Savannah Comes Home

Hannah and Luke came home yesterday for the first time since Savannah was born. She's 5 weeks old. Both Hannah and Luke's family lives here so we consider this home, but they have a house in Columbia, SC because Luke is in the Air Force. Anyway, here are the photos I got yesterday.











































Elaine made us a huge batch of oatmeal cookies!

52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History - Week #7 - Barbies For Christmas

52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History by Amy Coffin is a series of weekly blogging prompts (one for each week of 2011) that invite genealogists and others to record memories and insights about their own lives for future descendants.

52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History - Week #7 - Toys. What was your favorite childhood toy? Is it still being made in some form today?



This photo shows our first Christmas in Spartanburg, SC in 1968. We had a brand new split level house and our backyard connected to my maternal Grandparent's backyard. My Uncle James sits with us on the couch holding our cousin, Kenneth. Kenneth was born in July 1967 so he nearly 1 1/2 yrs old. During this Christmas we each got our Barbie dolls. Much later we got Ken Barbie dolls but that was it. So we only had those 2 Barbi dolls each and I still have both mine. We would play for hours with our Barbie dolls. We loved them! You can see I'm holding mine and Melinda is holding hers.

Snow!

Here is the digital scrapbook page that I did for our big snow this year. It is unusual for us to get more than 2" of snow in our winters. This snow storm brought us 5". Our nephew, Luke, had stored his 4 Wheeler at Elaine and Ronnie's. He gave us permission to get it out so Stan was in hog heaven. He took me for a ride and Ronnie took Elaine for a ride. Then Stan rode it all over the place. He had a good time that day!



Elaine making snow angels



Ronnie





Stan and Ronnie riding the 4 Wheeler



Stan



Elaine & Ronnie's house in the snow



Ronnie taking Elaine for a ride in the neighborhood





Stan taking me for a ride in our neighborhood



5 1/2 inches of snow on our patio



Snowflakes

Little Savannah

Stan and I got to go visit Luke, Hannah and Savannah yesterday. Elaine and Ronnie (the proud grandparents) got to go the day before. Here are some photos that Elaine and I took.



























Her hospital photo























Hannah and her mother