1980

1980---another year where I was pregnant for most of it.

Easter 1980

It was a particularly HOT summer.  I finally begged to take our usual Oregon vacation in August, even though it was only about a month before my due date.  It was a great decision!
Tim didn't have any trouble adjusting to Grandma and Grandpa's house!  Where else can you lay around in a tire?

 And lots of bar b qs with family.

1979

1979

Tim and Petey becoming besties.

 introducing Tim to one of my favorite things---water.

1978

1978

A big year!  I spent 9 months of it pregnant!

But we still had fun in the mean time. 

 Ken doing needle point?    these were the days we use to get together with friends and play $.05, $.10, $.25 poker most weekends.  I really enjoyed those get togethers.  Something happened after we had kids---we quit doing much of anything until they were in school.  Then it was a different group of friends and activities revolving around the kids.

1977

1977

This was the summer we took Ken's 2 youngest brothers to brothers to Oregon with us.  Since we drove, we stopped in Colorado along the way.
The 4 of us are in the front 2 seats of the Manitou Incline.

 Here's ken holding up the balancing rock in Garden of the Gods near Colorado Springs.

 Carolyn being Carolyn

 Ken and his brothers on the wet cold cloudy Oregon coast.

 I think they were a bit cold.

 sliding down the sand at Honeyman park on the Oregon Coast.

 fishing in the Cascades.

 Love Oregon nature!

 Bill after he fell in the fish ladder.  I never saw anyone get back out of the water that fast!

 Looking down the fish ladder

 One of our regular activities in Oregon---big family bar b qs in Mom and Dad's back yard.  Boy we looked so young then!

 We usually tried to go and celebrate our anniversaries together, too.  Ours is June 20th

  and Mom and Dad's was June 23rd.

 Back in St. Louis, I always cooked a big Thanksgiving dinner.  All the other brothers went to their inlaws for Thanksgiving, so MaryAnn didn't cook.  Sometimes she'd join us.  But for about the first 20 years of our married life, I cooked Thanksgiving.  I was happy to turn it over to the "girls" when they became adults.  But as of now---they weren't even born yet.

1975

1975
Engaged!  Ken and I even went to a photographer and had professional photos made to put on our invitations.  This is the one we chose.

 I believe this was Ken's Mom and Dad's 25th anniversary party.  I'm wearing a dress I made for the occasion.

1974

1974

Graduation day!!!   There were about 950 kids in my graduating class.   Since it was the first graduating class of McCluer North, they held it at Keil Auditorium in downtown St. Louis.   Made for a really long graduation day! 

1973

Sporting an outfit I made.  Back in the day, I made a lot of my own clothes.