Old Pictures 4

Here are some more old pictures I scanned and cleaned up:


This is my brother David and me in front of my Grama Hazel's outhouse on the Southern California desert. She and her hubby homesteaded out there.



Here's my only memory of having visited the Grand Canyon. My mom must have been taking the picture. Once again it's my dad, me, and my brother Dave.



This is a picture of my dad's mother and father (on the right), and my dad's sister, Barbara. I have no idea who the older lady is to the left.



Here's another picture of my Grampa Mahaffey when he was in the Cavalry during WWI. He died when I was very small, and I don't remember him at all. He was quite a bit older than Grama Hazel.

Hazel's the one on the right:


The beauty on the left is my Aunt Helen--oldest daughter to the two above:



Here's another military picture--a more modern one. This is my brother David in his Naval Academy uniform circa 1969-1970.

Holy Cow Update

Spencer will need to fly to Hawaii to interview, so obviously it's not a done deal that they are moving, but it looks really good. Erin says she is looking forward to living somewhere with a slower pace.

Okay, that makes me smile, because it's all relative. Yes, we are much faster paced here than in some places, but compared to very large metropolitan areas, we are seriously Podunk. My city has a population of about 92,000 people, but Erin's city is substantially smaller.

Well, the island of Kauai will be a great place for them, then, because in the 2000 census there were fewer than 60,000 people on the entire island. Of the islands we visited on our cruise last January, Kauai was my favorite.



Boy, it would just break my heart to have to go visit them. ROFL

Evidently if they make the move, Paul wants to go there, too. That will be interesting though because Paul refuses to fly--anywhere!

Holy Cow Alert!

Erin sent a short text message to say that they are moving to Hawaii because Spencer's been offered a wonderful job!!

Details to follow.

Tail Bone 2

Okay, sometimes life just sucks! I went to a meeting today in Draper, and it was the longest car ride I've had since I broke my tail bone. I'm really sore today, and it was only about a 30-minute ride. For the long Pioneer Day weekend later in July, we were planning to make a trip to California and visit my folks in Sacramento and Ed's family in Fresno. Since that's just a little over 2 weeks away, I had to admit today that I'm just not going to be up to a 15 hour drive twice in 5 days.

Dang!

Old Pictures 3

Okay, I really need to stop this, but it's addicting. I'm trying to clean my living room and rearrange the furniture, but messing with old photos is too fun! lol


This is Mom before she met Dad. She worked as a nurse's aid. I found this in an old scrap book of her's. It's full of silly pictures that she took with her friends.

But it also includes these great pictures of her and Helen when they were very little:


And Mom alone:

Old Family Pictures 2

I don't have many pictures of my father when he was younger, but I wanted to post some of them as well:


This is Dad (dark hair on the left), his twin brother Jim, and Grama Ella and Grampa Herb. It's from Herb that my family's males (most of them) get their red beards. Herb was a red head, and I understand Red was his nickname.


This is a wedding picture. Dad was 19 and Mom was getting ready to turn 22. She didn't realize he was so much younger than her until on their way to the wedding. He had to fess up that he was under 21 because in those days you had to have someone sign for you.


This is Dad and his cousin, Betty. It's through her that he met my stepmother, Gloria.

Can't resist showing this one, since I was going through old photo albums. This is a picture of when we arrived in Korea to join my father, when he was stationed there. He'd already been there for several months before we arrived. My mom had bleached her hair, and she commented on how differently she was treated as a blond than she was as a brunette.

Haha! Doesn't my brother David look thrilled to be there?

Old Family Pictures

I thought I'd share some of the pictures I've scanned from days long ago:


This is my grandmother, Hazel Kaneaster (maiden name). She was married four times. Her first hubby was John Thomas Mahaffey, and they had two daughters, Helen and Lorraine (my mom). Hazel went to school to be a beautician to support her daughters after the divorce, and eventually opened her own shop. She married three more times, and was widowed three times. Her has fourth husband, Bill Galloupe, was the only one I remember. He was awesome!


Here's a picture of my grandfather John Thomas Mahaffey. He was in the cavalry, and I'm guess this must have been from around World War I. He's the one on the left.


And another one. He's the one with the X above him.

Since I'm talking about my mom's folks, following are pictures of Helen, their oldest daughter:




and of course my mom, their youngest daughter: