Flashback Friday: One Year In Service

I had the great experience of going through basic training and language school with a great group of gals. We were studying different languages (Russian, Chinese, and Persian Farsi) but we still got to spend a year in Monterey together and made some really good memories.

When we hit our one year anniversary of joining the Air Force, we had to celebrate! We got all dressed up and hit one of the fancy downtown restaurants for the evening. Oh my goodness, we look so young!! These were taken 12 yrs ago. :) I think that only one of us is still in the service.

Flashback Friday: Strangeness

Wow.

I found this photo of my siblings and I the other day and I had a hard time forming words. I was laughing that hysterically. I almost didn't post it. Yes, it's extremely embarrassing, but who cares, right?

What on earth were we thinking?

I, by the way, am the one with my pants and shirt stuffed full of blankets I assume. My sister is wearing some strange crocheted thing. And my brothers have no pants on. (I have to add that I think that Nick looks a lot like my brother Jeff!)

As if that weren't enough, we have make-up smeared on our faces. Yes, smeared. Very strange.

We must have been having quite a good time!

What I find even more interesting than our strange outfits is the decor on the walls. I love the picture of Jesus hung near the Budweiser sign. And the hanging owl lamp. Who could do without one of those? Not me.

Flashback Friday: Oh the overalls!!

This is me, my cousin Jeremy, and my Aunt Colleen.

First of all, I have to say that I love black and white photos. You probably know that already. I take lots of b&w and sepia pics. I just like the contrast of them.

The contrast in this photo cracks me up. First, there is the VERY floral couch in the background.

Then, there are 3 of us in this photo who are wearing striped overalls. My Papa LIVED in these things (that's him on the couch). I wonder if we were put in them so that we could look like mini-papas? Just a guess.

This is a sweet photo though and I think that my Aunt Colleen looks very beautiful in it :)

Here is another pic of me just for fun. I had this bowl hair cut for quite a while.

Flashback Friday #5 - Late :)

Here is a pic of me, my sister and my brother at Disneyland. I would love to take the kids there at least once! :)

Flashback Friday # 4

"The Night Boat" on Lake Lucerne, Switzerland.

Dachau, near Munich, Germany

Salzburg, Austria

Linderhof, Germany

The Rathaus in Tuebingen, Germany.

Das Glockenspiel in Munich, Germany.

Today, I am flashing back to my trip to Europe as a summer exchange student with other kids from my German class. This was the summer in between my sophomore and junior years (1992) - I was 15 years old. We visited Copenhagen, Denmark for a day. Then we went on to Germany and stayed with host families. We met with eachother almost daily though and went on various trips throughout Germany (Neuschwanstein, Linderhof, Munich, Dachau, Tuebingen, Stuttgart etc.) and took trips to Lucerne, Switzerland and Salzburg, Austria. It was such a good time! I haven't been back to Europe since. Maybe someday. The thought of traveling with 5 small children doesn't sound too appealing though, so it may be some years off.

Looking back through the pictures, oh how I wish I had owned a better camera at the time! They are all blah. We went so many fantastic places, but nothing looks very exciting since the quality is so bad (and the photographic skills). I can't wait to go back and take some better ones! Maybe we could get stationed in Germany next ;0)

Flashback Friday #3

1994

1991

Maybe 1978?

80s?

Late 80s

This week, I decided to post some pictures from past Christmases. It's funny seeing how we have changed over the years. I sure wish that I had labeled them better. Oh, if only we had digital cameras back then!

Flashback Friday #2 1/2

I couldn't help myself. When I came across these pictures on my computer, I decided that I had to do another flashback today. I really wish that I was as talented as Andrea and could paint a mural in our playroom. She did one on Ellie's bedroom in Texas and these are pictures of the kids' bathroom in Monterey. I miss it :) Andrea, you are amazing!! When are you coming to visit?? :)

On the ceiling were the bottoms of boats, with fishing poles hanging off. She also painted the bottom of surfboards with the kids' names on them.

Happy at work. Poor Andrea was visiting us during the summer and ended up spending 2 days of her vacation in our tiny bathroom!!

Notice that the scuba diver is catching Nemo.

My personal favorite - the shark eating the toilet paper roll :)

Flashback Friday #2

Could this possibly be our now oh-so-grown-up little girl?
Ok, so she's only 9 and a half now, but she's on her way.... halfway to adulthood.
That's a scary thought!

These are some pre-digital camera pics that I thought I should scan to save :)

Flashback Friday #1

I have been looking through my photo albums and realizing that a lot of the pictures I have are already starting to fade. We got our first digital camera in mid-2002. Everything before that is only in print.
I decided that I'm going to start scanning and posting a few old pictures every Friday. It should be fun!



These last two were taken the last time Andy was in the Middle East! It looks like he might be getting promoted to E-5. Please correct me if I'm wrong honey :) I think that the top one is probably him when he got back from Desert Storm and was visiting his folks.