two children Kelli and Jonathan, my husband and myself the night before Kelli's wedding in October of 1998. This is the last picture I have of us as a family while we were all living in the same household.
Things have changed so much as time marches on-Kelli, still beautiful, has a wonderful husband-Chad, and two precious children that I'm sure you are familiar with if you read my blog very often!
Jonathan has changed lots too....he is now handsome young man and has lost that boyish look! After being in New Orleans for the past year and a half, it was time for him to make another change. He left yesterday for an internship in New York City at Jazz at the Lincoln Center. I've been feeling a little sad and happy (for him) at the same time! He has been home from NOLA for about a month, and having him leave again brings up lots of emotions!
I am so proud of both of my kids! Having them grow and become the person they want to be is the ultimate goal! But there is something about being a mom that makes you want to wind back the clock to earlier times. But I know that wouldn't be fair to them and I wouldn't have those two adorable grandsons!
Sorry to be so sentimental-just comes with the territory of motherhood! I'm sure you other moms out there understand.
Kelli and Jonathan-if you read this, please know how proud I am of both of you, and how much you are loved!
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This series of four pictures shows the day Connor got his first haircut. He was 2 years old and it was near Christmas on a Saturday afternoon. He didn't have much hair for so long, but when it finally started growing, it got long quick!
The entire time he was in the chair, he cried! We have it on video too...but hardly ever watch it! 20 minutes of wailing is hard to take. Guess we could mute the TV. LOL
You would have thought that we were being so mean to him from the expressions on his face! I love to show him these pictures! Maybe he'll look at my blog today!
And finally when it was all over....we told him how handsome he looked!
I think Cooper will need a haircut at a much younger age. We are kinda dreading his first haircut-we may just have to live with the curls a little longer!
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