1981

1981

little sailors (angie in a dress I made her)

big brother helping

Tim and Angie with Great Grandma Cecilia (who lived to be 100)

one of the few pictures of me and the kids

Angie's first french fry

she really loved her swing---really!

Chilling out on our front yard.  Tim would have been about 2 1/2 years old and  Angie would have been about 8 months old.

Angie and me on a swing at the watermelon festival

Angie not looking too excited about our walk at the watermelon festival

 

To this day Angie can still curl her upper lip up to her nose.

The guys at the annual UE watermelon festival

Ken enjoying his time with the kids  (the kids eating pop-pops)

one of the few times I got the Pram out

both kids in the pram---just like suppose to be.

happy guys

Way off in the future!

the pin ball machine that Tim took back to his place 40 years later and even fixed back up to like-new condition!

when we use to go on bike rides with the kids

a rare moment when the kids still liked each other.

Hard to believe they use to both fit in the same laundry basket.

A trip to the local park

a picnic in the park

 

fishing at the park.  Tim showing Angie a little fish he caught.

 Angie's turn

Angie loved swinging.

Her birthday

action eater.

I use to take the kids to garage sales.  It was my entertainment and I really looked forward to it every Wed. morning.  I'd usually let the kids pick out one or 2 toys.  This time tim wanted this owl.  Wonder what happened to it?

David and Jane came for a visit and we took our brigade to the zoo. 

Now that the kids were old enough to go out and play in the back yard, it was time to make a way for us to get back there without having to go out the front door.  So Ken added a door from the kitchenette and he and a brother or 2 built a deck leading from it to the side of the garage.

Tim riding his bike

farmer Tim

4th of July sparklers

the guys use to like going to St. Ferdinand to fish.

Tim was such a little helper.

helping again.

Awwww, the days when phones had cords connected to them.  Wonder how many kids have been saved by cell phones!?

Tim with his first beard.

On our annual trip to Oregon to visit my Mom and Dad.  Here we are at the Portland Zoo.

 

Me, back when I had a lot of hair!

 the kids with some garage sale finds

 

hanging out in Mom and Dad's living room. (and my hair was naturally curly!)

 

At the rhododendron garden in Portland.

angie with a rhodie.

Mom---I admire that she always dressed up and insisted on makeup.  Wonder why I was never one to use make up. 

This was the year I got my first SLR camera---a Canon AE-1.  I'd always wanted a good camera, but was afraid of them.  Finally bit the bullet while we were in Oregon this year.  Since they're no sales tax in Oregon, it's a good place to make such purchases.  I became friends with the owner of the camera store there in Dallas, Oregon, and have given him lots of business over the years.

 

The Dallas Park

back to Portland --- I think by the zoo?

up in the rose test garden in Portland. 

back when I didn't mind pictures of me being taken.

our usual trip to the Oregon coast.  Angie's first feel of the ocean---a very cold one.

We even took Mom to the rhodie garden.  She didn't get out much.  As a quadriplegic, life was hard for her-and Dad.

back on the oregon coast

one of my favorite pictures of Angie of all time

Back in St. Louis

me trying to look gorgeous

tired little girl

Angie wants some milk

rocking

I don't remember Angie crying much, so I guess I felt I needed to document it.

Angie's first birthday with her Aunt Carolyn holding her. 

Tim checking out the topper.

And he got to eat it.

getting ready for Fall

Ken had some prestigious relatives in St. Louis way back when.
 

 enjoying a meal out

 

This clown outfit that I made sure got it's use over the years.

I even made the jaquar pjs for Angie (out of an old pair of my pjs).

getting ready for Halloween

Halloween was big in our family

We had a few books for the kids.  As adults, they both still love books --- much more so then I do!

Christmas tree time.  Angie admiring one of the ceramic ornaments I made.  I use to make a sell them.

Angie meeting Santa at Ken's Mom's house.

some pro photo of the cuties.

 

 

Our Christmas card photo.

It was a great year.