Old Family Photos

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I'm still unpacking boxes from our recent move, and while doing so, ran across some old photos from the couple of times that we purchased a packages from Olan Mills. This one must be from about 1981, Annette, John, Heidi and Danny. Heidi didn't get any hair till she was almost 3 so I used Karo syrup to stick little bows on her head. (Back then, if you'd put a big ribbon around a baby's head, it would have looked crazy like something from the 1920's...that trend just hadn't resurfaced yet.) Danny's face looks a LOT like his little daughter, Claire's in this photo.
Here's one of the Todd kids in 1989. Danny, Heidi, April and Hayley. Oh, I loved them all so much then, and love them all still. These were fun and sweet days.



Nobody else wanted or needed their photos taken and I had one more "free" photo on our plan so, not wanting to waste it, I took this photo. I was just getting ready to go back to college in 1988 and used this for my college admittance papers.






This last "flashback" photo is from 1992. Danny and Heidi attended Grace Yokley Middle School, April was in 1st grade at Mtn. View Elementary and Hayley was in pre-school at La Petite Academy.

Comments

  1. aprilalemanJuly 4, 2009 at 11:05 PM

    Ok, these are funny for a few reasons:
    1. Dad has hair... what!
    2. Danny=Claire
    3. Heidi's cat shirt
    4. My mullet

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  2. HeidiJuly 12, 2009 at 1:40 PM

    Heidi...Cat shirt...yeah what the? Maybe that is why I hate cats so much!

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