This first picture I'm sharing is of my paternal great-grandparents, who all passed away long before I was born. Doesn't my great-grandmother on the far right remind you of that little old granny on the Tweety Bird cartoon? She might have been small, but, according to my dad, she had quite a temper, and when she said something to you, she meant business!
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Don't you see the resemblance? ;)
This is a picture of my dad (on the left) as a little boy with his older brother, Doyne. I love the suits they're wearing, and I wonder what the occasion might have been to call for such attire..jpg)
Dad is the second one on the left standing with his some of his siblings. He had a total of 4 brothers and 3 sisters, so I have a whole slew of cousins!.jpg)
Here's a picture of Mom (on the left) with one of her best friends. She used to tell me about all they fun they had together growing up! Don't you just adore their hairstyles?.jpg)
This is Mom wearing her basketball uniform; she was quite the athlete, from what I was told! .jpg)
I, unfortunately, didn't inherit her ball-handling skills. I played basketball, briefly, when I was younger. It was during the time when you could only play half-court. Well, the coach put me in and I got the ball, which made me extremely nervous, then, I, accidentally threw it to the opposing team and they took it down and made a goal! They ended up winning the game. Needless to say, my basketball career ended about as quickly as it started! Sorry for the diversion, but I just had to share that story. lol!Hope you enjoyed taking a look at some of my old photographs...they always spark such a feeling of nostalgia for me. Just so you know, I'm going to take a break from posting this weekend. Chris has been gone all week and he'll be home this afternoon. I want to spend as much time with him as I can, but I will do my very best to visit all of you! So...hope you have a GREAT weekend!!!
"God gave us memories that we might have roses in December." ~J.M. Barrie
50 comments:
those are great pics!! i love hte one of your great grandparents and yes i sure do see the resemblance!!! i love old family photos...
I just love see old family pictures. Nice looking family and yep your GGM does look just like Granny....
That is so adorable...she does look just like Granny.
Love your old photos...you are blessed to have them.
Enjoy your weekend girl and I hope you guys have a great one. I will see ya on Monday.
April these are wonderful pictures. I wonder if the boys were all dressed up just because they were having their picture taken? These photos are such a window into the past, and to me they always speak of a simpler time.
Enjoy your time with Chris, I know how precious those hours are since he has to travel so often for work.
I love old pictures! Thanks for sharing. Your great grandmother definitely looks like the granny from Tweety. That is too funny!
Enjoy your weekend!
I love the look of black and white photos...especially the ones of ancestors.
And I love granny's glasses!
Follow Wenda!
LOVE the tweety bird comparison...i was cracking up and i never would have put that together if you hadn't mentioned it! Its so neat that you have so many old photos....i have a few but not as many as you seem to! Very fun! Have a GREAT weekend w/ that man of yours!!
I really love these old photos my friend.
Thanks for sharing those wonderful photos :)
April, these are wonderful family pictures! And the resemblance is uncanny with the Tweety Bird grandmother. She's SO cute! :-)
Your father and his brothers look like a television family they're all so precious! And your mother is pretty and has quite the figure! I can see why they made such a great couple! Add the important interior qualities, and that's why they had such a successful marriage with the Lord at the center. :-)
And I hope you and hubby have the most wonderful weekend! See you when you return...
XO,
Sheila :-)
Love the old pics. Your granny does look like the Tweety Granny!
Love the quote by JM Barrie-so true.
I am still laughing over the comparison of your great granny to the tweety bird granny! They DO look alike! LOL! I love looking at all these old photos - so fun to think about life back then!
Looking at your pictures makes we want to go through our old family albums.
But for now, since my daughter is graduation I better be going over her pictures first......
Thanks for sharing.....
Those are fabulous photos, April. Could it be that Warner Bros. was inspired by your great-grandma? ;o)
I love your collection of pictures. Yes, your great grandmother does look like the granny on the Tweetie bird cartoon. That's too funny! My father was an only child and my mother had one brother who died in a car accident without ever having children. I've always been envious of people with cousins ☺
Thank you for sharing your family through your pictures and stories.
take care,
Dawn
I can't believe how much gg and the cartoon look alike. Love those short basketball shorts, too. Oh, to be athletic :)
I'll bet those suits were from Easter. Thanks for sharing.
cute pictures! that's too funny about your great-grandmother looking like the cartoon lady! cute!! have a good weekend!
I love these old pictures:)
Wib.
Please know that my prayers are with your brother in-law. I am asking God to heal his body. I love you my friend.
Hey I have a Brittany and a Bella. Cool. My Bella just celebrated her 7th B.D. I have a post on her.
I think gram looks very much like Twitty Bird's granny. That's funny.
I read your Thankful Thursday. When my Brittany turned 17 everything changed also. We butted heads so very many times & we still do. It's so bizarre to me how they just wake up one morning and BANG things change. I also love Martina's song.
Bless your heart for understanding the ups and downs of young womanhood. I'm still shaking my head.
Happy Foto Friday..those were good ones.
Love Claudie
xo
I do not use my blogger acc therefore: claudie.frid.com
Look at that b-ball uniform! Holy cow!
Pictures like this and the stories behind them always melt my heart! Love it!
lol! You great-granny is just too cute and you are soooooo right! She does look like she straight from a Tweety Bird cartoon! She is just too cute!
Thank you for sharing your family!
Deborah
Hi April
It's official your Great Grandmother WAS the Tweety Bird Granny!! Sooooooo funny.
I loved seeing all your old family pictures. The hairstyles and outfits are really interesting.
Thank you for sharing them.
Have a lovely weekend.
Lindsay
Hi April! What great pictures. What a tiny person your great-grandmother was. So cute with those glasses. I love you mom's basketball uniform - what an outfit! And I loved the picture of her with her friend. What great dresses and hairstyles.
Have a wonderful weekend!
XOOXXOXOXO
Jen
What treasures you have there!!
Thanks for sharing them!
Have a wonderful Friday.
How cute! Don't you just love old photographs!?
Oh April, Granny is adorable!! Mean~tempered as she may have been I would've just eaten her up. I just love little old people! Maybe because I was so young when my grandparents died.
I just love the old pictures you have of your family & all the stories you tell, they are so much fun.
Have a great weekend with Chris, you two little lovebirds!! :-)
xoxo
Janie
In the first photo EVERYONE looks like they mean business! My goodness! The Granny you mentioned sure had a resemblance to Granny in the cartoon - classic! Great photos once again... Enjoy the weekend with Chris. N x
April, that is a fun photo of your great grandparents. She tiny bur mighty according to her reputation. I love that! smile.
The photos of your dad and his siblings are great. I think he is the most handsome of the bunch. Your mom is very pretty in her uniform. I too was a terrible disappoint in sports.
Have a wonderful weekend.
Hugs...Jeanne
What great pics! You are very lucky to have them:0)
These are great pictures. My daughter has often thought she was born in the wrong era. I enjoyed seeing these pictures very much. Also want to thank you for your kind comments on my blog and on Suzie's blog too about the interview. Thanks.
April,
I love this meme and love your family photos! The basketball story is just priceless, my friend.
Hope you had a great Friday!!
Hugs to you!
April...this was a great post...and only because you said so...I do agree your great-grandmother does look a lot like Granny in the Tweety cartoons... she is cute though! Have a wonderful break with your darling Chris! ;-) Bo
great photos! and you're right, Great-Grandma did look like Tweety's grandma! :) or perhaps the granny on the hillbillies?? ;)
Wow! What wonderful photos!
I love the pictures! And comparing the picture to the tweety bird lady was too funny!!!
I love old family photos! My Granny was a short tough thing...I am only 5 foot 2 myself! (but not so tough)
Have an awesome weekend...OH, saw your post about Martina's song...love that one too!
I love, love old photos. I do believe I have seen your great grandmama with Tweety! I had forgotten how short basketball shorts used to be. Isn't it funny that when girls seemed to be more "proper" than today, that their basketball shorts (more like little bloomers)were shorter than today's? Thanks for sharing these pics.
You had me cracking up at the great grandma pix followed by the cartoon grandma!
I love genealogy! You have a great collection of pix!
Wow those are airlooms!
By the way, I love the new profile pic of you and your hubby, such a good shot of you guys.
Love and Prayers,
Tim
I love it when you share pictures! I always feel like you're sharing a piece of yourself! In a way I guess you are! Have a Happy Sunday!
I just love all those pictures of your Dad Bill and his brothers and sisters. I hope to get some copies of all of those with our Poppie in them to pass on to my kids.
Thanks for sharing some neat pictures of Eve. She looked so sweet in that picture with her friend!
Thank you for your super sweet comment on my post! You are such an encourager.
Many blessings!
Beth
Granny also looks like the granny in "The Beverly Hillbillies". (is that the name of the show? somehow that doesn't sound right!). Anyway, if she was a totin' a gun and going after them thar varmints, she'd be a dead ringer! Your other pics remind me of so many that are in a shoebox at my mom's. We recognize some of the folks, while the names of others are lost forever. But all of those old pictures look alike, and all the girls and guys looked so much older and more mature than nowdays... don't you think?
Happy almost Monday.... hope this week is a great one for you, my friend!
Love looking at history of families...it makes you realize how great it was back in those days...so simple of a life...I don't think kids today could live in those days...but I sure would like to for a week or so but then again I wonder if I could last.
Thanks for sharing your family history...
Oh and she does remind me of the granny on Tweety Bird...I loved that show. I was not much of a person who loved cartoons but this one was my favorite.
April your photos are great! I only wish I had old family photos that is a blessing. I just love your sense of hummor but she does look like granny. Now wonder what would she say to you if she heard you saying that lol
Peace and Blessings
Cheryl..Snatch JOY!
I love your pics, April! So is that first one of the Kings and the Martin's? I need to try and copy some of those and some of the ones with my Popie Ken in them. Trying to make a family album for the kids and its always nice to have older pics to see who we all look like! :)
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